Weekly Roundup on 3rd party Twitter Apps
A week has just gone by, let’s take a quick look at who are the upcoming stars in the twitter apps’ world.
Tweepz.com:
a twitter people (tweeps) search engine which has indexed more than 3million users. Twitter has not made it easy to find people. Existing solutions such as twellow/justtweetit provides yellow page like direcotry. Tweepz, on the other hand, searches through the user profiles for the queries, then display the results in a very clean way that you can easily sort by variety of parameters. I especially like the “refine your search” feature, which similar to Nextag’s comparison shopping engine, making it very easy to slice and dice the search results. I wish I could find more information about their advanced search features. Nevertheless, simplicity and elegant solution will probably make this one a winner.
Tweetree.com:
Ever wonder what your friends replies you about? (I do, all the time, since Twitter does not show the source of conversation). Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post. 
Twitfave.com:
it looks at twitter users favourites to tell you about the most interesting tweets and who favourited your tweets! Idea is very simple, and solution is useful. I can see there are more applications and even commercial use for the “favorite” data that it collects over the time.
twibes.com
twibes’ founder Adam built Twibes so he could recommend my friends, and of course so they could recommend him for other tweeps to follow. Finding followers is a big area within twitter app world and we have seen many approaches. What I like about twibes is it’s really simple, you pick your friends from your followers tapestry and recommend them. Twibes then shows you (in real time, lot of machine time, long wait) the top tweeps with the most recommendations. I am not a huge fan for its “group” feature which does not seem to be picked up by users as well.
bakertweet.com:
Twitter has grown into mainstream and many small businesses are finding interesting ways using twitter to communicate with “the world”, bakertweet.com is a perfect, creative example.
bakertweet.com is a way for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It’s as simple as turning the dial and hitting the button. All of the baker’s followers get a Twitter alert to tell them that it’s bun-time. Or bread time. Or whatever
Sit tight, you will like this intro:
BakerTweet from POKE on Vimeo.
