Again and again ... The success of the Twitter micro-blogging service seems to be unstoppable. The social network is so popular that around the main application of supplementary services like mushrooms sprouting from the ground. It is exciting to keep track current development, as the Twitter wave in Germany has not yet arrived in the measure, such as Facebook. A quick look at google trends , however, show that the evolution of Twitter, viewed internationally, much more rapid runs. In Germany, the use of the service to "slow" but steady. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ", the number of active German Twitterers in Germany rose in June by 34 percent to 105,000. In order to accelerate the use of Twitter, because in May had the growth amounted to only 25 percent. "(Source: webevangelisten.de )
A slight understatement, as in times of crisis weakening many companies can dream of such growth figures "only". But most remarkable is the overall growth and a particular degree of influence that Twitter has on the community network. Determined according to figures from Alexa, an Internet service, the statistics on the number of hits on websites, is the world-wide-web-wide reach of approximately 0.1% at the start of the annual increase to almost 4% at the end of July, which on Twitter # 21 of the most visited sites positioned. Following the triumph is weakening in the U.S. , growth is now understandably strongly, yet international development remains exciting. Google search insights speaks volumes.
To increase the range have certainly contributed to the mass over time developed additional services to Twitter. On the sense and nonsense of these additional applications can be discussed, but anyone who has interest, may, at the following directories, wikis and blogs:
- A truly comprehensive list of over 485 Twitter Tools
- Also on the Twitter Fan Wiki are countless applications listed
- The Top 100 Twitter Applications to delicious
- 100 Twitter tools that help in achieving personal goals.
It is already difficult to meet these huge lists a selection. My personal favorites are TweetDeck, and TwerpScan followcost:
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air client. Received messages are divided into several strips, for example, general messages, replies and direct messages. Contacts may further be sorted into groups.
Since a lot of marketing people on Twitter romp, which one would not necessarily expect his followers, helps http://twerpscan.com/ even with a large number of follower to keep track of and sort out unwanted contacts.
A similar approach followcost . Since there are some Twitter users who write a lot (!) Messages, which is disturbing in part, to determine in advance how many messages a potential contact writes on average.
Whoever intends to develop new services for Twitter is in http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries many software libraries for various programming languages.
I've translated the descriptions of the APIs and software libraries for my favorite languages, Java, PHP, C # / NET and Ruby.:
C # /. NET
- Yedda Twitter Library by Yedda. Every Twitter API method as will be shown as equivalent in this. NET wrapper class.
- TwitterooCore API by Eric Willis / Rare Edge Design Group. Binary. NET library that can be used in each. NET project.
- Twitterizer open DigitallyBorn originally, now source. For. NET 2.0.
- tweet # by Daniel Crenna. "100% coverage of REST and Search APIs".
Java
- Twitter4J by Yusuke Yamamoto (open-source, maven, google app engine, BSD license). My personal favorite.
- java-twitter by DeWitt Clinton. Pure Java interface for the Twitter API.
- jTwitter by Daniel Winterstein. Open-source, pure Java implementation.
PHP
- My Twitter Andres Scheffer. Set and determine a user's status.
- TwitterLibPHP Justin Poliey. Manipulation of a Twitter user accounts.
- Arc90_Service_Twitter by Matt Williams. Open source Twitter client API.
- PHP Twitter by Aaron Brazell, original code from David Billingham.
- PEAR Services_Twitter by Joe Stump and David Jeeine Louis.
- PHP Twitter by Tijs Verkoyen. BSD license.
- Twitter-async Jaise of Mathai. Wrapper for Twitter's OAuth API, which enables asynchronous calls.
- API CodeIgniter Library by Eliot Haughin.
Ruby
- Twittery of Chris Ledet. Lightweight class for Twitter API.
- Grackle by Hayes Davis. Supports OAuth, Search API, REST API.
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