All Twitter tools and mashups in one place

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at April 4, 2007 in News.

That place is, of course, FranticIndustries. Twitter’s rising popularity and the huge number of Twitter-related tools and mashups has been impossible to ignore. Instead of writing a new entry every time a new one appears, it’s much more convenient for the readers it they’re all in one big categorized list. *note: this list will be constantly updated as new Twitter tools are found

Desktop clients

Triqqr - a simple, early beta Windows application for posting tweets from your desktop.
TwitBox - a Windows Vista based desktop client for viewing and updating tweets.
Twitteroo Windows Desktop client, with several advanced features, that enables you to post to Twitter from the desktop.
Twitterific - a Mac desktop client, minimal but beautifully designed and not without options
Twitterlicious - a Windows application that makes using Twitter easier.
TwitterPost - simplistic Mac desktop client for updating Twitter, coming from Apple.

Mashups

FlickrMixr - An odd Flickr/Twitter mashup that can be painfully slow at times.
Flussgeist - an unorthodox but interesting mashup between Twitter, Flickr, and several other services. It combines tweets with images, videos and an ambient soundtrack.
GeoTwitter - very similar to TwitterVision and TwitterEarth below, GeoTwitter displays Twitter updates on a world map (powered by Google Maps). Unlike the two mentioned tools, it’s not updated immediately after a new tweet appears; instead, it shows several tweets on the map and it’s updated every minute.
Swotter A contestant for the weirdest Twitter mashup out there, Swotter is “reading” books to Twitter. It’s essentially just sending lines of text from a book to a Twitter account. You can see it in action here: twitter.com/booktwo
Twapper - a mashup between the online calendar 30boxes and Twitter, created by the folks from 30boxes themselves. It works on both mobile and standard web browsers, and it’s useful even without a 30boxes account, but it offers many more options if you have one. For the full scoop of the features go over to 30boxes site.
Twitter Atlas - yet another Twitter/Live Maps mashup. It looks very sleek and it has a window with tweet history, which is a very useful feature.
Twitterami - a Frappr/Twitter mashup which shows Twitter updates on a world map. Requires registration.
TwitterEarth - similar to TwitterVision (which came first), but based on Live Maps, and works in 3D, too - at least it should, but at the time of this writing clicking on the 3D icon does nothing.
Twitterer - a Twitter/Second Life mashups, which shows updates from a certain Twitter accounts over Second Life spheres.
Twittervision - a Google Maps/Twitter mashups that lets you see Twitter updates on a world map. Works only for users who have their location set up in Twitter preferences. Read our coverage here.
TwitterMaps another Twitter/Google Maps mashup, with a simple function: find up where a Twitter user is located. You can also update your current location with a special command sent to Twitter.

Mobile

Jargong - IM client for smartphones with Twitter support.
Twapper - described above; it’s a WAP based interface for Twitter.
Twitter Flashlite - mobile application that lets you post to Twitter from your cellphone.

Plugins

Post To Twitter - a Firefox plugin that lets you post Twitter updates directly from the Firefox search bar.
Simple Twitter - a very simple Wordpress plugin that displays Twitter updates on your Wordpress blog.
Tweetbar - Firefox sidebar for easy Twitter updating. Works in Flock, too.
Twitterbar - A Firefox plugin that lets you post Twitter tweets from the Firefox address bar.
Twitter Tools - a Wordpress plugin that enables you to create blog posts out of Twitter tweets, tweet archives, or synchronize a Wordpress blog with Twitter.
Twitter Netvibes module - a Netvibes module that lets you update your status at Twitter directly from your Netvibes homepage.
TwitTwoo Another Wordpress Plugin that displays Twitter status in the sidebar of your Wordpress blog. It’s nicely designed, and it displays your Twitter avatar next to the tweets.

Tools

Autotwit lets you automate Twitter updates. Quite useless, unless you want to keep up an image of a man that never sleeps.
EmailTwitter - allows you to post Twitter updates and retrieve your Twitter timeline via your cellular phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device, without incurring SMS fees.
Mail2Twitter allows you to post tweets through e-mail, as well as any email-enabled mobile device.
RSS2Twitter - converts an RSS feed into Twitter tweets.
Twitter Badges: This comes straight from the developers of Twitter: Flash badges intended to be displayed on your website, showing your latest Twitter posts
TwitterBuzz is an interesting tool that turns Twitter into some sort of simple Digg. It displays a list of most popular links on Twitter. You can see all the Twitter messages mentioning the link.
TwitterFeed - a service that combines OpenID and Twitter to let you feed the entries on your blog to Twitter
Twitterholic keeps a top list of users based on how often the post, how many friends they have, and other factors.
Twitteromatic - a tool that posts all sorts of information (weather, Firefox updates) to Twitter automatically.
Twit This is a badge similar to the popular “Digg This” badges, which help the visitors of a web site to quickly include its URL into a Twitter post. It’s available as a Javascript snippet, a bookmarklet or a Wordpress plugin.
TwitterSearch Simple Twitter search.

Widgets

Twadget - A Windows Vista widget (Microsoft calls them gadgets for no understandable reason), which shows you the latest Twitter updates and gives you the ability to post to Twitter right from your desktop.
Yourminis Twitter widget that shows tweets, and enables you to post updates to Twitter.

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If you know of any Twitter related tools, plugins or mashups not included on this list, please let me know.

140 Responses to “All Twitter tools and mashups in one place”

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1 Chris Duffy
Apr 4th, 2007 at 12:26 pm

http://franticindustries.com/blog/2007/04/04/all-twitter-tools-and-mashups-in-one-place/feed/

This is now a blog within a blog Twittering Away….
2 Oliverg
Apr 4th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

- There is a ‘TwitterBox’ from within Secondlife (Ordonal Malaprop, Caledon). and mail2twitter.com which is very helpful to avoid the SMS cost to Great Britain for us non-US-dwelling people with a data plan
3 Jeremy Suriel
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

thanks for posting a link to the yourminis twitter widget. in case you are interested, the yourminis twitter widget also runs on the desktop through our apollo desktop client ( http://blog.yourminis.com/desktop/index.html ). of course, this will work for the rest of our widgets and the ones developed by other flash developers using the yourminis api ( http://www.yourminis.com/developers ).

thanks again
4 Stan Schroeder
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

@Oliver: thanks, although it’s hard for me to write about stuff within SecondLife since I’m not a SecondLifer. But mail2twitter is added to the list.
5 Stan Schroeder
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

@Jeremy: thanks for coming. I know that Yourminis widgets are now desktop-enabled through Apollo. I might just be covering Yourminis in a separate post soon, I will take the liberty to contact you about it if you don’t mind.
6 drew olanoff
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

you can also automatically twitter what you’re listening to on http://www.pluggd.com
7 Everybody Go To
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

You spend way too much time getting all this info, good now I don’t need to do it myself.
8 engtech
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

Missing rss2twitter.com and Twitter Bot (lets you create your own service like twitterfeed and rss2twitter)

http://engtech.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/howto-twitter-rss-broadcast-feeds-twitterbot-guide/

Also, check out the /usr/bin/geek list of the same thing…
http://www.usrbingeek.com/a/000902.php
9 Adam
Apr 4th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

You can most certainly post to twitter using the yourminis widget. To do so, click on the drop down menu in the upper right of the widget and select “Update Twitter”.
10 John Tropea
Apr 4th, 2007 at 10:52 pm

Great list, I’m sure you know about the Twitter Fan wiki
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/

Check out:

EmailTwitter.com
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/04/04/emailtwittercom-now-has-email-updates-on-demand-and-direct-messages/

rss2twitter
http://www.rss2twitter.com/

twitterlicious
http://www.ejecutive.co.uk/projects/twitterlicious
11 Stan Schroeder
Apr 4th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

@everyone: thank you for your contributions, I will fix errors (thx, Adam) and update the list as soon as I catch some time.
12 Steven Hodson
Apr 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Thanks for the hat tip to TwitBox and to add one clarification. It will run on XP as long as the NET 2.0 Framework is installed.
13 Bleys Chevalier
Apr 18th, 2007 at 12:24 am

Second Life Applications.

http://www.sltweets.com - research HUd, tagging, mapping, notes and of course export to twitter and receive in world message.

http://www.tinysl.com - URL compression service for long URLS so twitter folks will know the URL is an actual SLURL and not off topic.

Both free.
14 computerRoot
Apr 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pm

Coooooooooooool!
15 Scott Kingery
May 11th, 2007 at 7:38 am

There is now mobile twitter form twitter itself. Point your mobile browser to m.twitter.com. I’ve found that on my blackberry Opera Mini makes a better browser for this.
16 ivabsg
May 12th, 2007 at 11:14 pm

Hi My Name Is ivasak.
17 engtech
May 13th, 2007 at 5:26 am

http://twitbin.com/

firefox extension
18 Phil Wilson
May 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Post directly from Ubuntu desktop - http://philwilson.org/blog/2007/03/post-to-twitter-from-ubuntu-deskbar.html
19 Gil
Jun 10th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

Most pointless Twitter app ever: http://www.mytinyjesus.com/
20 Laurent Pantanacce
Jun 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm

Search for users, friends, vip… on TwitDir.com
21 Yaniv Golan
Jun 14th, 2007 at 8:14 am

Twitter my Yedda will let your twitter friends about the questions you ask (in case they want to answer you), the answers you post to other people’s question (so they can see just how smart you are), and any other Yedda activity you’d like to share.

Plus, if both you and the other person are on Twitter, wonderful things happen automagically.

http://yedda.com/twitter
22 Twitter Community
Jul 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

We have a list of over 100 twitter apps, extensions, services and hacks over at the Twittown Community site.

http://twittown.com
23 Dylan
Aug 22nd, 2007 at 10:38 am

There’s a flash demo to use AutoMee (a multi-purpose tool) to quickly update your Twitter status. Visit here: http://automee.pxax.com
24 Arthus Erea
Sep 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

I have a WordPress plugin for Twitter: http://myfla.ws/projects/wptwit/
25 Paul Butkiewicz
Sep 27th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

The Amazon Reviews Twitter regularly posts Amazon customers reviews to Twitter:

http://twitter.com/amazon_reviews
26 thinkfloyd
Oct 1st, 2007 at 6:20 pm

Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit
OutTwit lets you update your Twitter status directly from Outlook.
You can also receive your friend updates as Outlook messages.
http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/
27 mak
Dec 5th, 2007 at 6:12 am

Is this list still updated? Maybe you could add twhirl, a Twitter client based on Adobe AIR. Runs on Windows and Mac OS, supports handling multiple accounts, desktop notifications, auto-refreshing tweets, replies and direct messages, adding/removing friends, (un)setting favorites, many configuration options.

More info can be found at http://www.twhirl.org
28 Dominik Faber
Jan 16th, 2008 at 3:19 am

Do you know twittit. It’s a simple bookmark that lets you twitter a website by clicking the bookmark. try it out at www.twittit.com
29 Shel Holtz
Jan 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Snitter
http://snook.ca/snitter/
30 Mathijs
Feb 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 am

Mobypicture should be in this list ofcourse!
Moby enables you to post all your mobile content directly to Twitter and many other platforns. Check it out! Http://mobypicture.com
31 mashaziva
Feb 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 am

i just started using twitterlights (www.twitterlights.com) It lets me highlight stuff on any webpage and send tweets without leaving the page- and it saves my highlighted stuff in case I ever want to find it later.
32 Ryan
Feb 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm

PocketTweets is a nice twitter app for the iPhone.

http://pockettweets.com/
33 Kris
Mar 5th, 2008 at 4:08 am

Check this Twitter (public) friends browser.
http://www.neuroproductions.be/uploads/ff/twitter_browser/
34 Steph
Mar 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am

Here’s an nice little search engine for:

Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce & Streem

http://tinyurl.com/3742kr
35 lightstuff
Apr 6th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Twitterlights is an integrated feature of i-Lighter 2.1. Allows one-click tweets of anything you find online and will save it to your free i-Lighter account.

http://www.twitterlights.com
http://i-lighterceo.typepad.com/ceos_blog/
36 Patrick Curl @ Theres a Blog in My Soup
Apr 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

Wow that’s a huge list of Twitter tools /services/ apps. It’s amazing how many different ways there are to interact with Twitter.
37 pb30
Apr 17th, 2008 at 7:56 am

I’ve just released http://trackthis.pb30.com which track your FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL packages over Twitter
38 ColinM
May 6th, 2008 at 3:15 am

One more for you. http://www.TwitGraph.com
39 John O'Gara
May 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am

Try this one!!
40 Utah SEO
May 7th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

thanks alot for this extensive list…. this exactly what i was looking for… thanks
41 Michael Jensen
May 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am

Two new twitter tools:

Twitter Answers with TweetAnswers - Ask questions and get answers! Simple to use: “@tweetanswers #topic Your question”

LiveTwitting for conference and event coverage through twittering. Records all your coverage, includes speaker and topic organization through simple commands. Very slick!
42 Brandon
May 31st, 2008 at 1:41 pm

I would also add www.fuelfrog.com

It allows you to track your gas mileage via Twitter.
43 David Taboada
Jun 8th, 2008 at 5:59 am

This one lets you sort out who are your friends only, who is following you and who has a reciprocal relationship with you.

http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/
44 John Lessnau
Jun 8th, 2008 at 9:08 am

You should list the new WordPress plugin Twitterdoodle. This WP plugin allows you to automatically create Twitter based keyword/keyword phrase mashup posts on a regular basis.

More info: http://www.lessnau.com/twitterdoodle/
45 Adam
Aug 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

Here is a twitter mash up I made learning ruby:

SadStatements.com - Twitter + Flickr + Sad

Sad tweets are illustrated automagically using flickr
46 Twitter LED Sign
Aug 15th, 2008 at 7:05 am

TweetMySign is a live video stream of a LED Sign displaying Twitter replies. Send a Twitter reply to @TweetMySign and it will be displayed on the LED sign. You can also send messages right from the website if you prefer.

http://www.tweetmysign.com
47 David
Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

Hey dont forget to add www.tweeterized.com
48 Matthias
Sep 15th, 2008 at 1:34 am

NEW! Threaded conversations and voting for Twitter:

http://www.dwigger.com
49 Leonard Fernandes
Oct 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Is there any widget I can use that will allow visitors to my website to post comments to my twitter account? Chirrup was of no use because my host doesn’t support curl and I could not get the yourminis widget to work
Thanks,
Leo