Tag Archives: Twitter

Twhirl – post to Twitter and others

 
twhirl.org  Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Inc. April 2008, San Francisco, CA

twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too. Plus, a lot of usability enhancements have been added. It is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of the features are:

  • connects to multiple Twitter, identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
  • shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd)
  • cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku
  • post images to TwitPic
  • search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan

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Twitpic – photos on Twitter

 twitpic.com Started early 2008, by Noah Everett, Tulsa OK

TwitPic  lets you share photos on Twitter. It is an online service that also allows you to post pictures from your phone, their api or thru the site itself. There are also other Twitter clients that have support for Twitpic.
Here is an example of a photo that I have posted on  my Twitter account: http://twitpic.com/8x6e

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Twitter Search

 

Twitter

http://search.twitter.com

Twitter now has the ability to search the posts. So you can See what the world is doing — right now.

Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.

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Twellow

 

Twellow is a great new search tool and directory for discovering Twitter users that could fundamentally change the way people use the microblogging service. 

This article is taken from www.twellow.com

The explosive growth of online social media has led to unprecedented opportunities for finding and connecting with people of experience and expertise in your areas of interest. However, sifting through the overwhelming volume of content and services in order to connect with people you want to find can be daunting and frustrating. Enter Twellow.com from the producers of WebProNews.
Twellow.com has been designed from the ground up to help you “cut through the clutter”. From the home at Twellow headquarters, they actively search and categorize millions of inter-personal exchanges available on the internet every day. Twellow.com is thereby able to assist you in finding real people who really matter. Twellow does the hard work of sifting out people who can help bring your vision to reality, whatever that vision might be.

Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the twitter.com microblogging service. They then analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific categories they help you narrow your searching into specific niches where you can find who you are looking for. In addition to Twitter, they’re actively working on adding more social media services to broaden your capacity to find people who matter.

 

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