Twitter is one of the simplest applications I have seen in the recent past, its success and popularity underlines the importance of simplicity. If you really look at it then people want to do so much more than just knowing where you are at and what you doing! Don’t you want a click a picture and share it with your follower when you say “I just saw the prettiest chick ever!” or “The sunset has never been so beautiful” and that’s precisely why TwitPic and lot of other services like it exist..

The nature of the service is such that it has become the hub of real-time information and millions of users in any given day. According to Compete.com Twitter grew almost 400% in the last 3 months and continues to show very strong growth, thanks to main stream media for popularizing the concept among common man in US.

Information and active user base is the perfect formulae for others to build their concepts on Twitter to capitalize on both, information and the user base.  

We’ve seen twitter based apps ranging from very basic to weird and out-of-the-box concepts (Tweet-a-Watt, Botanicalls, etc..) and implementations. Twitdom has about 800 Apps and Twitdom is just one of the Twitter App directories, there are many more directories like Twitdom.

For example, here is an implementation of a concept where a washing machine sends a Tweet when its done washing..

Washing Machine Twitter Hack from Ryan Rose on Vimeo.

I’ve always believed that a business is only successful if it builds an ecosystem around it which helps others use its services to build their business and profit for it.

DELL made about $1million in revenue last year using Twitter services. Everyone who is subscribed to receive DELL’s updates would receive alerts from DELL whenever a discount comes up, users can simply click and buy the product. [link]

There are companies offering customer support on Twitter which improves their customer service considerably as their are accessible easily. Twitter is fast becoming an announcement platform for big companies who understand the improtance of information and reach in terms of users. Twitter has undoubtly become one of the fastest medium to reach the users.

I think we haven’t really seen a strong product based on Twitter yet, but it’s just a matter of time before people figure out how they can use the exponentially growing user-base to their advantage. The day that happens Twitter will again grow by multiple folds.

So put your minds at work and take advantage of Twittes success or just enjoy one of the most simplest service on the Web and yea don’t forget to follow us (@tnerd) on Twitter

TweetBook.in is a simple service which lets you download and backup all your tweets in a PDF or an XML format.

The backup optionally includes all the replies made to the account which is being backed-up. Twitter API has a limitation which restricts TweetBook.in to backup up to 6400 latest updates only.

The service is simple and straightforward; enter your twitter ID or any twitter ID for that matter.

Here is what the simple TweetBook looks like..

Just clcik on "Make me my PDF and download the PDF file with your tweets and replies.

This is what the document looks like.. it organizes the tweets according to the date and also has a time stamp next to each update.

TNerd Twitter Backup –

Though the site says "Include Replies" for some reason don’t see any replies for this account. How about you guys?

Elliott Kember is a freelance web developer who has quite a few innovative apps credited to his name. The one this article discusses is not any less in terms of out-of-the-box implementation of a simple application.

Elliott Kember has designed a twitter application disguised as Excel spreadsheet. So next time you open the twitter app even when your boss is around he won’t suspect you of wasting time on Twitter.

The application runs on Adobe AIR (click here to download) and offers three versions of Spreadsheet interfaces, 1) Office 2007, 2) Office 2003 and 3) Office OSX.

If you are not a great fan of Adobe AIR or do not want to install any of the Twitter apps, Elliott, offers a web version of the SpreadTweet application. Click here to try SpreadTweet on the Web.

For the ones interested in downloading the application, visit Elliott Kember’s site. Follow @elliottkember to keep up with his innovative ideas and apps and follow @tnerd for the latest in tech.

Resource Links:

• Adobe AIR – [link]
• SpreadTweets for Office OSX – [link]
• SpreadTweets for Office 2007 – [link]
• SpreadTweets for Office 2003 – [link]

Thanks @rsameer and @techila for sharing.

I’ve put together a list of Twitter related applications which are fairly new and do serve the purpose..[Follow @tnerd on Twitter]

Here you go….

TweetCC is one of the latest Twitter related services which lets Twitter users publish and license tweets with Creative Commons.

So how do you really license your tweets, it’s simple, tweet this msg.. “@tweetcc: I license my tweets under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication license”

Visit tweetcc.com to know about licensing options..

TwitterDMer: This service lets its users send customized DM’s to a follower. All you have to do is loging with your Twitter login details choose one of the customized DM’s or come up with your own and that’s it, now all your new followers will get a personal DM-greeting from you automatically.

Twisten.FM is a service which “crawls Twitter for tweets about music. Then you listen to them.” For example a message like the one in the following image gets the attention of Twisten.FM and is grabbed for a song.

Twittad lets Twitter users monetize their Twitter profiles by selling their backgrounds to the advertisers. The ads can be sold for 7 days, 15 days, 1 Month, 3 Months, etc..
All the transactions are made using PayPal.

Twickie offers a meaningful service where all the replies to a particular tweet can be viewed as a regular chat-like conversation and can also be posted on blogs with proper formatting.

Example of conversations are displayed..

twtTRIP is a wonderful service helping travelers make the most out of their travel plans. Once you post your travel plans on twtTRIP it alerts you of events at the location you are travelling at the specified time.

Not only events but it does the same for other twitterers. Once a Trip is posted you get a custom URL which can be used to add new travel plans, here is mine.

Following image shows what a Travel Plan looks like on twtTRIP

Secrettweet can come to rescue when you want to confess or tell something to someone but just cannot for whatever reasons.

Visit secrettweet.com and tweet your heart out, which is posted on @screttweet. All of it is completely anonymous.

Following image shows some sample Tweets on Secrettweet

Retweetist scans through the twitter and tracks the most RT’d messages and people. This is probably the most popular twitter based service on this list. Definitely worth checking out!

TwitterMeme crawl and collects links on Twitter then it categorizes these links and gauges their important based on who tweeted them first and how many tweets they’ve received.

CoTweet is mainly for brand and corporate. It offers a solution where multiple people can manage one single account but still holding different identities by attaching their individual signatures to tweets.

It helps companies and brands tracking their brands and feedback on Twitter.

TweetLater is a collection of twitter tools put together. TweetLater lets you send you new followers a custom Thank You note, schedule your tweets, setup Tweet alerts, etc..

Note: Thanks to Rayyan for suggesting a few Apps on the lsit.

If you like to suggest a new (any) application for a review, leave the product information in the comment or e-mail us at Nerds [-at-] TNerd.com