Tweet Crunch

The Countdown has begun to the billionth tweet

Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 by John.

It’s been a rocky road for Twitter since it’s conception, the fail whales, the missing followers, api struggles and spammers not to mention the suitors to it’s thrown such as Pownce, Jaiku, friendfeed, identi.ca etc.. having all this thrown in it’s path it’s still going from strength to strength and to celebrate the coming of [...]

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Twitter and it’s friends invade the debate

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by John.

You may have noticed that there is quite a large debate going on across the pond in America at the moment, it’s Obama vs McCain and via the gift of Twitter and friends everyone is invited to take part. Twitter announced on it’s blog today that it’s created a special site that puts the election [...]

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Beautiful Twitter Earth mashup

Posted on 18. Jul, 2008 by John.

Quick post to show TwittEarth, which is a beautifull looking flash based globe showing the latest tweets from around the world.

The visuals are excellent and you can also download a screensaver for windows xp with the mac version coming soon

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Share your Spam with Twitter

Posted on 24. Jun, 2008 by John.

Everyone gets spam in there inbox from time to time, from long lost relatives who want to give you lots and lots of cash, business opportunities to medical stuff, the list could go on. With Spamlets you can share the funny spam messages with Twitter, the subject line of the spam email being the favourite choice. Simply start [...]

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Twizon Where Twitter and Amazon meet

Posted on 12. Jun, 2008 by John.

Twizon is a mashup of Summize, Twitter and Amazon. It reads twitter messages about Amazon and publishes them as a list, it’s designed to let you see what people are listening, watching and reading.
 
 

This service does not have any filter options or RSS feeds so it’s only useful if you are looking at the site at that time, [...]

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Turn your Plurks into Tweets

Posted on 10. Jun, 2008 by John.

Feedtweeter is a service that lets you send your Plurks to Twitter as well as a few more services thrown in for good measure.

The service, which at the moment is currently in development will also support flickr, YouTube and del.icio.us. If you want to try it out then you need to dm @steffest

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Track what’s hot right now on Twitter

Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by John.

A new twitter mash-up, twitscoop has been released that lets you see the hottest conversations that are happening on twitter at any given moment

Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentioned more often than usual. The results are displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the [...]

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