Twitseeker allows you to search for keywords in people’s tweets. It does ask you for your login information for Twitter because it is using the Twitter API to search through the Tweetstream, but manages to forget it after a query is done.

Although the tool itself is still in the experimental stage, there are a lot of cool features. There are two types of searches, a simple one and an advanced one. The Simple search is just for a keyword or phrase. With the Advanced search, you can specify location, words or phrase, maximum number of pages to search and Twitterers to list, as well as deciding how many times a person has to be tweeting with the same term to qualify.

The default maximum number of pages is 10 and 25 people listed. In the list of peeps, if you mouse over the Twitter bird, you can see the person’s bio, the cloud shows a tag cloud for their tweets, and the circle shows if you are following them or they are following you. It also shows how many followers they have and the number of times they have tweeted on the topic.

Twitseeker appears to be using Twitinfluence to help it find the information. The only drawback I found was that if you click on the Twitterer’s name (which is a link to their profile page), the page comes up for a second, and then defaults to their background. I also discovered that the Simple Search is best when used with one word keywords. If you want a phrase, I suggest using the Advanced Search.

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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.

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.