| Twitter’s rising popularity and the huge number of Twitter-related tools and mashups has been impossible to ignore. Instead of writing a new entry every time a new one appears, it’s much more convenient for the readers it they’re all in one big categorized list. *note: this list will be constantly updated as new Twitter tools are found Desktop clients Triqqr - a simple, early beta Windows application for posting tweets from your desktop.
TwitBox - a Windows Vista based desktop client for viewing and updating tweets.
Twitteroo Windows Desktop client, with several advanced features, that enables you to post to Twitter from the desktop.
Twitterific - a Mac desktop client, minimal but beautifully designed and not without options
Twitterlicious - a Windows application that makes using Twitter easier.
TwitterPost - simplistic Mac desktop client for updating Twitter, coming from Apple. Mashups FlickrMixr - An odd Flickr/Twitter mashup that can be painfully slow at times.
Flussgeist - an unorthodox but interesting mashup between Twitter, Flickr, and several other services. It combines tweets with images, videos and an ambient soundtrack.
GeoTwitter - very similar to TwitterVision and TwitterEarth below, GeoTwitter displays Twitter updates on a world map (powered by Google Maps). Unlike the two mentioned tools, it’s not updated immediately after a new tweet appears; instead, it shows several tweets on the map and it’s updated every minute.
Swotter A contestant for the weirdest Twitter mashup out there, Swotter is “reading” books to Twitter. It’s essentially just sending lines of text from a book to a Twitter account. You can see it in action here: twitter.com/booktwo
Twapper - a mashup between the online calendar 30boxes and Twitter, created by the folks from 30boxes themselves. It works on both mobile and standard web browsers, and it’s useful even without a 30boxes account, but it offers many more options if you have one. For the full scoop of the features go over to 30boxes site.
Twitter Atlas - yet another Twitter/Live Maps mashup. It looks very sleek and it has a window with tweet history, which is a very useful feature.
Twitterami - a Frappr/Twitter mashup which shows Twitter updates on a world map. Requires registration.
TwitterEarth - similar to TwitterVision (which came first), but based on Live Maps, and works in 3D, too - at least it should, but at the time of this writing clicking on the 3D icon does nothing.
Twitterer - a Twitter/Second Life mashups, which shows updates from a certain Twitter accounts over Second Life spheres.
Twittervision - a Google Maps/Twitter mashups that lets you see Twitter updates on a world map. Works only for users who have their location set up in Twitter preferences. Read our coverage here.
TwitterMaps another Twitter/Google Maps mashup, with a simple function: find up where a Twitter user is located. You can also update your current location with a special command sent to Twitter. Mobile Jargong - IM client for smartphones with Twitter support.
Twapper - described above; it’s a WAP based interface for Twitter.
Twitter Flashlite - mobile application that lets you post to Twitter from your cellphone. Plugins Post To Twitter - a Firefox plugin that lets you post Twitter updates directly from the Firefox search bar.
Simple Twitter - a very simple Wordpress plugin that displays Twitter updates on your Wordpress blog.
Tweetbar - Firefox sidebar for easy Twitter updating. Works in Flock, too.
Twitterbar - A Firefox plugin that lets you post Twitter tweets from the Firefox address bar.
Twitter Tools - a Wordpress plugin that enables you to create blog posts out of Twitter tweets, tweet archives, or synchronize a Wordpress blog with Twitter.
Twitter Netvibes module - a Netvibes module that lets you update your status at Twitter directly from your Netvibes homepage.
TwitTwoo Another Wordpress Plugin that displays Twitter status in the sidebar of your Wordpress blog. It’s nicely designed, and it displays your Twitter avatar next to the tweets. Tools Autotwit lets you automate Twitter updates. Quite useless, unless you want to keep up an image of a man that never sleeps.
EmailTwitter - allows you to post Twitter updates and retrieve your Twitter timeline via your cellular phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device, without incurring SMS fees.
Mail2Twitter allows you to post tweets through e-mail, as well as any email-enabled mobile device.
RSS2Twitter - converts an RSS feed into Twitter tweets.
Twitter Badges: This comes straight from the developers of Twitter: Flash badges intended to be displayed on your website, showing your latest Twitter posts
TwitterBuzz is an interesting tool that turns Twitter into some sort of simple Digg. It displays a list of most popular links on Twitter. You can see all the Twitter messages mentioning the link.
TwitterFeed - a service that combines OpenID and Twitter to let you feed the entries on your blog to Twitter
Twitterholic keeps a top list of users based on how often the post, how many friends they have, and other factors.
Twitteromatic - a tool that posts all sorts of information (weather, Firefox updates) to Twitter automatically.
Twit This is a badge similar to the popular “Digg This” badges, which help the visitors of a web site to quickly include its URL into a Twitter post. It’s available as a Javascript snippet, a bookmarklet or a Wordpress plugin.
TwitterSearch Simple Twitter search. Widgets Twadget - A Windows Vista widget (Microsoft calls them gadgets for no understandable reason), which shows you the latest Twitter updates and gives you the ability to post to Twitter right from your desktop.
Yourminis Twitter widget that shows tweets, and enables you to post updates to Twitter. del.icio.us tags: Twitter, Plugins, BadgesLabels: Download of the day
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