To make social media life a little easier, I've compiled a list of the Top 20 Twitter Applications and written a one-sentence description of each. (Ranks are based on monthly unique visitor numbers from Compete.com.)

Twitter Applications

1. Twitpic - share your photos on Twitter

2. Tweetdeck - personal browser for Twitter

3. Digsby - live newsfeed for Twitter

4. Twittercounter - track follower numbers on Twitter

5. Twitterfeed - feed your blog to Twitter

6. Twitterholic - track which Twit has the most followers

7. Twhirl - desktop client for Twitter

8. Twitturly - tracks/ranks what's talked about on Twitter

9. Twtpoll - create a poll on Twitter

10. Retweetist - track what's being retweeted

11. Tweepler - process new followers

12. Hellotxt - update your status on all social networks at once

13. Twitdom - Twitter application download database

14. Tweetscan - Twitter updates via e-mail or RSS

15. Tweetburner - tracks links shared on Twitter

16. Tweetvision - see where people are twittering in the world

17. Twitterfall - Tweets delivered in waterfall fashion

18. Monitter - enter keywords to see what people are saying

19. Twibs - browse Twitter businesses

20. Twistori - tracks specific words in tweets and feeds them

Feedback

Which have you used? What do you like/dislike about those you have used? Which do you think are the most useful?

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