You can now type anything into MSNs text input field and when you press send/enter, it will update that message on your Twitter account.

Features:

• Use twitter on your MSN messenger.
• Receive updates from people you are following.
• Use commands, such as @reply, D for direct message,follow/unfollow people… etc.
• Supports TwitPic, TwitterKeys, bit.ly/ j.mp, and more.
• Works for MSN clients, such as Digspy, Meeb… etc.
• Use Twitter even if your can not access Twitter service at your country or region.

Visit: TwitOnMSN @ www.twitonmsn.com

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• Mail2.im: Forward Important Emails to IM, Mobile or Twitter
• IM-History : Store Your Chat History Online
• Heysan: Chat with Friends Online from Mobile Phone
• Fring : Free Mobile Calling and Chat
• Dexrex: Store AIM, GTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Skype Chat History Online

To use it, you can login to its web interface using your Twitter credentials or use it on your iPhone by installing their free app available in the iTunes store. It gives you the option to upload a video from your PC, record a video using a webcam or iPhone and email the video. Once you submit the video recording and add a tweet, it automatically gets posted to your Twitter account.

The video also gets published on the Mov.io website where other users can see it and comment on it. Plus if someone retweets your video, it appears in the comment section. Overall a good service, however I couldn’t find any information on the upload limits. I am guessing it is for small video files.

Demo:

Features:

• Easy video uploading and sharing via Twitter.
• Use your Twitter login details to login.
• Upload or record videos from PC and iPhone.
• Get retweets and user comments below the video.
• Free iPhone app available.

Check out Mov.io @ www.mov.io (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Features:

• Create unlimited alerts for Twitter lists.
• Select and follow the most popular alerts on Listiti.
• Cancel Listiti alerts easily by clicking the deactivation link in the e-mail alert.
• Useful for to monitor your brand, product, or company on lists of your choice.
• Similar tools: TweetAlert, Twilert and TweetAlarm.

Check out Listiti  @ www.listiti.com

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• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Twilert: Monitor Twitter Conversations For Any Keyword

The tool provides a bookmarklet which you drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. Whenever you come across a suspicious short link, click on the bookmarklet to view the URL it points to. You may even preview links directly on the site.

Features:

• Preview URLs behind shortened links.
• Preview links without going to the website they point to.
• Browser bookmarklet provided.
• Quick and simple to use.
• Similar tools: Real-URL, Untiny, PrevURL and LongURL.

Check out Unhid @ www.unhid.co.cc

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• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL
• Real-URL: View Real URL Behind Short URL
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links

There are also options to monitor keywords and trends related to your company, schedule tweets, get notified via email when you receive tweets, assign tweets to employees, archive tweets and do much more. One nice feature is click tracking that integrates nicely with bit.ly. Overall, an excellent tool for businesses for managing their reputation using Twitter.

Features:

• Twitter client for businesses.
• Completely web based and free to use.
• Manage multiple accounts with multiple users.
• See tweets of employees as conversations.
• Schedule and archive tweets.
• Track clicks using bit.ly.
• Post updates to multiple accounts simultaneously.

Check out CoTweet @ www.cotweet.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Wordoid: Get Company Name Ideas

The widget can be customized in appearance and easily integrated into any website, blog or personal web page.

To create a widget, simply enter a Twitter username, select the list, customize widget appearance and click on the “Finish & Grab Code” button. The application will then prompt a code that you can use to embed the widget.

Check out the MakeUseOf team widget below:

Features:

• Create an embeddable widget or any public twitter list.
• Customize widget appearance (size, color… etc).
• Embed widgets on your site, blog or personal web page.
• Preview widgets when creating.

Check out Lists Widget @ www.twitter.com/goodies/widget_list

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• TwitterSignatureStyles: Create Twitter Signature
• TwitterFollowBadge: Cool Twitter Follow Badge For Your Site
• TwitterButtons: Generate Follow Me Button for Twitter
• SaneBull: Add Financial Market Tracking Widget to your Site or Desktop
• GroupBoard: Cool Embeddable Whiteboard For Groups

The setup process is very easy, just enter a Twitter list URL into provided field and hit on the “Get an RSS feed” button. Once the feed is generated, go ahead and subscribe to it. Done.

Features:

• Generate RSS feed for any Twitter list.
• Generate as may feeds as you like, no limitations.
• Free and easy to use.

check out TwitterLists2RSS @ http://twiterlist2rss.appspot.com

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• FeedStich: Combine Multiple Feeds Into One
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

You can even set it up so that it is linked with your Twitter and Facebook accounts to make the search results even more personalized.

See the demo video:

Features:

• View social media (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and YouTube) search results next to regular results.
• Works with Google, Bing or Yahoo.
• Play YouTube videos right in the search results page.
• Filter search results from Facebook and Twitter to see results from your News Feed or Tweets from users you follow.
• Easily share any of the results via email, Twitter or Facebook.
• Supports Firefox and Internet Explorer.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out kikin @ www.kikin.com (via go2web20, by Alex Ainsberg)

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• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• YouTube Auto Buffer: Makes YouTube Better [Greasemonkey]
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

The songs can be added by posting a link, uploading an mp3 file or by using the site’s search function. You can also tweet from Swift.fm or use a special syntax to tweet from any twitter client.

If you are familiar with music services like Pandora, Last.fm, and Blip.fm, you will definitely fit in with Swift.fm. The Twitter-like interface is a welcome addition to Twitter users.

Swift.fm is a great platform for artists who want to make their music known and gain fans through Twitter.

Features:

• Turns Twitter into a social music player.
• Link, upload, and search your favorite music, then tweet it to your friends.
• Create personalized playlist and radio stations based on what you and your Twitter friends like.
• Click the heart icon next to the song to add them in your playlist of favorite songs.
• Retweet songs that you have discovered in Swift.fm.
• ‘My Mentions’ lets you listen to music sent directly to you.
• Similar tool: Swg.fm.

Check out Swift.fm @ www.swift.fm

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• Swg.fm: Easy MP3 Sharing for Twitter
• LyricRat: Twitter Integrated Lyric Search Site
• Blip: Share what you’re Listening to with Friends
• ZentaoGuitarLessons: Free Electric Guitar Lessons For Newbies
• YouScrobble: YouTube and Last.fm Combined

The site has simple interface and getting started is easy. Simply sign in with your Twitter details, upload your images and set times for updates. TwiBack will then do the rest.

Demo video:

Features:

• Upload your images and automatically rotate them as your Twitter background or profile image.
• Easily set times when images need to change.
• Upload  as many images as you like.
• No registration needed as it works with your existing credentials.
• Similar tools: Twilk, Twitter Patterns, PrettyTweet and Twitbacks.

Check out TwiBack @ www.twiback.com

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• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge
• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Avartize: Add Overlays To Twitter Avatars

Initially it is meant for Windows 7 users and later on it will be expanded to Microsoft’s other business units. It’s certainly a nice initiative by Microsoft to let its customers have another medium, which might become the fastest way to get their Windows 7 issues resolved.

Features:

• Real time support by Microsoft on twitter.
• Initially it will support only Windows 7.
• Get your answers within 24 hours.
• Uses CoTweet as the delivery platform.

Check out @MicrosoftHelps @ twitter.com/MicrosoftHelps (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

A unique thing about this service is that it allows you to password protect your shared files. You can also access viewing stats and monitor Twitter conversations happening around your links. It offers a browser bookmarklet and sidebar tool to help you access your Sayabit account information instantly.

Features:

• Share large files easily over Twitter and Facebook.
• Password protect your files.
• Unlimited storage capacity.
• Store images, PDFs, spreadsheets and more.
• Access detailed analytics about the files you’ve shared.
• Similar tools: uSend.io, Share1t, EatLime, 4shared, SendThisFile and SendAlong.

Check out Sayabit @ www.sayabit.com (via TechCrunch, by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• uSend.io: Quick and Simple File Sending Application
• TweetCube : Share Files Using Twitter
• Share1t: Quick Way To Share Files With Friends
• Oosah: Manage your YouTube, Flickr & Facebook Files from one Place
• WooFiles

Enter LocaFollow, it is a new application that helps you find users by searching only their Bio and Location fields. Since these are the fields that users fill in their Twitter profile, Locafollow is your best shot in finding friends that share your interest or are in the same zip code as you.

When you perform a search the results will be presented as a list of user profiles showing the complete user details including the users’ last tweet. You can follow each user individually or use the “Bulk Follow” button to catch all the users in the results and link them to your profile – useful for the extrovert Twitter user and marketers.

LocaFollow is powered by Google search and Twitter API, with LocaFollow providing specific search codes in the backend, so that the results returned focuses only on Twitter profiles.

Features:

• Find Twitter users with similar interests by searching their Bio & Location fields on Twitter.
• Lists complete Twitter profiles of users including number of followers, following, tweets, last tweets, bio, and location.
• Follow each Twitter user in results list individually or use the “Bulk Follow” button to follow all at once.
• Locafollow is powered by Google search and Twitter API, with LocaFollow providing specific search codes in the backend.
• No registration or authentication required.
• Quick search functionality without page reloading.

Check out LocaFollow @ www.locafollow.com

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Clicking on a particular film title shows detailed breakdown of the score along with all the tweets (positive and negative) listed below. Useful.

Features:

• Twitter based movie reviews and ratings website.
• Search and browse alphabetically.
• Check out most popular movie titles.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar sites: SkinniPopcorn, Criticker, Filmaster, FilmSite, Nanocrowd and MRQE.

Check out TwitCritics @ www.twitcritics.com

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• SkinniPopcorn: No-frills mobile friendly movie ratings & reviews
• Sidereel: Watch TV Shows and Movies Online
• Nanocrowd: Get Movie Suggestions Based On Movies You Like
• MRQE : Movie Review Search Engine
• MoviesPlanet: Find Free Full Length Movies To Watch Online

Enter the carrier name, departure date and the flight number or the arrival/departure airport code. And then enter your Twitter and/or Facebook credentials. Now, at almost every hour your flight status will be updated along with a link to a map showing your current location. A good service to let your friends and family keep a track of you when you are flying.

Features::

• Update your Twitter and Facebook status while you are traveling.
• A free service by Lufthansa airlines.
• Enter carrier name, departure date and flight number to get started.
• Status updates also include a link to a map that shows your exact location.

Check out MySkyStatus @ www.myskystatus.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages
• Generatus: Cool Facebook Status Message Generator
• FlightCaster: Helps You Avoid Air Travel Delays
• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• Trazzler: Get Unique Travel Destination Recommendations

Getting started is easy, just create a new Twitter account and input all of your chosen searches and trends. Once you have done that, follow that new account in your regular Twitter account. That’s it!

Features:

• Track twitter searches and trends in your Twitter account.
• Track as many subjects as you like.
• Easy to use and free.
• Similar tools: Twilert and TweetAlarm.

Check out TweetAlert @ www.code-or-die.com/tweetalert (by Dean Sherwin)

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• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• Listiti: Email Alerts For Twitter Lists
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results

From the page:

Have you ever noticed that the pictures you send along with your tweets ends on public images hosting services? These hosting services put ads around your content, and can make traffic (and money) with YOUR pictures.

Twitter2Press is a little plugin that wil transform your WordPress in an image hosting service. So, your images will still be your property, and the generated traffic will be yours.

Using the plugin is easy, simply download, install and configure it by following instructions. In one of the steps you will be asked to provide your Twitter login details. The plugin also works well with Tweetie – a popular iPhone Twitter client.

Check out this example page which shows an image gallery created on a WordPress blog using this plugin.

Features:

• Wordpress plugin which lets you self-host Twitter images.
• Download and install Twitter2Press wordpress plugin in order to use it.
• Easy to use and configure.
• Works great with Tweetie (iPhone Twitter client).

Check out Twitter2Press @ projets.lesniak.fr/twitter2press (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wordpress Theme Generator: Create WordPress Themes
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• WebSnapr: Free Website Thumbnail Screenshots

Although Twit Robot could prove to be a nice tool for businesses, it is strongly suggested that you also interact with your followers at frequent intervals. Otherwise, as Twitter recently mentioned in their TOS, they could block you if they find your twitter account always sending automatic tweets.

Features:

• Send tweets about your product automatically.
• Also send custom tweets on different topics.
• Schedule tweets in advance and publish blog content by setting up RSS feeds.
• Advanced Twitter search tool available.

Check out Twit Robot @ tzwitrobot.com/index.html (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• Twittercal: Add Events to Google Calendar via Twitter
• ToAnswer: Get Answers to Your Questions through Twitter
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

Features:

• View Twitter trends based on locations across the world.
• Google Maps and Twitter mashup.
• Zoom in to find trends by cities.
• Click on the trend terms to see real time tweets.

Check out Trendsmap @ www.trendsmap.com (via Mashable) (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone

Getting started is easy, simply sign up using your Twitter credentials, create profile and then select friends you would want to help you escape.

How to make your escape?

1. Just send a direct message on Twitter to @EscapeMyDate.
2. EscapeMyDate will pass escape request to your selected friends.
3. One of your friends calls to help you out.
4. If none of your friends responds within 5 min, EscapeMyDate’s will make an automated call to you itself.

Features:

• Escape unwanted dates and meetings using Twitter.
• Requests your Twitter friends to rescue you out the unwanted situations.
• Free, easy to use, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: GetMooh and PhoneMyPhone.

Check out EscapeMyDate @ www.escapemydate.com

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• GetMooh: Escape Unwanted Dates & Meetings
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Firstly, signing up take just a few minutes and you deal with the majority of your preferences there. For example, if you only want a few of the photos you upload to be sent to Twitter, you can create a special tag for these photos such as ‘ForTwitter’ or ‘Tweet’.

Once you enter in your Twitter and Flickr details and click ‘Submit’, the rest will simply work by itself. There is little or no need to re-access the service again unless you want to change your preferences. All of it is done via the normal uploading method on Flickr.

As you can see from the example below, what’s posted on your Twitter account is neat and tidy with order; unlike some of the links you see done manually. There is plenty of room for a title and the program uses Bit.ly, the URL shortening service to save on space.

For those who enjoy photo sharing this is a great web tool that really requires next to no effort to get your favourite snaps on Twitter for your followers to enjoy.

Check it out TwitterGram @ flickr.twittergram.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• The App Garden: Great Flickr Tools Collection
• Spy: Monitor Social Media Conversations For Certain Topics
• SiteVolume: Keyword Popularity Check Tool for Digg, Youtube, Twitter, Flickr & MySpace
• Pikchur: Upload Photos to Multiple Online Profiles Simultaneously
• Phandy: Twitter Like Photo Sharing Tool

Features:

• Get healthcare answers quickly on Twitter.
• Helps you save money on prescription drugs.
• Follow @askch on Twitter and DM them any health question.
• The service automatically replies to your DM almost instantly.
• The format of questions is explained on the site.
• Similar tool: MedTipster and RateADrug.

Check out AskCh @ ask.changehealthcare.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• UCompareHealthcare: Compare Local Healthcare Providers
• Trusera: Get Practical Answers to Health Problems
• SymptomChecker: Check Medical Symptoms & What They Mean

It works by announcing the Word of the Day on its homepage and on its Twitter account. For example, today the word was ‘maven’; meaning an expert in one’s field who rejoices at passing on his/her wisdom. Then the users must tweet, using the word ‘maven’ in context. So my tweet read:

‘While I like writing, it’ll be some time before I’m looked upon as a maven in my field.’

Tweets appear on the Artwiculate homepage ready to be judged by the community. If it is more popular then you’ll earn more points which in turn will make you rise through the leader boards.

Artwiculate has just come out of its Beta phase and is now completely live and has a following of almost 2,000.

I think that Artwiculate is a simple, yet effective way of learning new words. The words that they choose are interesting and you may even use them in every day life. After all, their slogan is “The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words.”

If you liked this tool you may also check out similar websites VocabSushi and WordSpy profiled earlier.

Go to Artwiculate @ www.artwiculate.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• VocabSushi: The Easy Way To Build Your Vocabulary
• Phrases: Search for Idiom Phrases & Get Meanings
• Common Errors In English: Lists Commonly Misused English Words
• WordSpy: Dictionary of New Words
• Wordnik: Comprehensive Word Search Tool

To get started, first sign up on the site. Next add the keywords you want to track and you are all set. There is also an option to ignore tweets from users of your choice.

Features:

• Receive custom Twitter alerts via email.
• Track as many keywords as you like.
• Option to ignore tweets from users of your choice.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar tools: Twilert.

Check out TweetAlarm @ www.tweetalarm.com

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• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetVolume: Compare Popularity of Words on Twitter
• Listiti: Email Alerts For Twitter Lists
• ConvoMonitor: Track Twitter Conversations
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results

Simply sign in using your Twitter credentials and authenticate Twilk through Twitter oAuth. Once authenticated, a background consisting profile images of your Twitter followers would be created. There are both free and paid options, a free background will have a Twilk badge on it. The badge can be removed for a fixed fee of 5$.

Check out Twilk @ www.twilk.com

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• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• Twitter Patterns: Cool Background Designs For Your Twitter Profile
• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge

Here is how it works:

First you need to follow @gcal on Twitter, After that, you need to grant Twittercal a permission to access your Google Calendar account. Once you have done that, you can start adding events to your Google Calendar by sending direct messages.

For example, sending “d gcal meet Elisha at Mcdonald’s tomorrow at 10 a.m.” will add “meet Elisha at Mcdonald’s tomorrow at 10 a.m.” to your schedule. It’s that easy.

Features:

• Add events to your Google Calendar from your favorite Twitter client.
• Really easy to get started.
• No registration needed, free.

Check out Twittercal @ www.twittercal.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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• Twuffer : Schedule Your Twitter Tweets
• TwitRobot: Schedule & Tweet Automatically
• ToAnswer: Get Answers to Your Questions through Twitter
• GooSync: Sync Google Calendar with Mobile, Blackberry or iPhone
• Google Calendar

Freezly allows you to search for current giveaways using keywords, check which free deals are hot and browse archive of past giveaways.

Features:

• Tool for finding free stuff that people giveaway on Twitter.
• Aggregates tweets only with free stuff and ranks them based on retweets.
• Check out the hottest free deals and browse past giveaways.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Also see How To Get Companies To Send You Free Stuff With No Catches.

Check out Freezly @ www.freezly.com

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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
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• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks

Check out the demo video of the app.

Features:

• Send voicemails via Twitter.
• Use your twitter account to log in and verify.
• Voicemails are sent as private messages via @reply to the recipients.
• Quick and easy to use.

Check out Pockets @ www.pocketsapp.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
• Chir.ps: Record Yourself & Share It On Twitter
• YouMail : Store and Manage Voicemail Online
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

The tool is completely web based and hence without hassles. Plus you can retweet screencasts directly and comment on them which would appear as @ replies to the creator of screencast.

Features:

• Online screencast tool for Twitter.
• Quickly sign in with twitter and record a screencast.
• Short screencasts upto 5 mins allowed.
• Retweet and comment on screencasts.
• Also plays effortlessly on the iPhone.

Check out Screenr @ www.screenr.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• ScreenJelly: Capture Your Screen On Video & Share
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone

The tool is dead straightforward, all it needs from the user is the Twitter account name. The rest it handles on its own.

As you can see from the screenshot above the website received lot of attention from others as well. It seems like lot of folks are making us of it.

Check out CtwittLike @ ctwittlike.appspot.com (via Mashable )

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• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Features:

• Add cool overlays to your Twitter avatar.
• Free and easy to use.
• Upload an avatar or sign in directly through Twitter.
• Also you can create and publish your own overlays.
• Also see 3 Fun Online Avatar Creators to Represent Yourself.

Check out Avartize @ www.avartize.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TwitStamp: Create A Customized Twitter Status Badge
• Twilk: Cool Twitter Backgrounds Made of Pics of Your Followers
• TwiBack: Rotates Your Twitter Background & Profile Pictures
• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• PrettyTweet: Twitter Profile Background Designer

You can also list your own Twitter account. In order to do that, simply send @wefollow #tag command from your Twitter account by replacing the #tag with a tag you want to be listed under. A maximum of 3 tags allowed.

Features:

• User powered Twitter directory.
• View most popular users in each category, browse by tags.
• Popularity of a account is determined by the number of people following it.
• List your account in directory by sending a short command.
• Free, no sign up.

Check out WeFollow @ www.wefollow.com

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• Spy: Monitor Social Media Conversations For Certain Topics
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You can log into to TweetBlocker using your Twitter credentials and get a personal spam report. It also provides a bookmarklet named ‘ Report Spammer ‘ which can help you quickly report a spam twitter account to them.

Features

• Identify the spammers and clean up twitter followers.
• Unfollow or block the spammers once you know them.
• Get a personal spam report by logging into the tool.
• Use Report Spammer bookmarklet to quickly report a spammer.
• Similar site:  TwitChuck and MyCleenr.

Check out TweetBlocker @ www.tweetblocker.com [via ReadWriteWeb] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Users may also upload existing audio files (mp3, wav, wma, acc, ogg) from their PCs anduse them instead of recordings.

Features:

• Record your sound and share it online on Twitter.
• Record as many audios as you like.
• Option to upload existing audio files (mp3, wav, wma, acc, ogg).
• Upload files from your computer or web URL.
• Has an iPhone friendly mobile site.
• Similar tools: Chirbit and Vocaroo.

Check out Chir.ps @ www.chir.ps

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• Vocaroo: Record Voice, Send it to Friends, Post it Online
• TwitterMail : Post To Twitter Via Email
• Twitsay : Send Voice Messages to Twitter
• ScreenJelly: Capture Your Screen On Video & Share
• Recordr: Easy Audio / Video Recording & Sharing

The process is simple. Just select the template, enter the Twitter username and click on “Submit & Get Code” button. The preview image and three different types of links will be displayed. One direct link to the image, one HTML link to embed into websites/blogs and the last one is a BBcode for forums.

Check out the demo video below:

Features:

• Generate your own embeddable Twitter signature.
• Choose from a number of different templates.
• Free and really easy to use.
• Similar tools: TwitterFollowBadge, SocialRibbon and TwitterButtons.

Check out TwitterSignatureStyles @ www.twittersignaturestyles.com

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Features:

• Quickly stream live video to twitter.
• No sign up required. Just use your twitter account to log in.
• It notifies your followers and gives them the link to your video stream.
• Chat with your followers while broadcasting.
• Videos are archived and displayed on the same page.

Check out Twitcam @ www.twitcam.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone

Feature:

• View real URL behind shortened URL.
• Quick and simple.
• Similar tools:  Untiny, PrevURL and LongURL.

Check out DeTinyIt @ www.real-url.org

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• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL
• Unhid: Reveal URLs Behind Short Links
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links

If you’re not sure if it has found the right song, click to hear a sample of the song, along with a link to buy the song from Amazon. Even better; LyricRat is integrated into Twitter, and sending a tweet to @LyricRat followed by the lyrics and you’ll receive a reply with the name of the song along with the artist. Great way to find lyrics on the go, especially to those Twiterholics.

Features:

• Song lyric search site.
• Easy way to find the song and artist for your favorite songs.
• Hear samples of your song to make sure it’s the right one.
• If you wish, you can buy the song from the Amazon MP3 Store.
• Includes suggestions in case you memorized the lyrics wrong.
• Awesome Twitter integration: Just tweet to @LyricRat.

That’s definitely not the first song lyrics search site we profiled on MakeUseOf. There were Lyrics.com, Lyrster.com, LyricsFly.com and few others in recently published top 5 sites to find song lyrics online.

Check out LyricRat @ www.lyricrat.com

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• Lyrics.com: Song Lyrics With Videos
• Swift.fm: Share Music With Your Twitter Followers
• Swg.fm: Easy MP3 Sharing for Twitter
• StereoMood: Plays Music According To Your Mood
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There is no installation or sign up, just go to the site and click “Record” button to start recording. When finished recording just choose how you want to share the video (Twitter, Email or Web) and spread it online. That’s it!

Features:

• Capture your screen on video.
• No software to install.
• Recording is limited to 3 minutes.
• Share recorded screencasts via Twitter, Email or Web.
• Free, no registration required.
• Check out recent videos created by other users.
• Similar websites: ScreenToaster, FreeScreenCast, uTIPu and Screencast-O-Matic.

Check out ScreenJelly @ www.screenjelly.com

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• Screenr: Quickly Create Screencasts For Twitter
• Chir.ps: Record Yourself & Share It On Twitter
• Yodio: Give Voice to your Pictures and Stories
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

Features:

• Identify Twitter spammers.
• Provides you list of reasons why you should (or not) follow someone.
• Quick and simple to easy.

Check out TwitChuck @ www.twitchuck.com

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