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Enter Plurk; it's another Twitter clone which takes the Twitter concept and puts it on a timeline. The service has an odd, quirky feel to it; it's much more visual than Twitter, and it's fun to use. It uses colors to emphasize your 'moods', and it introduces the concept of karma, which should be familiar to Reddit users; the more you use the service, the more karma you get. In this case, karma even lets you unlock certain features, which almost feels like a mini game (if you like very boring mini games). Finally, just like Pownce, Plurk lets you divide your friends into "cliques", which is just a fancy word for groups.

This is a hideous tool that can be used to export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file, readable by any spreadsheet application (Excel, Numbers, etc.). Exported data includes the tweet plus a timestamp of when it was sent.

Discover the hottest links in your Twitter timeline

The social media content you should know about is just a few mouse clicks away - for all your professional knowledge work and research needs. Start with an in-depth analysis of your Twitter timeline, do arbitrary searches, and navigate through hashtags, tweeps, and links.

Measure the spread of tweets over the world. The speed at which Twitter spreads information is fascinating. Yet looking at your timeline it's not always easy to grasp how tweets participated to the show.

Easy Twitter Filtering TweetDig is the smarter way to filter Tweets, so you can prioritize what you read. It's time to hide the Twitter 'noise' and de-clutter your timeline.

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter API limitations, It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day and 2 weeks old.

Streamie is a full realtime Twitter client that runs in your web browser. New tweets will appear in your timeline immediately when someone posts them to Twitter.

"Tall Tweets will help you write tweets that are longer than 140 characters. The tool will slice and publish your "long tweet" into smaller chunks of 140 characters or you can even publish the entire messages as an image. Your Twitter followers will be able to read the entire message in their timeline itself."

Twitter is rolling out its new Web Interface. Today my twitter account @rajamanickam_a has received the new web interface. Find below the key featuere. - You will now find @mentions, retweets, searches, and lists just above your timeline - creating a single, streamlined view on the left of the screen. On the right, you can see the features you're familiar with, including whom you recently followed and who recently followed you, favorites, and Trending Topics.

Direct messages on twitter showed up in public timeline - very scary!

I read about this today, and wow! Read the comments to this story. I think it's important reminders to be careful about what we write about it in general.

Pick of the Twitter is a free service that selects specific "tweets" (posts) from the public timeline of the messaging service Twitter.

twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of twhirl's features: * runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX * connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts * notifications on new messages * shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd) * cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku * post images to TwitPic * search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan * timeline filtering * color schemes * automatically check for new versions There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your twitter experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.

WhoTweetedMe.com will analyze a URL and show you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter API limitations, It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day and 2 weeks old.

Are you being overwhelmed by twitter friends who can't stop talking, but they're like… still your friends? Install this greasmonkey script, then double clicking the chattering peeps will temporarily remove their tweets from your timeline. Restart your browser to get them back. Simple eh?

Slices is a completely new Twitter experience. With the world's first Twitter directory, Live Event streams, and Timeline Slicer, it's simply a better way to discover Twitter. What's your Slice?