Twitter Tool Proliferation

Everyone (including us) seems to be creating fun gadgets and mash-ups using Twitter’s API.  Here is a list from the unofficial Twitter wiki:

  • BBC News - Get BBC news headlines via twitter. Main news feed, and individual news channels available.
  • EgorCast Now you can call in your Twitter posts. EgorCast is a mashup of Jott.com/Twitter/Jaiku.
  • TweeTweeT! Now you can Twitter while watching live public Tweets as a cartoon. Finally.
  • Twitterment is a Twitter search engine that also provides trend graphs and identifies buzzy and fading terms.
  • MoniTwitter Monitors your website, posting updates to Twitter about load times and whether there is a problem or not. Subscribe to the Twitter account to receive updates about your site, notifications if it goes down.
  • Twitterverse - a mashup and visualization project by Ideacodes which mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period.
  • ServerMojo - free server monitoring system now with server status alerts sent via Twitter!
  • Twitter Atlas - The twitter public timeline viewed in Atlas by Fresh Logic Studios updated every 5 seconds.
  • twittermap - See current updates from Twitter users in a specific local area, and update your location in realtime by specifying L:21012 (or L: + any geocodable location) in a Twitter!
  • dealtagger - Let all your friends know what your shopping for with the dealtagger > twitter update thingy!
  • MyChores - Keep track of your household chores and send automatic Twitter posts whenever you complete a task!
  • Manchester United News - Get Manchester United news straight to your mobile phone for free.
  • GeoTwitter - This mashup uses Google Maps API and Twitter API. The most recent updates are fetched from the public timeline and mapped once every minute.
  • Twitter Tube Tracker - find out when your public transport route isn’t running (London Underground and SF BART)
  • twitterami - Use Frappr to see Twitter friends on a map.
  • twittervision - Real-time display of the public Twitter stream on a map. Warning: dangerously addictive.
  • Planypus, the place where friends make plans, now has twitter support! From any plan, click Post to Twitter to twitterize your plans :-)
  • Twitterholic: Top 100 Twitterers leaderboard.
  • Twitter in 3D
  • Twitter updates from Pluggd - Pluggd’s podcast player can automatically post updates to your twitter account… Let your friends know what you’re listening to!
  • mibazaar - Current Twitter Posts on Google Maps
  • Twitter Gadget - A Windows Vista Desktop Sidebar Gadget that helps you keep track of all the sweet tweets! Fetches tweets from twitter.com and updates them every 10 seconds.
  • Twitter SpellCheck Bot - Lily program that lets you check the spelling of a word via Twitter.
  • Twitget - a Twitter Gadget - This is a Windows Live gadget that can be hosted on live.com or on Spaces. On Spaces it shows your last tweet and on live.com you can use it to track up to 5 tweets from your friends.
  • Twitter Planet - This is a Windows Live gadget that shows the Twitter public timeline overlaid on a Virtual Earth map. Can be hosted on live.com or Spaces.
  • Viddler has some sweet Twitter integration allowing you to both syndicate your tweets to your account as well as post site updates to your Twitter account.
  • Flitter: Flickr stream generated by the Twitter public timeline using this yahoo!pipe and rendered in vvvv.
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6 Responses to “Twitter Tool Proliferation”

  1. Texas Startup Blog: Web 2.0 and Social Media by Alexander Muse » Blog Archive » Twitter’s Business Model Says:

    [...] 28 followers.  Lots of people, besides our own team, have been busy building Twitter mash-ups (click here for a partial list).  Why?  I don’t really know, perhaps ‘because EVERYONE is [...]

  2. Sergio Says:

    Do you like twitter?

    If yes, than you will love this project

    http://www.mapmyname.com

  3. James Governor’s Monkchips » links for 2007-04-26 Says:

    [...] Big in Japan: Providing Social Media Solutions » Blog Archive » Twitter Tool Proliferation Lots o’ Twitter tools (tags: Twitter via:kellypuffs) [...]

  4. Pratheep Says:

    Excellent list of websites…

    Thank you!

    Pratheep

  5. Denis Says:

    I’m normally not a fan of self-advertising, but I wrote another small tool for twitter: TwittIt. A small posting-only client for Windows.
    http://www.denisbriel.com/TwittIt1000001.aspx
    Ignore the note! I had to pull the new release due to some serious bugs!!

  6. blogpaul Says:

    Hey thanks for the plug of my twitterami.com

    I am going to invite all developers this week to help me out with it…that post will be tomorrow. Thanks again

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