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New Applications – Week 7

February 22, 2011 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

New Twitter applications

This week we’ve added 29 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with the site. Our growing list of best free and paid Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your social media experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

CozyTag
CozyTag allows you to power up the tags you use online by allowing you to create and track them all across the Web. The site pulls in tags from Twitter, Flickr, LiveJournal, Blogger, YouTube, and 53 other services.

FreeSearch
FreeSearch enables you to search across social media, social networks and the web generally to find the people you want to find – from inside Twitter. You simply follow @freesearch, reply with a name of interest, and the search results come back in a tweet within minutes. You can also conduct private searches and restrict searches to specific networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Digg, TypePad, and several others.

GovLive
GovLive is the most advanced aggregator of real-time government news on the web, provided free to the public directly from Twitter. Every news item comes direct from agencies and officials without editorial or political bias. GovLive began as a service to get information to people quickly during emergencies and has evolved to become a sole source for all government news, big and small.

Instant Tweetup
Instant Tweetup is one of several new iPhone applications that provides a fun and easy way to make new friends, connect with local people and find out whats going on in your community. By using Twitter to search your local area, Instant Tweetup shows who is nearby, up to 10 miles, and lets you send them a tweet. It’s a good way to connect with people after gigs, conferences, seminars, or even to find someone to have a coffee with.

Journalist Tweets
JournalistTweets helps journalists connect with each other. If you have a Twitter account, you can click a gray arrow below any tweet on the site to reply to that journalist right there.

LinksAlpha
LinksAlpha.com is a Real-Time news tracking and publishing site. LinksAlpha.com also provides social activity measurement application that enables you to track social activity happening on any news Site or blog.

MicroBlogBuzz
MicroBlogBuzz lists the latest trends on micro-blogging services Twitter, Jaiku and Identica. You can see the trends (buzzes) of the last 60 minutes, 6 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days, and 30 days. All the micro-blog posts on this site are loaded from external micro-blogging platforms.

Music Followers
Musicfollowers is a great way to find people to follow with similar music tastes on Twitter. This is a search mashup with Idiomag. All you have to do is enter your two favorite artists and it returns a list of Twitter users that have mentioned those and also other similar artists.

MyTweetMark
MyTweetMark is a site for creating, targeting, and measuring marketing campaigns on Twitter. You can gain more followers and contacts by using the site to reach out to people you wouldn’t normally have access to. The site also has analytics for measuring tweet views and you can create a business profile for your blogs and to help create a social media contact list.

Propnotes
Propnotes is a location-based site where users can find, review, and talk about local condos through updates. The has over 4,000 properties with information local to certain provinces in Canada.

TelAware
This iPhone application takes the tweets of businesses and connects them to a physical location. This way, when you go out you can open this application and see the tweets of businesses close to where you are, and it doesn’t require you to follow the account.

Turpial
Turpial is a client written in Python which is light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop. Its feature set includes the ability to shorten links and support for retweets, direct messages, favorites, follow/unfollow, and attaching images to tweets.

Tweet & Give
Tweet And Give is a new application that donates money to charity at no costs to users. The app uses ad revenue as the source of charitable donations. A minimum of 80% of the site’s gross ad revenue will be donated. Users can choose a charity from our list of select charities, and the funds generated from their activities on the site will go to their chosen charity.

Tweet2PSM
Updates your personal message in Windows Live Messenger with your current Twitter Status, with customizable time interval. This script requires Messenger Plus!.

Tweeting Places
Tweeting Places is geo-location based site that establishes a visual directory of places that tweet. Restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, universities etc. Users can zoom in on their own hot spots, add their own places, check out the site’s blog, and scroll around the world to find places that tweet regularly.

TweetReports
TweetReports provides the most advanced search filters, brand tracking and reporting features available – allowing you to monitor, track and conduct searches about your brand or your competitors whenever you like. You also get a premium tool that provides follower analysis, keyword analytics, bookmarking, and advanced searches using Twitter Lists.

TwitHorus
TwitHorus.com is a new application that aggregates and displays real-time tweet updates of tech companies by category directly from the source, making it easy to filter out the noise and find out what your competitors are up to. Twithorus.com also provides statistics/analysis on the tweeting activity of companies, insights on how users are reacting to updates of each company, and real-time search capabilities.

TwitStat.us
While Twitter does provide badges and widgets, the current badges and widgets merely display YOUR latest tweets. TwitStat.us goes one step further to showcase search results from Twitter’s stream, and the site makes it completely plug and play, completely free of charge.

Twitter For Busy People
T4BP is a fast and fun way to see what all your friends are tweeting at once. No registration or login required. Simply enter your Twitter name, and the fun begins. All your friends’ pictures are displayed, letting you mouse over them to quickly see what they are doing. All friends are reduced to a single picture, allowing you to check ALL of your friends in a single glance. Now, with TwitPic integration, you can even see posted pictures without leaving the site.

Twitter Power Search
Twitter Power Search is a simple site designed to surface real-time Twitter trends that rank best. Free Twitter tools are plentiful, and this is one site that arranges trending topics by current, daily,and weekly trends, as well as images, video, and audio categories.

Twitter StreamGraphs
This site shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. It’s a fairly sophisticated way of displaying trending topics in a way that requires a little on-site reading to understand.

TwitterForce
TwitterForce is a robust, full-featured integrative tool for Salesforce and Twitter, offered through the Force.com Labs program. With this tool, you can create contacts, leads, and cases based on incoming Tweets, or import an entire twitter conversation thread. You’re also able to discover and track the latest trends by setting up custom search terms to monitor, then create contacts, leads, and cases from search results in one click. TwitterForce also allows you to easily send outbound tweets to leads and contacts, and save a record of your outbound tweets as activities on contacts, accounts, and leads.

TwitterMySite
With TwitterMySite, you can add a Twitter button to your blog or website and get more people to follow you. You can also customize the image with your twitter ID or any text you wish. The site has a number of attractive, original “follow me” buttons that you can use to create a custom look for Twitter on your blog.

TwoTweet
TwoTweet is a way to reward your biggest and most socially active fans by discounting your digital music for each Twitter follower they share it with. All you have to do is upload your music, set the price, choose your Twiscount and tell your fans.

Twtr2src
Twtr2src increases your productivity by allowing you options on how you want to receive your Twitter timeline. You can post tweets to Evernote or send updates by email automatically. You simply enter your username on the site and enter some details to set it up, and you’ll get updates without having to work hard at it.

View140
View140 is a sleek, simple image search for Twitter. It goes through most of the major Twitter image hosting services and seeks out images associated to your search terms.

What’s Your Tweet Worth?
What’s your Tweet Worth is a complementary service to TwittAd which determines the value of your profile. From @Twittad – get a feel for how valuable you might be to advertisers on Twitter. A fun add-on site to the Twittad offering.

Whos Talkin
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name, Whostalkin.com helps people join in on the conversations. The goal of the site is to deliver the most relevant and current conversations happening in the world of social media, using search and sorting algorithms that combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways.

YourVersion
YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that continuously discovers new and relevant web content tailored to your specific interests in real-time. YourVersion also lets you easily share that content with your friends through email, Facebook and Twitter. YourVersion launched at the 2009 TechCrunch50 conference and won the People’s Choice Award.

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New Applications – Week 5

January 31, 2011 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

New Applications - Week 5

This week we’ve added 30 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with Twitter. Our growing list of over 900 Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your Twitter experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

Boarding

Boarding is a site with a geo map that helps you find other stranded travelers by simply tweeting #boarding along with your airport code (LAX, JFK, CDG, …). Boarding will send you a reply with a link to the other Twitter users who you can message directly to meet up with. Boarding is fully optimized for a mobile usage. You just have to tweet #boarding along with the airport code to get in touch with the service

Buzzcapture

Buzzcapture provides insight to organisations regarding the buzz in their market: how consumers perceive brands, Which topics are discussed, and where are those discussions are taking place. Companies can stay in tune with their markets and get recommendations on how to proactively manage online reputations through social media.

Coworkers

Coworkers.com offers simple, flexible, analytical tools for professional collaboration, feedback, and peer review. From micro-feedback to in-depth reviews, the site empowers people and companies to share, learn, and grow their businesses, analyzing workgroup communication and performance for their clients.

Inbox Cleaner

InboxCleaner is a Twitter tool that allows you to clean out your direct messages inbox. You can choose between deleting everything, or use various filters, such as all messages from a specific user. InboxCleaner uses Twitter oAuth for authentication. Once authenticated, you can choose how you want to delete messages.

Intersect

Intersect is a Google Chrome extension that lets you see users who mutually follow you and another user on Twitter. The company is working on a Firefox extension as well.

Joule

Joule lets you chart who’s followed and unfollowed you on Twitter, LiveJournal, identi.ca, Digg, or delicious.com. You can review your own stats just by choosing “Twitter”, “LiveJournal” or another source from the home page list, then press “chart” to see a chart. You can also get daily statistics by direct message (DM), follow @joulestats on Twitter, or @joulestats on identi.ca. Joule supplies a daily feed of your stats in an RSS reader, and you can even get your stats in your Firefox status bar by installing Joule’s add-on.

Kweeper

Kweeper is a popular French site that offers a hybrid service halfway between a social bookmarking service, scrapbook, and micro-blog, Kweeper can store and share in 2 clicks all the pictures, videos, quotes, and audio files you find on the web and share them directly on Twitter. Kweeper also has a bookmarklet, a Firefox Extension, and an e-mail service for publishing content in your profile, keeping all source links visible and permanent.

My Twitter Cloud

My Twitter Cloud (MTC) is a search engine for users interested in Twitter and a comfortable way to manage the image we project. With MTC, you will be able to find users to follow based on interests.Your interests may be based on your profession, your hobbies or tastes, your clients, etc. If you are a new Twitter user, MTC is a good way to begin following interesting people on Twitter. If you are an advanced user and you already have a contact list, MTC can help you expand it and improve the quality of your “timeline”.

OpenBrands

OpenBrands uses Twitter to show real time conversations about brands on Brand Channels. Using hashtags and tagging, they inspire brands and communities to join in open conversations, talking about brands on Twitter in a way that can be measured. They track positive and negative brand sentiment and make those results available to the public, showing that every Tweet is counted and every Tweet counts.

Plancast

Plancast is an easy way to share plans with friends and discover the activities and events others have in their future. It’s a social calendar of sorts, and it takes just a few seconds to post a plan for anything imaginable, such as a concert, party, conference, trip, or night out.

PollPigeon

PollPigeon is a resource for taking and creating new polls on trending topics like fashion, politics, celebrities, and sports. Users can also take quizzes and search for key phrases to find the polls they’re looking for.

QuickTwit

QuickTwit for your PC is a Twitter Client that takes Twitter back to its roots. It provides you with an instant way of updating your Twitter status. QuickTwit runs in the background and is invisible until you need it. In order to update your Twitter status all you have to do is press the preset key combination, type in your status and press enter.

Refollow

Refollow sets up an environment where you can discover and manage your own social circle on Twitter through a number of features that help filter out the noise in status updates. Some of these features include crowd tagging and comments, follow/unfollow/block capabilities, sort by importance, and group by relationships.

Scripts 4 Twitter

Scripts 4 Twitter offers ready-to-go Twitter apps/websites/Scripts.This turnkey service offers apps like Twitter Background Generator or Twitter Buttons and many more. This takes the headache out of creating apps from scratch so you can concentrate on promoting your product or business to followers directly.

Socialblaze

Socialblaze is a social media management application that helps businesses measure and optimize their return on investment from online marketing. It provides companies with analytics to determine their direct return on investment and all the tools they need to manage social media efficiently with or without a team.

SocialWhoIs

SocialWhoIs is to Twitter and FriendFeed what “Who Is” is to web sites and IP addresses. It reveals who you should follow and why – based on relevance, not popularity. SocialWhoIs gives you a snapshot of any given user name with links to their assumed social network profiles, related keyworks/topics, as well as a “home base” link. You can also search tags to identify individuals worth following and potentially engaging.

Statalyze

Statalyze is a Dutch site that gives companies a tool for online conversations about brands, issues or events to follow on Social Media. Their suite of tools provides research data, benchmarking, and sentiment scores to analyze the power of a brand’s message. The site creates charts and overview data, then calculates the reach of a topic. They can track anything from #hashtags to plain-old words,names,or topics.

Tribalytic

Tribalytic is a market research tool that delivers instant insight into your brand and campaign by analysing Twitter data. They focus on three areas of interest: media planning, campaign measurement, and an Australian focused panel of 150,000 Twitter users with a full three month tweet history.

TuneTicker

Tuneticker is a light-weight desktop application that can automatically tweet the Twitter user’s latest music activity. When they play or add a song to their iTunes, Tuneticker automatically tweets the action and tags it with the most popular Twitter trending topic of all time, #nowplaying.

Tweet Automator

Tweet Automator provides a number of features to increase your productivity on Twitter. You can target your followers by keywords and interests, manage followers, post automated tweets, schedule tweets, do geo-targeting, cloning and more. This tool also supports multiple accounts, sends automatic DMs, and provides growth analytics to review your Twitter strategy.

Tweeteronix

Tweeteronix is an application designed for businesses and bloggers that would let you selectively build up a substantial following in a number of accounts, while tweeting interesting messages on behalf of your business. Since tweeting is on autopilot, you would not have to spend much time doing this, which creates a low cost way to reach your audience, where you can use the power of Twitter for your business.

TweetSocial

TweetSocial is an active forum community featuring open discussions on the latest in Twitter news, tips, apps, business and more.TweetSocial also features a comprehensive Twitter resource and app directory.

Tweex

Tweex is a Twitter client that tunes you into the Twitter streams of your favorite TV shows, sporting events, and more. This iPad Twitter client is for people who like TV. Users can find shows and sports events and add tags to follow.

TwellWishes

TwellWishes allows Twitter users to send well wishes and virtual gifts to their friends on Twitter for birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, or whatever they’d like. You can post your own important days, find out those of your followers and friends, and send gift credits to let them know you’re thinking about them.

Twentourage

TwEntourage is a tool to help recruit and manage quality Twitter followers. Users can store up to 25 search phrases and direct message any of their followers. Site searches can run offline, and the site makes targeted follow suggestions based on your interests.

Twidl.it

Twidl.it allows you to share photos or deliver your Twitter or Facebook status updates with them. Tweets and updates can be shown as a caption, speech/thought/shout, or even LOLtext. You can also upload photos, take webcam snaps, or import photos from twitpic/Flickr/Facebook, then just share it or Twidl it. The site uses a Javascript editor that starts up easily and sends quickly.

Twit Faxo

Faxo.com’s Twit Faxo is a powerful 100% free online professional Twitter marketing, search engine, ranking, and automation tool. It has an impressive feature set with options to search millions of targeted Twitter followers, using every conceivable option to either limit your search or view everybody. You can also bulk follow, follow/unfollow individually, or give followers a time limit to follow you back before directing an automatic unfollow.

TwitExplorer

Twit Explorer is a full featured Twitter web client that makes it possible to better manage your followers and find new interesting people to follow. The popular site has an easy to use search feature that allows you to quickly find new friends and increase your online visibility.

Twitter Trends

Twitter Trends is a German site that focuses on trending topics close to home. The site lists the 25 most popular trends along with the top ten most read tweetable topics for fans of Twitter in Germany.

Webtrends

Webtrends founded the web analytics industry in 1993. Today, their leadership extends to social media measurement, paid-search optimization and connecting online and offline data silos scattered throughout an organization. The client helps turn data generated by your web site, blogs, online campaigns and enterprise systems into an understanding of customers and, ultimately, business opportunity.

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New Applications – Week 4

January 24, 2011 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

My Twitter Toolbox now has over 900 Twitter tools

This week we’ve added 25 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with Twitter. Our growing list of Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your Twitter experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

AWeber

AWeber’s email marketing tools make it easy for you to build email lists and stay in touch with prospects. Premium features include HTML email templates, follow up autoresponders, blog newsletters, and all the tools you’ll need to manage subscribers.

Blogdash

BlogDash is an all-in-one blogger outreach tool that gives businesses all the information they need to know about bloggers so that they can make a targeted and educated pitch. Bloggers win too as they get fewer bad pitches, and more valuable opportunities.

Bluebird

Bluebird is a highly customizable Twitter client with themes and is clean and simple. The application is still in its beta testing phase, but it is showing quite a lot of promise. Features include a recently refined UI with both auto-completion for usernames and auto-translation of smiley sequences, with much more to come in the future.

Buffer

Buffer is a premium tool for scheduling tweets for a more efficient Twitter experience. Work out all your tweets at one point in time during the day, then top up your Buffer with your tweets and Buffer schedules them for you as you like.

Domikado

Domikado is a mobile application for Blackberry phones that offers a suite of features to monitor stock and financial info right from your mobile device. Features include advanced charting, real-time watch lists, market indices, news, stats, and detailed quotes on specific stocks.

Factualz

Factualz provides live social media dashboards with actionable insights for marketing and competitive analysis. With its unique business context aware engine, Factualz provides 95% relevant buzz from 16 media types, including news, blogs, videos, bookmarks, and micro blogs. Among its many features, the tool helps businesses identify new marketing opps and measure their social and web marketing effectiveness.

Filtertweeps

Filtertweeps is an advanced Twitter users search. Follow tweeps in your location and filter them by number of followers and many other quality filters, like language, country, public profile, verified users, URLs, keywords, and account age.

Gigya

Gigya understands you need to connect your site seamlessly to every major social platform for business purposes. Then you need to focus on and enhance your users’ connected experience at every level. That’s called social optimization, and Gigya makes that process a little easier.

Heyo

Use Heyo for iPhone and Android to create and share plans with friends, and collaborate with your friends to decide where to hang out.

Hooopla

Hooopla is an application that allows you to create events on the fly, at any location, open to anybody interested. From house parties to softball games to common interests, Hoopla manages the details of your event, and updates attendees with details on what’s happening at the event. Users can respond amongst each other.

mBlast

mBLAST is a suite of services that can keep you abreast of your audience and ahead of the competition. mBLAST is designed to help you find the information you need (such as marketing contacts or opportunities), act upon that information, and share your own marketing content with the world—while always maintaining control over how your company (or your client) is presented.

Meltwater Buzz

Meltwater Buzz is an innovative social media monitoring tool that enables comprehensive tracking and analysis of user-generated content on the web. Using superior news tracking capabilities, Meltwater Buzz enables users to monitor more than 200 million blogs, micro-blogs, social networks, forums, video and photo websites, product reviews and other social media sites to gain a better understanding about end-user sentiment on hot topics, new products, companies and the competition.

My Follower List

MyFollowerList transforms your audience into a tweetstream by building a Twitter list of the people that follow, then updating it daily to include followers who have been active within the last couple days. This way, you’re always listening to the most relevant people that are listening to you.

Natter

Natter bridges the gap between Twitter and Facebook by sending tweets to Facebook and Facebook comments back to Twitter. You can post tweets to your Facebook-profile, post Facebook comments back to Twitter, only post tweets containing a hashtag (e.g. #fb) to Facebook, find and displays links in your tweets as a Facebook post, and translate Twitter names to their real world counterparts.

Shelfari

Shelfari is a gathering place for authors, aspiring authors, publishers, and readers, and has many tools and features to help these groups connect with each other in a fun and engaging way. It introduces readers to a global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers.

Socialistr

Socialistr is a place to connect with all the people and entities in your social lists. Conversations can be private or public, any type of file can be shared and they may be stored in your personal cloud. The application differs from other social networks in the sense that users can be people or entities, and each list has its own cloud storage that enables users to target their conversation.

Spreadable

Spreadable is a word of mouth marketing tool developed for marketers, entrepreneurs and small businesses. It makes it easy for customers to tell a friend about brands they love via e-mail and social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and others while giving entrepreneurs insight into their top referral channels, where the sharing is happening on their website, who their top influencers are, and where they are located geographically.

Trendspottr

Trendspottr is a real-time search and curation service for Facebook and Twitter. With it, you can discover top trending content for any search term or topic of interest.

TweetGuard

TweetGuard offers an easy and free way to backup your Twitter account. Export your tweets, favorites, and friends in CSV or XML format.

Tweetwax

TweetWax’s first public tool is called TweetBox. TweetBox is the Twitter DM inbox, or “DMbox” as they call it. It provides multiple functions: mass dm deletes, dm organization, and more. When you create tags and tag your DMs, those DMs are “safe” (uncheckable) from deletion – so when you “check all” and delete, you won’t delete your tagged DMs.

Tweriod

Tweriod will analyse your followers’ Twitter streams, work out when they are online the most and let you know the best time to post your tweets.

TwitDesktop

TwitDesktop lets you share your desktop screenshot on twitter ,and you can review, vote and share other screenshots. You can share the wallpaper, icons, and theme of the screenshot to let people install your desktop style in their desktops too.

TwitrPix Express

Using TwitrPix Express for Chrome, you can quickly share any photo from any web site to all of your friends, family, co-workers and peers on Twitter.Visit any web page and find a photo that you would like to share. Right-click on the photo and select “Share photo on Twitter using TwitrPix.” Enter a caption, perhaps even some free-form tags and click Submit. Instantly, a link to that photo and caption is sent to Twitter.

TwitterChat

TwitterChat is a web based instant messaging application for Twitter. All conversations are private, so you can easily extend the power of Twitter out of the public eye for conversations with your Twitter friends, one on one.

UberSocial

UberSocial is an iPhone app that provides a whole new Twitter experience for its users. The tool lets you follow the people that matter to you in the most enjoyable manner possible. This app has a unique perspective on Twitter navigation, lists, filters, and trends with an attractive 3D layout.

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New Applications – Week 3

January 17, 2011 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

New Twitter Applications - Week 52

This week we’ve added 15 new applications for Twitter to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with this social media site. Our growing list of Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your online experience with social networking.

This week’s entries include the following:

Actionly

Actionly is a Social Media Monitoring dashboard and listening platform. On Actionly you can monitor what people are saying about your brand, products or industry terms on various social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Google Buzz, Blogs, and News. This tool helps people make sense of all the chatter by showing key messages, sentiments, and top influencers so you can engage and grow your brand on these Social Media channels.

BakerTweet

BakerTweet is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. In simple terms it’s a bakery-proof box that sends messages wirelessly to Twitter. The clever bit is that the baker can update their messages and things they’re selling using a simple web interface.

BuzzDing!

BuzzDing! is a social media monitoring and reputation management tool built for growing businesses. This premium tool offers an entire suite of services designed to help businesses monitor and manage their brands more effectively. Some of the features they offer include the ability to manage responses, monitor your reputation, find and listen for new customers, and produce custom detailed reports for your clients.

Formspring

Formspring encourages people to find out more about each other by directly asking them original questions in anticipation of some entertaining or revealing responses. Responses can range from straightforward to surprising and can lead to understanding something more about the people you know or find interesting.

Radian6

Radian6 gives you a complete platform to listen, measure and engage with your customers across the entire social web. Their software platform tracks mentions across over 150 million social media sites and sources. Clients explore real-time results on an interactive dashboard that provides meaningful and actionable insights for their business, and act on these insights using Radian6’s Engagement Console.

SiteTweet

SiteTweet allows webmasters to post instant messages about specific behaviors on their site. Usually installed on strategic pages, users can configure SiteTweet to send a special message when a user performs a certain action on your site. You can also use Twitter’s options for private posts in case you want to control who follows your login. The site has a number of categories on site that users can click on to filter messages by topic.

Syncapse

Syncapse is a leader in social media management that enables brands to build, manage, and measure millions of connections with consumers across all their social media platforms. Organizations choose Syncapse for enterprise-level support because they deliver premium brand experiences that balance market flexibility with centralized control.

Tap11

Tap11 is the intelligent social media client that provides your business with the best analytic and CRM tools. With it, companies monitor brands, focus on important conversations, measure results, broadcast beyond Twitter, and go mobile with their messages.

Tweefind

Tweefind lets you search Twitter and displays results according to a rank assigned to users.This rank (Tweerank) depends on how popular/relevant/active those users are on social media sites. The higher this rank, the more authority a user has.The Tweerank is assigned by an algorithm / spider working 24/7 and changes dynamically depending on how much a user is engaging.

TweepsKey

TweepsKey visualizes the importance of your Tweeps. Using the Twitter API and some math you can see who is important and who is just another follower.You can unlock any Tweep you like, it doesn’t have to be your own username.

Tweetbook.in

With tweetbook you can generate a pdf e-book of your latest tweets and favorites, and also share the tweetbook with your friends. To generate your tweetbook, the site will need read-only (oAuth) access to your Twitter account.

TweetRiver

TweetRiver builds custom curated Twitter streams for live events, broadcast and online media, and businesses in general. They can aggregate tweets from multiple sources, build rule sets to filter and moderate the best content available, and embed streams into a website, TV broadcast, or a custom application.

TwitRadar

TwitRadar.com is a real time monitoring tool. Here you can search, track and share specific topics by subject, tags or username. Just type in a search topic and see what everyone else is taking about it on Twitter. You can get your results as regular text post feed or in a clever and interpretetive graphic interface.

Twittonary

Twittonary aka the Twitter Dictionary is a compilation of the words people have come up with which include the language of twitter; its phrases, businesses, applications, and more. Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter-related words. You can search the entire Dictionary or by single word using their letter of the alphabet.

Twonvo

Twonvo is a site used to view your Twitter conversations as a thread, making it easy to follow a conversation and not have to search for each @reply individually. The site makes it convenient to follow your conversations, by just typing in a status URL or conversation ID, while the site searches through all of the tweet’s @replies to get the full conversation and display it on site.

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New Applications – Week 1

January 3, 2011 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

New Twitter Applications - Week 52

Happy New Year! This week we’ve added 30 new applications for Twitter to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with social media. Our growing list of Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your Twitter experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

Blue Sky Factory

Blue Sky Factory is a premium solution for businesses and internet marketers to help you become a better marketer through effective email and social marketing. Their services include full service email marketing as well as strategies for mobile applications, deliverability, social media, and creative services for designing email templates for specific campaigns.

Botanicalls

Botanicalls kits offer a connection to your plants via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. People who are unsure of their ability to effectively care for growing things are given visual and aural clues using common human methods of communication.

Chirrps

Chirrps aggregates tweets in eight different categories and displays them based on popularity. The popular tweets can be filtered even further to meet individual preferences based on categories and search terms. You can also use the site like a search engine to locate specific users and check-ins.

Dlvr.it

Dlvr.it provides bloggers, publishers and brands a way to instantly syndicate content and expand their reach on the social web and into new channels. Their tools make it easy to manage and measure the flow of your content everywhere your audience is. Dlvr.it publishes your media, your blogs, all your content to your social media channels, ensuring your audience sees it instantly.

Expion

Expion provides Enterprise social media management software that manages multiple profiles to monitor, communicate, and engage customers. This tool manages your online communities to present consistent messaging while fostering local relationships to attract and retain customers. They combine our Social Media Management software with deep customer relationship management knowledge and expert coaching services to help enterprises manage their online communities more effectively.

Floxee

Floxee gives any organization the ability to aggregate and brand their Twitter presence in one, customer-friendly location online. Features include searchable directories of Twitter users and the Twitter firehose, support for multiple accounts, as well as a customizable design and content modules.

Geotoko

Geotoko is an easy to use platform that helps interactive agencies, businesses and brands to easily create and measure location-based deals and promotions across multiple location-based apps like Foursquare, Facebook places, Yelp, Twitter, and Gowalla. This application is Intuitive, affordable, and flexible enough to satisfy all levels of business managers and agencies.

Gravity

Gravity is a fully-featured Twitter client for S60 based mobile phones from Nokia & Samsung. It supports multiple Twitter and Identi.ca accounts, multiple Twitter searches, Groups, Audio Alerts and Image uploading to MobyPicture, TwitPic, TwitGoo and Posterous.

Hoverme

Hoverme is a browser plugin that enhances your social web experience. The initial release works on the new Twitter web interface. With Hoverme installed you’re able to view the social web profile for each of your friends simply by mousing over their name in your Twitter stream. The profile provides links to the person’s other profiles on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Delicious and many more.

IGiftThanks

Our relatives and friends want to know when we get gifts. They want to share in our joy. We want to express our gratitude. iGiftThanks lets you instantly share your custom crafted photo thanks around the globe via email, Twitter, text message or post that message for all to see on the gift giver’s Facebook wall. Use your device’s camera or stored photos to design and send your thank you notes via email, mms, Facebook or Twitter in three easy steps.

Klipfolio

Klipfolio helps the Fortune 1000 increase the visibility of business information for faster, more informed decisions that improve performance and profitability. It is the only business dashboard that presents operational information directly on the desktop where it’s always visible, accessible, and actionable. Employees of firms like Kroger Co., EMC and Lufthansa use Klipfolio Dashboard to increase the visibility of critical and frequently changing performance metrics (KPIs).

Kosmix

Kosmix is a filtered guide to the social Web. The site lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Their categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate and filter content better.

Loopt

Loopt is an elegant location-based social network and compass designed for connecting you to other people and destinations via mobile phones. The Loopt application is available on a variety of devices, including iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Windows Phone.

Mitter

Mitter is a client for Twitter. Currently, you can use it on Linux, Windows and OS X (running PyGTK) and on a console/terminal. Mitter is a simple application to keep your Twitter status up-to-date and to see your friends updates. It aims to be simple and with a small requirement list, while supporting multiple different interfaces.

Multwiple

Multwiple is useful for everyone who wants to a better interface for Twitter. It manages multiple accounts, has its own URL shortener, allows for keyword searches, and allows users to view their stats and see trending topics on site.

Notifo

Notifo is a mobile notifications platform empowering developers to build their own services with a scalable and reliable notifications API. The Notifo API is a simple and affordable way to add notifications to any web app or project. It gives you access to real-time notifications from tons of services pushed to your mobile phone, for free. A tiered pricing program is in the works for future premium services.

Producteev

Producteev is a multi-channel task management application that lets you do 2 things with Twitter: you can send new tasks to your Producteev account via Twitter by sending a direct message to ‘producteev’; you can also “crowdsource” your tasks by publishing a request to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and get help from your worldwide network. Your friends will be able to leave comments on this task, and help you complete it.

Say What

Say What monitors online conversations on significant social media spaces and lets you know what people are saying. Simply enter a keyword or phrase, tap “Search” and Say What pulls the most recent related mentions from Twitter and Digg, as well as from forums and blogs across the Internet.

Slipstream

Slipstream is the best way to deal with too many tweets in your Twitter stream. It’s a browser extension that helps you hide what you don’t care about so you can read what’s relevant. It works seamlessly on top of Twitter.com via a simple button at the end of every tweet: “Hide”.

Snap Bird

Snap Bird gives you the ability to search deeper into the Twitter fire hose. Although you don’t have access to the public timeline, you can search back further than 10 days, within only your friends’ tweets, your direct messages, or within any user’s favourites. Its a better way to find the things in your updates stream.

Social Rain

SocialRain is enterprise scalable SaaS designed to facilitate and accelerate your social marketing influence. Features of this software solution allow business users to publish, manage, acquire, and measure their social media efforts through targeted marketing campaigns.

Social Whale

Social Whale is an extended Twitter client that adds a plethora of functionalities. These include the ability to create groups, and user lists with customizable timelines, as well as tagging favorites. Moreover, Social Whale has content preview for media of every type – images, videos, and music are supported. In addition, Social Whale gives the user the chance to connect with several social networks at once, and post updates simultaneously.

Socialware

Socialware bridges the gap between the enterprise and social networks to help companies and their employees engage, connect and communicate with clients, partners and one another. Underlying all of their products is a social middleware platform that connects enterprises’ people, processes and systems to social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Summizer

Summizer is a Twitter search engine tool for the iPhone. It quickly tracks Twitter and follows the trends you care about. Summizer allows you to save your search terms for 1 touch access later. People use Summizer to watch what others are saying about a topic in real time, check user opinions about your new product feature, or see how people are reacting to a major event. Paid version eliminates ads.

TidyTweet

Everyone’s comments are valuable…except when they aren’t. TidyTweet helps keep your Twitter feed free from inappropriate language, users, and content. Keep an eye on your conversations 24/7 and decide for yourself what stays and what goes.

Topsy

Topsy is a powerful realtime search engine that, unlike traditional search engines, indexes and ranks search results based upon the most influential conversations millions of people are having every day about each specific term, topic, page or domain queried. Topsy displays realtime results for related terms and articles, trending topics, identifies experts for any queried term, and shows you trackback pages for everything in its index, displaying what everyone is saying about that query.

Twazzup

Twazzup operates a leading real-time news platform. We make it possible to filter the news out of live internet content. This tool uses a very simple interface on the surface, but users can dig deeper into their tag cloud and get personalized highlights from influential users who are sharing trending topics.

Tweet Stork

TweetStork is a marketing tool that helps you find targeted people to follow on Twitter. To find users who fit your target audience, TweetStork will scan a similar, popular user, fetch the list of followers and filter them based on keywords you want to see or not see in their description. You will then be able to add those users instantly.

Unilyzer

Unilyzer offers a number of management tools to better understand the return on your investment (ROI) in social media. Their services provide a central dashboard that automatically retrieves data from several sources, allowing you to analyze metrics, establish trends, do side-by-side comparisons, rate the effectiveness of each social media source you use. Their detailed reports can be emailed, printed, published, or downloaded to Excel for further analysis.

Vocus

Vocus provides the ability to leverage the ubiquity of the internet to interact with the media, publish their news online where it can be found by millions, monitor news and social media conversations from virtually any source and track their results to compare them with key competitors.

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New Applications – Week 52

December 27, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

New Twitter Applications - Week 52

Happy New Year! This week we’ve added 25 new Twitter tools to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications to add to our site for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with Twitter. Our growing list of Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your social media experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

Argyle Social

Argyle Social is a software-as-a-service platform that helps marketers link social media efforts to business outcomes. Service features include business-class reporting on social media metrics, conversion tracking, social content management, web analytics, an streamlined social interactions. Currently offering free trials during beta testing.

BeyondPod

BeyondPod is a podcast manager and RSS feed reader for Android phones. You can schedule automatic podcast downloads or stream them on the web, with enhanced features to make the content more accessible to viewers. The app supprt Atom, RSS 2.0, RDF, and OPML feeds, as well as wired headsets and Bluetooth receivers. You can also assign feeds to various categories and save them for viewing offline.

BrandChirp

BrandChirp is a leading solution for brand management on Twitter. With this tool, you can effectively monitor, manage and resolve all brand activity, establish new connections, and reach a bigger audience with a unique target follow feature. It also supports scheduled tweets, including RSS feeds, follow stats, and multiple accounts.

Chirpstory

Chirpstory is a tool for telling and sharing stories from Twitter. Using this site, you can organize favorite Tweets, conversations, and themed hashtags together to create fun and easy-to-read narratives out of the Twitter experience. All you do is drag and drop Tweets into a timeline, edit, and then share your story with the world. It’s a fun way to interact with Twitter updates between you and your friends.

Cortex

Cortex is a quick way to share links, articles, videos, images, music to your friends and family across the web. The posts links, videos, images, and highlighted text to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instapaper. It’s a Google Chrome extension that makes it easier to share things you like right away.

Crowdbooster

Crowdbooster measures how well you are performing on Twitter and gives you insights that make you more effective. This tool analyzes the performance of your individual tweets with an interactive graph and table to quickly understand what worked and what didn’t. You get deep audience insights as well as actionable recommendations to improve the power of your tweets going forward. Currently in private beta by request.

EmbedPlus

EmbedPlus allows you to upgrade YouTube video embeds with features that online video players don’t currently offer. EmbedPlus applies the YouTube and Topsy API to generate enhanced embed code that adds features like DVD-like controls, real-time Internet reactions from Twitter, third-party annotations, and more. This app is useful for bloggers, commenters, or anyone wanting to offer their viewers more without having to alter original video content.

Featured Users

Featured Users is a resource for both users and publishers to get more followers and support their favorite 3rd party Twitter apps. For Twitter app developers, it’s a simple way to start monetizing their application. Users purchase banner packages to get impressions on more than forty Twitter applications that generate more than 100,000 pageviews daily. The end result is more impressions on dedicated Twitter apps with eager listeners.

Graph Edge

The mission of GraphEdge is to help consumers and companies make sense of their social networks. It’s a powerful analytics application for Twitter that tells you how many of your followers you’re really reaching, how quickly your network is growing, who’s dumping you, who your most influential followers are, and how to reach them, as well as who else your followers are following.

Janetter

Janetter is a powerful Twitter client application for Windows. It features 16 different standard themes, supports multiple accounts and timelines, and even displays thumbnails of pictures within tweets automatically. It also has functionality for geo searches, autocomplete for previously used names and hashtags, and integrates with picture sites like TwitPic and yFrog for viewing photos in tweets. Currently available as a free download for Windows.

LiteFeed

LiteFeed saves time by pulling all your updates together in one place. No need to click on links in tweets, because LiteFeed opens them up within the browser. Links, photos, videos, short URLs, all in one place, so you don’t have to click on anything else or chase through the web to find the content within. Supports YouTube, Vimeo, Yfrog, Plixi, Img.ly, Ow.ly, Foursquare, and Prostopleer.

Meebo

Integrating all social networks and communications channels into a single, simple-to-use solution, Meebo enables users to easily share content and communicate in real time with the people who matter to them. In addition, advertisers can use it to build their brands using a high-impact marketing platform, and sites can use it to provide a social framework to increase, traffic, engagement, and revenue.

Mibbit

Mibbit is a web based IRC, Yahoo and Twitter client available through the Google Chrome store. You can use it to create a fast, flexible group chat for your site and put it on a page using a simple iFrame, or sign up for an account and use it within a browser from wherever you are. It has lots of customization, an API and extra feature packages to suit a number of requirements.

Network Hippo

People use Network Hippo to manage, grow, and stay active with people they’re already connected to. Network Hippo consolidates all of your contacts from email & social networks, collects additional information about them and “learns” about your professional connections to give you insight on who you should be in touch with, and when. These are the “high potential (hippo)” people we want to maintain professional relationships with.

Penzu

Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on a pad of paper. It offers a secure place to store your thoughts and ideas in the cloud. Entries are password protected and individual entries can be locked down with military-grade encryption. Powerful security, but easy to use.

PubliciTweet

PubliciTweet is a social media marketing application aimed at providing in-depth analytics for Twitter campaigns. The analytics go beyond the number of clicks and provide detailed information on which users had the most referrals and the overall reach. PubliciTweet allows businesses, musicians or other groups to communicate with their followers on Twitter and track the success of their campaigns.

RedPint

This iTunes application allows you to share what beer you’re drinking and where, compare ratings, find craft beer, and earn special medals based on your preferences. RedPint strives to put the power in your hands to find craft beer around you, understand which beers you’ll like that you’ve never tried before, introduce craft beer to your friends, and tell your favorite beer bar and store how they can get involved with RedPint.

Restream.me

ReStream, uses Twitter lists, tags, your Twitter favorites, and a feature called FavMe to recommend news, articles, and blog posts that match your interests. ReStream lets you walk away from Twitter and be confident that you can come back at any time without missing anything. Recommended content is always there for you and you can browse topics and lists for other information as well as search for new people to follow based on their tags.

RhythmShare

Rhythmshare has created one of the easiest and fastest ways for musicians to be heard over the internet. The site features an interface that lets you choose what you want to share (either a song, full mixtape, or video), then enables you to upload your song and spread it out to Twitter, Facebook, and lots of other social networking sites.

Soovox

Soovox is an “influencer network” that works to reward people that support their favorite online brands by offering virtual gifts, freebies, and cash. It also benefits businesses by giving customers the opportunity to influence others through word of mouth marketing.

Sulia

Sulia continuously identifies the most respected experts on a range of subjects and provides only their on-topic updates. Categories include politics and causes, arts & entertainment, sports, living, health, food & dining, and more.

The Unfollowed

This site warns Twitter users whether or not they should unfollow individual tweeps. Not much activity on the site currently, but may be useful for some who have too many followers.

Timely

Timely schedules tweets for when they’re bound to get the most reach. When you have important tweets to share, Timely helps get the most exposure by analyzing all your tweets to figure out what times of day you get the best engagement. The tool then defines “buckets” to best send your tweets. Currently supports up to five tweets per day.

Trunk.ly

Trunk.ly connects to social services like Twitter, Facebook and Delicious and monitors them for links you share. It then collects them, along with any tags and the description to create a central repository for all the links you love. Most importantly, it makes the content and the webpage the link points to fully searchable so you’ll never lose a link again.

Twishort

You post long text, Twishort cuts it to the allowed limit and automatically posts it to Twitter with a link. If you follow that link you will be able to read the whole post. If your tweet is less than 140 characters, Twishort does not add a link to it. Additionally, you can change the text of a shortened tweet if you are not satisfied with how your text was cut.

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New Applications – Week 51

December 20, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

Twitter tools from My Twitter Toolbox

This week we’ve added 31 new Twitter apps to our site!

This week’s entries include the following:

Arkayne

Arkayne helps businesses improve their online marketing performance, generate more leads and convert a higher percentage of those leads. Their suite of internet marketing solutions are geared towards enterprise businesses, marketing communication agencies, and professional marketers and bloggers that need to better manage Web presence, content optimization, search engine optimization, blogging and social media, and content metrics.

ChatterBox

ChatterBox is a collaboration platform for social media teams and power users that allows you to monitor Twitter conversations that matter most. With this application, you can monitor Twitter keywords and handles of interest, interact through a central dashboard, define team-based workflows to drive efficiency, and categorize and tag Twitter conversations.

Crimson Hexagon

Crimson Hexagon provides industry-leading social media monitoring and analysis software and services to global brands, agencies, media firms and their partners. Their customers are able to tap into billions of online conversations taking place in social media and uncover vital consumer opinions and insights about their company, products, industry, competitors and more. They then use this information to help make meaningful business decisions.

Crowd Campaign

CrowdCampaign is a social tool for building brands. It’s used by ad agencies, event managers, social media marketers – anyone who wants to leverage the power of the social web to build a brand. It’s easy to customize and manage, and you can launch a Twitter-powered contest including a branded promotional site in minutes from your desktop.

Curate.us

Curate.Us gives end users a simple and visually compelling way to repost content, instantly boosting the impact of blog posts, e-mail, websites, and social networks. The visual clips and formatted quotes generated by the application drive a 5x greater click-through to the original publisher than content distributed via traditional links.

DriveBuy

DriveBuy is a mobile application that allows realtors, property managers, and builders to communicate messages about real estate properties through their mobile phones with text messaging. These professionals can then forward leads, listings, and property information to clients and to themselves 24 hours a day for better service.

Fanvibe

Fanvibe is a social site where sports fans can check-in with scheduled NBA, NHL and NCAA basketball games. Users can interact with friends to see which games their following and get real-time scores and reviews of big plays. The site also connect with Yahoo Fantasy Football league so that you can follow stats and teams with your friends.

Find Great Content

Find Great Content is a 70-minute video training session that introduces researchers to advanced search tips and strategies that consistently bring back better results from online research. The video reveals seldom-used sources that offer more reliable, accurate, and credible content from specific databases, and shows how to make the most of time searching for content online.

Hello Bar

Hello Bar is a simple toolbar that can be customized with text to promote causes, products, or whatever you want to say on your site. You can update the text in your Hello Bar via Twitter by using the hashtag #hellobar. This is very useful if you want to highlight a particular feature on your website on a particular day, or at a particular time of day. It also provides statistics showing number of views and clicks.

JustCoz

JustCoz.org is an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you. It enables charities, non-profits and NGOs to greatly increase their social media reach by way of tweet and status donations.

NetProspex

NetProspex helps B2B companies discover and connect with millions of targeted sales prospects. Using their technology, you can find verified contact information, including email, phone, and social media. Crowd-sourced contacts are verified by CleneStep technology to provide accurate contact info for 16 million B2B professionals.

Nimble

Nimble is the only solution to offer small businesses the best features of high-end CRM systems combined with the communication power of social media and collaborative tools, all in one simple and affordable web-based solution. Nimble helps businesses excel at relationship management, team collaboration, and social engagement. Currently accepting applications for a private beta.

Ow.ly

Ow.ly is a simple but popular URL shortener that includes the ability to add files and images to tweets in the process.

Searchtastic

Searchtastic is a Twitter search engine can search historical tweets from months ago for more results, and includes a “click search” feature that allows you to click on any words in search results to add or remove it from search terms you specify. You get instant access to the top 400 users ranked by number of followers, and the site automatically expands shortened URLs as well as exports results to Excel.

Sharethrough

Sharethrough is advanced social video advertising and viral marketing for brands. The site offers the only social video distribution & marketing platform that ensures brand videos are both seen and shared by large numbers of viewers.

tDash

tDash is a browser-based Twitter dashboard with a clean and simple interface. It marks tweets as read, organizes tweets by sender, and offers inline expansion of conversations. tDash supports Twitter lists and a number of keyboard shortcuts. You can also share images and sign in with multiple accounts.

Tweet Randomizer

Tweet Randomizer selects a random follower of the day for your twitter account. What for…? Mostly for fun, for #Follow Friday, to pick a contest winner, to attract new followers, or simply just to tweet it .

Tweetr

With Tweetr for the iPhone you don’t need to leave the app to do many of the common fiddly tasks like finding an address on the map, adding photos or videos, or finding a link to your favorite blog post. Features include scheduled tweets, multi-account management, built-in web browser, upload videos and photos, and auto-save of tweets in progress on shutdown.

Twiangulate

Twiangulate is a way to make connections between three tweeps on several levels. The site allows you to find new people to follow by seeing which followers have others in common. You can also discover a tweep’s most influential followers and get a list of followers in common between two or three tweeps.

Twipage

This is a simple application designed to make a tiny website easily with a couple of public timeline tweets using hashtags. Once you login with Twitter, the site starts watching your public updates. You use specific hashtags from any Twitter client and the site creates an address for your site in minutes. Media and themes support is included, so you can add images, videos, maps, and code listing to your updates.

TwitBlock

TwitBlock is a junk filter and bulk blocking tool for Twitter. It scans your followers for nuisance accounts and makes it easy to block them all in one place. You can also see who you’re already blocking, which is something you can’t do on twitter.com.

Twitrratr

Twitrratr enables users to discover what people are really saying on Twitter. The application searches keywords and compares them to an adjective list to distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic. The results are rated between positive, neutral, and negative sentiments.

Twitter Boom

Twitter Boom is a detailed report that informs new users on how to setup new accounts and use various business tools to maximize their potential as internet marketers. The report reveals secrets, tips, strategies, and shortcuts to help users avoid making costly mistakes and wasting time while getting up to speed with online marketing through Twitter.

Twitter Packs

TwitterPacks is a site where the online community recommends fellow Twitter users by topic of interest or geographical area. You can add new friends, create categories for the people in the directory, even add yourself. Packs are organized by location, topic, or company.

TwittyPop

Twittypop is a fun way of discovering new people on Twitter, increasing your followers, sending out a crush notification, or checking your own popularity. If you find someone you like, you can vote for him or her. When you vote for them, they’ll bubble to the top, which means they’ll get discovered by other tweeps.

Twoolr

Twoolr is a provider of high-quality statistics on Twitter accounts trusted by major brands like Toyota, Honda, and Warner Bros. Their application includes in-depth analysis on hashtag, term, and reply clouds, usage statistics, associated terms, interactions, and account growth.

TwtrCtr

TwtrCtr (“TwitterCounter nano”) displays a simple, iPhone-optimised view of the Twitter statistics data provided by the TwitterCounter and FollowCost APIs. Since the Twitter Counter page isn’t formatted well for display on the iPhone screen, TwtrCtr strips it down to the basics and just lets you see your stats, on a single screen. The site has the look and feel of an iPhone screen, which makes it easy to navigate for iPhone users.

Vacation Relation

Vacation Relation is an app that helps you find out who will be at the vacation sport you’re planning on travelling to. The purpose of this feature is to set up some communication or interest in the local people in advance of your trip, making it that much easier to enjoy your time there.

ViewPoint

ViewPoint is a web based service that helps you follow friends effectively by reducing the clutter. Retrieving information from Twitter, FriendFeed and RSS, updates are grouped on separate pages by similar items, and filters allow you to control your updates. This takes the hassle out of organizing groups and gives more control over who you follow. Currently analyzing results from private beta.

Wibiya

Wibiya provides an interactive and user-friendly web toolbar that allows you to integrate a host of new applications directly onto your website. The toolbar allows you to add features and tools for your website’s visitors to use without leaving the page. This will promote your website’s content, while increasing time spent on your website and the interest your website generates.

WiseStamp

This application lets you insert specific apps into an email signature, for example, a Twitter app. WiseStamp currently supports fourteen valuable new applications that can be integrated to personalize you email messages, including Delicious, StumbleUpon, PlanCast, Ebay, Digg, and RSS. In addition, three premium plans add more functionality, like signature templates, assignment options, and tailor made email apps.

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New Applications – Week 50

December 13, 2010 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

new Twitter applications

This week we’ve added 30 new Twitter applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest applications to add to our site for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with our favorite social media site. Our growing list of Twitter applications is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your experience with the site.

This week’s list contains lots of mobile apps for iPhones, for those who create social media networks on your phone. Take a look at this week’s list:

Arkayne

BlueCamroo

BlueCamroo integrates Lead Management, CRM, Social CRM, Project Management, Time Tracking, Customer Support, and Email Marketing as an all-in-one solution for business social media clients. The web-based application is great for managing customers and contacts with robust CRM features and capturing leads automatically from online sources, including Twitter.

Chrome TweetDeck

A new generation of the popular Twitter client, created especially for the Chrome Web Store and the Google Chrome browser. New features include a new side panel to quickly browse, preview, and add new columns, new blended Home and Me columns to incorporate freinds and fans from all over the web, and a “More” drawer in the compose window to manage multiple accounts.

Curate.us

Friendlynx

Friendlynx is a Facebook application that searches for each of your Facebook friends on Twitter and helps you follow them. The app stores the link between your accounts so that future users can find you more easily and precisely.

GigaTweeter

GigaTweeter loads up to five real-time streams from Twitter using hashtags, keywords, or @mentions, and presents them in columns for quick consumption. You can pause, clear, and resume each stream individually, and the site translates a number of different languages for international tweets. It also shows trending topics at the top of the page.

Hello Bar

Highlighter

Highlighter is a WordPress plugin that helps you grow your email list, make more money, and improve your user’s visitor experience by simply allowing them to highlight specific words, sentences, and images that interest them most. This allows publishers and readers to engage in more contextually-relevant conversations online for better communication. The plugin is free for self-hosted WordPress.org sites.

Instapaper

Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. It’s a quality fee-based online service which allows users to save web pages to read later. Most iPhone Twitter clients include integration with Instapaper, and it’s got a great iPhone client as well.

My6Sense

My6sense is the first reader in the world to personally rank content from your Twitter, Facebook, news, blogs and RSS on your iPhone and iPod Touch. This provides intelligent updates and allows you to interact with Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Posterous, and Instapaper for the best of the web on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

MyTweetMag

MyTweetMag is a new plattform that allows users to curate content and to stream selected news. The app also allows you to import media files from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Twitpic, and Flickr. Using your Twitter account, you send link recommendations to MyTweetMag, which reads the links and creates a list of news and data files which you can view and import into your personal blog.

Nieman Lab

The Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard University connects you to the latest news from around the web: new startups, innovation at established news organizations, and new ways to do great journalism online. Features include their popular Twitter feed, a curated list of Hot Links, major news feeds, and the ability to search the lab’s archives.

OneKontest

OneKontest is a contest platform that helps you create and manage successful social media promotions from hashtags, tweets, follow me requests, and emails. Once you set it up, the application randomly selects one or more winners and notifies you.

Packrati.us

Packrati.us provides a simple bookmarking service to track the URLs you share online. The app follows your twitterfeed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, it adds them to your Delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, you can bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as favorites.

Performable

Performable lets you track every visitor through their entire relationship with your product or brand. Their enterprise-level product is designed to provide revenue tracking, lifetime customer history, and multi-channel analytics to make your customer interactions more profitable.

Reeder

Reeder is a Google Reader client for iPhone, iPad, and coming soon for Mac. The mobile app syncs with Google Reader to load feeds you’re used to reading online. It brings common features like support for shared items, image caching, and a slider control for better navigation and categorizing of list entries. With this client, you can send items to Instapaper, save to Delicious, post to Twitter, copy links, and send to email in the application.

Refynr

Refynr is for people who have lots of contacts and don’t want to miss out on the important updates in their ever-growning stream of information. Based on parameters you set, Refynr grabs the interesting, relevant updates you receive and stops the flow of spam and unwanted noise in your feeds.

Resonancers

Resonance measures user interaction with the promoted tweet: how many times the tweet itself is viewed, favorited, retweeted, and how many times keywords or links are engaged with. Besides the ranking to determine the most influential tweeps through the resonance criteria, Resonancers.com lets you know which of your tweets have been retweeted or marked as favorite by one of the Toptweets accounts.

Scoop.it

Scoop.it helps you create media to share your passions with your friends. This tool feeds related content to users so they can choose the best and edit the rest of the stuff they share with others. It’s interactive content curated by users and their friends, who suggest links they find on their own.

Smartr

Sometimes you just want to see the links shared by your friends. Smartr is a companion Twitter application that turns your links into beautiful, readable content. It’s a fast, visually rich and fun way to read links shared by your friends on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

Swix

SWIX offers social media analytics applications that monitor all of your social media properties (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, +20 others) and social media campaigns. Each day, SWIX gathers visitor and usage data for your sites, graphs it all over time and puts everything in one convenient place for you.

Symbaloo

Symbaloo allows you to find, share, update the best of the web all in one place. You can create pages of links in a graphical manner, keep them private for your own use or share them for everyone else to see. You can update these links as things change. The site contains roughly 5000 pages containing over 10,000 verified and vetted links on everything from software to blogs to products, and more.

Trackur

Trackur is a reputation & social media monitoring tool designed by online reputation expert Andy Beal. It is used to assist tracking what is said about brands and people on the web. Trackur scans millions of web pages, including news, blogs, video, images, and forums, to discover anything that matches the keywords you want to know about.

Twikpik

Twipik allows you to upload photos and share them in just a few clicks. Simply click the Login button in the top right and then proceed to upload your photos. You also have the option to just upload your photo to Twipik and not share on Twitter.

Twisst

Twisst is an interesting application that informs followers when the International Space Station will be visible in the sky. The Netherlands-based site gathers Geocode information from each follower and compares it to coordinates from online databases to determine when the ISS will be flying over that person’s area.

Twuration

Twuration is a new, simple application that calculates what date you started tweeting, how long you’ve been tweeting, and the rate at which you’re tweeting.

Vacation Relation

Vufind

Vufind is a free, intuitive iPhone app that automatically tags photos and videos based on your interests. Using their technology, you can connect with friends and businesses that share those interests with you. You can also unlock rewards, compete, and win with every photo you upload to Facebook and Twitter.

Wibiya

Wibiya provides an interactive and user-friendly web toolbar that allows you to integrate a host of web applications directly onto your website. The toolbar allows you to add features and tools for your website’s visitors to use without leaving the page. This will promote your website’s content, while increasing time spent on your website and the interest your website generates.

WineSnob

Wine Snob is a sophisticated wine logging tool for iPhone, iPad, and iTouch. Quickly and easily search, find and log the wines you drink along with tasting notes, price, vintage, and varietal. All logged wines can be viewed in Google maps with GPS coordinates and wine and food pairings. Search results allow for posts to email, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as a free automatic backup service.

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Filed Under: Weekly New Apps Tagged With: Chrome TweetDeck, CRM, Instapaper, online marketing, social media, social networks, Twitter applications, Wibiya

New Applications – Week 49

December 6, 2010 By Marc Zeale 2 Comments

This week we’ve added 25 new Twitter applications to our site!

This week’s list is heavy on utilities, the sites you use most that make social media experiences better. Take a look at this week’s list:

CrowdedInk

CrowdedInk is a site that distributes a social mug with the small photos of your online friends on it, as well as a key chain with your closest friends on it. You can also include Facebook friends, and in the future the distributor plans on including T-shirts in their product line.

Follo

Follo allows you to gain new Twitter followers for free. By following people on the site you will earn points. The higher your ranking the more followers you’ll get. The points are reset daily, giving everyone a chance.

Kiwi

Kiwi is a Twitter client for the Max OS X that allows you to see more of your account at once. It features tabs for conversations and timelines, allows you to view TwitPic photos inline with tweets, and has dozens of different themes to choose from. You can save searches, create your own user groups, and define rules to skip or highlight content based on your interests.

Laterstars

Laterstars gives you a platform to favorite links you like from Twitter, saving them to read later or share with others. You also get to see what other users’ favorites, as a way of seeing what other people are finding most interesting on Twitter.

Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz enables people to enjoy free and low cost mobile calls, free instant messaging, social networking and other features, using the internet capabilities of the their mobile device. Nimbuzz users enjoy the freedom of communicating with friends between any internet enabled device, from mobile to mobile, mobile to PC/Mac and vice versa, harnessing the power of the Internet (Wi-Fi, 3G, 2G, GPRS).

OneRiot

OneRiot partners with leading brands and media companies to reach millions of social influencers across an exclusive network of top Twitter apps, mobile apps, social networking and content discovery sites. When you partner with OneRiot, they match your campaign content to trending topics in realtime, promoting it to a targeted audience across an exclusive high-profile network.

PostRank

PostRank monitors and collects social engagement events correlated with online content in real-time across the web. They offer data services, analytics, and consumer tools for publishers and online information to help businesses monitor conversations and media.

Quotme

Quot.me is a free iPhone application that makes it easy for Twitter users to tweet quotes. This tool gives you access to a large library of quotes – from Douglas Adams to Frank Zappa, and everything in between.

Sharein

Sharein lets you share your favorite links with anyone through Facebook, Twitter, and email. You’ll also be able to save links for reference and see how friends and customers respond to your shares.

Social Rewards

Social Rewards blends social networking, affiliate programs and loyalty marketing into one cohesive platform. The client can either leverage your existing loyalty program or help you build your own compelling campaign that can go viral. Once created, Social Rewards tracks all mentions, retweets, and sales activity, logging points you can reward back to your members.

StopTweet

StopTweet scans your friends and followers on Twitter daily for spammers and bots. You adjust the settings to help decide what spammers look like and the tool finds them for you. The new application also gives you control over whether or not to block and report the spammers to Twitter.

Task.fm

Task.fm is a quick way to create reminders that get sent to your email, phone, calendar or Twitter account. Task.fm is smart enough to understand your natural language so you don’t need to bother entering dates or times manually.

Tickreel

Tickreel ranks users for influence. The new application dynamically ranks users across the web for millions of topics. The rankings are based on what topics users tweet, comment, or blog and how engaged other users become. It also allows you to view the interest graph for any person or site. You can quickly view what people care about based on a ranking of their interests.

Traackr

Traackr has built a unique approach to measure online influence and score top influencers that embraces and leverages the complexity of social media. The tool uses a methodical approach to find meaning in the massive amount of data collected on social media and identifies the most influential individuals in specific communities of interest.

Trendrr

Trendrr is a premium business intelligence and social media management platform. Trendrr enables users to listen, measure and respond to the conversation about a brand, service or product, allowing marketers to identify swarm behavior and implement flash transactions in real-time.

Tweeb

Tweeb is a Twitter analytics and Twitter follower management app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With Tweeb, you get a summary dashboard with trends for tweets, followers, buzz, and clicks. This tool shows you who’s retweeting you and whether what you’re tweeting is creating any buzz.

Tweet Press

Tweet Press is a service that lets you quickly and easily post messages longer than 140 characters where those messages are automatically displayed and organized in a simple blog-format. Tweet Press gives any Twitter account an ultra-simple, zero configuration blog.

TweetPsych

TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates.

Tweettone

Tweettone is a different kind of analytics engine. It allows you to filter conversation on Twitter based on the sentiment and emotional content of the tweet. Their technology monitors the 8 primary emotions - beyond positive, negative and neutral – so you can have a more precise understanding of exactly how people are feeling about your brand, campaign or your competition.

TweetVisor

Tweetvisor is a web-based multi-column client that manages multiple accounts, returns real-time updates about favorite topics, news and tweets, and supports groups, tagging friends, inline video replies, various templates, and an integrated feed reader. This Twitter tool has had recommendations from TechCrunch, Killer Startups, and Twtbase.

Twhois

Twhois.net is a free web service created to give users valuable information about follower, to make better decisions about whether to follow them back or not. You’ll also discover which other social networks they use, what their main website is, and if they utilize LinkedIn, their professional position.

Twithelp

Twithelp lets you tap into the huge social media community to get help with anything you want, similar to a Yahoo Answers for Twitter. Rather than looking on Google for answers, you can ask a question and connect with real people all over the world as they answer your question. You might even make new friends or contacts along the way.

Twitter Buttons

Twitter Buttons has collected the best, free, social media icons from across the web and put them all in one easy to search site. All you need to do is enter your Twitter ID, find and select a design you like, then paste the code on your web page or blog to display your new social media button.

Twitter Optimizer

Twitter Optimizer enables marketers to benchmark their Twitter performance and identify the investment required to deliver the maximum impact and ROI. This application provides industry trackin, alerts, performance scoring, and social intelligence to help optimize your Twitter accounts.

Yoono

Yoono is available as either a browser add-on or a standalone desktop application. With it, you can share links, images and videos and update your status across all your social networks at the same.

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Filed Under: Weekly New Apps Tagged With: My Twitter Toolbox, new applications, social networking, Social Rewards, Traackr, Twhois.net, twitter tools

New Applications – Week 48

November 29, 2010 By Marc Zeale Leave a Comment

The Week In Twitter - our favorite Friday feature

This week we’ve added 25 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the greatest new applications to add to our site for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with social media. Our growing list of apps is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your Twitter experience.

Check out the apps we have added this week:

Animoto
Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. They can be emailed, downloaded, and embedded on websites including social network sites like Facebook and MySpace.

AskCH
AskCH was designed to help you save money on your health related expenses and to learn about health issues. It uses Twitter to send a healthcare cost or definition question in the proper format, and receive an answer with a link to find detailed information.

Boxcar
Boxcar is a social media client for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that supports a number of different sites, such as Growl, Reddit, Gowalla, and Facebook. You’ll also receive instant push notifications from email accounts and RSS feeds. The service comes highly recommended from Lifehacker, MacWorld, and TechCrunch.

DoInk
DoInk is a place to enjoy art and animation, and make your own. Once, you’ve signed up you can begin animating, drawing, and sharing. And to speed things up, you can re-use the work of thousands of other users.

FlyScreen
Flyscreen is a mobile application that allows users to embed their favorite web services to their phone’s lock/sleep screen, enabling zero-click access to the content they use most. FlyScreen is highly customizable, cuts out a lot of unnecessary clicking, loading and waiting, and supports a broad range of web services. Currently for Symbian and Android phones only; BlackBerry in alpha.

Gnip
Gnip aggregates over 100 social media feeds into one API, streamlining all the data your web site or business uses. Gnip has partnered with Twitter to be the first data reseller for the social media client. This tool enhances existing CRM software and supplies the data to build monitoring tools faster.

Hahlo
Hahlo is a social media client optimised for the iPhone, but it also works great on a number of other devices or on your desktop in Safari, Chrome or Firefox.

Lazyscope
Lazyscope is a new application that breaks out links in your update stream right from the site, so you don’t have to dig into tweets to see what’s in them. You can do the same thing for other sites with streams, making it easier to view attachments and media files without loading multiple pages of even visiting sites at all.

Miso
Miso is an iTunes app used to check-in, track, and share TV shows and movies people are watching. You can connect Twitter and Facebook to Miso to see what you’re friends are watching, comment and chat about shows, and search the site’s extensive database to see what new shows are trending.

RainMaker
RainMaker lets you donate to your favorite non-profit organization, and give a shout-out to that organization at the same time. Just send a tweet with a few key pieces of information and your feed will tell all of your friends.

Reportage
Reportage is a native social media client for iPhones that provides a radio tuning environment into your social network. Reportage views Twitter users as broadcasters and each user’s tweets as a specific broadcast. Similar to a real radio tuner, Reportage allows you to selectively tune into each broadcaster and visualize the conversation.

Sideline
Sideline is an Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

Spark Booth
Spark Booth simulates a classic photo booth producing a vertical 4-photo strip. The new application features a fullscreen mode that converts any computer with a webcam into a photo booth kiosk. All the photos are saved to disk with option to upload to photo sharing services like img.ly, Mobypicture, Posterous, TweetPhoto, Twitgoo, TwitPic, and Twitrpix.

StickyBits
Stickybits is a free mobile app for iPhone you use to scan barcodes on all the stuff you love, instantly turning it into even more stuff you love. Scan any barcode, read reviews and comments, and share your own. Score a bunch of big discounts and free stuff – both for what you’re scanning and related things you’ll like.

ToutNShout
ToutNShout is a unique platform for users to critique and share experiences on a variety of consumer products, business services and entertainment mediums. The site captures highly targeted web traffic with focused advertising by leveraging organic user bases of popular Social Networking mediums with proprietary search and user experience enhancement technologies.

TownHog
TownHog is an e-commerce site where businesses offer online deals for a limited time. The site indexes a number of major cities in the U.S., as well as the countries of Great Britain and Canada. You can access coupons through Twitter or Facebook, or you can also get deal alerts delivered to email.

Tweety Got Back
Tweety Got Back is a theme shoppe for Twitter where you can browse through hundreds of free themes and backgrounds with original artwork and photography to add to your Twitter profile.

Twextra
Twextra allows you to stretch out your messages past the 140 character limit, up to 100,000 characters. You can add rich text formatting such as bold, italic, underline, colored-text, and emoticons. You can also embed videos and images in your messages for deeper levels of communication.

Twimonial
Twimonial is a web app to read testimonials about Twitter users. You can also make a list for your Follow Friday recommendation so that your followers get to know why a user that you recommend should be followed.

Twippr
Twippr is currently in a beta test, so the app’s free for the moment. The site allows you to accumulate a set amount of “micropayments,” small payments typically between $.50 and $1.00, and then arranges a payment from you through PayPal to cover the cost of your small payments through social media. Twitter pledges, which is what these amount to, are common among friends to pay small debts and make donations.

Twitrounds
Twitrounds is a great source for free Twitter backgrounds. The site has an auto-install tool that makes it easy to post your new background to your Twitter profile, or you can manually install it yourself. They also do custom backgrounds, Facebook pages, and banners.

TwitterMap
This application maps all Twits and followers in a mashup with Google maps. Just press the “play” button to start the routine to see what’s going on around the world of Twitter. Alternatively, you can enter something in the search field and see tweets regarding the search, nearby a city or find people in your area.

Twollo
Twollo finds the followers you want to be talking to. The site provides keyword-based tracking to improve your social media networking with targeted tweeps.

UnTweeps
UnTweeps uses the Twitter API to unfollow selected people you are following. You indicate the number of days desired, and the application finds those followers who haven’t updated in that time frame. UnTweeps sends the list to the API, and the API then does the actual unfollowing.

Vlingo
Vlingo is an intelligent voice application that turns words into action. Basically, it lets you control your mobile phone with the power of voice. With Vlingo, you can simply speak to your phone to update your Twitter status, find a phone number, send a quick text, or search for a nearby restaurant.

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Filed Under: Weekly New Apps Tagged With: Animoto, Boxcar, facebook, Firefox, iPhones, new application, Rainmaker, Twitter Apps

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