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HelloTxt is a service that lets you fill out a quick form and post the same update to several popular “micro blogging” service like Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and more. Just enter your message, your login details, and boom, send to as many of the services as you want. Slick. The look and feel of the site is very hip and “web 2.0″, though I hate even saying those words. I’d love to see an API for this site, though you could do the same thing yourself with the APIs for the services that have them and cURL for those that don’t. Very cool service though.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, HelloTxt, Jaiku, Tumblr

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

There have been a few search based mashups with Twitter popping up. While Twitter had a “Find & Follow” feature, it’s just not as good as some of the others around, including TwitDir. Just type in a name (or part of one) and it’ll find all the matching results showing you their pictures, locations, about info, last up and some twitter stats (following, followers, favorites, updates) and if they are in the top 100 for those. Overall, very slick. Check out the search results for my name Chrispian or go more broad and check out Chris, for example. Nice work.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Directory, TwitDir

Most of my friends spend work on the Internet and always have their email open. Most of them are also what I would call “power” users and want to load only as many apps as necessary to save precious system resources. Since they are already in email, being able to send and receive tweets via email would be pretty slick indeed. OutTwit offers that ability to people who use Microsoft Outlook. The screenshots look great and I like the idea of organizing tweets using an email client. It’s something people are used to doing already anyway. The only complaint I’ve seen is for people who follow a ton of folks. They end up with a ton of extra emails! I’m sure a few settings tweeks and a rule/filter should reduce the clutter. Looks like a pretty solid twitter client.

via Nicki!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Client, Outlook, OutTwit

TweeterBoard is a pretty new service that attempts to track the top 100 folks on Twitter. You can view the top 100, who’s popular today, this week, all time and who’s using the @ the most, along with a who’s gaining list. TweeterBoard’s about section says they are tracking about 2600 people at the moment and hopefully they’ll get it so they are tracking everyone. Now that I have a list of the top 100, I know who to add to my ‘following’ and try to get them to follow me so I can make the cut! ;)

For more info, ReadWriteWeb has a great post up on TweeterBoard.

h/t to Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, TweeterBoard

Try to say that 3 times fast. Jesse has released a perl script that will let you auto-follow anyone who’s following you on Twitter. Pretty cool little tool. Seems there are more than a few requests to have Twitter automatically do this. Go grab the script.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, Auto Follow, Perl, Net::Twitter

Just got a tip to a sweet little mashup idea - Tweet Mobile: Ask questions via Twitter and get real humans answer them. Tweet Mobile hooks you into Mosio, the source for the Q&A. Check out Mosio’s Tweet Mobile Q&A page to learn how to use the service (easy, just use Twitter!) or follow them on Twitter, of course.

Thanks Noel, who worked on the project for the tip!

TwitterPoster is a clever visual mashup that shows you a virtual “poster” of who has more influence on Twitter. This is a pretty useful tool from a marketing perspective: now I know exactly which Twitter users to focus on making my friends ;) You can also view posters for specific countries like USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, China etc.

h/t: Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, TwitterPoster, Twitter Mashup

TwitterWhere is a very clever way to follow tweets by location. People like to call it “follow twitter anywhere”, but I can already do that. What they mean is follow tweets from a certain geographical location. You can enter in your zip and a range (in miles) to follow. This is a very cool way to follow what’s going on right where you are. It’s kind of neat to follow the tweets from my home town but I could see this being very useful if you were out of town and looking for something to get into. Very nice.

via Read/Write Web by way of Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, TwitterWhere, Mashups

Digital Streets reports that OutTwit will let you update Twitter from Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007. While I like the idea of being able to Twitter from every application, I’m not sure we actually need that level of access to Twitter. However, for those who live in their email clients, I can see the benefit.

h/t: Nicki!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, OutTwit, Microsoft Outlook