In case you didn’t know, Twitter is mainstream. There’s no denying it anymore. One of the biggest reasons why it’s so mainstream, is all the different things you can do with it. Twitter itself is a simple application–post what you’re doing. Of course, those that “get” Twitter, know it’s a bit more than that. It’s all the ways that other people use Twitter that make it interesting.
I was looking over my various links of Twitter applications, tools and plugins I had scattered about…and decided to put them into one place while adding a few more. The idea was to come up with a good list that people could reference when they needed to. It took a lot more work than I thought, but I’d have to say it’s a pretty good list.
Now, this isn’t (by any means) a complete list. In fact, I’m sure there are many that I either haven’t found, missed or mistakenly omitted. So if your favorite isn’t listed…leave a comment and I’ll add it. Also, if you think I got a description wrong or it needs to be expanded on…let me know. I’ll be happy to give credit to those that help make this list bigger and better too 
A couple of other notes: Some of these services I use, some I don’t. This isn’t meant to be a list of all the tools I use (can you image using them all??). Some of these tools are for more than just Twitter. That’s fine. This is a Twitter list so I focused mainly on that aspect of the service.
OK, well enough of that…on to my list of 115+ Twitter Applications, Tools and Plugins!
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Application | Desktop
- Destroy Twitter – A desktop application for Twitter
- digsby – Digsby is a multiple service messaging client. Use with Twitter as well as other social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, or IM services like AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Gtalk. You can even receive email notifications through digsby.
- feedalizr – Another desktop application that brings together Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Flickr and more all in a single application.
- Seesmic – A desktop application for Twitter (with Facebook support). Organize your stream into columns, share links, photos and videos and group your followers.
- Splitweet – A desktop application for managing multiple Twitter accounts. If you have several accounts, you can use them all from this software tool.
- TweetDeck – A desktop client for Twitter. Allows you to group your followers for good organization of your Twitter stream. Includes several popular URL shorteners and even lets you post and see Facebook status messages.
- tweetPad – Software used to visualize Twitter feeds in a new, dynamic fashion. The idea is to not only be on the receiving end of these feeds but to be able to manipulate them; to react and to interact with what we are reading. This is done by deconstructing the text: scrambling the letters or words, breaking sentences apart, replacing words,combining multiple entries into one, etc.
- Twhirl – Twhirl is a desktop application for Twitter. It has a good, clean interface. It’s being replaced by the Seesmic Desktop client, but I prefer Twhirl over Seesmic at the moment.
- Twitterrific – A MAC Client for Twitter
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Application | Mobile
- Twinkle – Twinke is another Twitter application for the iPhone.
- Twittelator – A Twitter application for the iPhone
- Twitterberry – Twitterberry is a Twitter application for Blackberry’s. It uses the data network so you don’t need to use SMS to interact with Twitter.
- TwitterFon – TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and is a superfast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Application | Web/Browser Plugin
- TwitterFox – A small addon Twitter client for FireFox
- GroupTweet – A way for you to broadcast tweets to a group of people. The idea is, you create a ‘broadcast account’ and people who want to get the messages follow that account. When one person sends a DM to that account, a DM is sent to each of the other people following that account.
- Hahlo – Hahlo is fully featured web interface intended for mobile phone usage.
- Hoot Suite – Schedule Tweets, track links sent in Tweets and use multiple Twitter accounts with one Hoot Suite account.
- Matt – Matt is a tool for letting you post to multiple Twitter accounts at the same time.
- EasyTweets – Track keywords, receive SMS alerts, Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts, Schedule tweets, Automatically Post RSS Feed Content, Auto Follow, Share Links and a few more features.
- PeopleBrowser – An advanced online client for Twitter. See your stream in stacks, perform searches, see threaded conversations and post all from the PeopleBrowser interface.
- Tweetree – Puts your Twitter stream in a nested form so you can see conversations better. Much like forum posts.
- Twittfilter – Twittfilter is a web based application to help manage your incoming tweets and twitter followers/friends.
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Events
- twtvite – An online way to organize a tweetup and notify your followers about it.
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Photo Sharing
- picktor – Picktor lets you share your photos on Twitter. Alpha features are being worked on to let you share on multiple networks like flickr, FriendFeed, Facebook and more.
- pikchur – Pikchur is a simple service that updates your social networks / micro-blogging platforms with pictures. You can post to Twitter, tumblr, jaiku, Facebook, FriendFeed, identi.ca, flickr, brightkite, and more.
- SnapTweet – SnapTweet is an easy to use service which makes it simple to post your latest Flickr photos to your Twitter stream.
- tweetPhoto – tweetPhoto is a service for sharing photos on Twitter. It lets you see who’s viewed your photos, geo-tags them, lets you post your photos to Facebook at the same time and a few other features.
- twitgoo – Twitgoo is a quick, easy, reliable, and safe way to share images for Twitter.
- twitpic – Twitpic is a service that allows you to post photos and share them through your Twitter stream. Users can make comments on your photos (which also get posted to Twitter).
- yfrog – From the ImageShack folks, yfrog is another simple way to share photos with your friends on Twitter.
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Photo and Video Sharing
- twitc – Twitc is a free photo, video, and file sharing application for social networkers. Upload, manage, organize, search, and download over 180 file types, including videos and content from third party sites such as YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo Video, Spike, Jumpcut, and LiveLeak.
- TweeTube – TweeTube is a way of sharing videos and photos on Twitter. You can upload your media, use a webcam, or post links.
- twit Lens – TWITLENS is a picture and video sharing service primarily for Twitter users.It lets you upload video and photos. You can also easily tag your friends in each photo.
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Tools | Followers
- DoesFollow – Simple, see if a person is following another person
- Follow Cost – Shows you ‘how annoying’ it will be to follow a specific user. Gives you Average updates per day and average updates per day based on the users last 100 tweets.
- Friend or Follow – A follower management tool that breaks down your tweeps in three screens. People you’re following that aren’t following you back, people who follow you that you don’t follow back and friends.
- Less Friends – Less Friends lets you see who you’re following, who’s following you and mutual followers. Links are provided to each users’ profile you can follow or unfollow them.
- Mr. Tweet – Mr. Tweet will analyze your Twitter network, help you discover great people, and recommend you to others.
- My Cleaner – Log in with your Twitter credentials and My Cleaner will show you which of your followers haven’t posted in a long time. You can unfollow those users right from the My Cleaner interface.
- My Tweeple – Follower management tool for Twitter.
- Nearby Tweets – Lets you search for Twitter users within a given radius of a location you enter.
- Quitter – Sends you email notifications when a Twitter user stops following you. Included in the email is the last tweet before that user stopped following you.
- SocialToo – Lets you create surveys and polls to use on Twitter. Tools to let you autofollow, auto unfollow and block auto DM’s from others.
- socialwhois – See a users profile and interests. Shows their profile based on their Twitter and/or FriendFeed profiles. Nice tool to see if you share similar interests in a particular user.
- Topify – Replaces the Twitter notification emails with more in depth information emails.
- Twellow – Twitter Directory
- Twibs – Directory of businesses on Twitter. Search their directory or view featured and most popular businesses.
- Twitter Karma – A flash follower management tool that lets you sort and view your followers and fans.
- twitter mass – A tool for automating following in Twitter. Auto follows people for you based on keywords, your followers, locals and other things like #followfriday. It’s a Twitter “gaming” tool and probably shouldn’t be used.
- Twitter Twerp Scan – checks the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those. If the person is following more than (n) people (can be customised), and has a followers-to-following ratio higher than 1:(m) (can be customised)
- TwitterFriends – Shows you stats about your “network”. Who you converse with on Twitter. Visual stats broken down in a few different ways.
- TwitterSnooze – Let’s you put a Twitter user on “snooze” or…not follow them for a few days.
- Twtrfrnd – A way to see common followers between two Twitter users
- twubble – Another Twitter suggestion tool. This one requires you to give your Twitter credentials.
- we follow – we follow is a directory for Twitter. It tags each user for better searching of the directory.
- Who Should I Follow? – Suggests users for you to Follow on Twitter
- Twiffid – Twiffid shows you the headlines of the websites your Twitter friends have listed in their profiles
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Tools | Followers and Search
- Twalala – you can filter tweets out of your stream by keywords and phrases or mute individuals who get a bit too chatty.
- Tweet Pro 2.0 – Tweet Pro enables you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who are interested in your products or services by allowing you to search through posted messages and profile information.
- TweetSearch – Search the bio’s of Twitter users given a keyword you specify. Or, give a Twitter user and pull up all their followers with bio’s.
- twitter hawk – TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that will find people talking on twitter now by your chosen topic and location
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Tools | Followers and Stats
- Top Twitter Friends – Shows people you converse with most often in a neat little graph. Also gives you suggested people to follow based on other people you follow.
- twInfluence – twInfluence is a simple tool for measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.
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Tools | Links
- bit.ly – URL shortener with stats
- is.gd – URL shortener. The FireFox plugin for this tool is awesome.
- MicroPlaza – MicroPlaza looks at your Twitter network and displays all the links shared by the people you follow with associated tweets.
- TinyURL – URL shortener
- Tweetburner – Shorten URL’s and tracks clicks.
- Twit this – A URL sharing service for Twitter
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Tools | Links and Search
- backtweets – lets you search for links on Twitter and tells you who tweeted the links.
- OneRiot – OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages
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Tools | Links and Trends
- Re:Tweetist – Tracks and ranks URL’s posted on Twitter. You can retweet URL’s you like in a Digg-like format.
- repeets – Tracks the ‘hottest’ retweeted links on Twitter.
- Tweetmeme – View popular links on Twitter sorted into categories. Retweet links you like. Kind of like a Digg for twitter links.
- twitt(url)y – Tracks and ranks URL’s posted on Twitter. You can retweet URL’s you like in a Digg-like format.
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Tools | Location
- brightkite – Brightkite is a service that allows you to post your location as well as share posts and photos. The service can also post to your Twitter account.
- loopt – Loopt shows users where friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones.
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Tools | Plugins
- PowerTwitter – PowerTwitter is an addon for FireFox that extends the Twitter website. Including: search and recent searches, search scoped to a specific user, status history peeking on mouseover, Facebook status updates, inline YouTube, Flickr, TwitPic, Google Maps, song.ly, and more, url expansion, url translation to page titles, open web update (news feed) mapping, custom settings, @mentions, photo uploading, link shrinking, #hashtags
- Twinbox – A plugin that turns your Outlook into a Twitter client.
- Twitter Keys – TwitterKeys is a small tool that provides you with a floating window with all several funny symbols you can use in Twitter. Like a star, heart, smiley’s, etc.
- headup – Headup is a Firefox add-on that helps you find cool content related to the stuff you’re interested in.
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Tools | Posting
- HelloTxt – HelloTxt lets you update your status and read your friends’ status across all main microblogging and social networks all at once.
- Ping.fm – Ping.fm is a service that allows you to post one message to a variety of different social networks all at the same time. It saves you time from going to each one to post.
- Plodt – Let’s you track tweets that you tag. Rate things when you tweet and Plodt will track them for you. Like a star rating system for Twitter.
- Tweet Later – A tool for scheduling and posting tweets in the future. Also has an autofollow feature.
- twitter Mail – lets you post to Twitter by giving you a unique email address. They post your tweet on your behalf when you send an email to the address they give you.
- twitterfeed – Twitterfeed servers will check your blog’s feed at the specified interval and post any new items to your specified service (Twitter, identi.ca, HelloTxt or Ping.fm
- twitzu – twitzu is a service that allows you to post events to Twitter. Users can respond and let you know if they plan on attending or not.
- Twuffer – Allows you to schedule Tweets
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Tools | Replies
- TwitAps Replies – Get Twitter replies sent directly to your Inbox without supplying your Twitter password.
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Tools | Search
- monitter – Monitor lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.
- Tweetbeep – Sends you emails of given search terms directly to your email address.
- TweetGrid – Lets you monitor a number of different search terms on a single page.
- Tweetscan – A Twitter search engine
- twilert – lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing any keyword search you give.
- Twitter Search – Official search engine for Twitter
- TwitterLocal – TwitterLocal is an Adobe AIR based application that allows you to filter Tweets by location.
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Tools | Search and Trends
- #hashtags – Shows you popular hashtags that are on Twitter right now as well as a graph for each one with populatiry over time.
- Gamejabs – Any time you mention a team or player, tag it with a ! in front of the word and Gamejabs will filter it to the right page.
- Twazzup – Takes twitter search trends a step further showing you links, photos and featured tweets that relate to the topic.
- Twist – Shows you how popular a term is on Twitter. Type a term in the search box and Twist will tell you how often it’s been talked about in the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.
- twitority – Twitter search that will filter the results based on the users’ “authority”
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Tools | Stats
- TweetStats – Gives you stats of your Twitter usage: Your tweet numbers broken down by month, day of the week and hour of the day. Average daily and hourly tweets, as well as most replies to and interface used. It also gives you a cool tweet cloud.
- TwitGraph – TwitGraph will show you a few simple pie charts based on your Tweets.
- twittas – a cool stats site that lets you see stats about your tweets and your followers.
- Twitter Charts – Graphical representation of your Twitter usage by time of day and day of week. Also has a nice “reply explorer” to see your conversations.
- Twitter Counter – Stats about your followers, friends and updates over time. You can compare follower growth of two different users, get a badge that shows current number of followers and it gives you prediction of where you’ll be tomorrow and in 30 days.
- Twitter Grader – Gives you a “grade” (from 1 to 100) based on a special algorythm. Will also show you the top users in your area or total. Used to suggest users for you to follow as well.
- When Did you Join Twitter? – Simple. What date did you join Twitter
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Tools | Trends
- Favrd – FAVRD lists interesting things that show up on Twitter, based on the number of times an item has been declared a ‘favorite’.
- retweetrank – See how often your Tweets are retweeted by other Twitter users.
- TwitLinks – Posts the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.
- Twitscoop – Easily see what’s trending on Twitter in real time.
- Twopular – Looks for popular posts. Gives a list of popular Twitter terms for: now, last 2 hours, 8 hours, day, week, month and since they started the service (Dec 5, 2008).
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Tools | Video Sharing
- twiddeo – Twiddeo is a powerful but simple service that let’s you do one thing very well: Twitter updates with Video. Upload from the web, your cameraphone and record from your webcam.
