The Twitter Applications Database: Twitdom
I am pleased to announce the launch of Twitdom, a Twitter Applications Database.
Twitter, a micro-blogging platform, has become a part of the daily lives of millions of people (tweeple!) you believe in the concept of online social networking.
The plethora of applications launched for Twitter is unparalled. To help you sift through the large number of [...]
Twoogie Howser M.D.: Twoogify your Tweets!
Twoogie is a pure time waster! It help you ‘twoogify’ your Twitter tweets.
From their about page:
Twoogie, M.D. is a tribute to the greatest kid-doctor who ever lived. Once a week nearly two decades ago, the then-underaged Neil Patrick Harris amused, enlightened and inspired us with his vague, bite-sized ramblings, typed out on his prehistoric IBM [...]
Write a book Twitter style with Quillpill
Quillpill has taken the 140 character microblogging concept from Twitter to come up with an interesting concept — To tell a short story, 140 characters at a time. You can register on the website and create a book. Then start writing 140 characters at a time to narrate your story.
Quillpill allows you to read and [...]
Do you know your Twitter Re-tweet rank?
Retweetrank does exactly what the name suggests. It tells you your ranking in the Twitter ecosystem based on the number of times your Tweets are retweeted by others!
The image below is a screen shot which shows you my rank. A lousy 1150 currently.
How useful is this? I leave it to you to decide!
A Twitter Widget for your website
Have you wanted to place a widget on your blog/website which showed your latest Twitter activity with a link to your Twitter account?
Enter TwitterCard?
All you need to do is to add a small JavaScript snippet and this is what it generates a 125×125 widget:
MyTweetSpace: A Cool Twitter Background Generator
MyTweetSpace is a free to use Twitter background generator [via Mashable]. It has has very good images to choose from.From their landing page:
The background images that you can choose from are very good, though its limited. I hope they provide more options to choose from. Here is the one I generated for my Twitter Profile. [...]
See the true URLs in Short URLs
A lot of social networking websites like Twitter use URL shortening services like TinyURL to short long URLs.
This can be unwanted on many occasions since you do not know which website the link points to. This is where a Firefox addon like Long URL Please comes handy. It supports as many as 30 URL shortening [...]
Twitter Anniversary Reminders
Hanniversary is a very basic Twitter anniversary reminder service! In its own words:
Never miss your twitter anniversary again. Hanniversary sends notifications when you’re getting close to 500, 1000, 1500, 777, 5555 etc. tweets count via direct message. All you need to do is to follow @hanniversary.
Go ahead and be alert of your anniversaries!
The Tweet Congress
The number of applications around Twitter keep exploding by the day.
A website called Tweet Congress has been launched with the motto:
We the Tweeple of the United States, in order to form a more perfect government, establish communication, and promote transparency do hereby Tweet the Congress of the United States of America.
The website provides users with [...]
Twitter Mobile Interface
I’ve seen many Twitter users using various applications to access Twitter on their mobile phones.
Did you know Twitter itself has a mobile version available at http://m.twitter.com/
It has a very basic interface but its quite functional for mobile use!
