Third-party Twitter Applications to Enhance Your Social Media Experience – Part 2
Saturday, August 21st, 2010Tlist is a Twitter user application. It is a Twitter directory where you can make a search based
on list topic names, create a list of your own and view the popular lists. Your followers or other users can join your list. You will be notified whenever some Twitter user applies for it. Approving the application is your sole decision. Tlist offers great use to round up the like-minded tweeters at one place.
PubliTweet is vital application to make your Twitter lists more useful. It provides an embed code that in fact presents your lists including the tweet text, headline, blurb and thumbnail of the content being shared in a stream. You can plant the code on your site. PubliTweet not only boosts the usefulness of your Twitter lists but also makes the tweets more shareable through Twitter and Facebook.
TwapperKeeper is an online application using which you can get some fundamental statistics on how a particular hashtag is performing on Twitter. This easy-to-use tool will get you a general overview. It allows you to create an archive of specific keywords, usernames and hashtags to be tracked. It displays the number of times a particular hashtag has been tweeted. It also lists in the archive the tweets that have recently been tracked.
With QuoteURL, it is possible to embed a stream of tweets into a post. Though Twitter gives a code to facilitate interactive tweet embedding, the code is not always suitable. QuoteURL is the best tool to serve the purpose of making embeddable tweets. Using the application, you can embed even a single tweet. It gives a nice, clean embeddable tweet with text of the tweet. It makes the tweets more useful.
Besides Twitter Places that Twitter has come up with for its users worldwide, there are many other sites to display location-based tweets. Local Twitter Trends showcase the tweets based on the trends that are on go in major cities of the world. Clicking on any city in the list on the left-hand side bar will give a pop-up of highly popular keywords and clicking on a specific keyword will show a list of tweets related to the keyword on the right-hand side. It gives you an easy access to the Twitter based conversation is a specific city of the globe. However, you had better have a go at Monitter to track tweets on specific topics. It displays the tweets from a specific location in a three-column format.
WeFollow is a Twitter directory developed by Kevin Rose who is the founder of Digg. This online Twitter directory focuses on the topics that are associated with the Twitter users. You can add yourself to the directory easily. You need to tweet out the hashtag to make your username searchable in the directory. The site lets you discover new users who you have your interests in common with. Plus, you can browse the categories of the site to see the top users.
Twellow is another Twitter directory with the “Twitter Yellow Pages” as its tagline. This directory is the best to search for popular Twitter users from the fields like food, home, garden, biotechnology and other industries. It is a highly useful search engine to access the Twitter search world.