My Twitter Apps

TweetBeep allows you to track a particular subject or mention of a website on Twitter. It will send you email updates when the topic or website you are following appears, even if a URL shortener has been used.

This service would be an excellent tool for companies that want to keep an eye on their brand, or for people researching a particular subject.

Twitter Alerts – TweetBeep.com.

A lot of questions are asked every day on Twitter ranging from the specific (what websites to use to book travel,  where to find program applications and tutorials) to the general (what’s the best place for dinner, what is a gerbil). Sometimes the questioner gets a direct answer, sometimes not. To help all of those in need, TweetBrain has appeared.

TweetBrain pulls out the questions from the tweetstream, and allows peeps to answer them directly in more than 140 characters. A link to the answer is then posted on Twitter, telling the person asking that an answer can be found and giving the URL. The FAQ on Tweetbrain is one of the best ones I have ever seen, explaining all the ins and outs of the application.

Tweetbrain is free to join, and anyone can answer questions. It provides an excellent way of sharing your expertise, and building your brand. I highly recommend this app.

Most of us still approach dating the old-fashioned way. We go to bars, Internet cafes, or events looking for the right partner, talk to people online, or just hang out at parties.

Now, there is a new way to find a date via Twitter! Radaroo lets you send a tweet stating all your needs and interests in 140 characters and will (apparently) hook you up with like-minded individuals. The challenge is to fit a dating profile into 140 characters. The site is still in Beta, so it may not have all the bugs worked out yet.

Twitter know lets you see what the trending topics are on your Twitter home page. However, many of us do not have a clue what these topics actually are.

What the Trend? to the rescue! This application (by Matt Mayer) explains what the topics are, when they started and the last time they were tweeted about. If you click on a trend, you can see the tweets, any news or photos (from Flickr) about the subject as well.

You can also follow @whatthetrend on Twitter.

Visible Tweets lets you see tweets as a tag cloud, animated, or as rotating letters. While it is very pretty, I do not really see the usefulness of it. Since Tweets are read, not audio, most of us can do the visulaization ourselves.  The tag cloud part might be useful if you are not sure what part of the tweet is a subject….

2Tweet allows you to send photos and videos to your Twitter, but t is not as simple as it sounds.  You email their server with your data and the first 113 characters of the subject become your tweet. The body of your text is put into the photo viewer. Then a tweet with a link to the pics shows up.

You can see the the number of visitors and ratings and comments on the link. 2Tweet creates a gallery of your pics on their server.  This app is good if you like to post a lot of photos and you want to keep track of them online.  – Louisanna6