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Top Ten Twitter Toys

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

I’ve been a Twitter user since April or May last year. It’s a neat way of communicating with people in a “stream of consciousness” way.

Twitter released an API that allows people to create applications that improve upon (and sometimes not) the service users receive. Below are my top ten favorite twitter toys.

  1. Twitter Karma by @dossy — a really cool follow/followed dashboard
  2. Tiny Twitter by @kcbigring — A mobile twitter client
  3. Twitter Stats by @dacort — twitter statistics script (see my statistics below)
  4. Snook’s Twitter (snitter) by @snitter — An Adobe AIR-based twitter client
  5. Twittervision by @davetroy — Google Maps + Twitter live mashup
  6. Tweeterboard by @tweeterboard — a twitter conversation analytics site
  7. Tweet Scan by @weex — simple Twitter search engine
  8. Twitterverse by @emilychang and @maxkiesler — Tag cloud representation of the Twitter public timeline
  9. Twitterholic by @tw_tterholic — Leader board representation of the Twitter public timeline
  10. Jott — not an "official" twitter service, but this free voice-to-text service integrates with Twitter

Screen capture from Twitter Karma

Jenn's Twitter Karma

Results from Twitter Stats

Jenn's January 19, 2008 Twitter stats

Edited to add: Yes I am aware of Hashtags. No, I’m not convinced of their utility over just searching on the public timeline on keywords.

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