In some cases the number of valid mentions was smaller than the one we found, simply because of backlinks created by some apps that published from Twitter to blogs, like “via App XYZ”.Īlso, some of the apps are available for several platforms, like Seesmic which you can use in the browser, on your desktop and on different mobile platforms. We used this and this list of Twitter apps as a basis and we analyzed all mentions in blogs across the world from April 1 to June 30. Just for the sake of completeness, the most buzzed about mobile apps in 2008 were Hahlo, Cetwit, Twitter Answers, Twapper and Twittai. There are many great mobile clients for different platforms available, which is why we decided to extend this year’s list to Top 10. Fast forward to 2010 and things are completely different. In 2008 it was pretty difficult to find a decent mobile app for Twitter, and our analysis showed that there were fewer blog posts written about mobile Twitter apps in relation to other categories. Instead, photosite mobypicture, blog-to-Twitter service twitterfeed, the 2 Twitter search engines Terraminds (abandoned) and Summize (acquired by Twitter) and the Twitter keyword aggregator twistori made it into the Top 5 in 2008. Back then we actually didn’t have a single fully functional Browser client included, simply because they didn’t exist yet. None of the top apps from 2008 is still in this year’s list. The other 4 most popular apps from 2008 – thwirl, Snitter, Tweetr (now an iPhone app) and Twitteroo – do still exist, but apparently lost the blogosphere’s attention, which now has other darlings. Same here as in the Top 5 Overall list – only Twitterrific (Mac only) is still going strong, but fell one position (from 2 to 3). The others got either abandoned (like Terraminds micro search), let alone by the developer after being acquired (like twhirl), or do not qualify anymore since they are no fully equipped Twitter clients – in 2008, we included other services like photo sites or search engines for Twitter as well, since unlike today, at that time not every Social Web platform had a Twitter integration. Only one of the Twitter apps creating the most buzz in the blogosphere back then is still part of the 2010 edition: Twitterrific, rank 4 in 2008, rank 5 today. In 2008, the ranking looked totally different. Instead, we are focusing on feature-rich Twitter clients, because this is where you have to choose from when using Twitter in a serious way. That’s why the following list does not include location based services, Blog platforms or photo/video sites capable of accessing Twitter. Since we did not want to compare apples with oranges, we thought it would the best to ignore all those apps that can connect and publish to Twitter, but that are not real, fully functional Twitter clients for reading and writing to the microblogging service. The result is a list of the most popular 3rd-party Twitter-apps according to the blogosphere, based on blog mentions between April and June this year. Using data from our blog search engine we decided to find out which Twitter clients are getting the most buzz on blogs. We think it is time to have a closer look again. Since then, Twitter has grown, some apps have disappeared, others have evolved. Two years ago the US tech blog ReadWriteWeb published our analysis of the most popular Twitter apps according to the blogosphere.
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