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Desktop apps

Windows

feedalizr - A free deskptop application that allows you to view, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing online. Tweet, upload pics to Flickr, keep up to date with your friends' Google Reader, Digg, Tumblr, YouTube and Last.fm posts on Friendfeed. Use unique filters to reduce the noise. Duplications are filtered out. -- by MIH SWAT
Yakkle! - A free application that integrates together a twitter client, IM client, multi-user voice conferencing, and group desktop sharing services. -- by ZenViva
Digsby - A multiprotocol IM client that lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. For IM, it brings all your buddies into one merged contact list with support for AIM, MSN, Facebook Chat, Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber. For email, it offers notifications of new emails with message previews, as well as, the ability to perform actions such as "Mark as Read" and "Delete" right from the notification with support for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, POP, and IMAP. For social networks, it provides a newsfeed of events on the network and the ability to set status with support for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.
L0K8 - a tiny app that auto-updates your Twitter location when you move from place to place. Written by the founder of PBwiki, David Weekly.
sociagami -- sociagami allows you to manage your multiple social network statuses from one beautiful Windows application. sociagami currently supports Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter status.
(http://www.twitterlights.com)- The easiest way to highlight web snippets and Twitter them. i-Lighter+Twitter=Twitterlights! and it's free!
OutTwit - OutTwit (Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit) Use Twitter from Outlook.
TwitBOX - The *BEST* Twitter Windows Client out there.
Togi Twitter Client (Update) -- Togi is developed on .NET 2.0 with C# and is a open source software by Oguzhan
Twitterlicious -- Twitterlicious is a small app that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss. Best of all, *Twitterlicious is free*!
Twitterlights -- Twitterlights is an integrated feature of i-Lighter 2.1 allowing one-click tweeting and content saving with your mouse -- all free!
Pwytter - Free open source Twitter client written in Python by PJ Coudert. User Interface in 14 languages.
TwittMe! - A new Twitter Windows Client 1.0.4. Updates itself directly without user input, keeping it always as bug free as possible. Will open source it when client it's more feature complete.
TeleTwitter - A Windows Twitter application that tries hard to be simple and beautiful, like it's web 2.0 name sake.
Twitter Gadget - A Windows Vista Desktop Sidebar Gadget that helps you keep track of all the sweet tweets! Fetches tweets from twitter.com and updates them every 10 seconds.
Twitter-Sync (Yahoo Messenger Plugin) - Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more... -- by WackyB.
Twitter Desktop - A How-To for making TwitterVision your desktop background, watch live tweets while working.(not an app)
TwittIt - A system tray application for easy posting to Twitter by Denis Briel
Twitter CLI - Easy to use Command Line Interface allows submitting tweets to Twitter from the Windows CMD Prompt or 'Run' box -- by Jason Fowler.
KlipFolio - World's smallest personal dashboard to track Twitter Updates, with instant notifications.
TwitterYM - a tiny ruby script that updates your Yahoo Messenger status with your latest Twitter one (requires Windows and Ruby) - by Alex Brie
Twadget - A Windows Vista sidebar gadget by Rod Begbie
TwApp! for Windows -- by Harper Reed (Requires .NET 2.0)
TWTSUB14.zip Twitter Submitter W32 1.4 now available. For Windows 95/98/2k/XP (tested) Submit Twitterings to Twitter.com without using a web browser! Submit Private messages as well! (D username message)Kenneth Udut (simplify3@aol.com)
twtview.zip | Twtview 1.4 NEW FEATURES: 'pm' lets you see your private messages, 'u twittername' will show any public users homepage. (Jan 27 07). For Win32. View all public timelines and personal timeline without needing web browser. Can be used at the same time as Twitter Submitter W32 to instantly see your submissions. Kenneth Udut
Twitteroo 1.4 for Windows released on 13 March 07 (by RareEdge Design Group) - *new* features include font resizing, transparency, sound notifications, built-in URL shortening. Programmable API!
Twidget for Konfabulator/ Yahoo! Widgets Post from your desktop.
Twessenger -- a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Sets your personal message to your latest tweet! -- by Kunal Kundaje
Visual Twit -- a simple Twitter posting client for Windows -- by Andy
triQQr -- Twitter Client for Windows v0.2 with posting, profiles, direct messages and link to homepage of user
Chirrup -- a simple Windows client for Japanese
Twitterbox -- Twitter client for Windows made with beon widget technology.
MadTwitter -- a clon of Twitterrific for Windows which doesn't require .NET -- by Sacha Fuentes
Flotzam -- A Mash Up of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs, completely configurable -- by Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin
Twit4Live -- A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger
Witty -- A Twitter client for Windows Vista and XP powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Alan Le
QckTwit -- A simple Twitter app that you can activate anytime by Shift+Alt+T and it would pop up presenting a text box to enter your update quickly. As soon as you press Ctrl+Enter, it will send update to Twitter and get out of your way. Separate box for URL. If your message exceeds Twitter's limit then it will automatically break it down in multiple twits and color those extra chars differently. Open source, requires .Net 3.5 -- by Shital Shah
JabberTwitterBridge -- Java application to update Twitters, Jabber's status (google talk gtalk) and Google calendar together (for example : In a meeting until 15h12) (Twitter to google talk, google talk to twitter, google calendar to google talk and google calendar to twitter) MrCba
Threeter Open source Twitter client that makes updating your status easy as 1-2-3: press the hotkey combination, enter your message, press Enter. Easy and really fast, worth a try :-) by Devv

Mac

Twitter from TextMate - A simple little script that allows you to tweet from TextMate with a GUI Dialog popup.
Pwytter - The free open source Twitter client written in Python now packaged as an App
Celly. OS X. The original Twittergotchi as a downloadable app by Chris Messina
Chirp 2.0. OS X. Dashboard Widget by Warm Chocolate and Ampersand Software.
Twidget. OS X. Twitter Dashboard by Aquabox
Twitgit. OS X. Dashboard Widget by Ben Ward (See also Wiki Page)
Robin. OS X Dashboard Widget by SimplyExcited.
TwitterPost. OS X. Desktop app by Maury McCown
Twitterrific. OS X. Desktop app by Iconfactory (See also Wiki page)

Twittereze SIMBL extension for Twitterific by Sören Kuklau

Chitter. OS X. Plug-in for iChat by ROFL Software
Twitterlex. Dashboard Widget by Brett Taylor
TikiTwit . Updates your Twitter status when you change your iChat status.
Twitteromatic. OS X. Send out current weather, iTunes track, secret word of the day, this day in history, uptime and current IP.twitter zone
iChat Status to Twitter. Applescript that pushes your iChat status, including iTunes current song by WT Leroux
iTunes to Twitter. Applescript that pushes out your iTunes current song by WT Leroux
TwitterPod. A Twitter app
Visionary Saver. A Mac OS X screen saver for Twittervision, Twittervision 3D, Flickrvision, and various others.
RAILhead Design. Wiki page. UPDATED TO v1.3.2 on 02-23-2007.
PhotoTwitter. This application allows you to take a Snapshot using your iSight and post the photo and your text on Twitter.
MoodBlast. Updates Twitter (and Facebook, Jaiku, Tumblr, Yappd, iChat, Adium, Skype) from a hotkey with extensive replacement strings.

Linux

ktwitter - A simple Twitter script for KDE.
twitter.el Twitter from Emacs!
twit.el Another Emacs client.
Vim Twitter Twitter from Vim!
gTwitter -- a Twitter client for Linux.
GtkTwitter -- a Twitter client for Linux and Windows which using GTK.
Twitbar -- a Twitter client for Gnome users to post from the Deskbar
twit net -- Twitter for Linux twit pdf-- Twitter client Linux
Twit and Wayd -- Two addons for Gnome Deskbar that allow posting updates to Twitter
BLT -- twitter meets the Bourne shell, with a hint of biff.
Twitux -- a Twitter client for the Gnome desktop. Features includes: gui-notifications, url tinyzer, and more..
ZenTwitter -- bash script which uses zenity and curl (could be launched from custom desktop/menu/panel icons)
mitter -- A very simple Python and pygtk client.
Gwibber -- an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg
KickTweet -- A very simple KDE Kicker panel applet.

Multi Platform

Tw-autocomplete - Firefox extension to add autocomplete on Twitter.com for @-messages and d-messages
Ear2Ground - An Adobe AIR application that provides live coverage of tweets in your geographic area! Optionally follow tweets on a specific topic in your area.
Yoono - Receive alerts, update your status or message your friends in your browser sidebar. No need to switch from one site to another or from your browser to a desktop app anymore. The perfect tool to become a twitter heavy user without spending hours on it. Yoono also integrates many other services : facebook, flickr, friendfeed, major IM services
Shareaholic for Firefox - easy and quick way to post URLs to Twitter from within your browser. Grand Prize winner of Extend Firefox 2, a Mozilla sponsored contest for the best Firefox addons.
TwitKit Integrate Twitter into your Firefox browsing experience.
TwitterBack Sync and befriend all of your followers.
Post to Twitter from Vim for Vim users.
Twitter Opera widget A widget for the Opera browser.
TTYtter An interactive text-mode Twitter client, with full background asynchronous updates, written in Perl 5. Requires curl or Lynx, but no additional Perl modules. Tested on Mac OS X, NetBSD, AIX and other Unix-like OSes. Includes full API and a "bot" daemon mode.
Nitwit, the cross-platform microblogging client for Twitter, Jaiku and other platforms including Jabber and IRC. Written in PHP-GTK.
Tweetr one of the best twitter desktop applications, drag and drop file transfer, send webcam photos instantly, view replies and direct messages, very clean user interface.
twitterAIR -- An AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) application built with Flex 3 that lets you view your friends and public timeline, post your status, and determine the auto-refresh interval.
Mugshot for Windows and Linux -- show friends' updates from your favorite services, including Twitter, on your desktop and the web
Spaz -- An attractive, powerful Twitter client for Windows and OS X using the AIR platform. Direct messaging, deleting tweets, user management, and powerful skinning/theming via CSS.
Twitterbot -- A simple bot written in C# (Mono/.NET) to reformat RSS feeds of news/sports/etc for Twitter
videotwit -- Transcoding digital-to-digital conversion from one video format to another
Twerp -- A simple command-line tool to post messages and download your friend's timeline. Python 2.4 or 2.5..
PhotoTwitter. This application allows you to take a Snapshot using your Webcam and post the photo and your text on Twitter. Initially written for Mac but could also work on other platforms. Please let me know about problems on non-Mac platforms.
Twitter4Skype -- Instructions on how to access your Twitter account in Skype. Developer here.
Tweeter -- A Java desktop client for Twitter a-la Twitteroo but with proxy support. Lets you update your status and follow the public/ 'with friends' timelines, view images on the timeline, add/ remove friends, send direct messages, notifications on friends timeline update, minor GUI customization. ( Built with the jTwitter API from ThinkTank )
Twinja AIR -- Twinja! A sleek black Twitter client built in Flash, running on AIR. Allows you to communicate with your Twitter friends directly from your desktop. Works on both Mac & PC.
Snitter -- lots of features with a great UI make this Twitter client stand out from the crowd. Built on AIR.
twhirl -- A multi-account Twitter desktop client based on AIR and Flex. Compact UI, keyboard shortcuts, many features like auto-connect, auto-refreshing tweets, sending updates, replies, direct messages and more
twibble -- A twitter desktop client with a clear UI. Supports multi accounts, iTunes like cover flow view and much more. Built on Adobe AIR for Mac and PC.
Posty - A microblogging application which allows to post the same message with one click to twitter, jaiku, pownce and tumblr. Posty also includes browsing of personal and public notes, plus the ability to post replies in Twitter and Pownce. Posty is an Adobe Air application which runs on Windows and MacOsx.
Twitch - A cross platform Twitter client written using Adobe Air. Twitch focusses on having a clean and simple user interface.
IdentiTwitch - A cross platform Twitter client written using Adobe Air. IdentiTwitch combines your updates from Identi.ca and Twitter into a single timeline. Post to one or both services at the same time.
Twitter in your Profile - Plugin for Pidgin that lets you put your Twitter history in your profile. It updates automatically.
Toro for Twitter - Multi-platform Twitter client with a clean interface and an experimental Twitter client library that removed API limits and caching. Refreshes every 20 seconds.
Omnivide -- Twitter Plugin - Omnivide is written in Java, so multi-platform. Only Mac OS X not supported due lack of Java 6. Twitter service provided via Plugin. Omnivide is a plugin powered program still in early stages of development.

Second Life

TwitterBox -- a Twitter client for Second Life.
SLTweets.com -- a Twitter HUD for Second Life, includes mapping, notes, research, SLURL logs. On or off modes.
TinySL.com -- a Second Life specific SLURL builder and long SLURL or Second Life compression too so Twitter users know the content is relevant or an in-world (metaverse) destination.
Squawk -- A Twitter client for Second Life. Also supports Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us and Jaiku. Integrates with Squawknest, a web component with user profiles, tagging and web maps.
Sl-Messenger.com - A global IM/twitter/diary service for Second Life.

Other

Twitter Submitter - NO FRILLS HTML by Kenneth Udut. 18 Lines of HTML, Easy to Grasp, Easy to Change. Requires Any Operating System. Requires Any Browser - even Lynx! Win3.1/9x/2k/XP/Vista Mac *nix. FREE and Public Domain. 2 Methods - Safer (manual login to Twitter API) & Unsafer (auto login to Twitter API)
Apollo Twitter Requires Adobe Apollo
VTwitter. Send messages to your Twitter account directly from Zimbra Webmail.

Web Apps

Search Engines

Green Tweets - Tracks tweets about green & environmental topics based on semantic natural language analysis rather than keyword
Tweet Scan - Search public Twitter posts in real-time from the page or using Firefox's search box. Find replies, track keywords, and sign up for daily/weekly email alerts.
Searching for Interesting Topics on Twitter - Search for comments and users that interst you. Great for finding people to connect with your personal interest.
Terraminds micro search - Search entire public timeline in realtime, fast & responsive! New: Twitter search API
Twellow.com: A People Directory - A directory of Twitter users categorized into hundreds of fields of interest. Allows user to login and categorize themselves.
TwitterTroll.com - Real-time Twitter search engine. Search through 1000s of indexed tweets everyday and find new friends.
Twitterment beta Combines Twitter apps with a search engine and graphing tools
TwitterSearch -- Full text searching for the recent Twitter zeitgeist, complete with toy dude-heads. A must! Also maps posts via Twittermap!
Top News Trends - Top News Trends combines google trends data with twitter search.
Twitter.FM -- Simple but multilingual full text search engine for Twitter, supports CJK, Arabec, etc. Country specified search is also provided in US.Twitter.FM, CA.Twitter.FM, UK,CN,JP,ES,TW,...more!
Twitterverse - a search and visualization project which mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period. Search Twitter by keyword.
TwitDir - A Twitter directory, no more. You are looking for someone, something? Just type a few words in the search engine. Enjoy!
MobiFeedLive.com Receive Keyword Based Email Alerts so you can see who is saying what about you... Also has Search, Link Metrics, and Trend Analysis...
Summize Twitter Search - Realtime twitter search with language restriction and threading built right in. Free API included.
Twitigg - See tweeted links Digg style.
Twubble -- Recommends new people to follow based upon your existing follows
WhoShouldiFollow? -- Recommends interesting people to follow based on your network, and supports searching for a location and adjusting for popularity.
picobuzz - Shows popular buzz words from the public timeline and who's sayin' them!
Intwition - Tracks what people are linking to and discussing on Twitter. Let's you lookup and find tweets about any site. Provides an RSS feed to track tweets about any site as well.
Twitter Blacklist - Collects IDs of Twitter "spammer" accounts, those that follow thousands of users at random, in hopes they'll reciprocate and open themselves up to direct-message access. Site offers an API, a Javascript bookmarklet for quick checking wither a given Twitter ID is a flagged spammer, and links to related resources such as a Greasemonkey script (for Firefox+Greasemonkey) that also auto-checks users against the blacklist.
twitter search -Twitter Search engine find through 1000s of indexed pages surf twitter
FuelFrog - Use Twitter to keep a log of your fuel and mileage. Compare your mileage with others in your area, or with the same car.
TweetBeep.com - Twitter Email Alerts - Like Google alerts, but for Twitter! Save keyword searches and link/domain searches and be alerted by email when someone on Twitter mentions it! Free service, by @mdjensen

Visual

Peercev - [pronounced as perceive] is intended for Twitter'ers who follow dozens of friends and colleagues. It allows you to create Instant Groups on the fly and see them all in a Snapshot!

Posting and Alerts

Twitter Weather - Twitter Weather lets you publish daily weather updates to the twitter user of your choice!
Twittertise - Twittertise allows you to schedule in advance and track the clickthroughs on tweets. Ideal for advertisers looking to measure effectiveness.
twiggit - twiggit is an automated service that lets your friends on twitter know what articles you digg.
Mobypicture - Mobypicture lets you share postings to your Twitter, Flickr, Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr, Hyves and Jaiku accounts from your mobile phone, email or from the web, including pictures, text and soon video and audio!
Joint Contact - Integrates online project management and Twitter. Allows users to send project related messages directly to Twitter. See printscreens at our blog or contact us.
TrackThis - Track your FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL packages using Twitter direct messages
SalesTwit - Contact management for Twitter. Load your electronic (gmail, yahoo!, outlook, mail) address book and get regular twits reminding you to contact folks. d msg back and leave notes about your contacts. {beta: use sign-up link at top and invite code: sttest}
Twitzer - Twitzer is a tool which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter. It can be used from within Twitter and no sign-ups or sign-ins required.
fitURL - fitURL creates short URLs just like tinyURL accept it fights spam by checking for spam URLs which makes it much more reliable!
twi8r - twi8r translates text message shorthand to English and vice versa and let's you post immediately to twitter. No sign-ups/sign-ins required. Works on mobile browsers also. {beta site – new features added every week}
TwitPic - Share photos on twitter.
TwitOrg - Twitter for organizations. Create / Manage / Join organizations with TwitOrg.
TwitPlan - Plan tweets.
LinkBunch - Put several URLs into one bunch, which is a compact URL that you can use in your tweet. Kinda like TinyURL, but for multiple links.
MessageDance - sign-up now - Send photos, videos, any file type from your email, YouTube, iPhone and Facebook to Twitter. You can create a blog post the same way with a tweet to Twitter as well. How Twitter integration works.
Tweet Scan - Get tweets emailed to you that match your keywords and phrases on a daily or weekly basis.
Twittermail.com - Send and recieve tweets via e-mail and has some other great features like tweeting in the future, and recieve replies updates in your mailbox!
MobiFeedLive.com Receive Keyword Based Email Alerts so you can see who is saying what about you... Also has Search, Link Metrics, and Trend Analysis...
EmailTwitter -- free Mail-to-Twitter gateway, lets users post Twitter updates and retrieve Twitter timelines via a cellular phone or other e-mail enabled mobile device without incurring SMS fees.
Tweetahead Dashboard Widget - allows you to schedule tweets into the future (homepage)
John Doe - the anonymous twitter user :)
LoudTwitter - Daily email you tweets at your email address. This is the exact contrary of Twittermail.
RetweetMe - Get reminder tweets with an easy to use natural language for specifying the time of the reminder @retweetme in 15 minutes; update your twitter status. Follow RetweetMe
SnapTweet - Posts your latest Flickr photos to Twitter! Very simple.
ProjectLocker - Sends Twitter direct message updates when a change happens in your Subversion repository.
tweetshots - tweetshots enables you to take a twitter tweet to tumblr or embed in other pages/blogs. tweetshots are tweet screenshots, automated.
Twitter Answers with @TweetAnswers - Ask questions and get answers with Tweet Answers! It's like Yahoo! Answers, but for Twitter. Simple to use: "@tweetanswers #topic Your question". Follow @tweetanswers for new questions, or go to TweetAnswers.com. By @mdjensen
LiveTwitting - Use LiveTwitting for your next conference, event, or meeting instead of liveblogging. Simple commands to turn recording on and off, all through Twitter! Learn how to use livetwitting or check out LiveTwitting events. By @mdjensen
BiggerTwitter - A service similar to Twitzer which allows you to post longer messages, although works by placing a link in the Tweet.
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