TwInbox is a life-saving tool for Microsoft Outlook users. An Outlook user probably keeps it open at all time. So, in case if you are a power Outlook and Twitter user as well, just forget the need to use any other Twitter client to post your tweets. TwInbox seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook. TwInbox is a perfect Twitter client for any Outlook user from a Twitter newbie to a business professional.

TwInbox serves as an addon for Outlook and once it is installed into Outlook, TwInbox lets you to update, reply, search, and archive your Twitter messages right from your Outlook inbox. Prior to doing all this, after installation, the user has to enter his Twitter credentials. Also, it would be better if the user creates a new folder for placing incoming Twitter messages. The really interesting feature is the ability to track keywords with a search term and filter through those messages locally.

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Download TwInbox here. (Very minimalistic size of 490kb, so just give it a try!)

YouTwit presents the last status update a particular user has made along with the location from where the update has been made with the help of Google Maps API. YouTwit is a mashup with Google Maps.

The user is a presented with the map containing the latest status update a particular person has made with their location in any part of the earth. Also, the latest tweets are also presented before you if the particular user is tweeting at that time. The site asks for your Twitter username and password before letting you to view the tweets. If you dont enter the above requisites, you are just presented with the Google Map.


I noticed this : I entered the username of Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk). But the map showed the tweets of different people along with their location from their respective parts of the world which seems similar to Twittervision which we discussed earlier. Then, I tried again with Smashing Magazine's (@smashingmag). I got the same result.

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Twittervision follows the same concept as Twittearth, which helps in mapping live tweets from all over the world. Twittervision is a mashup with Google Maps API. Live tweets from all over the world are shown in the map.

To begin with, the user need not do much. Once he enters the site, the map shows up and live tweets from all over the world at the particular time are also shown. The user can also choose the tweets to be in a multitude of languages which ranges from Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian to Turkish, Ukranian and Vietnamese. A total of 42 languages are left to the users choice to choose from.

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Twitter Charts is a Yahoo Pipes/Google Charts mashup. Twitter Charts graphs any users tweets based on a timeline that includes days of the week and by the hour. Twitter Charts is a really great way to check out how much active any user is on Twitter. Also, the engagement of the user with other users can also be found out by checking the chart, because it also reveals the portions of the tweets which are replies.

The Twitter user's tweets are gathered via Yahoo Pipes! and rendered using the Google Chart API. Check out the chart of Ashton Kutcher, the actor with the more number of followers:

The most interesting aspect of this project is that, other than the static files being served up by xefer.com itself, no other server-side processing is being done here; all the processing is being handled by Yahoo Pipes and Google, and of course Twitter itself which is ultimately hosting the raw data.

At the beginning when you enter a new user name, you can find the time taken by the chart to show up is really slow. But once done, you can find the subsequent runs to be faster because of Yahoo!'s caching of the generated output. If you really need to know, how the client side Javascript processing the raw data for Google Charts is done, kindly check it out here.

A really engaging tool to check out how you spend your time on Twitter. Twitter Charts is a product of Xefer.


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Scoopler is a real time search engine for Twitter. It aggregates and organizes content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. This is done by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, Scoopler gives the most relevant results, updated in real-time. For an entered topic and the results will update in real time “waterfall” format.


Now updating real time is the in-thing throughout Web 2.0. Just recently, FriendFeed went real time. Facebook is also experimenting with the real time updating thingy. But those services just provide you with the content that's being only updated on their particular sites. Now, the user is given a choice to search through the number of services listed above through Scoopler. But one could easily note that, most of the results that are shown after the search query are very much dominated by Twitter.

The interface of Scoopler is really simple. Moreover, the Peek feature in Scoopler gives a boost to the look of Scoopler. The Peek feature enables the user to take a look at the pages being linked without visiting the actual site. Live updating takes place in the middle. Moreover, popular content relating to the search query are listed at the side where the user can view contents categorized as videos, links and images.

Though there are a lot of search engine which works with Twitter, the real time updating of content gives Scoopler a high-five.


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Monitter follows a simple logic - it helps the user in monitoring the Twitter world for a set of keywords and watch out for what people are saying.

What does Monitter do?

The layout of Monitter almost resembles, the famous Twitter Desktop client - TweetDeck. Similar to TweetDeck, Monitter displays a number of Twitter searches parallel to each other. This enables the user to keep up with the trend simultaneously. Initially, Monitter limited the parallel searches to three columns. But now, the user can add or remove as many number of columns almost similar to TweetDeck. All the keywords are searched in real time and the tweets are being regularly updated. Just visualize a stock ticker. Monitter has also introduced a new search criteria in their website which enables the users to know only about tweets only within a certain distance of their desired location. Monitter also provides a widget which can be integrated within websites thus enabling your users to monitor your tweets.

Opinion :

Initially, Cnet has mentioned Monitter is three times better than Twitter Search because of the presence of three columns! But I would say, Monitter is many times better than Twitter Search now.


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Twitturly tracks URLs being sent throughout Twitter and provides a real time view of what people are talking about on Twitter. When someone sends a URL to their followers, the URL is automatically given a vote. If the URL also retweeted, then the URL is given votes according to the number of retweets. The more votes the URL gets in the last 24 hours, the higher it ranks on the Top 100 Twitturly List. It doesnt matter whether people use the direct link or shortened URLs because Twitturly's spiders visit each and every link before ranking them.

The Top 100 list consists of URLs that are only famous during the previous 24 hours. Moreover all kinds of URLs being sent by robots which are considered spam are also eliminated by Twitturly's extra-smart algorithm. I find it really useful because it keeps the readers updated about the happenings on the Twitterverse. The service is almost similar to that of Tweetmeme minus the dynamic updating service.

What does Twitturly offer?

There are four categories in Twitturly,

Twitturly also provides a profile search where it lists down all the URLs the particular user has ever tweeted. My Top 100 provides you with the Top 100 URLs the people you follow have tweeted, thus providing a news channel like service.

Twitturly is an amazing tool. Try it out and keep yourself updated.

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Ever felt the need to get a view of what other people tweet? You must have atleast the desire to know about it!

Foller.me is one such efficient tool that gives you a detailed information about the specific Twitter user you query. Just enter the Twitter username and press Enter. Foller.me accesses the profile of the particular user and scans all the public information. It also presents you with the significant tags of the previous 200 Tweets thereby allowing you to give you an overview of that person. The presentation is divided into three categories:

Recent topics are the words most used in the particular user's timeline. # hashtags are meant to communicate with a whole community and @ mentions provides you with the people the user has mentioned in his previous 200 Tweets. Foller.me also provides you with a map that pinpoints the exact location of the followers of the particular user.

Foller.me provides you an easy way to read only the most important tweets of most frequent Twitter users like Ashton Kutcher or if you are following news channels like CNN Breaking News and The New York Times, you are provided with a easy way to read only the news you require by grazing through the tag cloud.


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Ever felt the need to measure your influence on the social networking startup of the century?! (Ahem! Ahem! I mean Twitter!) Almost everyone has the urge to measure their influence on Twitter. Twitalyzer gives you the answer to the aforementioned difficult question.

Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media.

I used the Twitalyzer for Ashton Kutcher's account! Check it out!


As you see, each account is analyzed on five different categories

How is Generosity measured?

Generosity is ones ability to retweet thus creating awareness and idea among your followers. Generosity is measured on the basis of the ratio of retweets you pass along to all updates you publish.
How is Velocity measured?

Velocity, as the original term means simply the rate at which you are contributing your posts on Twitter.
How is Clout measured?

Clout is the likelihood that other people will reference you in Twitter. The more people who reference you, the higher the clout.

Other Features:

• Provides an add-on for Firefox.
• Integration of Google analytics with Twitter providing Twitter Analytics.
  

Twitalyzer is an amazing tool if you are a Twitter fan! Use Twitalyzer and find out your own influence on Twitter.


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Simply said, TweetBurner is Feedburner for Twitter. TweetBurner tracks the link you post both on Twitter and FriendFeed. An account is needed for logging into TweetBurner and analyzing the statistics. However, no login is required for shortening an URL.


What does it do?

TweetBurner lets you to shorten URLs and also tracks the URLs to check out how many people have clicked on the links. It does this by tracking how many times the URL was used to transport someone to the destination website. The URL shortening service used here is twurl. TweetBurner also gives you a list of Top 10 URLs clicked in the last hour and also the most popular twurls.

Features :

TweetBurner also supports a bookmarklet feature which can be dragged onto the browser for viewing statistics whenever we need.


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TweetStats displays your twitter statistics in a graph. TweetStats displays your

Once you have entered your username, depending on the number of tweets you have posted so far, you have to wait for a while for the results to show up. But, you will know that it is worth a wait because you are presented with a very detailed and a perfect analysis of your tweeting life. You are presented with the number of tweets per day (tpd), Tweet density and also the interfaces you have used to post your tweets. TweetStats is quite an amazing tool if you have the habit of tracking the number of tweets you have been posting.

TweetStats also provides with the trending topic of the day and also the currently trending topic. The topics are provided with the number of hours the trends been online.




















TweetStat is getting popular day by day! Do check out your tweet analysis!


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Ever felt the desire to find out your sphere of influence on Twitter? Then, twInfluence is the perfect tool for you.

Influence of a Twitter account does not depend on the number of followers who are following the Twitter account. It also depends on the size of the followers of the Twitter account whose influence is being considered.

twInfluence is a simple tool for measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus. twInfluence has taken serious social network analysis to find out the influence of a particular account. For example, if you are a person who gets retweeted a lot, then your Twitter influence is high. This shows that all followers are not equal.

What does it do?

twInfluence calculates two kinds of rankings - one is the absolute rank that is calculated on the number of analyzed twitterers to date and the other one is that assigns a value and category relative to other twitterers that have more or less the same number of followers as you.

How does it rank?

Ranking in twInfluence is calculated on the basis of

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What is in store from twInfluence?

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Twitterment is a mashup which allows the user to find statistics on what people are tweeting about. Twitterment also allows the user to search for specific words just like Twitterverse. Thus, Twitterment acts as a buzz-tracking system. The search in Twitterment is powered by Google.

The following features have been removed by Twitterment. But, anyways. Twitterment also provided a line graph pertaining to the number of times the keyword appeared in that day and also provided a bar graph pertaining to the number of times the keyword appeared in that particular week. Twitterment also made use of Google Maps to show from where the tweets are originating. Two words can be entered side by side and they can be compared according to their daily/hourly trends. Unfortunately, these facilities are removed by Twitterment.

Stay on top of Twitter - that's Twitscoop's tagline. And, it definitely keeps the user on top of Twitter.

Twitscoop is a web based Twitter client and trend-tracker (meme-tracker). Twitscoop makes use of the Twitter API to send/recieve tweets and do real-time searches at the same time. Twitscoop detects growing trends in real-time, identifies breaking news and then monitors specific keywords along with graphs that display the activity for any given word on Twitter.

Twitscoop's results are displayed in a tag cloud. The idea of using the tag cloud to show results is not new but the tag cloud updates dynamically in Twitscoop making it an enriching experience. Twitscoop, also provides its API to third party applications like TweetDeck. The major competition of Twitscoop is Summize and Quotably.

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Juicy Fact :

During Michael Jackson's death, the Top 10 trending topics were related to The King of Pop.

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Twistori is the first step in an ongoing social experiment based on Twitter. Twistori pulls tweets from Twitter based on specific keywords such as I hate, I love, I think, I believe, I wish and I feel. It then updates all the tweets in a non-stop flurry of tweets in its webpage. Twistori is nothing but an overflow of people's emotions from all over the world.

The second step of this social experiment is unknown. But, the founders say that this project is inspired from We Feel Fine, which aggregates feelings from a large number of social sites and blogs. We Feel Fine draws some interesting broad conclusions based on the feelings it gathers. Twistori is accumulating praises day by day because of its unique nature of gathering feelings from all over the world.

Twistori Desktop Beta version is available now, but only the Mac version is available on the market now.


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Twittearth enables users to watch live tweets from around the world immediately. Twittearth further enhances the popularity of Twitter.

The application is extremely simple and very pleasing. The visualization pops the user into space and lets the user view geo-coded twits from around the world every 10 seconds. The graphics are very much appealing to the eye. Twittearth's 3D Engine is powered by PaperVision. Twittearth makes use of Yahoo! Local API's for its geo-localisation service.

Twittearth is a purely fun application. Users must be logged in with the Twitter username to make use of the facilities. The visual effects of the application move the globe around and land a cartoon figure on the location the user has designated. The location and the current activity may be updated to whatever the user requires. Twittearth provides you with a screensaver for download for Windows XP users. A screensaver for Mac OS X is on the cards.


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Twist provides you with statistics of a phrase regarding the number of times the phrase has been used in the tweetosphere. The time limit can be choosen by us which ranges from 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. Depending upon the phrase one enters, a line graph is presented before us regarding the usage of the particular sentence/phrase.

Twist is useful for users who sell certain products or who maintain blogs/websites. The popularity of their product/blog can be found out just by entering the particular keyword. The statistics then speak for themselves. The user can get to know the popularity of their product without directly interacting with the consumers and just by checking the tweets. The user can measure user behaviour for their products and services to determine if the products and services need changes or if they are being received positively. If changes are needed this allows a company or the entrepreneur to contact conversation participants .Dissatisfied customers can be contacted to immediately and their problems solved. The user can also get to know who uses their competitor's product and their prospects.

Twist is Ajax powered further enhancing the working of this service. This is one service a product-seller should not miss.


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