Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
  • Check Out ExecTweets

    Monday, March 23, 2009

    Last year we created an interesting site for the US Presidential election. It looked a lot like Twitter but it was focused around the candidates, the debates, and the political topics being discussed. Lots of really great API projects have created similar experiences from the hilarious Cursebird to the sporty Twackle. Twitter is contacted regularly by brands interested in sponsoring innovative experiences based on topics of interest.

    However, our focused commitment to Twitter itself means we don't have much time or resources to build these interesting topical experiences. It turns out the folks over at Federated Media have both the resources and the expertise. So if you're a major brand and you want to sponsor a topic-focused social media experience with Twitter, we suggest Federated Media—they'll fix you up right. Check out their first project in conjunction with Microsoft, Exectweets.com.
  • Giving Thanks via Twitter

    Friday, November 28, 2008

    Instead of simply being a date which will live in gluttony, this Thanksgiving was made special thanks to Tweetsgiving, a project designed to raise $10,000 in 48 hours in order to build a classroom in Tanzania. Guess what, it worked!
    WE DID IT!!! We raised over $10,000 in just 48 hours through the power of Twitter
    Congratulations to the folks at Epic Change who raised 106% of their goal in such a short amount of time. MG Siegler of VentureBeat has a nice write-up of the accomplishment.
  • Let It Out

    Wednesday, November 19, 2008

    Like most people, you probably have nothing at all to complain about. However, if you feel the need to kvetch, why not follow @kvetch and direct message your complaints? Theoretically, you'll fee better. If you don't, then just complain about it. More info at Kvetch.com.
  • Twitter+Chumby

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008

    The Chumby is consumer electronics product that displays ambient infotainment. It's a squishy little deal that connects to wifi and runs widgets you download from chumby.com. Today Chumby Industries announced that they have added a Twitter widget and a Twitter Search widget to their directory. You can try the widgets out on their site. Chumby!
  • Twitter apps for the iPhone Reviewed

    Sunday, August 03, 2008

    Macworld has some reviews up in case your trying to decide which Twitter iPhone app is right for you.
  • Follower Stats by TwitterCounter

    Wednesday, July 23, 2008

    Here's a fun new application from Dutch entrepreneur Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and friends that will appeal to anyone who likes simple stats. TwitterCounter is a free service for folks who want to track and share the number of followers they have on Twitter.
  • Congratulations, Twitterrific

    Friday, June 13, 2008

    Twitterrific won "Best iPhone Social Networking Application" at the recent Apple Design Awards in San Francisco, CA. Being cited by Apple for an "innovative user experience" and a "polished user interface" is no small accomplishment. The award was for an iPhone application but Twitterrific is available as a desktop client already—you can download it free right now.
  • Twennis Anyone?

    Tuesday, May 27, 2008

    This site features a rolling update of Tennis related Twitter updates. Plus, these folks are live Tweeting the French Open.
  • Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish

    Monday, April 28, 2008

    Twitstori is the "the first step in an ongoing social experiment based on twitter" and it is very cool. The geniuses behind this project are amy hoy and thomas fuchs. Amazing!
  • Get your questions answered @ChaCha

    Monday, April 14, 2008

    I heard about the answer-service ChaCha a couple weeks ago. The first question I asked it was "Would a veggie burrito make a good lunch?" A couple minutes later, I got a response that said "A veggie burrito would make an excellent lunch. It's fast and cheap and vegetarian to boot." Now that's the kind of reinforcement I need!

    Well now ChaCha is available via Twitter. You can read about the integration on their site. But it's pretty simple:
    1. Follow the Twitter user ChaCha
    2. Send your question as an @ reply (e.g. "@chacha Does it matter if the soil is wet or dry before re-potting a houseplant?")
    3. A couple minutes later you'll get your answer ("@goldman Let the pot go dry. With your fist, bang the bottom of the old pot and the plant, root ball and all, will come out intact.")
    Good times.
  • Twhirl in the News

    Friday, April 04, 2008

    Twhirl is a desktop client for Twitter, based on the Adobe AIR platform. It's one of the more popular ways people like to update Twitter and this morning the Washington Post reported that Twhirl has been acquired by online video company, Seesmic. WaPo reports, "Twhirl creator Marco Kaiser will be joining Seesmic. The service will remain free to use."

    To check out more cool Twitter applications, visit the Twitter Fan Wiki or check out the our blog label: apps.
  • Quotably Helps You Follow The Conversation

    Monday, March 24, 2008

    Quotably makes it easy to follow the @replies conversations that people are having on Twitter. Give it a try, it's very cool.
  • Tweetburner

    Tweetburner allows you to "keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer." The service shortens URLs and gives you statistics. The Tweetburner Blog has more about upcoming features.
  • Twitter Your Signature

    Wednesday, March 19, 2008

    Use Twitsig.com: "Many forums, Blogs, and other web services allow you to have images as part of your signature. twitsig.com allows you to display your current twitter status as an image."
  • Twitter Through Skitch

    Friday, March 14, 2008

    We love Skitch. We really love Skitch! Of course it's a fantastic application: beautiful and easy to use. We open it on a regular basis to highlight and pass anything from UI Mockups to Bug reports around Twitter HQ.

    Of course it's only natural we were thrilled to hear they've integrated Twitter support! Read more about Twitter integration in Skitch and using Skitch to Twitter an image. There are so many great applications integrating with Twitter and we're trying to make an effort to share more about them.
  • Twitter Meter

    Saturday, March 01, 2008

    Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline and displays a handy graph so you can see what folks are talking about.
  • Play Wordy Birdie on Twitter

    Friday, February 29, 2008

    Wordy Birdie is a game that works within Twitter. The creator, Dan Grigsby describes it as "part buzzword bingo, part drinking game." You earn points by predicting what words people you follow will use in their updates.
  • Use Strawpoll on Twitter

    Thursday, February 21, 2008

    This new Twitter application called StrawPoll is really neat. Follow strawpoll on Twitter and every day around 8am EST it will ask you a simple question. Reply with your answer and the pretty graph on the front page will get updated so you can see the results of everyone who is participating.
  • Shizzolate Your Twitters


    Yes, you can follow SnoopDogg on Twitter. More importantly, you can grab this new Twitter Badge that translates you and your friends updates into Snoop speak. And just in time too--it was getting tiresome having to do all that translation manually.
  • Qwitter for Health

    Monday, February 11, 2008

    Tobacco Free Florida has built Qwitter, a Twitter-powered social tool designed to help people quit smoking. By prefacing your updates with @iquit you can keep a simple journal and even better--track your progress. Qwitter will build a graph based on your updates. To learn exactly how it works, visit the Qwitter Get Started page.