Twitter has now become so ubiquitous that it has become part of the standard toolbox of community organizers, marketers, and others who need to share and receive information in a quick, informal environment. Here, I present a long list of tools that can help to make twittering your ideal microblogging tool.

Find new Friends

Connect with other users, local community members or like-minded peaople by finding followers through these sites.

• Nearby Tweets: Local Twitter users near you.
• WeFollow: WeFollow offers a user powered Twitter directory.
• GeoFollow: a location-based Twitter directory.
• Twits Like Me: Find other tweeps through Twits Like Me.
• Twubble: Twubble finds people who have interests that are like with yours.
• Twitter Packs: find new people based on interests.
• Twellow: This Twitter directory is sorted by category.
• Follow Cost: find out how much effort it takes to follow a specific Twitterer.
• Atlas: Tweets plotted on a map, nice!
• TwitterLocal: Find Tweets (messages) from a specific location.

Manage you Twitter Account

• TweetDeck: Create Twitter groups on TweetDeck, e.g. business and home.
• twAitter: Schedule, and create recurring Twitter updates.
• EmailTwitter: Send Tweets (updates) to Twitter using email.
• Tweetreplies: Sends all your @replies (mentions) to your email account.
• Splitweet: Use more than one accouht at once.
• Followize: An efficient way to read your tweets.
• HootSuite: Manage multiple Twitter accounts.
• Twitblocker: Hide and unhide your friends that are tweeting too much.
• twitTangle: Rate and tag your friends, filter your timeline based on these criteria.
• Qwitter: Find out when followers stop following you back.
• RSSFriends: Get updates of new followers and unfollowers as RSS feed.
• Tweet Later: Schedule tweets for specific times later.
• TweetBackup: Keep a back up of your tweets and your friends.

Share Photos, Videos and Files

• : The best known photo sharing app for Twitter, browse photos from the public feed.
• SnapTweet: Post your Flickr updates to Twitter.
• TweeTube: Share videos.
• LiveTwitting: Some kind of micro-liveblogging, especially good for events.
• Twitxr: Send photos from your mobile phone.
• Annotated Links: bundle many links and notes into one URL to Tweet on Twitter.DreamTweet: Niche alert: special app for wharing dreams and nightmares.
• Private notes: Send password protected private tweets.
• TweetCube: Share files (links to uploads) via Twitter.
• PhotoTwitter: Take snapshots with your iSight (mac only).

Twitter Games

Yes, Twitter gaming exists!

• Whose Tweet?: How well do you know your Twitter friends by their Tweets?
• Plinky: Daily question or challenge to answer via Twitter.
• Outwit Me: try to be more funniy, intelligent.
• Tweet Words: Get more and more clues and guess the answer.
• Twrivia: Daily pop quiz with trivia questions.
• TweetTest: mini games based on your tweets.

News related tools

• Twitscoop: Track events and trends.
• Twiggit: Find news and articles related to your profile.
• QuoteURL: Quote many tweets at once on one page.
• TweetScan: Get an alert (email) for tweets matching your keywords.
• Twups: News aggregator, follow favorite subjects.
• Just Signal: Filter tweets about keywords you choose, ignore the rest.
• twAnswers: like lazyweb, get an answer from Twitter users.
• TweetGrid: Customized search dashboard.
• TwiST: Make your searches more efficient.
• Twitter Search: Find the latest Twitter trends (offical part of Twitter).
• Twilert: Get an alert (email) for tweets matching your keywords.
• twitority: Tries to select only authoritative sources.

Twitter Groups Tools

Create and manage Virtual groups on Twitter.

• Tweetizen: Start your own group, or join groups with specific interests.
• twtpoll: Take polls and surveys through Twitter.
• Tweetworks: Grouping and threaded discussions on Twitter.
• tweetparty: Communicate directly to your Twitter group.
• HappyTwitday: Celebrate birthdays on Twitter.
• StrawPoll: Set up tiny polls.
• ConnectTweet: Combine updates of your group.
• GroupTweet: Make Twitter group-aware.
• TwitOrg: Create, manage, and join virtual organizations.

Organize your Tweets

• Tweetree: Add conversational, threaded context.
• TwitterNotes: Make private notes for yourself.
• Twitterlights: One-click tweeting, save (web) content.
• Twit2Do: Use Twitter to-do lists GTD style.
• TrackDailyGoals: GTD tool for your productivity and goals.
• Postica: Sticky notes on Twitter.
• Twtvite: Event management for planning events.
• Twtask: Simple tasks lists on Twitter.

Twitter Integration

Integrate Twitter with other web apps.

• Twoxit: Update your Twitter profile from your website or blog.
• LoudTwitter: List your tweets on your blog.
• 30 Boxes: 30 Boxes has Twitter integration too.
• SI-Messenger: Integrate IM, Twitter and more in Second Life.
• TwitterBox: Use Twitter from within Second Life.
• twiggit: Share digged articles from dig.com.
• TwitterFeed: Automatically post content from any RSS feed to Twitter.
• Twttrstrm: Ask a question and have users share answers to your Squidoo lens.