Twitter This and Twitter That | 150+ Apps, Firefox Addons and Links [List]

This list is not up-to-date; it was written in June 2008.

Please check out the Twitter Tools section of this blog; it is updated frequently with new tools & applications.

Lately, it seems like everyone is a Twitter addict. So, I decided to make a list of Twitter related sites, desktop & mobile applications & browser extensions. If you don’t already have an account on Twitter, I suggest you get one ASAP since it seems to be taking over the Web.

Of course, since many Twitter related sites & applications are popping up on a daily basis, this list will probably be outdated by tomorrow night! So, obviously I couldn’t get every single site/app/extension on this list, but It’s a good start. I also will not be able to keep this list updated so, a lot of links may be outdated! Sorry!

For those who don’t know, Twitter is a “social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.”

I spent about 5 days researching & creating this list so, I hope you all can make great use of it! If you see something I left out & you feel it should be on this list, please leave it in a comment (I left out blog plugins on purpose).

Firefox Addons

DashBlog – A Firefox addon that lets you grab videos on any web page & quickly post them to Twitter.
Friendbar – Makes it easy to keep in touch with friends on Facebook & Twitter.
Power Twitter – Makes Twitter better by adding a lot of useful features like inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly & more.
SamePlace – This Instant Messenger for Firefox & Thunderbird puts all of your chat accounts, including Twitter, in your browser sidebar.
Song.ly – Lets you share music links on Twitter & other services.
Tweecious – Listens to your Twitter feed & submits all the links to your delicious account.
TweetBar – A Twitter sidebar for Firefox.
TweeterSearch – A custom search that lets you search for someone’s Twitter page.
TwitBin – Send & receive messages to all your fellow twitterholics, right from Firefox.
TwitKit – A Twitter sidebar for Firefox.
TwitterBar – A Firefox extension that allows you to post to Twitter from the address bar; you can also post the URL of the page you’re currently reading.
TwitterFox (is now Echofon) – A Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets; has a small text input field to update your tweets.
TwitterLights – Highlight internet snippets & Twitter them.
Twitter Line – Display your friends’ Twitter timeline on your browser tool bar; you can also update your tweets & reply to your friends’ tweets.
Twitter Toolbox – A Twitter sidebar for Firefox.
Twitturl – A Firefox extension that allows you to post the current URL to Twitter with one click.
TwittyTunes – A FoxyTunes companion Firefox extension; allows you to post your currently playing song to Twitter; you can also post the websites you’re visiting, videos you’re watching and more.
Twitzer – A Firefox extension that lets you post text longer than 140 characters to Twitter; converts tinyurl links to actual links so that you are sure what link will open.

Desktop & Web Applications

Airmailr – Twitter for the OS X dashboard.
Bitter – A social networking tool that allows you to post & get messages from Twitter, Plurk & FriendFeed.
Blu – The Vista Twitter client that allows you to view unlimited tweets.
Digsby – A social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live newsfeed of what your friends are up to on Twitter, MySpace & Facebook.
Feedalizr – Bring Twitter to your desktop; share, read, interact.
Flock Browser – Features a built in peoples sidebar where you can view your Twitter friends, update your status & reply to tweets.
gTwitter – A Linux client for reading & posting to Twitter.
MadTwitter – A clone of Twitterrific for Mac; a Windows application that lets you read tweets written by your friends & publish your own.
Nambu – Twitter & FriendFeed streamlined social messaging.
OutTwit – Update your Twitter status & follow your friends from Windows Outlook.
Seesmic Desktop – Get live updates from your friends on Twitter & Facebook.
Sideline from Yahoo! – Watch, search & monitor the Twitter public timeline in real-time.
Sobees – Your social network desktop aggregator.
Snitter – An Adobe AIR-powered Twitter application for Mac & Windows.
Spaz – An open source Twitter desktop client for Mac, Windows & Linux.
Trillian Astra – An instant messenger that supports multiple IM services along with Twitter.
Twadget – A Twitter Vista sidebar gadget.
TweetDeck – A simple & fast way to experience Twitter while monitoring other services as well.
TweetEasy – A very simple, easy to use non-bloating interface for Twitter.
Tweetr – Twitter client for Mac & PC; send files; take pictures; runs on Adobe AIR.
Twessenger – A Twitter addon for Windows Live Messenger.
Twhirl – A desktop client for Twitter, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Twitterlicious – A Windows application that makes Twitter more fun.
TwitterLocal – A great place for customers to connect to local businesses and then tweet about them using Twitter.
Twitteroo – Send Twitter tweets from your PC desktop.
Twitterrific – A Mac application that lets you both read & publish posts or tweets to the Twitter.
Ubuntu Deskbar – Post to Twitter from Ubuntu Deskbar.
Witty – A free, open source Twitter client for Windows Vista & XP powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Yahoo Messenger Twitter Sync – A plugin for YIM that lets you keep twittering away when using your favorite Instant Messenger; keep your YIM status & Twitter in sync & so much more.

Conversations/Timeline/Visual Effects

My Tweet Map – See where your Twitter friends are located in respect to one another or a geographic landmark.
Tweet Boards – Showing you all the people you want to see at once.
Tweet Clouds – Make a word cloud from a public Twitter stream or make a word cloud from free text.
Twemes – Real-time public timeline & global tags for Twitter.
TwittEarth – Live tweets from all over the world.
Twitter100 – View your followers at a glance.
Twitter Atlas – A Twitter web-based map of tweets with search & lots of other added features.
Twitter Blocks – An interactive visualization of you & the people you follow on Twitter.
Twitter Digest – Read Twitter updates in a more manageable fashion.
Twitter Friends Network Browser – Browse through your Twitter friends & your friends, friends & your friends, friends, friends.
TwitterLinkr – A long list of tweets & links.
TwitterPoster – A visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users.
Twitter Spectrum – Enter two words to compare, the output is in the forum of a colorful tag cloud.
Twitter Spy – Displays the Twitter public timeline in a fancy & addictive way.
Twittervision – A real-time geographic visualization of posts.

File Sharing

Bemba – Share web pages & videos with your friends on Twitter, in just 2 clicks.
Tweet Cube – Share files 10mb or less on Twitter.
Twiddeo – Twitter & video; don’t just tell people what you are doing, show them.
TwitPlus – A service that lets you Twitter with pictures or video & also lets you send private files to your friends.
Twittershare – Share pics, music, videos & other files using Twitter.

Fun & Games

DailyLit – Public reading via Twitter in daily installments.
Dweeting – A free service where people can follow your drunk tweets; follow people as they Twitter drunk.
Foamee – Tracks who you owe beer or coffee to & vice versa.
FoxyTunes Twitter DJ – A Twitter channel with music recommendations from a selected group of “FoxyTunes DJs”.
Happy Twitday – Twitter birthdays; follow @HappyTwitday to know when your Twitter friends’ have their birthday!
Post Like A Pirate – Type your username, password & they’ll convert your Twitter message to pirate talk.
SmartyPig – Follow @smartypig, who hosts monthly contests with questions about their services, and gives away gift cards worth $50 or $100 to people with the right answer.
Twaction – Turns your tweets on into actions; you can now poke, slap, drink beer or smile at your friends on Twitter.
Tweet140 – Get your twoosh on; follow tweet140 & they’ll start tracking the length of your tweets; the closer to a 140 character average, the better your score.
TweetGift – A simple way to show a little appreciation to a Twitter friend.
TweetPotato – A game of chukin’ a virtual hot potato around with your friends via tweets on Twitter & seeing who gets their mitts burned; last one left at the end of the game wins.
TweetShirts – T-shirts with Twitter designs for twitterholics.
TweetWords – A word guessing game that uses the last 24 hours of the Twitter public timeline for scoring.
TwitterChannel – Make channels out of tweets.
Twitter Match – Choose to use the top 20 Twitter users, or users that you follow; seven tweets will be chosen & you must click & drag the tweet over to the icon & name of the user you think posted it.
TwitterSnooze – Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” Twitter friends.
Twizon – Where Twitter meets Amazon.
Twitzu – Events for Twitter; having a meetup, get together or party? Now you can blast it to your followers.

Group/Conference

GroupTweet – Allows a group to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the group members.
Twitter Groups – Tag your followers into different groups; send a message to those groups without sending the message to each person one at a time.
Twittories – Stories composed 140 characters at a time by a diverse group of collaborators using Twitter to submit their entry.

Headlines/What’s Hot

Alltop – Twitter headlines pulled from around the Web.
Favrd – Tracks interesting things that show up on Twitter.
Pick of the Twitter – Showcases the best tweets chosen on an hourly basis.
Tweetmeme – Tracks what’s hot right now on Twitter.
TweetWire – Twitter news.
Twist (is now Trendistic) – See trends in Twitter.
TwitLinks – Up to the minute technology links from the worlds top tech Twitters.
TwitScoop – Find out what’s hot on Twitter right now.
TwitterBuzz – The most popular links on Twitter.
Twitturly – A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

Image Sharing

AutoPostr – Let your Twitter friends automatically know when you post a new photo on Flickr.
Flickr TwitterGram – Send your Flickr pics to Twitter & show people what you’re up to.
SnapTweet – Easily share Flickr pictures on Twitter.
Tw3t – Allows you to send images to your friends in Twitter.
TwitPic – Share photos on Twitter.
Twitsig – Display your current Twitter status as an image.
Visual Twitter – Update your Twitter status with photos.

If you’re looking for more ways to share images on Twitter check out, 26 Ways To Share Images and Pictures on Twitter.

Official

Blog – Up-to-date news & happenings.
Developer Blog – Twitter technology blog.
Facebook Application – Update your Twitter status from your Facebook profile.
Fan Wiki – A place to post cool ideas, uses & feature requests.
Mobile – Stay connected on your mobile device.
Status – Updates on the service status; find out why Twitter is down.

Mobile Applications

ceTwit – A windows mobile Twitter client written in C# leveraging the .net compact framework.
Critter Twitter – View all your Twitter friends & send direct messages on your mobile phone.
EmailTwitter – Post Twitter updates & retrieve your Twitter timeline via your cell phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device, without incurring SMS fees.
Get Satisfaction – People-powered customer service & support.
Hahlo – Twitter iPhone interface.
iTweet – Twitter iPhone application.
jTwitter – Twitter Java mobile application.
MobyPicture – Shoot & share pictures on Twitter using your mobile phone.
PocketTweets – Twitter for your iPhone.
Slandr – An enhanced mobile site for Twitter, with replies, direct messaging, users overview, search & geo.
Tiny Twitter – Another mobile application, except without all the “ding” notification.
Twapper – Twitter mobile for WAP.
Twittai – Twitter Java mobile client.
TwitterBerry (is now OpenBeak) – Blackberry mobile client for posting updates to Twitter.
Twitter for iPhone – The most Twitter-like experience you will find for your iPhone.
Twitstat – An improved mobile interface for Twitter.
TwitToday – Twitter for Windows mobile.
Twitxr – Share pictures & status updates from your mobile.
Webwag – Send instant messages with Twitter on your mobile phone; the first mobile Twitter widget synchronized with a start page.

Polls

StrawPoll – Tiny polls in 140 characters or less.
Twitter Polls (is now Poll Daddy) – Create a poll & post it as your Twitter status.

Question & Answer

TweetAnswers – A way to help people find quick answers to their questions.
Twitter Answers – A Q&A mashup using Twitter & Mosio; ask any question using Twitter & have it answered by real people.
Twitter Me This – Follow @Twittermethis on Twitter; every so often, at a random time, they’ll ask a question via Twitter; be the first to respond with the correct answer & win cash paid via Paypal.

Search

Google Custom Search
Flaptor Twitter Search
Summize – Search Twitter in real-time.
Tweet Scan – Twitter tweet scan.
Twellow – Twitter search directory & search engine.
TwitBuzz – A content filtering service that tracks & follows the latest popular links, conversations & people on Twitter.
TwitDir – A Twitter directory; find your friends & more on Twitter.
TwitScoop – Find out what’s hot on Twitter right now.
TwitterLit – This Google custom search allows you to search for terms that appear anywhere on Twitter.
Twitterment – Search engine for Twitter.
TwitterTroll – Another real-time Twitter search engine.
TwitterWho – A batched people search for Twitter.

Stats/Tracking

Commuter Feed – Post reports on traffic & transit delays in your local area using Twitter or Pownce.
FuelFrog – Track your gas mileage via Twitter.
Hashtags – Real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags; you must follow @hashtags for the service to index your tweets.
TweetBeep – Be the first to know who’s twittering about you, your products, your company, or your website; Twitter alerts by email when a tweet matches your search.
TweetBurner – Track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
TweetStats – Graph your Twitter stats including tweets per hour, tweets per month, tweet timeline.
TweetVolume – Enter a few words or phrases & see how often they appear on Twitter.
Twerp Scan – Check the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, & the ratio between those.
Twistori – Gathers data from Twitter matching any one of these 6 words: love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish.
Twitter Charts – Tweets by time of day & day of the week.
Twitter Counter – Track & publicize the amount of followers you have on Twitter with a small chicklet.
Twitterholic – Twittastic robots scan the Twitter public timeline for new users to watch; a few times a day, individual statistics for each user in their database is calculated.
Twitter Meter – Track the frequency of words used on Twitter.
Twitter Stats – Produces your personal stats & presents them with the Google Charts API, including tweets per hour of the day, total tweets per day/month, top @replies & top overall @s.

URL Shortener

LinkBunch – Lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS.
Simpl.es – A url shortener for Twitter.
Tweetl – The little links built for Twitter.

Voice

Dial2Do – Use your voice to send tweets to Twitter and more.
Jott – Converts your voice to text so you can use Jott to update your Twitter account.
TwitSay – Give your Twitter account a voice; go to your Twitter page & listen to your voice message. All your followers can listen to it, too.
TwitterGram – Send a title & a small MP3 file in a tweet.

When Twitter Is Down

Twiddict – If you’re addicted to Twitter, tweet your heart out through Twiddict & avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime; they make sure your tweets end up where they belong.
Twitabit – Post your tweets here when Twitter is down.
When Twitter Is Down – Humorous statements that change every time the page is reloaded, all starting with “When Twitter is down…….”

Misc

FoodFeed – Helps you share your eating habits with everyone, from anywhere.
gtFtr – Get fitter with Twitter.
iList – Lists Twitter style.
InnerTwitter – Asks what is in front of you? In answering u reconnect to ur original happiness b/c u must stop ur ordinary activities & turn ur attention to immediate reality (which releases tension).
Less Friends – Find out if the people you follow on Twitter, follow you back.
MessageDance FatBird – Allow your tweets to fly everywhere; send your tweets to all your social sites.
Politweets – When Twitter gets political.
Qwitter – Designed to help you quit smoking; powered by Twitter.
Remember The Milk – Receive task reminders as direct messages to your Twitter account.
ReTweet – A list of all the useful Twitter bots for you to subscribe to.
The Twitter Blacklist – Spammers & obnoxious people blacklisted.
Thingfo – Communities built around Twitter.
TrackThis – Track FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL packages using Twitter (or Email, IM or SMS).
Twannabe – Find out who your Twitter hero is following & you are not.
Twanslate – Follow @twanslate, a Twitter bot capable of translating anything you throw at it; great for on the go translation when all you have is your phone.
Tweet 4 Missing Kids – Use Twitter to help locate missing children worldwide; code Amber alerts.
TweetDumpr – A tool that can be used to export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file, readable by any spreadsheet application; exported data includes the tweet plus a timestamp of when it was sent.
TweetLater – Schedule future-dated tweets; send automated thank you notes to new followers & automatically follow new followers.
Tweetmarks – Easily organize links you share on Twitter; add your links to Delicious automatically.
TweetWhatYouEat – Keep a food diary via text message, IM, or the Web using Twitter.
TweetWheel – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other.
Twimbler – Create a tumblelog that can be updated via your tweets on Twitter.
TwitSnap – A free widget that automatically provides the most current Twitter status preview of a user via a pop-up dhtml box.
TwitThis – Allow your site visitors to send messages about your site directly from your site to Twitter.
TwitTown – The unofficial Twitter community.
Twitter Adder – An easier way to make friends on Twitter; an auto friend adder.
TwitterChat – Your simple solution to 2-way live shoutbox Twitter integration.
TwitterFeed – Feed your blog to Twitter; post RSS to Twitter automatically.
Twitter Gossip – A site dedicated to rounding up the most interesting news & opinion about Twitter.
TwitterLocal – Lets you generate an RSS or XML feed to filter out tweets around a certain area.
TwitterMail (is now Twitter Counter) – Receive a TwitterEmail address; send Twitter updates by email; receive Twitter replies by email.
TwitterNotes – Take notes anywhere using Twitter.
Twitt.icio.us – Import links from a Twitter timeline to your Delicious account.
Twubble – Helps expand your Twitter bubble by searching your friend graph & picking out people who you may like to follow.
Youth Twitter – A safe, school-based Twitter-like blogging network for students.

For more Twitter Tools check out Mashable’s post, Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools.

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