Why I Love Twitter

Problogger put up a video of the responses to their question: why do you love Twitter? Here’s the video:

Intwition

Another Twitter link tracker, Intwition lets you see not only what people tweeted today, but also yesterday and over time (well, the past 5 days). The site also shows the "reach" of the tweeted URL, which is the total number of potential users that could have seen the link.

Twitterator

The service at Twitterator is a simple web app that takes a list of Twitter usernames and lets you follow them in one fell swoop. You can enter a URL that points to a list of usernames or you can enter them manually.

Twitturly

Here’s another site tracking the most tweeted URLs. Twitturly tracks the top 100 most popular URLs of the day. The site shows how many people tweeted, who they are, and what they said.

TwitResponse

A Twitter Autoresponder service, TwitResponse lets you setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.

microrevie.ws

The service at microrevie.ws collects reviews from Twitter and aggregates them on their site. To use the service, do the following:

The Basics

1. Sign up for a Twitter account.
2. Follow @hreview
3. Send a review. Use the format: @hreview Some Great Band; really exciting but too loud  (@hreview and the semicolon are required. The semicolon separates what is being reviewed from the opinion.)

Extra Credit

* Use 1–5 asterisks to rate the item (they will convert them into stars) @hreview Some Great Band; really exciting but too loud ****

TwitterSpy

Like Digg Spy, but for Twitter. Twitterspy shows new tweets as they appear in real time via an AJAX interface. Interesting, but not entirely useful.

Summize

Fast becoming the most popular of real-time searches is Summize, that lets you search Twitter for a particular word or phrase. Advanced options let you specify whether the tweet should be from a user, to a user, referencing a user, containing a tag, with attitude, or written in a particular language.

ChaCha

The Q&A service ChaCha lets you ask a question and get a quick response. To use ChaCha:

1. Follow the Twitter user ChaCha
2. Send your question as an @ reply
3. A couple minutes later you’ll get your answer.

SecretTweet

Like PostSecret does with postcards, SecretTweet lets people make anonymous confessions via Twitter. Tweets are posted from the SecretTweet account. It’s surprising that no one seems to be using this for anonymous flaming yet.