List of Twitter services and applications
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This is a list of notable Twitter services and applications. These various services and applications are designed to work with or enhance the microblogging
Microblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...

 service Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

. They are designed with various goals - many aim to improve Twitter's functionality while others set out to make the service more accessible, particularly from other devices. Some applications allow users to send messages (called tweets) directly while others give users the ability to create more complex tweets which they then have to manually post through Twitter itself.
Name Platform Notes
Bettween
Bettween
Bettween is a Twitter-based application that allows to track any conversation between two different users from Twitter by typing their respective user-names...

Website Tracks conversations/mentions between users on Twitter.
Brizzly
Brizzly
Brizzly is a third-party Twitter and Facebook interface, currently in beta. It was unveiled at one of TechCrunch's events in 2009.It allows you to create lists to organize followers, and has numerous other features, including showing the full in-line links from URL shortening services and showing...

Website
ChoqoK
ChoqoK
Choqok , stylised choqoK, is an open source microblogging client for KDE for social networking websites such as Twitter and Identica, with support for staying on system tray, and use system notifications to notify the user about updates....

KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 Desktop Environment
KDE Twitter and identi.ca
Identi.ca
identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification, Identi.ca allows users to send text updates up to 140 characters long...

 client.
Easy Chirp
Easy Chirp
Easy Chirp is a third-party web-based Twitter interface. It is a web-accessible application meaning that it's optimized for disabled users and users of assistive technology. Easy Chirp is also useful for those with older technologies such as Internet Explorer 6, low-band Internet connection, and...

Website Easy Chirp is a web-based Twitter application that is optimized for disabled users and users of assistive technology. It's useful for those with older technologies such as Internet Explorer 6, low-band Internet connection, and no JavaScript support. The simple interface is ideal for beginning Twitter and web users.
Favstar
Favstar
Favstar is an online service which tracks Twitter and Twitter usage. Favstar uses data from user "favorites" - or when a Twitter post is bookmarked by individual users. As posts, or tweets, are given more stars, specific posts move up in rankings according to different criteria, including recent...

Website Favstar is a website that tracks the number of favorites and retweets which each tweet receives from Twitter users.
feedalizr
Feedalizr
feedalizr is a cross-platform, desktop social media aggregator built using Adobe Integrated Runtime that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites...

Desktop application feedalizr is a cross-platform, desktop social media aggregator, including Twitter, built using Adobe AIR
Adobe Integrated Runtime
Adobe Integrated Runtime, also known as Adobe AIR, is a cross-platform runtime environment developed by Adobe Systems for building Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, and Ajax, that can be run as desktop applications or on mobile devices...

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fflick
Fflick
fflick was a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films based on information collected on Twitter the microblogging and social media service.-History:...

Website fflick is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s.
GamerDNA
GamerDNA
gamerDNA Inc. is a social media company for computer and video game players founded on 2006-09-21, acquired by Crispy Gamer in December 2009. The name is usually spelled with a lower case g: gamerDNA...

Website Track games being played by you, and automatically rebroadcast gameplay to Twitter.
Gwibber
Gwibber
Gwibber is a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop environment. It was created by Ryan Paul, a writer for Ars Technica. Gwibber is distributed under the GNU GPL license.It supports Linux and is written in Python using the PyGTK library...

GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 Desktop Environment
Twitter and identi.ca
Identi.ca
identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification, Identi.ca allows users to send text updates up to 140 characters long...

 client for Linux with GNOME.
HootSuite
HootSuite
HootSuite is a social media communications dashboard often used for online brand management. It publishes to websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, MySpace, and WordPress. It also publishes to Flickr, Tumblr, and YouTube via HootSuite Apps...

Client, website
ManageFlitter
ManageFlitter
ManageFlitter is a web-based application that assists Twitter users with their unfollower and general account management. It is also provides an easy way for users to integrate their Google+ account with their twitter account.-History:...

Website application A website application that assists Twitter users with unfollower management and general maintenance tasks.
Mixero
Mixero
Mixero is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter and Facebook client application . It replaces the conventional Twitter web interface and allows users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is compatible with the most popular desktop operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux...

iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

 and desktop application
A multilingual application created with Adobe AIR (for Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 platforms) which allows users to filter tweets and synchronise across multiple installations. Also supports Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

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NutshellMail
NutshellMail
NutshellMail is a social network aggregation service that allows users to manage and interact with updates from social networking services through a consolidated email digest. NutshellMail's mission according to its website is to keep users connected yet productive at the same time...

Website An application that allows users to send tweets, direct message, reply, retweet, follow and search Twitter from any email inbox.
Qapacity
Qapacity
Qapacity is a business-oriented social networking site and a business directory founded in March 2008 and launched in February 2009. Users are given a set of tools to promote their business online, to keep their clients and business partners up-to-date with their work and to reach new clients.-...

Website Allows Qapacity users to manually post updates to Twitter and to automatically update their followers when they add a new service, a new blog post, a service recommendation or when they update their portfolio.
PeopleBrowsr
PeopleBrowsr
PeopleBrowsr is a social media analytics company and the creator of Kred, a measurement of social influence. The company provides influence measurement, data mining, analytics, research, and brand engagement social campaign services....

Web application and desktop A data mining, analytics, and brand engagement service provider.
Seesmic
Seesmic
Seesmic is a suite of freeware web, mobile, and desktop applications which allow users to simultaneously manage user accounts for multiple social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter....

Web application, desktop application, Android, and BlackBerry
SimplyTweet
SimplyTweet
SimplyTweet is a client for Twitter, the social networking website. It runs on iPhone and iPod touch. It is one of the few Twitter clients that supports push notifications. It aims to be a full-featured application with a simple user interface....

iPhone Twitter client with support for Apple's push notification service.
Speak To Tweet
Speak To Tweet
Speak To Tweet or speak2tweet is a communications service which allows users to leave a tweet on Twitter by calling a designated international phone number and leaving a voice message...

Telephone
Telephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

Users phone a specific number and leave a voicemail
Voicemail
Voicemail is a computer based system that allows users and subscribers to exchange personal voice messages; to select and deliver voice information; and to process transactions relating to individuals, organizations, products and services, using an ordinary telephone...

; a tweet is automatically posted on Twitter with a link to the voice message stored on Google's SayNow.
Tween
Tween (software)
Tween is a Twitter client for Microsoft Windows, and written in Visual Basic .NET. It is one of the most popular Twitter clients in Japan, and it is Open Source.-Summary:...

Windows A Windows desktop application created with Visual Basic .NET.
TweetGlide
TweetGlide
TweetGlide is an Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter currently available for Windows and Macintosh/Mac users. Similar to TweetDeck, it interfaces with the Twitter API allowing people to track their followers, make tweets and send or receive direct messages...

Desktop application A desktop application for Windows and Mac built using Adobe AIR allowing users to track their followers, tweets and direct messages plus transfer targeted traffic onto their email lists via direct ad-space. TweetGlide also has a special feature whereby members can tweet over the 140 character limit. TweetGlide was released on October 28, 2009.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck
TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop application for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, and MySpace. Like other Twitter applications it interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles...

iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

, Android and desktop application
A desktop application created with Adobe AIR (only for the desktop version) which allows users to filter and group their own and others' tweets. The iPhone version was released on June 16, 2009.
Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Android, BlackBerry
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

, Windows Phone
Windows Phone
Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

, Google TV
Google TV
Google TV is a Smart TV platform from Google. It was announced on May 20, 2010, at Google’s Google I/O event and was co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech...

Official clients; allowing users to access and update multiple Twitter accounts at the same time.
TwitArt.com
TwitArt.com
TwitArt.com is a design company that sells custom Twitter backgrounds and avatars for commercial use. TwitArt.com designs backgrounds for both personal and business use and has designed the Twitter background for Quicken Loans.-History:...

Website A website where users can purchase custom Twitter backgrounds and avatars for their Twitter profile/account.
Twitdom
Twitdom
Twitdom is a Twitter applications directory service that lists and promotes Twitter applications. Twitdom was launched to promote apps written using the Twitter API and also to make it easier for Twitter users to find apps that they might like.-Background:...

Website An applications directory for Twitter with over 2000 applications making it easy to find a Twitter tool that fits your needs.
TwitPic
Twitpic
TwitPic is a website that allows users to easily post pictures to the Twitter microblogging and social media service. TwitPic is often used by citizen journalists to upload and distribute pictures in near real-time as an event is taking place.-History:...

Website A website where users can upload images to their Twitter feed.
Twitterfall
Twitterfall
Twitterfall is a UK-based website designed to allow users of the social networking site Twitter to view upcoming trends and patterns posted by users in the form of tweets...

iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

 and website
Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.
Twitterrific
Twitterrific
Twitterrific is a Mac OS X and iOS client for the social networking site Twitter. The client, created by The Iconfactory, lets users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.-Added value:...

iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

 and Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

An application allowing users to access Twitter and post tweets.
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