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Great tools, apps, and services built around Twitter

May 7, 2010 • 10:00 am 0

tDash – a clean web client focusing on productivity

tDash was sent to us to check out, so we did as expected. Dug in to give you the review. For starters, they use oAuth for login and promise a clean, simple interface. URLs are automagically shortened and you can also share pictures. I was curious how the interface would look. The left side broke down to:

Lists
Folders
Trends
Friends

You can view a screenshot of the dashboard right here. Some alternate abilities were in the toolbar at the top including reordering how tweets showed and advanced tools like direct messaging. An unread count next to each friend name was also available to see how much they have tweeted recently. I am not sure how far back it goes or how it keeps track. Each users is treated as a folder, and you can mark a folder as read.

Selecting a folder also gives you info on the person and their avatar. Sharing a picture brought a pop-up window allowing you to browse to your local computer and place some description. Allowing me to grab URLs of pictures on the web would be cool too. The very bottom (scroll if you have lots of friends) shows the API usage and what tweets it is pulling in.

Ok, in summary then. A clean interface yes. Some unique features with the folder idea and read/unread. A killer web based client? No. A useful one in a pinch, yes. I know they are in early stages, so we will check back when they do more updates.

Filed under: Web Clients, web client

January 19, 2010 • 2:13 pm 1

TwinterFace: A Twitter Client For Managing Multiple Accounts

If you’re looking for an alternative to CoTweet, Twinterface should be your next stop. Managing multiple accounts for one brand can be a hassle that Twinterface solves. By enabling you to add subusers to your company’s Twitter account, Twinterface makes it easier to manage and navigate multiple accounts in one client.

We recommend Twinterface for small businesses and small business owners with a team of people managing Twitter points of contact. It features of most of the standard Twitter features. They also have a new user interface (UI) coming soon.

Filed under: Twitter Clients, Web Clients, multiple accounts, Twinterface, Twitter Clients, web client

September 29, 2009 • 12:00 pm 0

CoTweet: Twitter Is Your Second Inbox, Use Wisely

A lot of people have started to use Twitter as a new inbox. After all, you’re sending and receiving messages all day. The messages are short enough that you don’t really have to spend much time on them or thinking about them, but if you need them again the processing of pulling up the past can be a drag. Here is where we think CoTweet can help you.

CoTweet is a full-featured web client that enables you to do a lot including archiving just about all of your tweets. From multiple account management, conversation threading, and tweet scheduling, you get it all in one easy to use interface in CoTweet. Check out CoTweet’s feature list for a great set of features you probably never thought of using until now.

Filed under: Twitter Clients, Web Clients, cotweet, multiple accounts, scheduling, web client

September 11, 2009 • 7:15 am 0

FutureTweets: Schedule Your Tweets For Later

FutureTweets is pretty self-explanatory given the naming of the service. Using FutureTweets you can schedule a tweet for a later time and even schedule recurring tweets daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. The service also keeps an archive of your scheduled tweets and when new ones are due to be sent. FutureTweets has yet to implement the Twitter oAuth button for login so you’re required to set up an account with FutureTweets followed by manually entering your Twitter account information.

Filed under: Twitter Clients, Web Clients, futuretweets, scheduling, web client

September 10, 2009 • 1:17 pm 0

Twit Robot: An All-In-One Tweet Blaster

TwitRobot aims to make it easier for you to send out tweets without a headache on your time. Update your Twitter account with your latest blog post, or tweet a random article at any set interval from your site, schedule future tweets, automatic tweets, and more. Twit Robot puts a lot of power into the hands of users coupled with an easy to use interface.

Filed under: Twitter Clients, Uncategorized, Web Clients, scheduling, twitrobot, web client

August 31, 2009 • 3:14 pm 1

Brizzly: A Slick Web Client for Twitter

A beta web client for Twitter, Brizzly makes good use of the best Twitter features and puts them all in one location. From drafting new tweets, multiple Twitter account support, to on the fly notifications of new DMs, Saved searches, and Groups, Brizzly is a pretty powerful web client. You’ll enjoy a quick overview of the latest trending topics on Twitter along with a quick synopsis on what that trending topic is and why it might be trending.

Brizzly also supports inline video embeds and unravels those shortened links, to ensure they’re going to someplace safe. The interface is clean and refreshing, not at all flashy. This is one Twitter client you won’t regret getting your hands on.

Filed under: Web Clients, brizzly, web client

July 17, 2009 • 8:45 am 5

TweetSort – the final client for everyone’s needs?

TweetSort came out of the blue, well literally, as the client and website is blue. Here is their claim from the website, let’s see if it is true:

tweetsort takes all your favorite features from the vast range of applications and merges them into one simple, sleek, easy to use web application. Features Include:

* » Organize your friends into groups you can easily manage
* » Shorten links via tsort.us, bit.ly, TinyURL, tr.im, and more
* » Post videos via yFrog
* » Tweet songs to your Followers using GrooveShark
* » Post pictures via TweetPhoto, twitGoo, TwitPic, and others
* » Compress your tweets using TweetShrink
* » Stay up-to-date with auto-refreshing tweet stream
* » View your conversation threads
* » Save and view custom Twitter searches

You log in to TweetSort via oAuth, which worked fine one th second try. I know they were having issues here the other day, but I got in. Then you get quite the full dashboard. It pretty much allows you to do everything. They use the term “What’s going on?” in the area where you type your tweet. Below that is button to send pictures, videos or music. There is currently 7 choices for URL shortners built in, but I didn’t see the hook to enter MY bit.ly credentials.

The right panel has the normal links for mentions, directs and such. Then has areas for groups, searches (which can be saved), user lookups and recent trends. The whole middle portion is the stream of those you currently follow.

I performed a search and it added a new button above the stream (middle panel area) and allowed me to save that search for future usage. A nice touch. Now each tweet that you see comes with a few actions. The middle area will allow a maximum of 6 tabs to be active at any one time. Their FAQ covers this saying anything more looks ugly. I buy that. However, tabs are not currently saved at this time as they launch.

First thing, I did not like how light the colors were for the actions on the tweets. I hardly noticed them at first, even on a widescreen monitor. They do darken as you hover over them, but not nearly enough. I know they were going for clean UI, but my first impression was I couldn’t do anything. But once I noticed them I found the standard reply, direct and retweet. Added were actions to quickly add them to a group and search @replies.

Clicking on a username or avatar brings up their stream and information so you may choose to follow them. If they embed a URL in their tweet that uses a shortener service, you get a new action button that expands the URL. I found this later and liked it.

Lastly I went into account settings. I could enable sounds, my favorite URL shortener (once again no choice to use my account) and my favorite picture service (ditto on using my account). Real-time updates were disabled by default, but I imagine turning this on could really mess with your API limits. I found your API usage count does show in the upper right by the hour. Wow, you can use and burn fast if you run multiple clients updating quickly.

So what do I think?

I think they did many things right and are on their way to being the web client to beat. They offer a ton of features with a UI that is almost there. I have a few wish items, if they read this and take it as constructive only from seeing hundreds of clients now (great work so far guys!):

Have a collapsible section for the videos, pictures and music buttons. Give me more real estate on seeing my primary stream
Please allow multiple Twitter accounts somehow. It is becoming mandatory for some people that have multiple ones for different reasons
Darken the tools/actions for each tweet to make them easier to see. You made them good and tiny but so light I almost missed them
Move my last tweet from right under in a big block to maybe the side in it’s own that collapses
Make the side blocks resortable or collapsible. I might want to see more searches and not the look-up box or maybe my groups are all that is important
I also caught some iPhone looking code and wonder if they are going to make this a mobile app also

I know I will come across a few more while working with the client, but beware everyone. A new web client has arrived.

Filed under: Web Clients, pictures, URL_shorteners, video, web client

May 22, 2009 • 8:11 am 2

TwitHive – a fully interactive web client

TwitHive is from the makers of TwitIQ we entered yesterday with good reviews. So I had hopes already for this one. Right away they start strong by using OAuth to authenticate you. Since it is all web based, there is nothing to install for the feature set they list:

Create real time channels based on filters
user groupings
keywords to monitor relevant trends and interesting conversations.

Use powerful Twitter tools to send Tweets and manage your Twitter contacts across multiple Twitter accounts

I went ahead and gave it a test run. Maybe my machine was busy or something else but I couldnt get it to load right in Firefox. I tried on 2 machines, same result. I was able to get the pop-ups for multiple account management, new channels and making a tweet to work, but no main UI,

You will notice that the first impression is a web based TweetDeck from the pictures. I will try Safari and Explorer to see what we get.

Filed under: Web Clients, web client