7 Creative Twitter Apps That Help You Do More Than Just Tweet
Jul 16, 2009 by Greg Finn | Social Networks
While there are a great deal of Twitter applications that help you track keywords, monitor conversations and help you tweet, some applications actually allow you to carry out specific non-Twitter related tasks. Whether it be everyday activities or fun and games, these apps help you to track, process and perform your daily deeds!
TweetWager
This app lets you be a degenerate gambler – publicly. This application tracks all of your bets and logs them into the system, giving you a scorecard for your wins and losses. This app allows you to bet directly via Twitter or by logging into their website.
You can log bets using over/under data, home/visitor data or favorite/dog data, and also showcase your betting skills to the world. TweetWager can also allow you to keep a win/loss record and show your total money won or lost all-time. The top users are also highlighted along with those that have the most current win streak, so the Biff Tannens of the world can showcase their gambling prowess.
StockTwits
Want to be the next Jim Cramer? Well roll those sleeves up, foam at the mouth and start tweeting away. StockTwits lets you keep track of your stock calls publicly on Twitter and you view some of the top Wall Street minds.
StockTwits allows users to toss a $ in front of their stock picks and your selections will be logged to your account. You can also monitor the hottest stocks and what people are saying in real time from the site, search by stock, or view a futures or forex channels.
Foamee
This is a simple application that allows Twitterers to track when you owe another user a drink. Whether it be a beer or a coffee, Foamee allows users to track it publicly and assign a reason for the beverage. Users can also redeem the drink once they have actually received it, but to nobody’s surprise only 268 of 5306 drinks have ever been redeemed.
AddNetFlix
This application allows for the lazy movie watcher to become even lazier by leveraging both the Twitter API and the Netflix API. Instead of actually going to Netflix.com to choose a movie to watch, AddNetflix allows you to toss a movie into the queue – right from a tweet.
Not only can you add movies, but with the proper hashtag syntax, one can reorganize their queue, move current selections to the top, or even undo an errant tweet.
Twitpay
This application teams Twitter up with PayPal and allows you to update your status to pay someone. The concept is simple, and the only steps to get up and running is to claim your Twitter account and then link your PayPal account to it.
You can send your payment with a simple tweet with the right syntax, or you can simply use the web interface to deliver your message via Twitter. Another nice feature is that you can append a reason along with the payment so both you and your partner know why the money was tweeted. Twitpay does make money though via what they call the “Superman 3†business model – simply tacking a $0.05 surcharge for any transaction.
Twackle
This is “the sportsbar of Twittoshpereâ€Â and logs all of the conversations around specific sports, leagues and teams. So let’s say that your favorite team is the Detroit Lions *cough*, well there is a page for that. Fan of MMA? There is also a page for that. Other than just tweets, Twackle sorts through the links on Twitter and finds the most talked about stories of the day. If you want to start a chain of commentary on a specific tweet, Twackle allows for that too using their self proclaimed “barstool.â€
This app really functions as an all encompassing real-time sports page and can offer a ton of information in an easy to use format. Each section can also be implemented as a standalone widget so you can bring the Twackle technology to your site.
TweetCube
This service allows folks to transfer files such as pictures, music, videos and more that will be tweeted right out to their timeline. Before their file is tweeted out, the user can customize a message and the download link will show in their updates. The maximum filesize is 10MB and the files are automatically deleted after 30 days.
Overall, these applications really show the creativity that can harness the Twitter API and help you become more productive, or just help you have fun. Instead of just helping users tweet, these applications really serve a specific purpose, and it’ll be exciting to see what will be coming next.
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Hmmm… Definitely might look into Twackle, that way I can stop following the Premiership, and the 2 MMA updaters that I do…
Ps. I'm only getting Foamee if my other friends do, no point in owing drinks if people aren't owing me my drinks! lol
Interesting, thank you! It is nice to have some idea of different platforms that are useful for marketing to specific verticals (e.g. sports fans). Cheers!
Yeah, it is actually pretty cool too – you can break down by fighters .. so if say you want to track Frorest Griffin who is fighting in the next UFC PPV, you can go right to his page here:
http://twackle.com/More-Sports/Forest-Griffin – then just use TweetWager to bet on your fighter and then pay with TwitPay – no need to leave Twitter!
I like the way you think sir!
These are pretty cool apps. I really underestimated Twitter apps and thought they all had to do with followers and whatnot.
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It'd be nice if you included the Television Spy which aggregates and tracks television viewership statistics globally.
It'd be nice if you included the Television Spy which aggregates and tracks television viewership statistics globally.
It'd be nice if you included the Television Spy which aggregates and tracks television viewership statistics globally.
It'd be nice if you included the Television Spy which aggregates and tracks television viewership statistics globally.
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Twitter is a fairly recent social networking site and it is amazing how many different apps are available for such a variety of things already. Is there anything Twitter can't do?!
As of right now, it seems like the only thing Twitter cannot do is make money. LOL! I imagine if Twitter does get the Nobel Piece Prize though it's going to just rake in so much cash, if you ever saw the T.V. show Duck Tails, in the beginning when Scrooge is swimming through gold coins, that is gonna be the creators of Twitter.
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What?! Baby Activity Logger didn't make the list and its ability to tell the world about every crappy diaper and spit-up your baby has?
Inconceivable!
twitter is now everywhere… i remember when the twitter was firstly launched i didn't took it seriously… but now… i must say that if you are a social media person then you have to tweet…. and all these apps will help you out in channelizing the twitter for the best of the best outputs
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Sounds good Marc, I will have a look to it, thanks.
Great post, thanks.
I was looking for a "drink twitter plugin" for a long time now,
that's a game a buddy of mine and me play all the time.
Thanks!