Sunday, 21 January 2007

Twitter

Twitter is, alternatively or simultaneously:

  1. The death of blogging.
  2. One of those odd things brought upon us by the Web 2.0 “social network” revolution.
  3. Yet another attempt at reinventing the IRC wheel.
  4. CB radio via HTTP.

Resources

Various clients or hacks:

Date Link Notes
Mar 29 Gravity A commercial S60 client.
Mar 7 TwitteReader A PHP based front-end designed to match the Google Reader UI.
Feb 25 Gwibber for Gnome
Feb 13 twits60 S60 native client (under development )
Jan 29 Twim A simple, fast and very usable Java client for mobile phones
Jan 12 microblog-purple a libpurple plugin to integrate Twitter with Pidgin
Oct 28 Twidroid For Android phones
TwitterBerry For Blackberry devices
Jan 21 Twitterrific For Mac and iPhone
Growllified Tweet Ted Leung’s modified AppleScript (for using Quicksilver and Growl)