Twitter Tools and Links that will keep you entertained..

Fun Twitter Links and Tools:

• Twitter Counter – show off how “popular” you are or visa versa…

• TwInfluence – is a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.

• Qwitter – Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter. Just add your Twitter username that you want to track to their site and your e-mail address and they’ll do the rest. Click on a link in one of the emails to turn it off.

• Twitter Grader – Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of
  your Twitter profile.

• Twitter Elite – check out TwitterGrader rockstars.

• 25+ Celebrity Twitter Users

• Barack Obama on Twitter

• Twitterbuzz figures out the most popular links sent. Maybe you should check out this list with 50 Twitter mash-ups.

• Twittervision shows the latest messages on a map.

• #Hashtags to display realtime usage of tags in Twitter messages. Definitely interesting to recognize what is hot at the moment.

• Twitterholic has a list of the most popular Twitter users, definitely a great starting point

• Read more about Twitter and interesting mash-ups on their official blog.

Twitter as means of social justice:

CNN.com has been following the account of an American student journalist and his Egyptian translator who were jailed in Egypt. Using Twitter to notify people of his capture, his university quickly contacted authorities who arranged for his release. The translator, however, remained in custody until this week. Read the full story here.

Twitter Plugins:

• Twitter Tools Plugin (WordPress) – Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your blog and your Twitter account. View your most recent Tweets on your blogs sidebar.

• TwitterNotifier (firefox) – Notifies you of your friends updates. Instead of being located in the sidebar, it’s activated with a small icon in the right bottom corner of Firefox.

• Power Twitter by 30 Boxes – The plugin for power users comes from 30 boxes, and it’s named accordingly: Power Twitter. Instead of adding functionality to Firefox, it adds features to your actual Twitter page; it embeds Flickr and YouTube, shows you the true addresses of tinyurls, maps links to web page titles. Additionally, it maps user information from 30 boxes, so you can get the latest updates and additional info for those Twitter friends who use 30 boxes.

• TwittyTunes (firefox) – If you think that the world should know exactly which song your listening to at any given time, then TwittyTunes is the plugin for you. It works with the FoxyTunes Firefox extension (but it’s not obligatory; it just won’t post music info without it), and it allows you to automatically post your currently playing songs to Twitter. Furthermore, you can also let everyone know what website you’re currently viewing, and what videos you’re watching (be careful there, you might not want people to know you’re currently viewing Me So Asian 3).