What Apps Should Twitter Highlight? Twitter HQ Wants to Know
Twitter is working on an automated method of discovering interesting 3rd party applications and websites built on its service to promote to users in the top right corner of its home page. Until that automated method is established, co-founder Biz Stone told us by email today that Twitter should do a better job of highlighting more projects and that he is open to suggestions for projects to feature.
We would love to make some suggestions, but we thought we'd start by asking our readers for ideas.
The short list of projects featured right now looks to us like a group of companies that Twitter has a financial interest in or are run by Silicon Valley celebrities. Stone assures us that's not the case (there is no affiliate relationship with Threadless, for example, and he's planning on highlighting the forthcoming event Twestival) - but let's offer him a list of lesser known apps to broaden what millions of people see when they log in to their stream of Tweets.
but what other Twitter-based projects should be highlighted in this prime real estate?
Please post your suggestions for Twitter apps and projects that deserve some of the limelight in the comments below. We may grab the ones that get named more than once and hold a vote later to discover the "must-see" Twitter apps in the eyes of the ReadWriteWeb community.
We'll make sure the good people at Twitter HQ see these lists as well. We like to give them a hard time, but that's just because it's our job and because they are so important. We're excited to see the automated "cool app" discovery process when it's launched too.
For now though, what do you think millions of Twitter users should be shown in the corner of their pages? Add your favorites to the comments below.
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A non-consumer app, for marketing, customer relations, pr and entertainment: the interactive conversational platform app from contentAI.com is interesting and points to one direction that Twitter could evolve commercially:
http://contentai.com/twitter-products
Trendrr.com for tracking Twitter: Frequency, search, follows, following and favoriting as time series graphs in an open and ebedable format. Exportable and full on two way API. I can haz featured status plz.
"Please post your suggestions for Twitter apps and projects that deserve some of the limelight in comments below."
I suggest Kinoma Play. It's an under-reported-on "social media browser" -- effectively, a great all-in-one media center for mobile with direct pipelines into Twitter and other social media services that matter.
It's available for Windows Mobile now and very soon for Symbian/S60, too.
shameless plug http://crowdstatus.com :p
The first twitter groups app.
However not sure I want it plugged as I have an update coming soon....
hashtags - http://hashtags.org
The Summarizer! http://www.thesummarizer.com/
-- snip --
Know what you’re talking about. If the “real-time web” is a massive cocktail party conversation, then The Summarizer is the party’s authority. It semantically connects the real-time web and traditional media to one another with their common threads, entities and topics.
Blip.Fm
twendz would be a great one to plug, it generalizes conversations in real-time with auto-sentiment.
When did you add Facebook connect. I don't recall signing in here with it before, yet it recognized me. How? I'm not complaining, I love Facebook connect, I'm just curious. Thanks!
Twellow or more specifically TwellowHood
TweetDeck, of course. TweetGrid is what I've found most useful for following things like #journchat, #blogchat and the like (using their Party feature). CTwittLike also promises to be pretty cool.
TwitVid.com - A super fast way to share mobile videos on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. TwitVid.com works with any mobile phone, and was one of the first in the industry to launch their video tweeting app for the iPhone 3GS last month.
I'm a big fan of Tweetpoint, a service that allows Twitter users to give other users a thumbs up or thumbs down (+1 point or -1 point) with a simple tweet for pretty much anything, online or in real life.
Check it out at http://tweetpoint.me/
Twitturly - http://twitturly.com
Yes, I'm biased on that suggestion.
Twanslator is a cool app that lets you automatically translate your tweets into other languages! I set up my personal spanish doppleganger.
http://twanslator.appspot.com
Shameless self-promotion: @trivia / www.triviaontwitter.com
appboy.com for socially adding and promoting mobile apps. also allows users to enter ideas in hopes of winning a cash prize.
http://twuffer.com
Twitter while you sleep!
http://www.mytweetopics.com - Its a free service that lets you track the topics you tweet about based on your hashtags. It also gives you an embeddable widget for each topic you tweet about.
I'm liking Mobypicture, Seesmic Desktop, and Powertwitter
I'm going to mention one more because it caught my attention this morning when I received my first notification. It's called Topify and they do twitter notification's the right way. It really speeds up the follow process.
Hey Marshall,
Would you consider recommending @HelloApp? It's an app we built on top of Twitter to make conferences more fun. We're going to be using it at FOWA.
http://bit.ly/eK7bc
Hope you like it!
Best,
Ryan
act.ly
great app for activism!
I'm linking Mobypicture and Tweetdeck.
I recommend to use www.mobypicture.com as a Twitter image/video service, since it's very popular in the Netherlands.
Best, and keep up the great work,
@tom_beek
Sendible for scheduled and recurring tweets.
Twitterleague deserves a mention!
Not necessarily an app, but sports fans might want to check out the team-specific twitter accounts provided through buzztap.com.
My suggestion for a most-needed Twapp is... MobyPicture.
Tweecious, obviously! :)
How else would you remember the link that was so good you posted it to twitter but forgot to bookmark?
Great site. Very good article. I cant wait to see what the future has for Twitter!
Found this site using Friendley Search Engine
Tweetdeck! I also like Yammer for work related conversations
I suggest Mobypicture :)
Oh how fun!
My friends and I have been working on http://www.supertwitter.com SuperTwitter. It's a visual display of tweets that's sweetest when you reference images. Here are some screen shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elvispresley/sets/72157619066414724/
Thanks a lot!
Jeff Tidwell
twitter.com/supertwtr
tr.im
Wuold also suggest www.Mobypicture.com seriously good service for automated picture, video and audio distribution along a large amount of services like Flickr, twitter, facebook, wordpress, blogger, u name it!
www.mloovitweet.com for Twitter translations and multi language search :)
I'd like to suggest Mobypicture and Tweetdeck.
twinVoxa: The latest version is extremely useful.
twitter.com/transContext
I would suggest TwitArea. This new Twitter.com application allows users to easily insert and share local place information when tweeting. Think of it as "TwitPic for places".
Twitscoop.com, because it's the best twitter discovery app.
shameless plug: www.freetwitterdesigner.com let's users customize their backgrounds.
twitscoop
DestroyTwitter deserves more attention. Light(er)weight alternative to TweetDeck with persistent search and groups.
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August 18, 2009 2:20 PM
Twitscoop! I love the dynamic display.
www.dailyrt.com
The only remaining fully functional ReTweet tracker. Tweetmeme doesn't really track retweets anymore, just links, and repeets.com and retweetist.com are dead for all intensive purposes.
They should probably go for something similar as Identi.ca where you can create groups of people with same interests as you and tagging them with (! - exclamation marks)
BigTweet - the easiest way to share links to Twitter while you surf the web. Lots of features to save you time!
http://www.bigtweet.com/
Twitscoop! Makes me feel like I am Neo.
Flock!
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