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-Adam
twhirl, twitpic, and twrurl.nl
None app, but make twitter easier and a better experience for me:
http://www.refollow.com
http://markcarras.com/twitter/rank.php
-Adam
EventBox from The Cosmic Machine looks very interesting. You can roll up Twitter, RSS feeds, and other services into one nice desktop client.
I know you rigged your own system to post links and I'm sure all three of these services are interchangeable with others for less technical people like me but these are the ones I use. It was a cinch to setup and it's made the single biggest difference to the process of posting to Twitter...by removing it completely. I bookmark exactly as I did before but limit descriptions to 140 chars for links that I want to push to Twitter (which is based on a specific tag). It would be easy to use this method to post to any number of Twitter accounts based on different bookmark tags and the bonus feature is that all my Twitter links are stored in long-form in Delicious.
Does that count as 3? :-)
another 3 if you like. :-)
One more then. I use TwitterGadget (in iGoogle) mostly just to read and open links and I think I'd miss the convenience of having Twitter on my start page.
twitterific or tweetie
flixter (movie showtimes)
And maybe people will consider mine as such -and it's not-, but I'm going to take the risk:
I'm glad you ask this question because it gives me the chance to talk about something I wanted to email you. I like Microplaza, I don't know if you know the app or if you use it, but I like it. I like it so much that when I knew something like that was out there, basically a week after it was launched (end of feb/beginning of March) by the Belgian start-up, Whatever Company, I asked them for an invite and I started to suggest them features and ideas (actually it was frenetic buzzing of ideas out ot infatuation)...and shortly afterwards I -happily- became the Microplaza Product/Project manager. But why that passionate attitude in the first place? Because I was and I am a passionate Twitter user, and I was using it as my primary resources and news source already, but was not happy with the apps I was using because they didn't give me the chance to leverage Twitter as my news source in a friendlier way. So Microplaza came in.
And so then we decided to focus on its real strength and motto: that any twit with a link can be a piece of news. And we decided to focus on mass media for our future roadmap as well (but that's not the point of this comment). And every time I am being interviewed or asked about Microplaza, especially from reluctant traditional mindsets...I know it's a struggle...but we'll eventually win. A twit with a link is a piece of news? That's ok when the link is to a website containing ""interesting"" information or a scoop, but -they go on- Why a pic from Twitpic of a friend of yours with his baby is a piece of news? Oh well, I say, and who says it isn't? That might be relevant for me...THat's news for me. That's the problem, the relevance is not longer a variable imposed by some editor in chief but it's a variable imposed by people...by the people I follow and their RTs and other elements of a powerful popularity algorithm. That's why we call it: Microplaza, your personal newswire. Your personal news agency from Twitter.
It's beta, it's still a baby, 4-months old, but it's open to everyone.
And why do I decide to leave this comment here?
Because you said once (here) that: “when people witness events that others are interested in; and they’re posting about it on Twitter and the interested people are reading the posts, that’s certainly news” and that was one of the mottos at the business plan I drafted and I keep quoting when I have to explain to traditional mindsets what citizen journalism is or what Twitter is.
So as you can see, I am a regular reader of yours as well (lately especially on Twitter, I must admit, time crunch, they call it).
And I agreed with that sentence of yours 200% and that's why I believed in Microplaza and I'm collaborating with them to shape it as a trailblazing concept for Twitter+News and yes right now I can say we have a whole roadmap designed for that. And we hope mass media adapt to the real time web, where the prime time is.
Oops, and I forgot to say what Microplaza does:
The basic concept is capturing all tweets from both the public and personal timeline with links in them to display them visually along with associated tweets, grouping conversations around a given piece of news. Then, MicroPlaza offers powerful ranking algorithms and sorting options by time and popularity that let you see what your network is interested in at every moment. So it can give you the relevant topics from the public timeline (yes, there are other tools doing that more or less) but then it gives you what's relevant at the personal timeline (and not, there isn't any other app doing that...so far). General Twitter memetrackers retrieve hot topics from the general time. But with the personal tilt, users get a more personalized and relevant view of the stories and links that are being passed around in their own networks, and hence the slogan of becoming the user’s personalized newswire.
I hope you give it a try and I would love to know your opinion/feedback. If you want to know more on the project, I'd love to share it with you!
Thanks for everything and greetings from Valencia, Spain.
Cheers,
Elena Benito
@elenaBRZ
MicroPlaza
@microplaza
Before breaking tweets was around, the third place would have gone to Tweet Grid - when breaking news hit, like the Mumbai attacks, I kept up a grid of different live, updating search results on different hashtags and keywords.
TwitZap - auto updating browser based interface that marks tweets by time, not by how many moments since my last page update. Each tweet can be retweeted, DM'd, favorited or replied to. Allows me to create channels by subject or sender to easily keep an eye on things/people of interest
Twellow - great directory of Tweeple by category of interest, geography, etc. Also points out those who follow you that you are not following.
MrTweet - assesses who you follow and vice versa, and suggests others you might want to follow. Also points out those who follow you that you are not following.
That said, on the Window's side there isn't a program that does everything I'd like. I just found bdule and it is doing well. It has filters so I can kill spam like spymaster. It handles multiple accounts. It has spellchecking. If I could pick the URL shortener (it defaults to tinyurl) and had a few more configuration options, it would be perfect for me. It blows my mind that I am unable to back up the tweets of my choice via a desktop app but most people don't want that...because they don't deem the content in tweets important enough to take up disk space (from the people I asked - over 100).
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38797
http://tweed.pivotallabs.com/
Seesmic Desktop
http://desktop.seesmic.com/
I like this because I can monitor many Twitter searches (such as for certain hash tags) all at the same time
HootSuite
http://desktop.seesmic.com/
I like this because I can schedule tweets to be sent.
Some other Twitter tools that I couldn't live without: Tr.im (for URL shortening), img.ly (for mobile image hosting/sharing), Yatca (for Twitter posting from my BlackBerry), Twt.fm (for sharing music that I listen to with friends).
While we're talking Web 2.0 apps, here's my list of those: Gmail, Netvibes, Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Facebook and Tumblr. Is there anything that I'm leaving out?
http://www.sobees.com/bdule
Beautiful interface, Facebook integration, tons of layout configs, keyword filtering...
A bit buggy now and again, as it is still Alpha, but has already replaced Twhirl on most of my desktops.
The mobile - Twitterific http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
The manager - Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com
http://www.loudtwitter.com/ - backs up my tweets every day to my blog, supports many blogs
P.S. Despite being logged in at Disqus, both directly & via Twitter's OAuth I cannot get this comment form to recognise me as anything other than a guest.
Still like TweetDeck for searching.
For my Blackberry, could not live without UberTwitter. It is just phenomenal. Convenient, quick, full functioned, bug free! (Had tried Twitterberry before)
1) Tweetdeck
2) Twibble
3) http://twittercounter.com
2) Twitterific
3) Twittertise
I've only been on Twitter since May, but I love it.