Twaction

Twaction is a service that lets you add actions to your tweets like Facebook’s poke. With Twaction, you can poke, smile, kick, lick, roll eyes, thank, or any of a million other actions. On the Twaction homepage you can see what who did to who, which Twactions are the most popular, and see the most popular users. The stats page even shows actions by country and which country got the most action.

gTwitter

gTwitter is a simple GTK+ based desktop Twitter application for Linux. With gTwitter you have all the basics - the ability to update and receive updates from your friends. You can also choose whether you want to see your complete list of updates in your window or just a timeline showing names & dates. gTwitter may not automatically add itself to the start menu, but you can fix that by selecting System/Preferences/Main Menu and adding a shortcut to gTwitter.

Twiddeo

With the service from Twiddeo, you don’t just tell people what you’re doing, you show them! Twiddeo lets users upload, via web or email, videos and integrate them into Twitter. To use Twiddeo, users sign in with their Twitter credentials to upload videos via the web and to get their unique email address to send videos to.

Politweets

Politweets is a web service that tracks political tweets and sorts them by political party. The site also ranks candidate popularity based on how many times their name is mentioned on Twitter. Currently, Obama is the most popular. (Not Ron Paul!)

hellotxt

  HelloTxt is a service that lets you post to several micro-blogging services at the same time. HelloTxt supports Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and more. To use HelloTxt you simply enter your message, your login details, and then you click "send message."

Twitter Karma

Twitter Karma is a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the "Whack!" button on their homepage. It then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends. Twitter Karma is not meant to be a full Twitter client.

Twitter Clone: BeeMood

BeeMood is a Twitter clone targeting Italy. BeeMood members get their own page where they can update their status, reply to others, or see the most recent "BeeMoods" from the people they follow. There is also a feature that lets you post and receive updates via SMS on your mobile phone. One feature BeeMood has that Twitter doesn’t is their map that shows where recent updates are coming from.

Twitter Stack Widget

The Twitter Stack widget is a way to display Twitter messages 3-D style. The widget can be put on MySpace or any other site that allows for embedable code. To get the widget, visit the site here and enter your Twitter username. Copy the code provided and paste wherever you want!

MyTwitter Wordpress Plugin

MyTwitter allows users to display their Twitter status updates (tweets) on their Wordpress blog and update their status through the Options page. It includes customization options including number of tweets to display and formatting options. It can be called as a function or used as a widget. You can follow MyTwitter on Twitter here. For installation assistance or to leave feedback, visit the project page. You can download MyTwitter here.

Twitter Releases Source Code

Via the Twitter Developer Blog:

In various presentations throughout 2007, the Twitter team has made reference to a pure Ruby message queue server called Starling, written by our own Blaine Cook.

Starling is at the core of what we do at Twitter; it moves small messages around to daemons that work on jobs like processing updates, delivering messages, archiving user accounts, and so forth. An asynchronous messaging solution is becoming a necessity for big web applications, and Starling fits the particular needs we have at Twitter. It’s fast, it’s stable, it speaks the memcache protocol so it doesn’t need a new client library, and it’s disk-backed for persistence. When other parts of the Twitter site go down, Starling stays up. It’s a champ, and we love it.

Until now, Starling has lived a sheltered life in the Twitter code base. We’re happy to announce that Starling is now open source and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and improve. We’re eager to see patches and to start a proper open source community around Starling.

To give Starling a try today, just sudo gem install starling on your favorite Ruby development box. Let’s see some serious queues!