My Twitter Apps

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ChirpCity allows you to see who is tweeting from and about your city. It also shows a top user list for each city. The cities are arranged in alphabetical order and covers the U.S. and Canada. There is also a Firefox and IE7 browser plugin. ChirpCity is from Roberto Martinez and you can follow him @chirpcity .

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I have seen a lot of odd Twitter applications, and this one is right up there. TweetValue puts a dollar value on your Twitter profile. It seems to be an algorithm based on the number of tweets and the number of followers.

Fortunately, the application does not ask for your Twitter password. You can follow @tweetvalue on Twitter for more information.

Our team has found two Twitter applications that allow you to tweet music files (MP3). Songly lets you submit a link to an mp3 file, shortens it for you and lets them play it right in the browser. Songly also comes as a Firefox add-on.

TwittyTunes is a Firefox add-on from FoxyTunes that not only lets you share music, but websites and videos as well.

Twitoria allows you to see (at 100 people at a time) if all your friends (i.e. the ones you follow) are active on Twitter. It will tell you how long ago a friend has last tweeted. This is another simple application that only asks for your Twitter username.

On Twitter, you follow people in order to see what they are talking about. Often (but not always), they follow you back. There are no rules that you have to follow them back, and so FriendorFollow was born.

This application allows you to see who you follow that does not follow you back, your fans that follow you and you aren’t following, and those that follow you and you follow them.  These are tabs on the top of the page.

FriendorFollow  is another app that does not ask you for your Twitter password, just your name. When it is loading, you see a hand petting a rabbit. I also like the favicon at the top.

This is an excellent application that helps expand your Twitter experience.

People on Twitter (“Tweeple”) are dealing with a massive phishing scam this weekend. Someone (or something) is sending out direct messages (DMs) telling people to click on a link for a funny blog. If you do click on this, the link leads to a fake website that then steals your Twitter password and name. Don’t Click On It!!!

If you were taken in by this link, be sure to change your password right away.

Many of the newer Twitter applications out there do not say what they are or even have an About page. Beware of these. If you cannot figure out what the application is for on their front page, RUN AWAY! This should also be a heads up to the developers. If you want people to use your application, tell us what it is and why it is useful on the first page!

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.