Twitter Apps

Who Should I Follow? - recommendations from Tim Bauer on who you should follow on Twitter, based on popularity and location.

TweetWheel - enter your username and TweetWheel will load all your friends and show you how they are connected. Example screenshot here.

My Tweeple - manage your Twitter friends and followers.

TwitterSnooze - inspired by this post by Merlin Mann, TwitterSnooze lets you temporarily “hit the snooze button” on people you are following on Twitter. You can select the length of time you want to stop following and whether or not you want to announce the fact via a Tweet.

• It’s a good tool to avoid a blast of tweets from a conference you are not attending… just snooze the conference goers for a few days.
• It’s a nice way to get back at someone for saying something stupid… give them the silent treatment ;)
• It’s a good way to ignore someone that just flooded your timeline for no good reason… but it was just a one-time offense and doesn’t merit permenant unfollowing.

Note that once you un-snooze the person will be informed (so they will know you were temporarily ignoring them). Also your passwords are stored.

Twitter User Classify - Greasemonkey script based on Evan Prodromou’s Twitter scale:

new scale: 1:5 = twittercaster, 1:2 = notable, 1:1 socially healthy, 2:1 newbie or social climber, 5:1 twitter spammer.

The script simplifies working all this out by adding a coloured bar to the top of the screen indicating the type of Twitter user you are viewing.

TwitterIgnore - is a Greasemonkey script that “lets you hide Twitter tweets from a definable list of users without actually unfollowing them - so you can selectively ignore people for periods of time without them being any the wiser - thus avoiding any potential awkwardness.” If it works it’s really rather clever.

Twitter Twerp Scan - this is kind of cool, a rule of thumb type thing: “It’ll get the first 100 people from your contact list and checks the number of their followers, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those. If the person is following more than 1000 people, and has a Following-to-Followers ratio higher than 1:1, you might want to consider blocking them.”

Twitter Compatibility Test - enter your Twitter username, password and the username of another Twitterer and the test will compare your profiles and the number of people you follow in common.

Twitimonials - this is a sweet little app. Follow @yitu and send testimonials about your favourite Twitter friends, e.g. “@yitu @friendname Whatever you want to say about them”.

Twitter Friends Lister - this is quite an interesting little tool. Enter your Twitter username and as many others a you like and Twitter Friends Lister will display the people you follow in common.

Twitterator - lets “a Twitter user to ‘follow’ a bunch of other Twitter users in one fell swoop—a Twitter friend list generator if you will.” You get the option of entering a URL of a page where Twitter user names are listed or you can enter the Twitter usernames manually.