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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

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

Got a cool tip today:

Hi Guys, we just rolled out a new Twitter Stack flash widget. Check it out.

The Twitter Stack is a cool way to display twitter messages in a 3D Space on MySpace, Facebook, or any other website. The widget is built using the ActionScript 3.0 Stack component. The experience of using the widget is like traveling through time! Anyhow, check it out and let us know what you think. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to post it all over the internet!

Advanced Flash Components offers a variety of cool flash widgets that are worth having a look at.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Widget

Jason Calacanis just posted about a new tool from Mahalo, currently in beta, that will let you post links to Mahalo, ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, tumblr, google and jaiku. I suspect more will come as well. I’ve been beta testing it for a week or so already, getting the inside scoop from Jason on Twitter. This is a pretty cool app and I suggest giving it a shot, especially for anyone who collects links like I do. It’ll save you a lot of time posting it to all the various social bookmarking sites. I’ve just started dabbling in submitting links to Mahalo but I’m liking the process pretty well. Unlike previous attempts at a human powered (directory), dmoz.org, Mahalo seems free of the corruption that plagues dmoz to this day, along with the weeks, or months it takes to wait to get denied.

Give the plugin a try here: Mahalo Follow.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Mahalo, Jaiku, del.ici.us, tumblr, ma.gnolia

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

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

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

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

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My pal Matt suggests Is Twitter Down. The site gives you a simple yes or no if the Twitter service is down or not. I usually do that by going to Twitter, but hey ;)

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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