Twitter commands apps and other interesting facts!


Basic Twitter Commands:

  • @username + message
  • directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their "replies" tab.
    Example: @meangrape I love that song too!

  • D username + message
  • sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
    Example: d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you're there?

  • WHOIS username
  • retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.
    Example: whois jack

  • GET username
  • retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.
    Example: get goldman

  • NUDGE username
  • reminds a friend to update by asking what they're doing on your behalf.
    Example: nudge biz

  • FAV username
  • marks a person's last twitter as a favorite. (hint: reply to any update with FAV to mark it as a favorite if you're receiving it in real time)
    Example: fav al3x
  • STATS
  • this command returns your number of followers, how many people you're following, and which words you're tracking.

  • INVITE phone number
  • will send an SMS invite to a friend's mobile phone.
    Example: Invite 415 555 1212

Twitter is growing at 2000 new accounts per day!


Celeberties using twitter:
http://www.celebritiesusingtwitter.com/

Twitter Fan Wiki:
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/

TwitterVision: (Like Google Maps for twitter)
http://twittervision.com/

Twitter on Wikipedia: (Lots of facts about twitter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

YAMMER Like Twitter for Enterprises:
http://www.yammer.com/

Pownce
:
http://pownce.com/tools/web/
Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends. The site launched on June 27, 2007, and was opened to the public on January 22,
2008
. Pownce announced that they will be closing the service in the next few weeks. Pownce team consists of Leah Culver, Mike Malone, Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose, Ariel Waldman, and Shawn Allen. Leah and Mike, who spent their time in coding and developing the web system at pownce, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.


Official Twitter Blog:
http://blog.twitter.com/

Unofficial Twitter Blog:
http://www.twittown.com/

Google Jaiku:
http://jaiku.com/ Jaiku is a way to connect with friends by sharing short messages called Jaikus. You can create your own stream of Jaikus and follow your friends.

Twitter Blocks:is a real-time visualization tool for recent updates from a user’s friends and their friends’ network of friends (and their friends’ friends’ network of friends, etc.).
http://explore.twitter.com/blocks/

Google Twitter Search:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004053080137224009376%3Aicdh3tsqkzy

Firefox Twitter Addons:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=twitter&status=4

Twitter Atlas:Fresh Logic Studios has built an addictive Flash mapping interface, aggregating worldwide "Tweets"
http://atlas.freshlogicstudios.com/

TwitterBuzz - TwitterBuzz shows you what people using Twitter, a microblogging service, are linking to. It's updated constantly. The default view shows the most popular links over the last day. Normal service has now been restored. More features coming soon.
http://twitterbuzz.com/

Twitter Technorati Links:
http://technorati.com/search/twitter?language=en

30 Boxes - allows you to see the Twitter activity of your network from within the 30Boxes environment. Another great feature is the ability to 'roll your own groups' of Twitterers.
http://30boxes.com/welcome.php

Twitty Tunes - If you want to share what you're listening to with the ease of Twitter, this is the browser plugin for you. It's a sibling of the popular FoxyTunes extension, and supports dozens of players. So if you're signed in to your Last.fm player, Twitty Tunes will let your Twitter friends know what you're listening to. There's even a social network devoted to the most recent TwittyTunes shout-outs, called Foxy Tunes Twitter DJ.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4994

Retweet: Bots are special Twitter users that provide you with information, either by request or whenever it becomes available.
http://retweet.com/

Second Life Twitter Client:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter/

Twitterholic: This application lists the top 100 users of Twitter (or hyper-twitterers, as I call them), ranked by their number of "followers." Followers are simply people who have opted to get Twitter messages from a user. At current, the top Twitterer, legendary internet personality Leo Laporte, has over 3,200 followers, while runner-up hyper-twittering blogger Robert Scoble has over 1,800 followers.

RSS2Twitter: With RSS2Twitter, you can easily set up any RSS feed to be delivered to your Twitter account. This means that RSS updates can easily be delivered to your mobile phone via Twitter--which is useful if you want to keep track of something.

Twitterfeed.com: Like RSS2Twitter, but Twitterfeed makes it very simple for you to post your blog entries to Twitter.

BigTweet : BigTweet is a great service allows you to post to twitter from any web page using it’s bookmarklet. You don’t need to register in order to use this service. It also provides you an option to tweet upto 280 characters. More over it supports a whole range of special characters that can be included to help express what you'd really like to say. It also shortens your long url.

Splitweet : Splitweet allows the Twitter users to compose a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. You can also follow your following tweets from all of your managed accounts in Splitweet. You can also monitorize your brand.

Tweetag : Tweetag gives you a unique way to browse through all the public tweets published on. The Tweetag homepage displays the 40 most frequent topics being discussed on Twitter (based on our automatic tagging system). The size of each tag represents its relative importance. It means you can tell what most people are talking about at a glance. By selecting certain tags, you can also define the scope of your search and discover new topics related to them. You can add tags to the selection by clicking on them. A click on a tag in the "selected tags" bar removes it from the selection.

Mr. Tweet : Mr. Tweet is really an interesting as well as useful application. It looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. If you are looking for answers for these two questions then follow Mr. Tweet.

Plodt : Plodt gives you a chance to categorize your Tweets so that you can get value out of what you've created and experience the satisfaction of following the trail of Plodts that you and others make. You can also see a live stream of what others are Plodting.

Twollow : Twollow is an auto follow twitter mash up. Once you log-in, add the keyword of your interest. Twollow will monitor your keywords and let you choose witch people you want to follow. By clicking on a keyword you'll access the last tweets that contains the keyword and will be able to follow people you want.

tweetworks : Tweetworks is designed to make micro-blogging more useful for people and businesses. Tweetworks is based on the simple premise that people like to talk about stuff with other people. And it is the stuff (ideas, questions, politics, sports, arts and so on) that brings people together and around which they form community. With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of Twitter.

TweetScribe : TweetScribe is a new service that gives you a twitter feed by topic or search term, instead of by who you know. Follow what people talk about and stay up to date on any topic. Find out what people are saying about you or your company.

twitrratr : Twittratr is an interesting site that tracks the opinion on twitter. It helps you to discover what people are really saying on Twitter. You can search for any terms which you want know how many people are tweeting positives or negatives about that term. With Twitrratr you can distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic.

Qwitter : This is an interesting twitter application that let you know when any of your followers are not following you any more. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message like this: John Gruber (gruber) stopped following you on Twitter after you posted this tweet: What's the difference between Arial and Helvetica?

Just Tweet It : Are you interested to know the people like you ? Just Tweet It is a user generated Twitter directory of twitter users. It helps you to find other twitter users like you. It has a wide range of categories. You can choose an appropriate category and find other twitter users or list your name there to let people find you. Newest Tweeters will be listed on the main page with their bio.

LazyTweet : LazyTweet is useful when you use Twitter and have a question or request of some sort that you'd like some feedback on. LazyTweet is a merger of The LazyWeb (more here) and Twitter. Think of this as Yahoo! Answers for Twitter. Just pose your request/question, and include the words "lazytweet" or "lazyweb" in it. It will let you know once someone reply your question.

Twittertise : Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers. Using Twittertise you can schedule your communications on Twitter and using URL tracking technology measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform.

TweetSpeak : Twitter is a popular micro-blogging site that easily demands too much of your attention for the simple reason that you have to read it. Now you can listen instead. Tweet Speak lets you give your friends the continuous partial attention they deserve without taking your eyes off of the work you should be doing.

ToAnswer : ToAnswer is a Twitter-based mini-application that will help you get your questions answered quickly. This is similar to Yahoo! Answer developed specifically for twitter. Some users ask questions, the questions are indexed, and other users respond to questions that may know the answer to. It’s a simple, efficient way to query the minds of others. Due to the nature of Twitter you are limited to 140-character questions and answers. This makes ToAnswer the perfect medium for making small polls or quick questions.

TweetStats : Tweetstats is a Twitter mashup that lets you enter a Twitter username and view interactive stats such as tweets per day and direct replies per user among others. It shows your total tweeting activity in graphical manner, your tweet timeline, your aggregate hourly and daily tweets, whom you most frequently message and which twitter interface you used.

EasyTweets : EasyTweets is a set of tools that can help online marketers leverage the power of microblogging. You can use it to post to and switch between multiple Twitter accounts in seconds, check replies, and track new followers. It also helps to schedule Tweets whenever you want even if Twitter is down

TweetDeck is a new service build for twitter. It is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

twizon : As name suggests, twizon is a twitter & Amazon mash up. Twizon lists all the tweets referencing Amazon deals. If love shopping on amazon and want to lets other know about it, then twizon is for you.

MadTwitter : MadTwitter is a Windows application that lets you read “twits” written by your friends and publish your own. Using it is really easy. First, register for an account at Twitter, download MadTwitter and install it. First time you have to configure it. Once configured it will stay at the bottom of your desktop (in the systray) showing itself when you receive new “twits”. Clicking on its icon will show the main window where you can write your “twits”.

Chirrup : Chirrup is comment system which uses Twitter as a datastore. Here how it works: 1. People send Twitter replies to you about your site
2. Chirrup fetches all of the replies from Twitter, and sorts them by URL so you can have a comment feed for each page in your site
3. You put the comments wherever you want them, and style them however you please.

Twitag : Twitag is a #tag finder for Twitter. It facilitates and organizes the most recent content tagged by users. You can see, group and share #tags. A useful tool to group posts related to live events (meetings, conferences, games), services (traffic, weather, emergency), memes, and so on.

SecretTweet : This site provides a service to post your secrets anonymously to twitter. This is not simply publish & shared your secrets once you submit them. It will go through approval process. Your ip address (for spam protection) and tweet will be collected by them.

Twitter Karma : Great little app for mirroring the twitter follow/follower inequalities. It will also be useful for tracking who you're following that's not following you, and vice versa. It's a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the "Whack!" button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.

Twitter Answers
: Twitter Answers is a Q&A mashup using Twitter and Mosio. It enables you to ask any question using Twitter and have it answered by real people like yourself. If you are familiar with how Twitter works, after signing up with Mosio and Twitter both, you simply follow QNA (twitter.com/qna) and when you want to ask a question, you send a direct message to QNA.

GroupTweet : This service allows you to send messages via Twitter that are instantly pushed out privately to only group member. Generally when you published a message on twitter, it will be available to public Twitter timelines or to your followers. In some scenario where you don't want your message to be available to all other, but only specific groups, then GroupTweet is a solution.


Of course, these are just some of the many applications created by the Twitter army. A full list of applications can be found at the Twitter Fan Wiki. If you're just getting started with Twitter, here are a couple of links that will help you get up and running quickly. Please help me continue this thread (post) by commenting on your favorite twittervilles in the twitterverse!

Thanks
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