Miscellaneous but Useful Twitter Tools & Tips This resource will be constantly updated when newer/better directories are found. Add yours by commenting! Backing Up Your Twitter History is easy with Twistory . “Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary.” HOT!
Tweeterized helps you Twitter Signature with your latest twit and “time stamp”. HOT!
Afterglide offers you a way to show your own Twits as well as your friends’ twits. It churns some codes for you to place in your website/blog. I tried to show my last 500 tiwts with no problem. It is a very simple with no styles or formatting, and so I think it’s best to place it in some kind of box of column.
Afraid of the famous “Fail Whale” or “Disconnect Man” when Twitter is down? TwitaBit helps you to show a permanent message so people know you’re still alive and that Twitter’s just sorting technical things out.
Twitterlights aren’t New Year’s lights but it allows you to twitter quotes, internet snippets etc with a “HIGHLIGHT”. HOT!
StrawPollNow lets you conduct polls and surveys on Twitter. HOT!
Twittpoll is similiar to StrawPollNow. HOT!
With Tweetake, you can choose what to backup and what not to. HOT!
TwitterMosaic takes Twitter members’ icons to create a picture you use. If you have time to spare, this is a pretty good way to discover twitter members by the icons they use. HOT!
Twittercard creates your Twitter card like a name card. Also gives you the raw code to let anyone twit a blog entry or web page to Twitter! HOT!
If you’re afraid of missing DMs or @ messages, you can set change your Twitter settings after logging into Twitter, or you can sign up for a “Twitter-message notification of a private or direct twit, in your email inbox” –> Twitterreply
Another TTAS Get informed when someone stops following you on Twitter. Qwitter emails you whenever someone un-follows you. It happens sometimes but nothing personal. HOT!
Twitterless is similiar to Qwitter but will also chart your followers’ history. HOT!
Want to set up your game clan or business group for Twitter Members? You may wanna check out Tweetworks.com
Twit your blog to Twitter with Twitterfeed. HOT!
Claim your Twitterfeed on Technorati ! To claim your Twitter feed sign into your Technorati account first. Input http://twitter.com/YourTwitterUserName at the bottom. Confirm your twitterfeed ownership by copying the code Technorati’s generated for you, into your usual Twitter’s 140 characters’ space. HOT!
Get Twitter Widgets from WidgetBox HOT!
Twitter Add-ons for Firefox
TwitSnip, TwitterFox and TwitBin are Firefox add-ons for easy posting to Twitter from your FireFox (check out site to see if they’ve made add-ons compatiable for MSIE as well). It lets you “quote” text
on any web page, and Twitter it.
Another Firefox plugin that helps to delete your sent DM (direct messages) in Twitter. It’s still in
Beta.
Twitzer is a Firefox extension that lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter! HOT!
Power Twitter is about the only tool (a Firefox plugin) that helps you to embed say Youtube videos and Flickr photos into your twits (messages).
Twitter Desktop Clients
There are many Twitter desktop clients that acts like Instant Messengers: Pwytter.com and SpazTwinja (both work in Windows, Linux and Mac) but it will have to have more reasons as to why I should have a desktop client to post my tweets.
Tweetr works on both MAC and PC.
If you’re using iChat, you can sync your conversations with Twitter so your Twitter profile shows your iChat messages. Info here.
Twitter’s “Time-Wasters”
And if you’re looking for another Twitter tool to waste your time, TweetWasters will tell you how much time you’ve ‘wasted’ on Twitter. The calculations’ based on an estimated 30 seconds per twit multiplied by the total number of twits sent. I am not sure if ithis includes the updated twits one has deleted!
Twitterer.com tells you which Twitterers twit the most often.
FollowCost allows you to find out the ANNOY-RATE of any Twitterer!
Have a Twitter tool or twitter tip to share? Please comment!
Related info on Twitter
PennyButler has a list of Twitter plugins and is a great Twitter resource so check it out Twitterers!
