David Lee King

i r fluffin yr twitterz: or, Twitter, part 2: the "fluff"

By: <a href="http://www.davidleeking.com">David Lee King</a>

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Important: Make sure to watch David Free's screencast on Twitter first. He 's made a great "intro to Twitter" screencast. This screencast is about the "fluff" - all the cool ways to extend Twitter (and have some fun in the process).

This wiki page points to the screencast and provides links to the tools and other websites mentioned in the screencast. Feel free to click through the links as you watch the screencast!

Twitter Clients:

• <a href="http://www.twitbin.com">Twitbin</a> - Opens a sidebar in Firefox
• <a href="http://code.google.com/p/teletwitter/">TeleTwitter</a> - Windows Twitter client using Google code
• <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/">Facebook App</a> - Twitter client that hooks into a Facebook account

Two others not mentioned in the screencast:

• <a href="http://www.ejecutive.co.uk/projects/twitterlicious">Twitterlicious</a> - Windows app "that takes heavy inspiration from Twitterific for OS X, but now in a Windows client!"
• <a href="http://rareedge.com/twitteroo">Twitteroo</a> - yet another Windows client 

Useful Stuff: 

Search:

• <a href="http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=004053080137224009376%3Aicdh3tsqkzy">Twitter Search</a> - Google code-based twitter search made by Steve Rubel (link?)
• <a href="http://twittermap.com/search">twittersearch</a> - basic Twitter searching
• <a href="http://www.tweetvolume.com">TweetVolume</a> - Visually compares usage of two or more words found in Twitter
• <a href="http://twitterment.umbc.edu/index.jsp">Twitterment</a> - basic search functionality basic comparison graphs of words found in Twitter

Direct Message Bots:

• <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Forecast">Forecast</a> - receive a weather forecast by entering city or zip code
• <a href="http://twitter.com/Stock">Stock Quotes</a> - enter ticker symbol, receive current stock quote
• <a href="http://www.twitter.com/timer">Timer</a> - sends reminder alerts to you

Other Useful Stuff I didn't Show:

• <a href="http://www.servermojo.com">Servermojo</a> - Sends server alerts via twitter
• <a href="http://blog.lilyapp.org/2007/04/twitter_spellcheck_bot.html">Spellchecker</a> - Checks spelling of a word from your cellphone. It uses a mashup of the Twitter API and Yahoo's suggested spelling web services to look up the spelling
• <a href="http://www.mychores.co.uk">mychores</a> - Create to-do lists and reminders, and twitter sends those reminders and updates to you

Twitter Fluff:

Maps:

• <a href="http://geotwitter.org">geotwitter</a> - Mashup of Google Maps and Twitter. It remaps once every minute
• <a href="http://www.twittervision.com">Twittervision</a> - Visually displays tweets from the public timeline on a world map - displays on a Google map or a 3D globe
• <a href="http://twittermap.com/maps">twittermap</a> - enter your location and you to see who is twittering around you

Fun Mashups:

• <a href="http://www.twittersig.com">twittersig</a> - creates a hip forum icon (a .png file) from your latest tweet
• <a href="http://tweetweet.com">Tweetweet</a> - Combines silly comic strip characters with the public timeline. Can make for some interesting combinations!
• <a href="http://theflashblog.com/twitter.html">theflashblog</a> - visual pop-out Twitter posts
• <a href="http://www.twitterholic.com">twitterholic</a> - Shows the top 100 twitterers based on followers
• <a href="http://www.wellingtongrey.net/twitterku/blog/">TwitterKu</a> - Creates haiku out of the Twitter public stream.

Helpful Resources:

• this wiki, of course!
• <a href="http://del.icio.us/davidleeking/twitter">My twitter tag on del.icio.us</a> - links to other twitter-related sites
• <a href="http://twitter.pbwiki.com">Twitter Fan Wiki</a> - a wiki dedicated to twitter. Some of the links in this presentation were discovered there.