Twitter applications you must use
The online interface on twitter.com is pretty OK, but the existing third party applications transformed Twitter in the success story it is today. Mainly, because they make your twitting experience better and easier. In this article, I’m going to tell you a couple of words about what Twitter applications, tools an ad-dons I use on a daily bases and why.
TwitterFox – the best online application for Twitter
TwitterFox is a very useful Firefox extension (so if you use a different browser… though luck, you should migrate to FF 
). You will get you updates on a popup screen like in the picture bellow. It can be set to get the updates every couple of minutes. Also, you can send your twitts from this interface. The cool thing is that you can put the links you want in the message and TwitterFox will automatically transform them in a Tinyurl.
However, there are a couple of things not so cool. First, it only works on FF and also, you can’t follow discussions. Meaning you can’t see if a twitt came in reply to another and what was that another. I find this kind of lame, as i like to follow conversation threads on Twitter 
But still, this is the application I use daily for twitting.
TweetDeck - the best desktop interface
Tweetdeck is a Twitter desktop interface. It’s build on Adobe Air so it looks great and it works on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc.
It has a couple of cool features, like search and the ability to group your friends in clubs. You can display multiple columns with the things you want, like latest messages, your replies, messages from groups, direct messages received and sent, etc.
It’s pretty functional but I still prefer TwitterFox cause it’s simpler. Once you get lots of followers and engage in lots of conversations everyday, TweetDeck might become the better cause it is more customizable, but for now, I’ll stay with the browser solution.
An alternative to TweetDeck is Twirl.
Twitpic – share photos asap
Twipic is a web application that allows you to share photos from your phone on Twitter in the shortest possible time. All you need is an internet connection on your device.
Other cool Twitter applications are these:
- TweetStats – fins stats about your tweeting habits
- Whatsmytweetworth – how much is your tweet worth
Of course, there are other applications i don’t yet use (I’m a Twitter addict for just a month now), so please feel free to share them with me via a comment 
Next post will be about the purpose of using Twitter.
thanks for the great post i’m going to check these out i’m not so savy in using twitter but i’m going to have to learn than in the process learn to use these applications as well because it sounds like these are must have applications
Social bookmarks have evolved this days, don’t you think. I think it is great that they have pop-ups already. However, FF has a pop-up blocker. I think even if you allow it, it also will be too much of a hassle especially when you are surfing the net. However, I like the rest of the features like sharing photos and stuff.
I was wondering how to get a custom back ground built and uploaded on my twitter account?