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Twittershare lets mac users and web users upload files and share them via Twitter. While html links have worked for some time now, other features like emebedding video, sending files and other media have been limited. Third party apps like this one make it possible. These features are common among Twitter’s competitors like Pownce, but they lack the robust SMS capabilities that Twitter has. I don’t use the SMS that much and most of the updates I see are from pc/mac clients or the web. Sure, during events its nice to have the SMS, but would the advanced features make Twitter more useful for what people are using it for: sharing things they find on the web? Regardless, there’s not shortage of cool little helper apps like Twittershare, which looks like one of the best.

via ReadWritWeb

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, TwitterShare, Twitter Tools

There’s already plenty of sites snarfing down twitter feeds and providing search and other interested tools, but I think Twemes my be the first I’ve seen that tracks and organizes Tweets by topic, tag and meme. This could come in very handy when I’m looking for quotes or interesting bits on a subject I’m interested (most likely for blogging).

via Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twemes

You may remember a previous post about Twitter Stats where I highlighted Damon’s excellent script (and variations) that let you parse your Twitter Stats. One of the popular requests seemed to be a web based version, which Damon has now released. I took it for a spin and it worked great and I was surprised by the trends it produced.

Check out TweetStats for yourself. I’ve bookmarked it in my “twitter tools” collection.

via Damon

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Stats, Twitter Graphs, Twitter Tools

PBWiki is hosting an interesting project for Twitter called the Twitter Pack Project which groups twitter users into “packs” based on interests, locations, companies, events and more. The idea is to help Twitter users find other Twitter users who share the same interests as they do. One thing Twitter lacks is finding people in any meaningful way other than people you already know or by randomly clicking on friends of friends, which isn’t bad, but not the easiest way to find people who might be into the same stuff you are. Twitter Pack looks like a solid effort of making it possible to connect with others with similar interests.

via Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Pack Project

MoodBlast is a cool little menu bar app that lets you “blast” your “mood”, or, just a quick blurb, update, link, whatever, to most of the popular social and microblogging platforms including facebook, skype, ichat, jaiku, twitter, and more.

I like the idea of being able to send my updates to all my favorite places and having a light weight app to do that with is even better. Most of the apps that try this tend to try to do to much. This one is perfect for quickly “blasting” an update.

Check out MoodBlast

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, MoodBlast

Duncan left this tip today:

We are also developing some cool twitter features at viygo.com.

e.g http://www.viygo.com/twitter shows the current public timeline.

or

http://www.viygo.com/twitter/goldman shows a goldman’s most recent posts.

You can also embed these timelines on your own site or web page e.g.

http://duncanmeech.googlepages.com/twitterembeddedtimelines

Duncan’s tools are a great mashup, and I love the granular level at which you can view the Twitter timeline, including your own. It’s pretty slick.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, Mashup, Timeline

I’m sure you’ve seen me talk about wanting a client that manages most of my social network. Most of them have APIs, so why not? Finally, someone’s put together an IM style client that notifies you of updates, lets you manage friends, media, links, feeds… the whole ball of wax. Here is a video tour straight from 8hands, check this out:

The 8hands Video Tour from 8hands on Vimeo.

This is extremely cool. I’m installing it now

via download squaid via nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Clients, 8hands

Damon posted a comment on the Twitter Stats post where I pointed out his excellent perl script. Damon’s project also inspired a version of Twitter Stats Using Ruby and a Web Based version, which is pretty cool. He also mentions he’s wanting to get his up on the web too.

Quick reference to Damon’s original perl script.

Anyone seen a php one? If not, please don’t tell me I have to write it, or I just might!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Stats, Perl, Ruby

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