List of Twitter services and applications
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There are various services and applications designed to work with or enhance the micro-blogging service Twitter. They are designed with various goals - many aim to improve Twitter's functionality while others set out to make the service more accessible, particularly from other devices. Some applications allow users to send messages (called tweets) directly while others give users the ability to create more complex tweets which they then have to manually post through Twitter itself.
List by Market Share (June 2009)
Market shares are based on fraction of tweets posted using each of the different applications.[1]
Name | Share |
---|---|
Main Twitter website | 45.70% |
TweetDeck | 19.70% |
Echofon | 4.50% |
twitterfeed | 3.80% |
Tweetie | 3.70% |
Echofon for Firefox | 3.10% |
txt | 2.90% |
twhirl | 2.80% |
mobile-web | 2.30% |
UberTwitter | 1.80% |
Alphabetical List of Twitter Services and Applications
Name | Platform | Notes |
---|---|---|
Accessible Twitter | Website | A twitter client built with Web accessibility and Web standards. In addition to being optimized for disabled users, it is also designed to be more simple and easy to use for the general public. |
act.ly | Website | Twitter petitions and other activism |
aTVitter | AppleTV | The first twitter client for AppleTV |
aMAP.to | Website | A service allowing users to create short URLs to maps for Twitter, email and other posts. |
Autopilot Tweet | Desktop application | Full Twitter automation software for Twitter marketing includes a Twitter Friend Adder / Follower Adder, auto follow, follow by keywords, follow your followers, auto unfollow, schedule your tweets with scheduled update status, automate Twitter and handle the daily chores of managing your Twitter account. |
AutoTweeter | Desktop application | An application allowing users to start their own services (such as "joke of the day" or "fact of the hour") that can send automatic tweets from the users' computers at scheduled times. |
BallsAndTweets.com | Website | A Twitter baseball directory. |
BeTweeted | Website | A pay-per-click advertising venue on the twitter platform. |
Bitter | Desktop application | A twitter client which also connects to Plurk, Pownce, and FriendFeed. |
Blip.FM | Website | A music sharing website that can be synced with Twitter accounts. |
Blu | Windows Vista or superior | Twitter Client for Windows Vista. |
breadbox64 | Contiki | Client for the 8-bit Commodore personal computers with a network aware cartridge. |
CampusTweet | Website | A college networking directory site that connects students with their university. |
ceTwit | Windows Mobile | A Twitter client for Windows Mobile 5 and on, written in C#. |
Chilltwit | iPhone OS | An application that serves as a Twitter client, with several features such as customizable backgrounds. |
Chirpr | Windows Vista or superior | An open source Windows sidebar gadget. Allows viewing updates, and posting updates. |
ChoqoK | KDE Desktop Environment | KDE Twitter/Identica client. |
DateTwit.com | Website | A free dating website for Twitter users to create a personal profile, browse for others using filters, and send a smile or virtual drink to start romance – inside the DateTwit community and out. |
DSTwitter | Nintendo DS | Homebrew application for sending and receiving tweets on Nintendo DS handhelds. |
EarthTwit | Website | A website which allow users to update their location and/or share places through Google Earth. |
Echofon | iPhone | An application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets. Formerly named TwitterFon. |
Echofon for Firefox | Mozilla Firefox | A plugin which allows users to update their profile whilst browsing the internet. Formerly named TwitterFox. |
enote.in | Website | A twitter-like service which is also a twitter client and offers micro-blogging in 5 Indian languages. |
feedalizr | Desktop Application | feedalizr is a cross-platform, desktop social media aggregator, including twitter, built using Adobe Integrated Runtime. |
FileSocial | Website | FileSocial.com allows users to share files through their Twitter accounts using OAuth. |
FileTwt | Website | FileTwt.com allows users to upload and tweet files to twitter publicly or privately. |
FileTweet | Website | filetweet.elliottkember.com allows users to send files to their Twitter followers. |
find2follow | Website | find2follow.swatlabs.net A minimalistic approach to finding people you may like to follow on Twitter. |
Flock | Browser | Flock is a web browser which integrates Twitter application functions and Twitter search and drag-and-drop sharing of web content to Twitter directly into the browser. |
Foller.me | Website | Foller.me is a third-party Twitter service that renders instant detailed information about a particular Twitter user's latest 200 posts, generating tag clouds representing his main topics, hashtags and mentions. |
FriendOrFollow | Website | FriendOrFollow.com is a Twitter follow management website. It shows the user who they are following that is not following them back, who is following the user that the user is not following back, and the user's reciprocal followers. |
Futz.me | Website | Futz.me is a service that sends tweets from your browser without requiring you to login in first. It allows you to enter a url like this "futz.me/xxx/b getting on a plane" (where "xxx" is your futz.me username) into the address bar of any major Internet browser and instantly post your tweet on Twitter. |
GamerDNA | Website | Track games being played by you, and automatically rebroadcast gameplay to Twitter. |
GeoChirp | Website | GeoChirp helps you search for people Twittering for specific things in a specific area. |
Gravity | Symbian OS | A mobile application for S60 V3 or V5 users which allow access to multiple Twitter accounts concurrently. |
Hesine | Symbian OS windows mobile | A mobile application for windows mobile or S60 V2/V3 users which allow to send tweets or receive following's tweets in almost real time from mobile without any SMS or MMS charges. |
Imj.Tw(eet) | Website | Free service for Twitter & Facebook users providing secure image hosting and sharing. All you need is a Twitter or Facebook account to begin. |
iTweet.net | Website | Web-based interface for Twitter, with autorefresh, integrated search and hashtags, inline user bios and conversation threading via "in reply to" links. Integrated TwitPic uploader, bit.ly URL shortener/statistics, symbols palette and other Twitter tools. Also an iPhone-optimized Web app. |
JT3k | Dynamic GIF image over http | An api which allows twitter members to include their latest tweets on any other web page (useful for forum/email signatures) by simply inserting the url as an image. |
MassiveTweet | Website | A website which allows users to post extra long tweets to their Twitter accounts. The site provides a WYSIWYG view so you can manage word breaks, etc.. |
Monitter | Website | A website which allows users to search, filter and monitor tweets by keyword. |
Moviecritter | Website | A website which allows users to rate and review movies. |
NatsuLion | Mac OSX | A desktop application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
NewsTrendz | Website | A website that ingests trend data from Twitter, Google, and Bing to discover hot news and real-time news related tweets. |
NutshellMail | Website | An application that allows users to send tweets, direct message, reply, retweet, follow and search twitter from any email inbox. |
profiles.im | Website | Provides a customizable public profile for anyone with a Twitter account. |
PockeTwit | Windows Mobile | A Windows Mobile application written with .NET, intended for Windows Mobile Professional (Touchscreen), but works on Windows Mobile Standard as well (non-Touchscreen). |
Pwytter | Desktop application Windows Mac OSX Linux | The free muti-platform Twitter client written in Python |
reduce.li | Website | Allows tweets to exceed 140 characters in length. Also a url shortening service. Also a photo hosting service. |
Roostr | Website | A flatshare listing site for UK Twitter users. It uses abbreviations to allow users to find flats or flatmates. |
Spaz | Personal computer | A cross-platform application running on Adobe Air that allows users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
Spreadtweet 2007 | Adobe Air | A twitter program that has a user timeline listed in a window that looks exactly like Microsoft Excel 2007. |
SimplyTweet | iPhone | Twitter client with support for Apple's push notification service |
Threeter | Desktop application | Easy and fast posting to Twitter using a hotkey combination. |
TTYtter | Personal computer | A text mode Twitter client written in Perl. |
Twaxed.com | Website | A user-generated database of the funniest tweets on Twitter determined by user voting. |
Tweed | Palm Pre | An application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
Tweetasaur.us | Website | A twitter client for 140+ characters. |
TweetBrain | Website | TweetBrain is a crowdsourcing service powered by the Twitter user community. It facilitates people to ask questions, get answers, and earn money from answering questions posted with a reward. |
TweetCompete | Website | TweetCompete is the world's first competitive micro-blogging service. TweetCompete was created to capitalize on the rapidly growing demand for twitter apps that help users waste time. |
tweetdare | Website | A website where users trade secret hidden tweets with strangers. The user to play receives the tweet from the previous tweetdare player. Their message is saved for the next person. |
TweetGlobe | iPhone OS | An application for the iPhone and iPod Touch featuring a moving globe showing the user where their followers are. |
TweetDeck | iPhone OS and Desktop application | A desktop application created with Adobe Air (only for Desktop version) which allows users to filter and group their own and others' tweets. The iPhone version was released on June 16th 2009. |
Tweetie | iPhone OS and Mac OS X | An application allowing users to access and update multiple Twitter accounts at the same time. |
Twittme | Website | http://twittme.mobi - Mobile Web Site, full featured, designed to run on wide range of devices. |
Tweetings | iPhone OS and Windows | An application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets. Uses Apple Push Notification Service to monitor updates. |
Tweeterland | Website | A website dedicated to Twitter users, with information about how to use and make the most of their experience on Twitter. |
TweetLater.com | Website | A website that allow to post twitter messages on a scheduled scheme. |
TweetMeme | Website | A website that shows the top stories from Twitter and allows users to re-tweet interesting content. The site also has some analytics on it. |
TweetMeNews | Website | A website that sends the user tweets of news stories relevant to their interests. |
TweetMyGaming | Website | View tweets about video-games in real-time. |
Tweet Lord | Website | The first game add-on developed for Twitter, designed to allow Twitter users to interact in a persistent game world. |
Tweeter Mobile | Mobile devices | A mobile phone application which allows users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
tweetropy.com | Website | A message scrambler that allows users to generate "encrypted" messages using a secret key they specify. |
Tweetree | Website | Presents the timeline in a tree fashion very similar to a forum, where the answers are nested and show links expanded with images, descriptions, previews, etc. |
TweetTabs | Website | A tabbed search of Twitter content. |
TweetWhistle.com | Website | A Twitter client that allows a user to automate their daily Twitter updates. Users can also turn any RSS Feed into a tweet automatically. |
tweetzi | Website | A real-time Twitter search tool with controls for augmenting search queries. |
Twhirl | Desktop application | An application which uses Adobe Air. |
Twibble | Personal computer and mobile devices | An application which uses GPS systems to allow the user to post tweets based on their location. |
Twibes | Website | Collaborative affinity groups. Groups Twitter users based on their interests and hobbies. |
Twidroid | Android | An application which allows users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
Twiggit | Website | A service that allows users who vote for articles on Digg to automatically post the link on Twitter. |
TwiGroups | Website | It helps Twitter users to unite in groups of interests, to identify their avatars with a branding logo of their preferred group. |
TwInbox | Microsoft Outlook | A Microsoft Outlook add-in to create, find, monitor and manage tweets. Includes TinyURL and TwitPic support. |
Twiplist | Website | A Twitter user directory. |
Twisten.fm | Website | Post a link to a song to Twitter using Grooveshark. |
twit4 | Website | A directory of twitter accounts by company. |
TwitArt.com | Website | A website where users can purchase custom Twitter backgrounds and avatars for their Twitter account. |
twitCharts.com | Website | A web tool for making Google graph charts that can be easily tweeted. |
Twitexplode.com | Website | A live view of what's happening at twitter. |
twitQA | Website | A service allowing users to ask or answer questions on Twitter. |
TwitLuv | Website | A website that checks the sexual compatibility of people given their Twitter usernames |
Twitpic | Website | A website where users can upload images to their Twitter feed.[2] |
TwitPrint | Website | A free Twitter printer - generates printer friendly output from your tweets, can include Twitpic.com images and user avatars. |
TwitR | Website | A free Twitter user directory. |
TwitRounds | Website | Free Twitter backgrounds for users. Also allows Twitter users to purchase custom Twitter backgrounds. |
Twitter Toolbar | Mozilla Firefox | A plugin that allows users to quickly make Twitter updates, see replies, and search Twitter |
Twitter-plugin | GNOME Do | A plugin for Gnome-Do to post messages |
TwitterBerry | BlackBerry | An application for posting updates to Twitter on BlackBerry devices. |
twitterena | iPhone | Allows users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
Twitterfall | iPhone OS and Website | Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime. |
Twitterholic | Website | A free website that ranks Twitter users based on the number of followers. Ranking available globally and for individual locations. |
TwitterMail | Allows user to send an email to a special email address that will update Twitter. | |
Twitterrific | iPhone OS and Mac OS X | An application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets. |
Twittori | Website, iPhone | Twittori introduces geotagging for individual Twitter messages by setting a link inside the tweet based on geohash technology. 'Following places' is another special feature of Twittori. |
Twittospheric | Website | Twittospheric let you see in real-time all tweets about any topic like if you were in the twittosphere. |
Twittley | Website | Twitter social news website made for people to discover and share content through Twitter network, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. |
Twitturly | Website | A website that tracks the most popular links and URLs shared on Twitter, allowing to find out what most people are 'tweeting' about onto other websites. |
Twivial | Game | Twitter-based game that allows players to answer trivia questions via direct messages. |
Twitpay | Website | A website where users can now send payments to other twitter users. Payments are handled by Amazon. |
Twitzap | Website | A website that offers automatic tweet updates and search channels as separate tabs. |
MovaTwitter | Website | a Japanese service that allows users to post updates. |
Twoquick | Website | A website where users get keyword search results from both Google and Twitter displayed side-by-side. |
Twt.fm | Website | A website where users can preview songs and post them to their Twitter feed so they can share them with their friends. |
What the Hashtag | Website | User-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter. Also contains real-time stream, statistics, and definitions for hashtags. |
ÜberTwitter | BlackBerry | An application for posting updates to Twitter on BlackBerry devices and locating other ÜberTwitter users. |
References
- ^ "Inside Twitter". Sysomos.
- ^ Gibbs, Mark (2008-03-31). "Micro-blogging". Network World. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
External links
- "Apps" at the Twitter Fan Wiki - A comprehensive list of applications for Twitter categorised by client.
- 100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals - Twitter applications categorised by use.
- Twitter Apps for everyday use - An extensive list of twitter applications.