Barnowl
BarnOwl is a curses-based IM client forked from the ktools owl project. BarnOwl currently supports Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter and aims to be easily extensible and customizable through a Perl plugin interface.
One Thing Well
A weblog about simple, useful software.
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Posts tagged with twitter.
Photofon
Photofon for iPhone is the easiest way to browse photos from your Twitter timeline. We strip out all the boring stuff and just show you the tweets with photos!
A fun little app from the makers of Echofon.
Exquisite Tweets
Paste in the URL from a single tweet in a conversation to get a one-page thread you can share or save.
Via blech.
Shuu.sh
Shuush is… a web-based Twitter reader that displays the updates of the people you follow in relation to the frequency of their tweets. It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates.
Twitter RSS Feeds
This might be common knowledge, but it came as news to me: it’s still possible to subscribe to Twitter users via RSS.
Here, for example, is the @onethingwell feed:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/onethingwell.rss
Update: Reader Joe suggests a simpler solution:
If you use Google Reader, it’s even easier. You can add a twitter RSS feed using the add subscription button. For example, to add onethingwell, you’d just click add subscription and type in http://twitter.com/onethingwell
Earthquake is a Twitter terminal client with streaming API support.
tircd
tircd presents twitter as an irc channel. You can connect to tircd with any irc client, and twitter as if you were on irc.
Having tried pretty much every Twitter client on Linux, this looks pretty appealing.
ThinkUp
ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.
Update: Great technical and philosophical introductions to ThinkUp from Gina Trapani and Anil Dash. Also of note, the ThinkUp Launcher which gets the app up and running on Amazon EC2.
Echofon for Windows Beta
Arguably the best Twitter client for the Mac, iPhone and iPad hits Windows.
Tyrs is an ncurses-based Linux Twitter client that’s easy to customise and confgure.
See also:
Tweed. Read your favorite news, opinion and blog sites and sites recommended by people you follow on Twitter.
Tweed only shows you tweets containing links, and lets you skim through the linked pages at speed. Also supports Instapaper.
Hibari
Hibari is a powerful Mac Twitter app that blocks annoyances and reveals gems.
The ability to block tweets by keyword and temporarily mute garrulous users look particularly handy.
