Social Networking Journal

Twitter Applications: A List Of Niche Twitter Apps You Should Use

Desktop applications are made for any social network that’s out there. There have been countless applications for MySpace (namely bots), Facebook, digg.com and others. Twitter is no exception for that, as there are countless applications available for Twitting and sharing your Tweets with everyone, available both as desktop and online applications. In this article, we’ll try to name the most prominent and outstanding Twitter applications, as well as offer you advice on which application should suit your needs.

Tweetdeck
The most popular Twitter client in the world, according to Compete.com.
Has a clean, web 2.0 look and the simplest installation in the world, thanks to Adobe AIR, also supports Facebook and many other sites. Perfect for the average Twitterer, but lacks the support of multiple accounts.

Twhirl
One of the most popular Twitter applications up-to-date. It is simple supports multiple accounts, searching for your replies, shortening URLs and much more. The only downturn it has is that you can’t view the complete profiles directly in the application, thus disallowing you to follow people you could want to follow through your friends’ profiles.

Splitweet
The application made exclusively for having multiple Twitter accounts. Has a nice, clean design. Although it’s for multiple accounts, it isn’t a device for an average spammer.

Qwitter
Qwitter is the simplest web-based Twitter application which notifies you via e-mail when someone stops following you. Easy to use and perfect if you’re worried about what impact your tweets can leave on your followers.

Monitter
Monitter allows you to dig through real-time trends on Twitter. It might come in handy for journalists, as Tweets are often long ahead of the traditional media.

Twitpic
Twitpic is an on-line picture sharing service for Twitter. Automatic posting via Twitpic is available in many Twitter desktop applications. Supports posting pictures with e-mails from your mobile phone.

Twitterholic
A webpage designed purely for Twitter statistics, namely, the count of your followers. For example, twitterholic.com shows that there currently are thirteen proud Twitters that have over a million followers. You can also check your ranking in the pretty clean page.

Twtpoll
Twtpoll.com offers the chance to create and manage polls to use through Twitter, Facebook and many other social media sites, a must have if you want to know what your audience thinks.

Topsy
Topsy is a fresh, Twitter powered search engine. It has a lot of potential, as it digs mostly through social media sites, thus providing only and only fresh content. If Topsy spreads out, we should likely get an answer from Google.

All the applications mentioned here is but a fraction of what the web is offering for fellow Twitters. There will be many other fresh and innovative applications, made exclusively for social media sites. In 2009, the web is starting to gain a form one could only dream about when the web first appeared in 1980s. User generated and user moderated content will leave a great scar on anyone in business, who doesn’t consider the demands and the tolerance of the public.