Want to know what Twitter is watching? Twitmatic is a clever new site that aggregates together videos that people link to in there Tweets, displaying them in one long real-time list. From the main page you can view and follow who posted the link and also re-tweet the video yourself.

Twitmatic streams in video from loads of different sources, including live cameraphone footage from qik. The site is still in beta and more features are on the way. For all the latest news and developments follow @twitmatic

If you are a fan of Football aka Soccer then you might be interested to know of a new service called FootyTweets. The site made by serial Twitter app inventor @ollieparsley allows you to follow your favourite Football teams on Twitter to catch the latest team news, goal alerts and updates.

Currently the supported leagues are

• Barclays Premiership
• CocaCola Championship
• CocaCola League 1
• CocaCola League 2
• MLS Eastern Conference
• MLS Western Conference
• International Football

Just click on the football team of your choice and then follow. Great service for when you are on the go and want to keep up with your Team.

Have you ever spent ages chopping a Tweet up trying to fit it into 140 characters, well with a new service all that could change. 140it will shrink your Tweets down to size by…

• Reducing words, removing extra spaces
• Shrinking URL’s with bit.ly
• Exchanging company names with their StockTwits symbol

140it Demo from Vinicius Vacanti on Vimeo.

They also have a bookmarklet that you can drag into your browser toolbar for quick use.

here are some of the features of BuddyFeed

• View your feeds of home, rooms and everyone.
• View your own feeds, likes and commented messages.
• Inline web browser for links in messages.
• View comments and likes of messages.
• View user profiles
• Search your feeds
• Search all public feeds
• Post messages to your home
• Post images in messages
• Post comment to messages
• Mark like/unlike of messages
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to a user
• Bookmarklet for Safari for posting messages

Here are some screenshots of the app in action,

Yes I know it sounds crazy but marketing teams from around the globe have analysed figures day and night working crazy hours and have come up with a secret formula for App Store success, and that success is made up of: a FLASHLIGHT…. and DIRTY WET FART SOUNDS!!!

And yes you’ve guessed it, thats exactly what has gone into the latest version of Tweetie, now the only Twitter application with a flash light and fart sounds :), and as you can see from the chart below they are expecting big things from the latest update.

The developers at atebits have created something called the Popularity EnhancEr or PEE for short which you can activate in Tweeties options, this will give you a Flashlight option under the more menu and changes the swipe “click” to the sound of a fart.

The framework is also available to other iPhone app developers who want to add these 2 features to their applications. So if you like your Twitter apps with a bit more flash and fart to em then the latest Tweetie update should hit the iTunes store very soon.

Here is what else they have released with version 1.2

A new feature launched at drop.io on July 30th, 2008 will add the ability for individual drops to have an external service subscribed as a notification system. Over the course of developing this system we noticed that Twitter doesn’t provide a method for software developers (that’s us) to store their user’s information securely in an external database. The only public method for integrating drop.io with Twitter requires us to store and to send the user name and password in plain text. This offers little to no security for that user’s uniquely identifiable information. This means that it would be possible for an unknown user on a network to monitor your session and connect that twitter user name and password directly with that drop.

At the time Twitter was struggling to stay up, and with all the top blogs whale spotting I guess this issue got put to one side. Now with the recent phishing attacks the focus has once again turned back to the security of the service with the developers and Twitter currently engaged in heated discussions, all we can do as users is watch a wait to see what happens. As you can see from above, Twitter have known about it for some time and have a solution in the pipeline which will hopefully come very soon.

On a personal note before a site makes it to TweetCrunch we always read the terms of service, check the twitter account for the company, use twitter search to find out what people think and finally look on Google, if the service doesn’t have any one of these and I have no traceability then it doesn’t make it to the site, I guess it’s what everyone else does but you should also be checking these things out yourself, Twitter search is a really useful tool to get the latest information about anything.

Another thing that you maybe want to do is create a second Twitter account for testing these new services before you are ready to make the full leap over, maybe that’s a little bit extreme but it’s a potential quick fix for your piece of mind.

Moving back over to the Phishing problems, here are some basic tips to avoid becoming the bait;

• If you have it switched on remove the auto follow feature, if you don’t follow them they cant send you dm’s a lot of the people who would have had the phishing scam will have been people that auto follow.
• Always check the user out first by reading through previous tweets, making sure that all of them don’t come from rss to twitter if it is a spammer then you can report them to Twitter.
• If you do get a direct message from someone thats on your list check it out first before clicking, and never put your passwords into anything without reading the terms of service or doing a background check.

Lets hope these issues can be sorted out soon…

The Twitter Tag Project is a virtual tag game for Twitter, a bit like the Facebook Poke, the idea is you select a twitter friend and send him a message from the defined list;

• Tag, you’re it!
• Flying Kung-fu Kick
• Super Poke
• High Five
• Spank that Ass

Your Tweet will look something like this

The idea then is for your friend to log on and pass another message onto one of his/her friends and so on….the idea being  There is also a leaderboard where you can see who the Top tagger is. The idea is a simple one and a new concept in a world of new Twitter apps that seem to be the same as the one released the previous week is a great bonus.

If you would like to try the game then go here and start tagging, the question is it a fun service or could this be annoying to your fellow tweeter?, you can follow the creator here and give him some feedback, and you can read his full post over on his blog

Quick post to let you know about twtcard which is a newish website that will let you send simple and fun cards, greetings or invitations to your Twitter buddies

Simply type in your message and your username, select one of the silly faces in the list and click create. You will then be presented with a link that you can copy into your tweet to send away.

Simply and easy to use, hopefully more features and designs to follow.

DestroyTwitter is the latest in a long line of Twitter applications built on the Adobe AIR platform. It consists of a series of canvases that are constantly updating to keep your tweets current and comes with some nice little hotkey shortcuts for people who use OSX

DestroyTwitter also features complete direct messaging functionality. Messages and tweets can be replied to with the original visible for quick and easy reference. A search function is also available to track anything that’s being talked about although not as powerfull as Tweetdeck’s searching options

• - Chinese language support
• - Retweet functionality
• - Window resizing
• - Closing the window hides DestroyTwitter, but notifications can still be seen

Here is a quick video demo of the application

DestroyTwitter Adobe AIR application review from RefreshingApps on Vimeo.

Overall a very lightweight Twitter client that doesn’t take up much screen real estate, and it’s pretty simple to navigate through the different options and screens.

Currently in public beta you can download it for yourself and see what you think

If you have asked that question of yourself a new site called Tweetwasters will find out just that for you. Simply just enter your Twitter username and it will calculate your time spent. If you are found to spend a lot of time on Twitter it could get you into the Tweetwasters hall of fame

Also if you have a wordpress blog and want to show off your Twitter addiction with your readers, you can also download the Tweetwasters plugin.