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Tweetbacks – (yes another one) Twitter backgrounds

Tweetbacks (we did the same name earlier today, entirely different product) is a gallery of Twitter backgrounds for you to download and utilize.  You can also upload backgrounds if you have done something amazing, or even if it isn’t. There was some cool ones to see and the site is ad driven on the right.   … Continue reading

Tweetbacks – tracking tweets about a blog post

Tweetbacks is in beta (not to be confused with Tweetbacks the other site)  at the time of this writing.  The creator explains it like this: They work kind of like trackbacks, but instead of listing blogs linking to a specific post, it lists Tweets about a specific post.  It currently finds mentions of the URL … Continue reading

TweetGenius – a Blackberry Twitter client (not free)

TweetGenius for Blackberry touts itself as Twitter made easy on the Blackberry devices.  It sounds promising from their own description and they have some serious competition that is free. We integrated a revolutionary UI with fantastic user-orientated features like the ability to compose a new tweet, start a new search, and view tracked items from … Continue reading

TwitMapr – locate users in your area and put yourself on the map

TwitMapr is a simple Google mashup that shows the location of Twitterers so you can easily find and add people in particular areas.  While other sites do this also, they just took the twist of showing it as pinpoints on a map.  You can also enter your own name to be added to the map … Continue reading

Twittas – your collection of fun Twitter tools

Twittas has quite the collections of fun Twitter tools to play with.  I went in and tested most of the following.  Seeing the projection of when you hit 1,000,000 followers is eye opening.  So here is the list: firsttweet – self explanatory, see what the first tweet was from anyone wastedtime – see how much … Continue reading

Mixero – the new Twitter client to beat (with 50 invite codes)

Mixero didn’t just come running out of the gates based on Adobe Air, it came out with a plan to beat the other clients.  I will have a screencast available also showing off what you can do.  The slogan of Mixero is Reducing the Noise and they are well on their way. Channels Filters groups … Continue reading

geofollow – location based Twitter directory

On first look, the UI for geofollow is not all that eye pleasing for some reason, but they are spirited in making money.  You are allowed to pay to get yourself or city listed prominently on the site.  That is the first thing I noticed. At the top you are prompted to log into Twitter … Continue reading

Twitster – putting Twitter groups on your website

Twitster is a PHP application for your webserver that allows you to do some cool hashtag or group following and then display it on any website/server that supports PHP. I have a conference ID set up that we use each year to rebroadcast to everyone that follows it, but this is a new implementation idea … Continue reading

Filetwt – file sharing on Twitter

Filetwt (really going for no vowels) allows you to upload a file no more than 20MB and send it out via a tweet.  A simple way to do both public and private tweets with file attachments done for you.  You can also create friend lists for easier bulk sharing notifications. You need to create a … Continue reading

StumbleTweets – stumble upon recent links in tweets

StumbleTweets only looks at tweets the last 6 hours that contains links and then sends you right to them.  You can limit what you get by using terms such as TwitPic or Blip.Fm to get only those. Once it finds them you can esily retweet.  Basically this takes finding the best retweeted and reverses it … Continue reading