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Great tools, apps, and services built around Twitter

April 28, 2010 • 10:03 am 0

Muuter – need a temporary break from someone?

Muuter is a great tool to put a silencer on someone that is tweeting away at a conference you do not care about, or maybe some sports event. They make a good point of explaining if you unfollow someone, odds are you would forget to follow them back. Using this service gives you the needed break. They do the entire unfollow/follow action automated.

You are able to send a Direct Message to the service specifying who to silence and for how long. They utilize oAuth to engage the service and their actions do count towards your API usage. So beware of that. They do log every request they perform for you to review and act upon if necessary.

For a full FAQ see it here.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Follower Management , followers, follower_management, mute

April 21, 2010 • 11:25 am 0

UTweet – rock out to your Twitter stream

UTweet is a slick Adobe Flash site from the Uniqlo chain of clothing stores that really rocks. As in literally rocks. They use it as a tool in their social grid, but it is fun. You simply enter yours (or any) Twitter id or keywords and watch the show. I don’t want to spoil the surprise. This is not a daily client you would use, but more of a tool at an event or conference.

Their stores are apparently all over the world, I think I will use the locator to check one out if they are this hip.

Filed under: Add-on Tools , fun, music, stream

April 20, 2010 • 10:10 am 1

t.imo.im – chat service through Twitter

t.imo.im really doesn’t show you much on their homepage about how the service works, features or functions. This generally scares us. Really scares us. The main page simply asks you to do a few steps, with no indication of the outcome.

Log in securely to Twitter (oAuth)
Pick a follower or someone to chat with
Direct message them to start chatting

Well how in the heck does it work? Is this a slew of direct messages? Does it count against my API? I tried navigating to a help or about page, to no avail. Well I went ahead and used our test account.

The interface prompted me instantly to send a tweet, or not, that I was using the service and available to chat. The left side showed my status (normal chat stats with on, off busy and away), chat buddies and who I follow. The right side was my Twitter stream, including mentions and DM’s.

I could hover over any name on the left, get their recent tweet and see if they were online in the service and click to see their Twitter profile. Besides Reply and Retweet on the right timeline, a chat link was below each person also. Offering me the ability to invite them to chat. Once again I have to ask how much of your API this might use.

Interesting tool if you need a real chat service using your Twitter id’s and don’t want to share your other IM names or Skype. This might have enough need if people know about it.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Web Clients , chat, instant_message

April 8, 2010 • 12:25 pm 0

Joy.ly – add unicode characters to tweets

Joy.ly allows you to utilize their interface to send tweets with more unicode characters. The person reading the tweet will get a link and come back to joy.ly to see it all, so that was a bummer. A lot of it also rides on the fact that whatever client or machine the are using may not have all the fonts needed to enjoy the experience. Windows is a prime example. Mac will work great.

The choices are like the Lucky Charms of tweets. Arrows, actions, symbols and stars.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Web Clients , unicode

April 5, 2010 • 9:55 am 0

SleepingTime – find the sleeping time of Twitter users

We know when everyone usually tweets, so why not reverse engineer it and find when they sleep using SleepingTime. There is only one box to fill in, and that is the person’s Twitter id. No authentication is required so protected tweet streams will not be possible. Humorously this could also show when someone works and are not allowed to tweet as well.

You are presented with a clock showing the red areas that they tend not to tweet and it must be their normal sleep window. I am not sure how useful all of this is, unless you are looking for them to respond immediately.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Graphing Tools , sleep