ThingsAmongMany

After compiling The Ultimate List of Twitter Tools, it struck me that the list is a little overwhelming. So here are my choices - generally speaking, one from each category - of the Twitter tools that are the best of the bunch.

If you’re into it, please feel free to tweet/retweet the list and gimme a follow/shout @AmongMany. I’ve also cross-posted on BrandsAmongMany.

Ad Networks

I have personally used any of the ad networks, but from going through each one, I was most drawn to Be A Magpie:

Be A Magpie - Our customers sign up and create campaigns which consist of magpie-tweets (i.e. ads). Twitterers allow us to post magpie tweets among their tweets and for them to get paid for it.

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Not too long ago, I started bookmarking Twitter-related stuffs as I came across them. Then the “big Twitter wave” hit, and I’ve been adding 3-4 listings per day over the last couple of weeks. I figured it was about time to share everything I’ve come up with so far. I’ll continue adding to it as I find more. If you know of something I’ve missed, PLEASE call it out in comments so I can get it added to the list!

If you’re into it, please feel free to tweet/retweet the list and gimme a follow/shout @AmongMany. I’ve also cross-posted on BrandsAmongMany. And, since this list is about 285 items, it’s a little tough to crawl through. So I’ve culled it down to the 15 apps (by category) that I think you should look at in a separate post.

Looking for the list? It’s after the jump…

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The other day I wrote up TwiToShirt.com, a service that lets you submit any tweet and have it printed on your choice of tees (or other items) – sidebar, it looks like they’ve redesigned the site since that post. Today, however, on a quick jaunt through Racked.com, I noticed their discussion of a significantly more awesome Tweet-on-shirt setup.

Created by Squidder, this new take integrates the new tech-trend of augmented reality. By printing a unique bar code on the shirt, a Twitterer’s latest Tweet can be displayed via any device that can read the code (a mobile device or computer with camera being the most obvious). Check it out here:

PaperTweet3d: Augmented Reality T-shirts from squidder on Vimeo.

There’s been a TON of talk in the past week or so about how Twitter has hit the mainstream. The celebs are flooding in (and some are even using Twitpic). And further proof (like an onslaught of celebrity tweets wasn’t enough) is the “put that on a t-shirt” sites grabbing onto the “Twitter phenomenon”.

Have a favorite tweet that you want to wear all the time? Swing on over to TWItoShirt. Enter the URL of your desired tweet and off you go. Prices start at $17 for your basic tweet-on-white combo and go up from there based on the color you choose. Or, for a few bucks less, you can slap that tweet on a coaster to push around your table – a few different coasters with a variety of tweets might prove interesting?

A tribute to the show that launched NPH into early stardom, Twoogie takes your tweets and converts them to a Doogie-style interface, complete with theme song. Add your Twitter name to the Twoogie URL and it’ll display your latest tweet. Or go to Twoogie.com and you can type up a fresh tweet directly from the interface.

Need I say more? All right, I’ll top it off with the admission that I prefer NPH as Barney in How I Met Your Mother. If you’re not into this show already, get over to CBS or Hulu to check it out. It’s hi-larious!

Ok, its official, Twitter is taking over the world. Not only can you tweet your eats (check out @having), but now you can tweet…the results as well. Something that I’d never have thought about adding to Twitter, though I can’t really say I’m surprised that someone else did: Pooptag!

Pooptag allows you to either covertly, or openly, Tweet your Poop habits to the world. Part game, part…social experiment, all fun? Here’s what they have to say about it:

How to win

• I wouldn’t necessarily call it winning
• The idea is to “tag” someone pooping at the same time you are
• You can’t really lose, since PoopTag strives to be both encouraging and enlightening

Why?

• Think of it as a sort of “digital laxative”
• You’ll enjoy all the benefits of a social defecation network, e.g. Poop Cycle Compatibility Matching
• It gives you something to do — plus some people to be with — while you poop

[Flickr credit to Lawrence Whittemore]

Yeah, yeah, of course we all have PayPal. But if you’re anything like me, you know at least 17 people who have had some issue or another with those guys. Heck, I spent the better part of last week bouncing emails back and forth with them trying to get funds released - not exactly confidence inspiring. Of course, PayPal isn’t going away anytime soon for things like ebay payments. But for simple donations, there is a new way!

TipJoy is a new web-based service that makes it uber-simple to collect donations - or donate to your favorite sites - online. Signup is easy with the usual email/password. But what makes TipJoy really stand out is their Twitter integration. You can also sign up via your Twitter name and password, and users can tweet their donations directly from Twitter!

They also offer integration into a number of blogging platforms with either a basic, or a fully customizable button. It looks like some of the features still need a bit of work - there’s not much to do in your profile settings page (looks like there’s a place for a picture, but nowhere to upload one…). But overall, TipJoy could prove a worthwhile alternative for certain PayPal functions.

You may have noticed our recent post about What I Had For Lunch Today, our fun little Flickr project/experiment where everyone can share their lunch. Not long after that was posted, we noticed a friend Tweet a verbal version of her lunch to @having. Of course, we were intrigued and began to investigate…

A visit to @having’s Twitter profile revealed that the profile is the Twitter component of a bigger project that lives at FoodFeed.us. Similar to What I Had For Lunch Today, FoodFeed allows users to share what they’re eating simply by tweeting it to @having. If you go to the FoodFeed site, you can peruse what other people are eating or just dig back through your own meals.

The site claims that more features are in the pipeline. And, before you go looking for too much purpose behind it, they readily state that FoodFeed is

not really useful. It’s just fun. And if you can make something useful out of it, we would be happy

So go have some fun, share your food, and if you’re inclined, do what we do…post it as photos!

Its almost that time. Yes, maybe I’m jumping the gun (it’s not even Thanksgiving).. but for all those people who’s New Years resolution is to lose weight, meet TweetWhatYouEat.

It allows you to use twitter as a food diary.
By sending direct messages to TweatWhatYoueat you can keep track of what you eat, instantly. It even allows you to log calories and your weight (which I will not be doing). Then you can view your diary personally via direct messages to Tweet What You Eat.

Tweetwhatyoueat also will link your food entries to  CrowdCal, a database of foods, allowing it to automatically figure out your caloric intake.  So far all you cheaters out there, beware. TweetWhatYouEat knows.

What do you get when you take a mechanism similar to Twitter and add the suffix “gasm” to the title? Well, you get Textgasm. Textgasm is an anonymous, Twitter-like site dedicated to sharing secrets. You submit that little tidbit that you’re just itching to share with the world - anonymously - and it populates a stream of secrets that anyone can stopy by and read. Unlike Twitter, Textgasm also offers users the ability to comment on other’s secrets.

And, not one to miss out on the phenomenon of the Twitterverse, the secrets at Textgasm can also be viewed by following @Textgasm on Twitter.

Of course, be forewarned, anonymity online breeds some raunchiness. It seems that, until Textgasm takes off a bit more, you might encounter some more…PG-13 secrets being share.