Archive for 'Twitter Apps'

Follow Football News and Results with FootyTweets

Posted 01 February 2009 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 2 Comments

If you are a fan of Football aka Soccer then you might be interested to know of a new service called FootyTweets. The site made by serial Twitter app inventor @ollieparsley allows you to follow your favourite Football teams on Twitter to catch the latest team news, goal alerts and updates.
Currently the supported leagues are

Barclays [...]

Cut down your Tweets with 140it

Posted 27 January 2009 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 9 Comments

Have you ever spent ages chopping a Tweet up trying to fit it into 140 characters, well with a new service all that could change. 140it will shrink your Tweets down to size by…

Reducing words, removing extra spaces
Shrinking URL’s with bit.ly
Exchanging company names with their StockTwits symbol

140it Demo from Vinicius Vacanti on Vimeo.
They also have [...]

The Twitter Tag Project

Posted 05 January 2009 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 5 Comments

The Twitter Tag Project is a virtual tag game for Twitter, a bit like the Facebook Poke, the idea is you select a twitter friend and send him a message from the defined list;

Tag, you’re it!
Flying Kung-fu Kick
Super Poke
High Five
Spank that Ass

Your Tweet will look something like this

The idea then is for your friend to [...]

Send cards on Twitter with twtcard

Posted 04 January 2009 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 2 Comments

Quick post to let you know about twtcard which is a newish website that will let you send simple and fun cards, greetings or invitations to your Twitter buddies

Simply type in your message and your username, select one of the silly faces in the list and click create. You will then be presented with a [...]

Destroy Twitter – Adobe Air Twitter App

Posted 04 January 2009 | By John | Categories: FriendFeed, Plurk, Twitter, Twitter Apps | 3 Comments

DestroyTwitter is the latest in a long line of Twitter applications built on the Adobe AIR platform. It consists of a series of canvases that are constantly updating to keep your tweets current and comes with some nice little hotkey shortcuts for people who use OSX

DestroyTwitter also features complete direct messaging functionality. Messages and tweets [...]

Just how much time do you spend on Twitter?

Posted 12 December 2008 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 1 Comment

If you have asked that question of yourself a new site called Tweetwasters will find out just that for you. Simply just enter your Twitter username and it will calculate your time spent. If you are found to spend a lot of time on Twitter it could get you into the Tweetwasters hall of fame

Also [...]

Twellow in the Hood

Posted 11 December 2008 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | No Comments

Twellow is the People finder directory for Twitter users and they have just recently released a new service called TwellowHood.
TwellowHood gives you a map that you can use to find fellow twitterers in your area. By simply clicking on the TwellowHood map, you can “drill-down” into a list of cities and towns in your area [...]

What would you like for Tweetmas?

Posted 27 November 2008 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | No Comments

Tweetmas is a new site from CrowdStorm that asks one question “What would you like for Christmas?”. The site will let you share what you would like to see under the Christmas tree this year with your Twitter Buddies.

New features just added will also let you search for your Twitter friends to see what they [...]

Auto follow people on Twitter with Twollow

Posted 17 November 2008 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 1 Comment

Twollow is a new site that allows you to automatically follow people on Twitter based on the keywords you enter in. You can specify up to 5 different keywords, and as soon as someone mentions it in a tweet you will automatically follow them.
Here is a quick video demo from the makers on how Twollow [...]

Twittonary is for the language of Twitter

Posted 16 November 2008 | By John | Categories: Twitter, Twitter Apps | 4 Comments

Did you know that If you are feeling sheepish or regretful about something you just tweeted you would be called tweepish, or if you are too overwhelmed by the number of tweets you are getting through you would be twitterpated. These are just two examples taken from a new site built to keep the language [...]