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Tweenky – a microblogging web client

Tweenky hit the streets in popularity quick, while still in beta.  A good, clean web interface, that currently only runs on Firefox and iPhone!  Support for IE was stated as coming soon, as well as new microblogging services to be added.  Identi.ca is already in there. You simply enter your username and password (it needs … Continue reading

ToAnswer – a Twitter Mashup to get questions answered

Based on the premise of Yahoo Answers, the site ToAnswer offers an interface to Twitter to keep the questions and answers within 140 questions. You send a tweet to @ToAnswer (which eats into the 140 characters some) and then people respond.  Now the catch is that a question id number is assigned.  You must include … Continue reading

TweetRush – stats for Twitter volume

This site has been needed for some time to validate Twitter volume reports.  However, TweetRush is reporting lower than expected results.  So are they throttling TweetRush or is Twitter volume that low in reality? Items that are presented: You can even check your own volume You can see total tweets (private not included) for the … Continue reading

TwitterSafe – backup your Twitter info

Interestingly enough that this service comes out.  TwitterSafe will grab those you follow, your messages, replies, archives, etc and store them for you.  An option to save them locally in Excel format also exists. What I didn’t like is that they do ask for your Twitter username and password over plain HTTP and no SSL.  … Continue reading

TwitterWhere – GPS type location

Using OpenID to authenticate and log you in, this is a nice tool.  I did not try it mobile, but I would hope it works that way also.  It lets you select your lcoation on a map and then can send a Twitter message with your exact location in longitude and latitude. A cool tool … Continue reading

FloatTwitter –

This site is mainly in Japenese but the instructions are being shown in English also. Simply enter your Twitter name and it builds a view that floats your followers.  When you hover you get the description of the person and their recent tweet.  One cool item was that it does note if they are a … Continue reading

TweeTake – When you must have your info stored locally

If you can’t trust Twitter to actually restore all your followers, friends and whatever (such as seen in a recent outage), then TweeTake will help you suck it all down into an Excel spreadsheet. The tool worked well and they bring up a couple good points after asking yourself, why in the heck would you … Continue reading

TweetPro – with a name like Pro it has to cost money

Well the title is correct, there is a pricing model around TweetPro from Soxialize.  The SearchEngineJournal already did a lengthy review of the product itself, so take a look there for screenshots and such. Tweet Pro allows you to quickly and easily find Twitter users who share your same interest by allowing you to search … Continue reading