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Since Twitter has kept their programming interface open to the development community, the landscape of third-party Twitter applications is constantly shifting.  Some of these application are useful and worth your time.  Many are not.  Rather than provide a long list of the hundreds of applications out there, we’d like to do a little filtering for you.  So we’re giving you a list of the Twitter add-ons that are worth talking about.

Today it’s coming to you via a blog post.  We’re still considering the best way to keep this updated list in front of you.  Do we keep updating this post even though it will fall off the front page of our blog fairly quickly.  Maybe we tweet when new applications are added to this list?  Would you subscribe to an RSS that consisted solely of brief synopses of Twitter applications?  We could also add a “static” page to our website that you can come to whenever you want to check the current list.  Let us know how you’d prefer to see our top picks in the comments.

1. Twitterfeed - Post from your blog or RSS feed will show up automatically in your Twitter account.
2. Nearby Tweets - Look for people who are talking about certain topics in a particular geographic area.
3. TweetDeck – The job of managing your Twitter account gets a lot easier wth this simple desktop client.
4. TweetBeep – Intended to make the job of staying on top of topics easier, TweetBeep will send you an hourly update when your key terms get mentioned.
5. Chatterfly – Normally a search on Twitter looks through the entire public timeline, but Chatterfly lets you limit your search to only the people you are following.
6. TwtQpon – If you want to send coupons out to your Twitter followers, TwtQpon does the heavy lifting for you.
7. followcost – Telling you how often a user tweets per day (and what percentage of those are @replies), followcost gives you an idea of what kind of time commitment following a particular user will entail.
8. Topify – Topify gives you an upgrade to the default email that Twitter will send you when you get a new follower.  Topify gives you more relevant information to help you decide if you want to follow that person back.
9. Twellow – A well organized directory of thought leaders on Twitter in different categories.
10. Twilert – Sends you an email when any of your trending topics are mentioned.
11. TwInbox – This addon puts a Twitter client inside Microsoft Outlook.
12. TwitterSnooze – When you don’t want to unfollow someone, but you want to skip all their tweets until they get back from vacationing with their cat.
13. Twitter Grader – Very basic stats about your account, but also points out any behavior you may want to change in your tweeting habits.
14. FutureTweets – Write tweets today and schedule when they should be posted to your Twitter account.
15. Twitalyzer – Check a few metrics to see how your Twitter activity compares to the rest of the community.
16. TwitPic – Easily upload pictures and link to them from your tweets.