Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Wow, This Is Pretty

And useful too. Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you see reports on traffic incidents in your local area using Twitter. Visit the site and click the "How It Works" tab for information on how to participate.

Lazy Much?

Check out DearLazy.com, "When you have a question and are convinced that someone out there has already done the research and knows the answer you turn to asking the LazyWeb for advice." Ben has noticed that lots of folks already use Twitter as an easy way to ask the LazyWeb so he created a new service that improves upon that use case.


Dearlazyweb is a personal tool which works over Twitter for querying the LazyWeb. It takes any message you send it and allows every Twitter user a chance to answer. Check out the help page for more information about how it works. To get the most out of Dear LazyWeb you need to have a Twitter account and must follow dearlazyweb.

Do You Want Sandy?

Sandy is a virtual assistant that works over Twitter—She remembers details so you can focus on what's important. Sandy is an innovative service from the same folks who created Stikkit. The way the Twitter integration works is that you follow Sandy, she follows you back, and then you can interact with her over Twitter.For example, say you wanted to remember something while you are out. You can send a direct text message to Sandy—her Twitter username is just the letter "s" so it's really short and easy to text. Let's say you wanted to remember to do something in 15 minutes, your exchange with Sandy over SMS might look something like this.

You: d s hi
Sandy: Hi, I'm Sandy, your personal assistant.
You: remember lunch with biz in 15 mins

In 15 minutes, you'll be reminded that we're having lunch together. Try it out, you can create an account here and learn more about interacting with Sandy over Twitter here.

Google+Twitter=Extra Super Tuesday

Check out this Super Twitter Tuesday Google Map — inspired by the always entertaining Twittervision, The folks at Google worked their map magic to make this Super Tuesday even more super with the addition of real-time updates from Twitter animated over a map of the United States.

From the The Official Google Blog: "We've joined forces with Twitter to give you instant updates on Super Tuesday. Instead of sitting on the sidelines, you can send a simple text message about your voting experience. Huge turnout? Taking too long in line? Did you just vote for the first time? We want it all, if you can keep to 140 characters or less."

Getting Political

Politweets tracks US presidential candidate popularity by finding and displaying mentions of candidates as they are created on Twitter. The mentions are separated by Democrat on the left and Republican on the right — naturally.

Hooray for (Virtual) Gifts!

OMG this is fun: Virtual gifts over Twitter: "Tweetgift is a simple way to show a little appreciation to a friend. all you need is a twitter account. Just reply to tweetgift and use our syntax to send gifts to your friends. Every gift starts with @tweetgift, then a friend's username, and the gift with an optional message."

example: @tweetgift @biz trophy for a job well done.

Overheard anything good lately?

Check out Overheard.it! The most popular word to track on Twitter is "overheard" so this new project by the folks who brought you Snitter is going to be interesting to watch. Here's how it works in their own words:

Overheard.it is a fun site that pulls in all the fun things people overhear on Twitter. The site was thought of, designed and built by the fine folks at Sidebar Creative.

You can interact with Overheard.it a few different ways. If your Twitter updates are unprotected, you can start your update with the word "overheard" and it will show up on the site. Follow @overheard and you can preface your updates with OH or overheard. Finally, you can submit anonymous updates by sending a direct message to .

This Is Neat

Make your feelings known with plusplusbot. You can ++ (pronounced "plusplus") or -- ("minusminus") anything. Think brownie points (but archived forever). Here's how it works:

1. Make sure you have a Twitter account
2. Follow plusplusbot
3. If you love something add ++ after it like this:

coffee++ because it keeps me alert

You'll get a confirmation message with coffee's current score, and plusplusbot.com will update itself. (To indicate your displeasure, use -- after a target name.)