130+ productivity links for twitter addicts

Twitter. It’s a bit like golf. When you hear other people talking about it, you wonder how on earth it could be so addictive. I’ve been bitten by the bug. One thing is apparent though, Twitter is here to stay, I posted the other day that quite a few spin off domains are out there on the web, which got me into thinking that the web could do with a list of organised services. Here’s a good few of the ones I’ve stumbled over in the few months that I’ve been tweeting. I’d love a few bookmarks for this folks. Feel free to give it a stumble or post to delicious if you found it useful.

Update. This page is now being regularly updated as I find new links.

Bots

@homerbot - Fan of the simpsons? Homerbot gives one quote from the show in the morning, and one in the afternoon.
@woot – A brilliant electronics deal a day
@sfearthquakes – If you didn’t feel the shakin’ feel it through twitter
@timer -  works like a wake up call. usage DM @timer 10 CALL MUM
@twittersecret – get it off your chest you dirty boy you.
@amazon – DM a book title or ISBN to get back a link to the amazon site.
http://www.retweet.com – A good source of new and interesting bots on twitter
@MrTweet a recommendations engine on twitter. Takes a few days to build your recommendations.

Celebs on Twitter (uk celebs)

@Schofe – The silver haired wonder that is Philip Scofield
@AlanCarr – We love you Alan – where fore art thou JLC?
@justinillusion – there he is !
@Wossy – Jonathan Ross wocks the boat
@RealDMitchell – If you don’t know who it is. You don’t deserve to know. I love Peep Show.
@stephenfry – The Actor and comedian. Hat tip to you fine sir.
@johncleese – Fawlty Towers king
@rustyrockets – Russell Brand – Hero of comedy
@noel_edmonds -  Noel Edmonds. He knows his boxes.
@chrisdjmoyles – Chris Moyles
@jupitusphillip – Awesome! Phil Jupitus.

http://www.celebritytweet.com/ – Find all the celebs you want on this dedicated site.
http://followcost.com/ – find out how annoying a celeb will be to follow.

Usa celebs

William Shatner – Captain Kirk.
Britney Spears – The real Britters. honest.
MC Hammer – Cant touch this? Well now you can. Almost.
Dave Matthews - Singer Songwriter.
Lance Armstrong – pro cyclist.

Politics

http://www.tweetminster.co.uk/ – Politics related tweets. follow and tweet members of parliament.

Meme Tracking

http://www.tweetmeme.com – Popular links rising on Twitter, shows the conversation and the people that have Retweeted
http://twemes.com/ – Rising terms on twitter. Offers RSS feeds of certain #hashtags.
http://twitrratr.com/ – Positive / Negative tweets from users using it. Seems not to be getting much traffic, considering Twitter search has this built in anyway.
http://twist.flaptor.com/ -See Trends breaking in Twitter.
http://tweetbeep.com/ – Brand monitoring tool  for twitter.

URL tools
http://twitturly.com – Tracks the URLs that others have tweeted. Great for finding links from people that you know you found on twitter.
http://alexgirard.com/twitt/ – Import Twitter Stream links to Delicious. Requires Ruby.
http://mashable.com/2008/01/08/url-shortening-services/ – Loads of URL shortening Services.

Shrinkers

Having trouble fitting things into 140 characters? Try some of these which will convert to 140 characters, faster than a teenage txt nut.

http://tweetshrink.com/
http://www.twonvert.com/
http://140it.com/ – also converts to bit.ly, and StockTwits company names.
http://twitlonger.com

Visual Enhancements

http://tweetvisor.com/ an alternative twitter interface
http://monitter.com/ – like a web based tweetdeck – pretty neat.
http://www.twitpic.com post pictures easily to your twitter stream
http://tweetgrid.com/ – another grid based twitter interface. One of the best ways to see multiple twitter streams together online.
http://www.jigtweets.com/ – Adds an Genius javascript overlay to twitter allowing you to post a location, link or picture from your hard drive. Why isn’t this already there?
http://www.tweetworks.com/ – Threaded conversations. Also turns #hashtags into Grouped conversations.
http://www.tweetfeed.com/ – Groups Conversations into Twitter “walls”.
http://www.tweader.com/ – Threaded Conversations
http://www.tweetscribe.com/ -TweetScribe is a service that gives you a twitter feed by topic or search term, instead of by followers.
http://twitterified.com/ – Enhances the Twitter interface. Allows longer tweets, rich text and posting of pictures easily.
http://www.twitsaver.com/ – Superb screensaver of recently posted pictures on Twitter.
http://autopostr.com/ – let your friends automatically know when you have posted to Flickr.
http://twixxer.com/ – Shared Video and Pictures with Twitter.
http://www.twittersoap.com/index.php – Strange Mashup of twitter and mobile blogging site Mobypicture. Tweets are organised into “Episodes”.
http://www.bubbletweet.com/ - Add video to your twitter page.
http://twitterfall.com/ - a twitterwaterfall interface. Neat.
http://flockotweets.com/ – groups your followers into digestable RSS chunks. For easy reading.
http://tweetree.com/ – organised tweets into a tree view

Tools

http://twtpoll.com – post poll questions to Twitter. Receive the results from your followers. A great way to do market research if you are a business twitter user.
http://twittonary.com/ – A twitter dictionary. Explains various twitter related words.
http://www.lazytweet.com/ - Ask questions to a larger twitter following. Receive the answers back.
http://twitthis.com/ – Promotion buttons which allows your visitors to easily promote your website or blog on Twitter.
http://twitterreply.com/ – Never miss an @reply – sends replies to your email.
http://www.twitterment.com/ – Alternative Twitter Search Engine
http://tweepsearch.com/ – Search other users followers.
http://twist.flaptor.com/?tz=0 – compare two terms on twitter. Like Google Trends.
http://twittermail.com – Twitter posting via email accounts.
http://www.twit2do.com/ – Twitter to do lists!
http://www.twe2.com/ – Twitter to SMS. Available in the Europe.

Clients

TwitterBerry – Twitter on your blackberry
Twirl – Air app
Tweetdeck – Windows based client. Air application.
Twitterific - Twitter client on Mac

Defintive list of Twitter Clients on ReadWriteweb.

Following Tools
http://www.twollow.com – Auto Follow people
http://www.useqwitter.com – From the guys over at Contrast – know when someone unfollows you.
http://www.twitterel.com/ – Find followers with similar interests to you.
http://www.twitterless.com/ – Keeps a graph of your followers.
http://justtweetit.com/ – combines a twitter dictionary with a way to find similar Twitter users
http://twintro.org/ – Ever day twintro tweets a different users updates. Helps you find new and interesting Twitter users.
http://whoshouldifollow.com/ – Who should you follow based on your friends.
http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/ – Who’s in your twitter bubble?
http://twittersnooze.com/ – Put someone on snooze if they are too noisy or piss you off.
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ – Helps manage your followers better with Pagination for friends and ordering and sorting. Flash based app.
http://twittertroll.com/ – Twitter search engines which can help you find more people to follow.
http://twitter-friends.com/ -as If you didn’t need more people to follow..Here’s another Friend finding tool.
Tw33t.me – Why follow people. Provide reasons why, and build your own unique page.
http://friendorfollow.com/ – who’s not following you back?
- @followfinder will suggest new friends to follow.

Backgrounds / Icons
http://www.twitbacks.com Free customised Twitter backgrounds.
http://www.twitterbacks.com All a bit naff to be honest, but there are free PSD’s to download and customise.
http://twittertreats.blogspot.com – Wallpaper and Icons blog for Twitter.
http://www.twitterimage.com/ – More custom twitter backgrounds.
http://twitterpatterns.com/ – Twitter background patterns.
26 Awesome Backgrounds from us. Shameless plug I know
http://twittershowcase.com/ -
- just launched twitter backgrounds site.

Twitter Scheduling / Organisation
http://futuretweets.com/ – Schedule tweets in the future.
http://twuffer.com/ – Similar to future tweets, but sexier site IMO.
http://twittercal.com/ – connect your twitter account with your Google calendar
http://twitresponse.com/ – a Twitter AutoResponder tool

Money Making
http://twitpay.me/ -Receive and send dough via Twitter.
http://be-a-magpie.com/start – Put advertisements in your Twitter stream. Big uproar in the Twitter community about this one.
http://www.twittertise.com/ – Track the traffic you send to your site.

Just for Fun
http://cursebird.com/ – Find out what foul mouthed followers are getting up to. Not for the easily offended.
http://popacular.com/gigatweet/ – Counting the number of Tweets. Pointless but fun to watch the counter count.
http://www.divvoted.com/ Vote for great websites via Twitter.
http://foamee.com/ – Owe someone a beer? Give it to them via Twitter.
http://wasoverheard.com/ – Provides an anonymous way to tweet things which you have recently overheard.
http://twistori.com/ – FunTwitter based tool from Amy Hoy. Find tweets based on Love Hate Think Believe Feel Wish feelings on Twitter.

Ego – Tools
http://www.retweetrank.com/ – Ranks users based on how many retweets they receive.
http://twitter.grader.com/ – Ranks the most popular twitter users with the most influence or followers.
http://twicksize.com/ – measure the size of your twick. Tongue in cheek piss take of recent ego tools.
http://tweetrush.com/ – Graphs out your recent twitter activity.
http://www.twitterposter.com/ – Provides a visual representation of the sphere of influence of a particular twitter user.
http://web.forret.com/tools/twitter-tq.asp – Calculate your Twitter Quotient.
http://twitterratio.com/ – Follower to Friend Ratio.
http://www.twitstat.com/ – Twitter Statistics page updated daily.
http://twit.pix.ly/ – Twitter Avatar combat. Fight!
http://twitterholic.com – How much of a TwitteraHolic are you.
http://twinfluence.com – Whats your Twitter Influence?
http://www.twitseeker.com/ – Who you are looking for, by what they are talking about

Music Tools
http://www.foxytunes.com/twittytunes/ – Tweet what you are listening to on Twitter.
lastfmlovetweet.com – Post the tracks you love on Twitter. Direct from Last.FM.
http://twisten.fm/ – Listen to Twitter
twt.fm – Tweet some music

Location Tools
http://www.twitterlocal.net/ – An Adobe Air application that allows you to watch locations in Twitter.
http://www.citytweets.net/ – Twitter activity in and around your City. Mostly American cities.
http://twittearth.com/ – Live 3d Model of Tweets from all over the world.
http://nearbytweets.com/ – Tweets near you.

Directory Tools for Twitter
http://www.socialbrandindex.com/ – Social Brand Directory organised.
www.twellow.com – Get listed in the Yellow Pages for Twitter
http://www.twitdir.com/ – Another Twitter Directory
http://www.twibs.com/ – Business Directory for Twitter.

Twitter articles
Twitter Interviews
Best Twitter Brands – Mashable
Paddy’s Social Media Guru Twitter Interviews

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