February 9, 2010 • 9:47 am
Dynamic Tweets offers a tweet deferral service like a few others we have reviewed. It works well scheduling out tweets for reminders and marketing as the website shows. Also, if you have something important to say in the middle of the night, when not many would see it in the great stream that is twitter, having it set to publish during normal hours just makes sense.
You do have to register for the service, but I wish they had implemented oAuth already. This means you will create an account with them and then give your Twitter credentials over to them as well. I always think the worst and I am not saying they would use it harmfully.
Now they do most of the end user service for free, with a fremium model for professional and corporate users. The full chart can be found right here. Such things as sending predefined tweets based on keywords is saved for money paying customers. Multiple Twitter accounts are available to any level though.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , scheduling
February 8, 2010 • 10:53 am
Tweetz.TV creates a tv playlist from video links that are shared on Twitter. Using oAuth, you log in to the service and are presented with a few choices:
- A public channel showing all video links
- My Tv which shows video links from those you follow
- Search TV which allows you to look for particular products
Once logged in, the video viewer is on the left and you change between views on the right. Quite an interesting and fast way to keep up to date on videos from the Twitter stream.
Currently they only support YouTube, but I didn’t want to mention that early on since they are trying to add Vimeo and DailyMotion at this time.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , video, YouTube
February 4, 2010 • 1:43 pm
Buzzbird was primarily developed for and on Mac but is available for Windows and Linux. It is not a complicated client with a streamlined interface and not too many features.
Multiple accounts, the number of unreads and other features are included up to this point. Scrolling back it is almost a year old and each point release makes some huge leaps in fixes and enhancements. A client to keep an eye on for sure.
Filed under: Linux, Mac, PC
TweetRad.io is an interesting idea. They grab the hottest topics, using text to speech technology, and make an audio stream from it.
Ok at first I was not so sure, but damn. I clicked the tech channel and it started reading out tweets saying things like “Mashable says …. <tweet here>” removing the links. Quite awesome as background noise full of information.
I really like this service for some reason!! I then noticed I can type in any username strings in the search. I did some friends and the radio starts like it is scanning stations. Static, partial words, etc. This is when the text to speech must be working. Soon enough it was reading tweets from those people.
While there was a lag there, it was a great way to have it catch me up while I read other things. Protected streams cannot be read of course and there is no authentication required to use the service.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , audio, radio
February 3, 2010 • 9:25 am
Tawidget allows you to sign in with your Twitter id and create widgets of events to 
share across websites, blogs and more.
You can control everything about the widget including size, color and number of events to show. This is all hooked to Taweet, which is where you sign in actually. The event is given a short URL for people to look at. From there you simply copy and paste the code. We will make Taweet an alternate entry because it offers so much more.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , calendar, events
February 1, 2010 • 2:15 pm
It seems everyone needs to know what their Twitter account is worth, even with recent articles showing low eBay values. The site WhatsMyTwitterAccountWorth is just like one we profiled previously, TweetValue, and really is an abstract number they somehow make up..
For this service, simply enter your Twitter username into the only field that shows and back comes the value. The bottom of the page shows recent lookups and top values for specific accounts.
We would beg to differ that the actual account is worth the interaction it has, not the number of followers. After getting your worth, you can then send the results to Twitter, Facebook and more. Have some fun, look yourself up and don’t be disappointed that Ashton seems to be worth more in twitter and real life.
Filed under: Add-on Tools , value, worth
