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Twitter has been described as “micro blogging” for some time now, and blogging has always felt a bit like navel gazing to me. So by that logic Twitter would be Micro Navel Gazing (TM). Enter Twitter Stats, The Atomic Navel Gazer!

All joking aside, Twitter Stats looks pretty slick. It’s written perl, which is the only complaint I have about it. Don’t get me wrong, perl is a great language, I just don’t like it! Twitter Stats should run on any system that supports perl and the modules required for this script. It looks like it was developed on a Mac, but any nix computer and probably windows with perl on it should work. Damon (the author) suggested a web create a web service out of this, which I think is a great idea. So much so, I checked to see if TwitterStats.com was available and it’s already registered. Hopefully to Damon, but the whois info is private so it’s hard to say.

via Nicki via Download Squad

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Stats, Mashups

Linux users, specifically those using the Gnome desktop have another option for a Twitter Clienter: Twitux. The software seems to have the usual Twitter features and looks clean and solid. Any linux users tried it yet? What do you think? I’ll try to get it setup on my dev box and try it out.

via Phorolinux.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Linux, Gnome, Twitux

TTYtter for Perl looks like a very promising command line client for interacting with Twitter. Unlike previous CLI clients, this one is interactive and sends / receives tweets in real time. But the feature I look forward to with this client is the built in API to create your own Twitter bots. I’ve had a few ideas of my own for Twitter bots and this could seriously speed up development. Well worth checking out!

h/t: Cameron

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Client, TTYtter, Perl

Pwytter is a multi-platform Twitter Client written in Python and tklnter. It’s still early, but looks like it’s off to a great start. I like the idea of anything written in a language like Python because it’s what I do for a living ;)

h/t: Pierre-jean Coudert - Thanks!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Clients, Pwytter

Binny over at Bin Blog has a nice little hack for sending tweets via command line. Anyone running a fairly standard *nix or LAMP setup should have everything you need to do this. Binny is also looking at using Twitter as a time tracking tool and has a nice way to Twitter Offline, or more like store your tweets locally. It’s giving me some ideas! Personally, I want to setup a private twitter account to use as a “note to self” because it’s just so easy to send my notes to. I send myself email notes all the time and if I had one place to “not to self” that was this easy I’d be very happy.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Command Line, Twitter Offline

I can’t leave my Linux pals out in the cold, though I know most of you are hardcore enough to use the command line tool I posted. But for those who long for a GUI wrapper for Linux, here you go! Head over to the Google code area and check out gtwitter.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Linux, gtwitter

After reading the Twitter with TextMate post over at Muffin Research Labs I decided to check out the blog. I’m always looking for good dev blogs and found another entry on Twitter that might be of interest to the more hardcore among us. I’m too lazy to be this hard core but I still think it’s pretty cool. Muffin has some slick python scripts for sending twitters via command line, if you are so inclined.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Command Line