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Find ?Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared
Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck.
Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you do what Twitter won’t let you. We’ll shed a little light on these 15 directories by separating them into four categories: applications, people, politics, and strictly business.
Applications
Twitter Fan Wiki
Overview: The apps section of Twitter Fan Wiki is like Wikipedia for Twitter apps, so it’s for you, buy you mentality, making it the most robust in terms of applications listed, but potentially the most unreliable if entries aren’t current. Applications are broken down into three categories: desktop apps, web apps, and mobile apps. And with subcategories under each heading, Twitter Fan Wiki makes it easy to drill down to just the apps you want to research.
What you might like: There are lots and lots of applications, so you’re bound to happen upon something new and cool that you didn’t even know existed.
What you won’t get: There’s a limited feature set, which means you can rate, sort, or comment on applications. Listings just include links and a short text description, so it’s impossible to get a good overview of each apps feature set without clicking through to the actual websites.
Twitdom
Overview: Twitdom, which launched with 50+ apps and now houses more than 300, uses Wordpress as a platform to display information on Twitter applications and let users navigate category types via tabs to find desktop, mobile, or web apps, browser plugins, and mashups.
What you might like: Application profiles. Each application has a short profile that also lists related applications. Users can also comment on or rate the applications. And even though it’s easy to miss, users can view the highest rated applications across the site by clicking the Popular link at the top of the site.
What you won’t get: Birdseye view. There’s plenty of applications to choose from, but it’s hard to get a good overview of the entire collection. This makes it especially difficult to sort through the growing list if you’re just browsing and don’t know exactly what you want.
Twtbase
Overview: Similar to Twitdom, Twtbase also houses their database of applications within Wordpress and divvies them up into either the web, mobile, desktop, or browser plug-in buckets.
What you might like: The thumbnail view. Each application has a screenshot, displays current rating, and number of votes. Twtbase also has a Site of the Day page that features one app per day.
What you won’t get: Selection. It’s difficult to ascertain exactly how many apps Twtbase has, but this reviewer estimates they’ve got about 80 applications in their database.
Twitter Forge
Overview: An offshoot of the Twittown blog, Twitter Forge is probably the most basic of the bunch but highlights everything Twitter related. The directory lists apps by categories like geo-locators, games, instant message, mobile devices, and web services. Each category displays associated apps with short descriptions where users can rate the app via the up/down arrow, add their comments, or view the apps total points.
What you might like: Variety. The Twitter Forge collection goes beyond just apps to include other unique Twitter related items.
What you won’t get: Current information. A lot of the entries haven’t been updated in awhile, which means that you probably won’t find the most current apps here.
Twapps
Overview: In the same vein as Twtbase, Twapps highlights each app with a thumbnail image and comment content on the home page. Users can navigate category tabs to search for desktop apps, Firefox plugins, mobile, and web apps.
What you might like: Look and feel. The site is easy on the eyes, and since there’s only about 90 apps listed you won’t get overwhelmed by selection.
What you won’t get: Ratings. Unlike similar application databases, Twapps won’t let you add a rating or display related applications.
People
Twellow
Overview: When we last wrote about Twellow they had already indexed over 300,000 twitter users and now they’re up to 842,000 plus people in their database. Users can search by bio, name, location, or category to return a results set with related individuals, their Twitter stats, and their tweets. Any T
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