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 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 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.
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 lets you keep track of people tweeting in any local region. This mashup was created by combining Google Maps and Twitter.
Twalala is a simple web application with some stream filtering so you can control what you see, and what you don't want to see. If their name confuses you, think of a kid sticking his fingers in his ears and saying "lalala!" to block out what someone else is saying. From their website:
Get ready to take control of your twitterstream. twalala is a client for Twitter that allows you to control what you see, and more importantly, what you don't see in your twitterstream...
Finally, Twitter with a mute button.
Twitter Analyzer is a web app that provides granular twitter analytics for any user. They bill themselves as "Twitter Analyzer Is The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World." It has a vast selection of options for viewing your twitter data. It is simple to get started; you enter your username. It thinks for a while, then loads daily graphs of your data filtered many ways:
The Twitter Google Gadget is an add-on to your iGoogle homepage. It allows you to see your incoming tweets, as well as post to Twitter. It is otherwise light on features, since it is a simple dashboard widget. It has a very simple interface, and auto-refreshes, saving you a few key presses. It offers very basic configuration options. No URL shortening or image upload. Depending on your browser, spell checking is present.
Logpost seems to be your run of the mill web-based Twitter client. It offers no killer features, and being a web app, offers no speed or ease of use that users expect out of a native application for their mobile devices.
The interface is designed to be familiar on an iPhone or iPod Touch, although their home page claims compatibility with devices from Apple, Android, Palm, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. For this review, Logpost was tested on an iPhone.
Selective Twitter Status is a Facebook Application that lets you decide when to post Twitter updates to Facebook by including a #fb hashtag at the end of your tweet. Many Facebook users get confused or annoyed by the volume of status information a regular tweeter broadcasts. Running this app allows both parties to remain happy instead of endlessly insulting the other faction with wild, emotional attachment to their platform of choice.
This Facebook app cannot work if your updates are protected. It has no password integration.