OAuth

OAuth is Twitter's preferred method of third-party authentication. It allows you to grant any Twitter app access to your account without storing your password in the app's memory, instead storing a list of "allowed" apps on Twitter. Read the OAuth documentation for Twitter.

OAuth is not directly related to Twitter, and is used for third-party authentication all over the internet. See the OAuth website.

Tvider

Tvider is single-task web-based Twitter app for tweeting videos, images, and audio/voice from mobile devices or webcams. Tvider is available on all major mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, Java and BREW. For this review we tested the web app in OS X and Windows.

Tweetree

Tweetree is an alternative to the web interface at Twitter.com featuring expanded URLs and threaded conversations. Aside from those features, it sports a web interface whose primary difference from twitter.com is skin deep.

Tweetree handles all of the common Twitter streams & features like home, @ mentions, direct messages, and favorites. It has basic search and lets you save your common searches. It has a handy button for retweeting as well.

Readtwit

Readtwit is a web service that finds links in your Twitter stream and formats them as an RSS feed. You may be saying "hold on here, I can get an RSS feed of my tweets from Twitter.com" but Readtwit has some goodies that make it a worthwhile service.

RSS feed of Links

First of all, it only loads tweets with links in them. Tweets with no links will get skipped, so if you're not a fan of chatty banter, this will appeal to you.

GeoChirp

GeoChirp lets you keep track of people tweeting in any local region. This mashup was created by combining Google Maps and Twitter.

pic.im

pic.im is an image uploading service offering integration with tr.im and Nambu. All three are part of the Nambu Network, and as a result play nice together.

Multiple Apps Help each Other

You can download the pic.im app to upload pictures on your iPhone. You can just as easily share images from your desktop using Nambu. Both show you some basic statistics about the photos in your pic.im account.

Nomee

Nomee collects many social networks, allowing you to focus on following people instead of websites. It tracks a huge number of social networks. Nomee does not cater to any one social network extensively, including Twitter. Still, it seemed appropriate to write up its actual tweeting abilities for those curious about using this social dashboard.

Tweetings Mobile

Tweetings Mobile is a secure, full-featured Twitter app for iPhone and iPod Touch that supports Push Notifications. Although the development company appears to make primarily Windows software, their venture into the iPhone space is very commendable. Tweetings Mobile can do everything Twitter.com allows you to do, including posting tweets, following/unfollowing/blocking users, reading @ mentions and DMs, and public timeline searching. Some notable features:

Tweetings (for Desktop)

Tweetings is a small, secure Twitter client for Windows. It has a compact interface that scoots out of the way when you minimize to the system tray.

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