Twitter is, alternatively or simultaneously:
- The death of blogging.
- One of those odd things brought upon us by the Web 2.0 “social network” revolution.
- Yet another attempt at reinventing the IRC wheel.
- CB radio via HTTP.
- A way to keep track of your colleagues:
Resources
Various clients or hacks:
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 10 | TweetS60 | A native (and eminently usable) S60 client, currently freeware (only thing it lacks is photo upload). |
| Jun 28 | twittov | A Markov chain generator that trains upon a user’s Twitter timeline. Used for some parody stunts with chilling results. |
| 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) |