Current features of Twadle include:
* Create short links on the fly - just type a long URL, and it will be replaced with a shorter one, saving you valuable characters.
* Live Tweet Preview lets you see what your Tweet will look like - short links and all - before you hit Update.
* Track links - see how many people clicked on the link you posted. Great for learning how to write compelling headlines.
* Attach Files to your Tweets. Right now you can attach images - but MP3s and more are coming!
* Super Secret SEO Feature - upgrade your account with an Invite Code, and add extra features to Twadl. You won't be dissapointed.
Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.
Summize looked at about 4 million Twitter status update messages (tweets) collected from the public time line over a seven day period running from April 27 - May 3.
S.Vesper's wiki page about Twitter: an explanation, Commoncraft video and the free software applications that will automatically update as you get new 'Tweets' so that you don't have to go to the Twitter website
TweetGrid is a powerful Twitter Search Dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, converstations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time. As new tweets are created, they are automatically updated in the grid. No need to refresh the page!
Create a Twitter badge that shows your updates on a picture!
Upload a picture and then tag some Twitter users in that picture. Voila − that's all it takes to make a dynamic mashup like the one above. Give it a try, and then share the badge!
CardsTweets.com grabs all the tweets from Arizona Cardinals football fans. Be a part of the community and update from the site. Super bowl Feb. 1. Go Cards!
Basically, 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.
Get fully manageable page with all friends, followers with avatars, where You can do several bulk actions as bulk follow, bulk unfollow, bulk block. Very handy.
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.
Wordy Birdie is a Twitter based word frequency quessing game. Predict which words people you follow will use in an update and earn points when they do!
DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets up-to-date using notifications that appear when a new tweet arrives. DestroyTwitter uses a minimal amount of memory compared to its AIR-based alternatives without sacrificing functionality and performance. As a result, it can easily run in the background as an automated process.
Go beyond the standard Twitter question "What are you doing?" to make your tweets more interesting. Go beyond status updates. Get creative and treat Twitter as a 140-character canvas!