The Most Creative 10 Websites and Apps Built on Top of Twitter

Twitting all day about design stuff is one of my favorite things lately, but Twitter is more – much more than that. A lot of creative folks have build whole new and amazing websites and services around Twitter and we’re showcasing the best 10. Please leave your thoughts suggestions in the comments area.

The Longest Poem in the World

The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day

Almost At – Be There Without Being There

Following people at real-world events in real time from the comfort of your couch-n-laptop

Freezly – All The Freebies in One Place

Freezly answers the question “What’s free on the Internet?” Freezly aggregates giveaways found on Twitter so that you, the Internet user, can simply pick and try to win whatever giveaways interest you

Just Bought It – Find Put What Others Are Buying

JustBought.it is a location-based social shopping app that allows you to share photos and tweets on amazing finds as you stumble upon them

We Are Hunted – The Twitter Music Chart

We discover new music from around the web and detect sentiment, expression and advocacy to understand what people like and dislike

Twisten.FM – Twitter meets The Hype Machine

Twisten.fm is a mashup that crawls Twitter for tweets about music. It then takes those tweets and throws in a play button so that you can listen to the song being talked about

Twitmatic – The Twitter TV

Twitmatic is a real-time stream of videos being shared on Twitter

Cursebird – What The f#@!

Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swaring on Twitter

Tori’s Eye – Instant Twitter Visuals

Tori’s eye is a Twitter visualization tool, inspired by papercraft and origami. It’s a visual and technical experiment implemented using only standard XHTML/CSS and Javascript

Twistori – The First Creative Twitter Mashup

Twistori is based on twitter, inspired by wefeelfine, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs of slash7

Catalin Zorzini

Catalin is a social media racounteur at Mostash - a small social media studio - and he's always happy to share his passion for graphic design. Catalin Zorzini has 182 posts at Inspired Mag & counting!

Comments

Paul Randall August 31st

I, along with Ollie Parsley create the H1 Debate: http://www.h1debate.com.

To cast your vote, simply include your message with the hashtag #h1logo or #h1title. Your tweet will automatically go into it’s respective column, and your first vote will be counted. Subsequent tweets will not count.

To follow news, stories and other information regarding H1 markup, follow @h1debate.
Ben Rama August 31st

twiiter is nt poplular 11 k searches a month is low

@Paul Randall is this your site

i dont get it its washed out with spam

prove me wrong pls explain why its cool
Rak August 31st

Mashup of Google maps and local twitter trends from Happn.in, this map will show the top 10 trending phrases in over 80+ major cities around the world.

http://www.mapmash.in/twitterlocal.html
Dicky September 1st

Great twitter apps here. Seems like freezly is cool
Jon September 1st

I recommend you add http://fricafact.com a mashup featuring different facts about Africa each day.
John Andrews September 1st

Have you seen http://tweetmygaming.com ? I really enjoy that. Very inventive.
Joffrey September 1st

What about ootweet? It allows you to save your tweets and discussions with a bookmarklet: http://ootweet.com
Seth September 1st

Sporting event attendance app, http://twtseat.com just launched. Still working out some things, but I think it has some promise.
website design stoke September 1st

First I have seen of these apps. Thanks for the article, I think you have just filled my next couple of hours. Brilliant!
Pancham September 1st

Check out GeoChirp – http://www.GeoChirp.com – a neat Twitter and Google maps mashups – which shows tweets within 50 miles of any location in the world.
Features like ‘RSS Feeds’ for search results, real time results and ‘tweet language translation’ are fairly useful.
Josh Hemsley September 3rd

Another addition: http://www.peepnote.com

Take general notes and keep track of why you followed or unfollowed someone. Also tag & organize your Twitter peeps.

The app was a top 10 finalist in the 2009 Rails Rumble 48 hour app competition.
Paul Randall September 5th

@BenRama

I apologise if it came out spammy. I wrote a nice post explaining the concept on my iPhone, but it did not appear to submit, so I instead of retyping the whole comment again, I used some copy from the site instead. Sorry if it sounded spammy.

In web design there is such a thing called semantics (reflecting intended structure and meaning) and when marking up a website you have various options of header tag. H1 to H6.

There has always been a debate as to the correct ’semantic’ use of the headings, and this site allows you to send a tweet with a hashtag, and count it as a vote – so it is essentially a twitter voting site, aimed at a particular topic.

If you would like more info, I wrote my personal opinion on the subject over on my blog: http://prandall.com/2009/02/06/the-h1-debate/
Brian DeKoning September 7th

Very cool post. Thanks! I like the origami birds best.
Michal Kozak February 18th

Great list!

We Are Hunted rocks ;D.
Smart Ideas March 6th

Inspiring article indeed.

Front page of http://www.ideas-smart.com/ displays five most recent tweets about “smart ideas”. It is also possible to display tweets for similar phrases, such as “smart idea”, “great idea”, “good idea”, etc.