My Twitter Apps

When people on Twitter reply to you (by using the @yourname in their post), you cannot see those posts on the website unless you click on the “@Replies” bar on the right side of your Home page. That problem is now solved with Twply.

Twply will forward all your @Replies to your email inbox (the same email that you registered with Twitter). While it does solve one problem, you may end up with a full inbox if you are exceptionally prolific on Twitter.

Update: Twply has just been sold for $1,200 because their servers could not keep up with the number of people using the service. We will keep you updated on this.

Every time I think we have the final list of Twitter applications and services, more show up. My assistant is having a ball going through all of them and finding new ones.

Some, of course, are duplicates of each other, while others are down for maintenance (they claim). It all points to a fun 2009 for this blog. Happy New Year!

TwitterSnooze allows you to put someone (or a bunch of people) on hold. Instead of unfollowing them, you simply make it so you do not get their tweets for a specified period of time.

This may be useful if the people you are following are all at a conference that you are not very interested in. Apart from that, I really do not see any other uses for it.

Two problems with it, however. While you have a person on snooze, the server will store your Twitter password. A lot of people are not happy with this. The other problem is that when you take a person off snooze, they get a note telling them that you have taken them off snooze.  To deal with this, the people at TwitterSnooze have a card you can send to the person.

Lee Lefever has created an excellent video – Twitter in Plain English:

Twitter in Plain English

This blog is for all of those out there who keep hearing about all these wonderful Twitter tools and applications, but do not have the time to: 1) try them all out; or 2) are having problems understanding the technical descriptions of them.

I will be posting reviews from myself as a cybrarian and teacher of social media, AND from one of our team, who knows how to use the Internet and Facebook, but, up until this morning, refused to touch Twitter. The reviews will be written in straightforward, non-technical language.

Please feel free to comment on these reviews, suggest new tools, and new categories.