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StreamTwitter

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:55:46 +0000

StreamTwitter is a light weight web-based script used for streaming Twitter live on TVs, projectors and other video sources in real time at events, concerts, trade-shows, nightclubs, presentations and more.

Integrate social media into your events and get audience participation like never before. Just open the script on your laptop, switch to full screen mode and connect to your video source. It’s easy to customize the look of with your own branding, can censor bad words, is well documented and has great support available.

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Twitter Friend Killer

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:19 +0000

Twitter Friend Killer will delete all friends that are not followers, even if you want to follow these people it will remove everyone that is not following you. The following statement on the website is self-explanatory:
“Do you have too many twitter friends that didn’t convert into followers? Well… now you can just kill’em off with the Twitter Friend Killer.”

This is a Windows only application and requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be present as a prerequisite.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
	Not practical as desktop application (requires lots of installations like .NET framework and Windows Installer)
	One function application without recovery option

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Xobni

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:41:05 +0000

Xobni is a sidebar application for Microsoft Outlook that can show recent tweets for people that email you. Simply click on an email in Outlook and the sidebar updates to show you a list of possible Twitter IDs for that person. Once you choose their ID, you can view, retweet, and reply to their tweets. You can also tweet from within the Xobni sidebar at any time.

Great simple way to connects with your Outlook contacts with Twitter.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Makes OutLook slow sometimes
Has other features like Facebook and LinkedIn connections
Auto detection for your contacts accounts in Twitter and Facebook

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Google Desktop Twitter Gadget

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:54 +0000

Google has provided a Twitter gadget for Google Desktop. Now you can have Twitter in Google Desktop side bar of your system (Windows, Mac, or Linux).

The problem with the gadget it has limited features and doesn’t support multiple account. Very minimal.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple gadget	Limited features
Works with Google Desktop in Wndows, Mac and Linux	Doesn’t support multiple Twitter accounts
	Doesn’t support internet proxy settings

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Termtter

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:51 +0000

Termtter is a terminal based Twitter client written in Ruby language. You can post tweets, send direct messages, view followers, and more using shell commands! A geeky type of apps.. Also Termtter supports plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

Termtter can run in Linux and MacOS. For Windows users, there’s Quitter, a command line Twitter app.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Shell based app	For geeks… only!
Supports plugins	No direct ability to change the logged in Twitter account (you have to change a config file to do that!)
Has many features

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Kzalek

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:30 +0000

Kzalek is a decent Adobe Air Twitter client for Arabic users. Adobe Air apps have problems in viewing Arabic fonts in Mac and Linux (as well Flash). Kzalek solves this issue and also provides right to left (RTL) view for Arabic tweets.

What makes Kzalek lovely is it’s simple minimal interface plus the features that are presented in small neat icons. Features like translating tweets to Arabic, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and uploading images to TwitPic.

Kzalek still in beta supporting an Arabic interface only for now. It seems promising in future as global Twitter client in case the English interface is supported. Note that Spaz Adobe Air app also support Arabic encoding in tweets.

Developed by Mustafa Farghaly. More on ArabCrunch.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very easy to use, simple and pretty interface	Doesn’t provide an English interface
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux with full Arabic font support	No option to view your sent direct messages
Automatically right align Arabic tweet
Provides an Arabic translating option for tweets

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Hummingbird

Saleh Alzaid — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:04:05 +0000

Hummingbird is an intelligent Twitter marketing tool. It targets and auto follows Twitter accounts based on keywords. It also provides stats and reports of your account, followers, and interested tweets.

As an Adobe Air app, Hummingbird supports Windows and Mac OSX (it should support Linux though it’s not written in Hummingbird website. Strange uh?). One cool feature of Hummingbird is that it supports 3rd party plugins and most of them are free. Unfortunately Hummingbird itself is not free and kinda expensive.. 197$! and there’s not trial version to test.. At least the screenshots shows some of the mentioned features.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very solid interface	Very expensive! 197$
Has huge number of sophisticated features	No trial version to test
Supports multiple accounts
Intelligent and automated solution

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Twistori

Saleh Alzaid — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:39:32 +0000

Twistori is a pretty visualization of tweets containing the words:

i love
i hate
i think
i believe
i feel
i wish

You can get the Twistori as a screensaver for Mac also.

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AlertThingy

Saleh Alzaid — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:05:25 +0000

AlertThingy is an Adobe Air application that supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS feeds, and many more web 2.0 social services. With AlertThingy you will able to control the steam of alerts, tweets, Facebook notifications and others all in one place. And you can divide Twitter users, Facebook friends, customized RSS feeds into groups! Powerful app.

AlertThingy also provides another version dedicated for FriendFeed.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty and simple interface	Doesn’t support Arabic charterers in Mac and Linux (Adobe Air bug)
Provide an easy way to control the streams of tweets, Facebook notifications, RSS feeds and more
Adobe air app supporting Windows, Linux and Mac
You mix Twitter users, Facebook friends and RSS feeds in groups

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Choqok

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:09:44 +0000

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for Linux K Desktop Environment (KDE). It’s free and open source application supporting Twitter and Identi.ca.

The name “choqok” comes from an ancient Persian word which means Sparrow!

ChoqoK has many features like multiple accounts, supporting right to left (RTL) languages, TwitPic integration, KWallet integration, ability to notify user about new statuses text with KNotification or Libnotify, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and many others.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Can be slow in opening when there are many tweets
Supports Twitter and Identi.ca	Has some bugs because of the re programming of the new version
Integrates with Linux environment sub systems (like KWallet and KNotification)
Free and open source application
Supports right to left languages
Displays emotions as images