Breathtaking Twitter Resources: Creative Profiles, Monitoring Tools and Directories

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to keep your followers and friends update by sending short text messages, called tweets.

Creative Twitter Profiles

For those who may prefer a more personal look and feel when browsing the site, twitter has given you the option to customize your profile. When you design your profile page, everything you see on Twitter will be set in the theme you have chosen.

ArteWebdesign

chriscoyier

nicholaspatten

boagworld

cameronolivier

DesignerDepot

graphicidentity

cheth

marcelsantilli

KrisColvin

Ubikwitusrex

oxygenna

luciana_luz

showcasemark

XquiziteLizard

HungryGirl

nbawiileague

LisaWorsham

Go_Media

Doubleolee

Farrhad

nullvariable

ramesstudios

Alyssa_Milano

binojxavier

andysowards

theleggett

davewilhelm

Twitter Directories

• WeFollow
• Twellow
• TwitterCounter
• TwitterHolic
• Twibs
• Just Tweet It
• Tracking Twitter

Useful Twitter Tools

• Mozilla Firefox Plugin for Twitter
• Greasemonkey Script for Twitter Search in Sidebar
• Twitter Search Operators

Articles for Improving Twitter Search Skills

• 7 “Secret” Ways to Use Twitter Search
• HOW TO: Use Twitter’s Advanced Search Features
• Using Twitter Search for Business
• 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends
• Generating Quality Marketing Leads With Google Alerts and Twitter
• How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
• Using Twitter Search to Boost Local Business
• Twitter Tips: How to Search Twitter Smarter
• Take Advantage of Twitter Search Operators
• It’s Time to Start Thinking of Twitter as a Search Engine
• How To Use Twitter for Customer Service

Twitter Research and Monitoring Tools

• TwitterGradr — Hubspot’s tool for finding “elite” Tweeters based on location and influence.
• Monitter — Lets you “monitter” the Twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying in a grid layout.
• TweetStats — Graphs out Twitter habits based on how often, what time of day, and @ replies for you or any user.
• TweetBeep — Great for online reputation management, catching all your @replies and @mentions, finding job/networking opportunities.
• Twitscoop — Full feature Twitter web client with search, trends, and real time buzz.
• What The Hashtag -The user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter, allows print outs of hashtag transcriptions, Greasemonkey script adds, and Firefox add on.  Track popular and trending hashtags.
• Hashtag.org — Tracks the frequency that a hashtag is used on Twitter and provides details about the hashtag

Geolocation Twitter Tools

• GeoFollow — Large location based Twitter Directory, find and follow by city, state, zip or tags.
• Trendsmap — Real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.
• LocaFollow — Search by location & follow (allows bulk follow) LocaFollowis powered by Google so  results are shown in the same order that Google shows it. Those Twitter pages that are better SEO optimized will appear on the top.
• TPS — the Tweet Positioning System, is a geo-location filter for conversations and mentions on Twitter.
• GeoTwitTrends — Shows real-time trending topics happening in specific places.
• GeoChirp - Set the location and then search for tweets based on keywords.  All results from that location would be displayed.
• Twittori — Allows you to follow places in a similar way than you are used to following users on Twitter as well as attach your tweets to a specific location.
• TweetMondo - Shows Twitter users that have either registered in Tweetmondo.com or were crawled by their crawler and filtered by location.