9 Big apps Twitter has built

While Twitter has not yet started to make a profit, it does not stop a group of entrepreneurs from starting to build their own businesses based on Twitter. Because Twitter has opened its own code to outside developers. So other companies can create a wide range of services and hope to make a profit. So Twitter is no longer just a simple enterprise, but a transformation into an ecosystem. Here are 9 representative applications built on the Twitter ecosystem.

Tweetie

Category: Mobile Client

The growing popularity of smartphones has spawned a group of Twitter apps that have been updated via mobile networks. Tweetie is one of them. The program is designed for Apple's iphone, which allows users to buy the software at an Apple store for a price of 2.99 dollars. Program developer Odebrecht gets a 70% commission and the remaining 30% is owned by Apple.

StockTwits

Category: Investment community

With StockTwits, investors can filter Twitter's various groups and get Twitter messages that involve a stock market or a stock.

WeFollow

Category: User dictionaries

It is hard to find users of a particular interest in a large Twitter user. But the Wefollow created by Kevenross can invite users to add "tags" to themselves to help people understand the topics that this person is often involved in, and then sort the most popular users of each category.

Twitscoop

Category: Trend monitoring

In the news of the incident, the Twitter community is often a big step ahead of the traditional media. Twitscoop Such services can collect the most popular Twitter themes of any time, and then combine these topics in a "text cloud", with the highest frequency of topics displayed in the largest font size. Philipp Brouls has been involved in the creation of Twitscoop, saying twitscoop algorithms can be used in more fields.

Twitterjobsearch

Category: Recruitment tools

TwitterJobSearch2009 March on line, in the first 5 days on the line, the site's browsing volume has broken through 100,000 times, these people are hoping to find work through the platform. Twitterjobsearch will then launch a paid service and charge by click.

Twitbacks

Category: User profile

Many people are more willing to treat their Twitter background as a personalized business card, using the background of the page to display their work location and other information. And Twitbacks can provide users with this personalized background service, and completely free. There are, however, several 10-dollar services available to help users increase their exposure.

Twittercounter

Category: Profiling Tools

The millions of messages that Twitter generates every day contain a lot of data, and Twittercounter allows users to track multiple data. For those who want to get more attention, Twittercounter also offers advanced services, including information pictures, resumes, and links. The price of a paid service is $500 per 150,000 display.

Tipjoy

Category: Trading system

When you enter your credit card information and PayPal account in Tipjoy, users simply post a message with simple code on Twitter to send money to a friend, business, or charity account. The service will charge the user a 3% fee.

Twitterhawk

Category: Marketing tools

This tool allows any enterprise to automatically send information to all Twitter users who are involved in a particular keyword. For example, an enterprise can send ads to a geographic range of users who refer to "coffee". Every Twitter message sent by the enterprise pays 5 cents to Twitterhawk.

From Businessweek