Today’s Twitter Tools – it’s all about fun, entertainment and sheer laziness
Twitter isn’t just for business hungry me-me-me tweeters or those desperate to share what they had for breakfast. It’s also quite fun…if you know how to find it! Today we’ve got Lazytweet, for all your questions, Secrettweet (my personal favourite of the day), Foamee lets you track IOUs and Twitterlit helps you decide which book you should buy next. Have fun.
@lazytweet lets your followers know you’re asking a question, and hopefully you get an answer from one of them. Your question also appears on LazyTweet – so you get exposure to a wider audience. The whole Twittersphere isn’t following you, so if your followers don’t have an answer, hopefully someone on Lazytweet will. And if you do get an answer on Lazytweet, they’ll let you know in a tweet from @lazytweet.
Twitterblogger rating: 8/10 (they do get answered!)
SecretTweet lets you share secrets anonymously. After looking at all the secrets I am SO going to follow them. Check out these little gems…
- I’m 48 and I sleep with a teddy bear – it’s comforting
- I fix things manually on our test servers so QA thinks they’ve gone crazy, because they don’t know what they’re doing and I hate them
- I steal my neighbour’s newspaper in the morning
Twitterblogger rating: 9.5/10 (Voyeur!)
Follow ioubeer and/or ioucoffee to get started. Then send an I.O.U. to a deserving recipient, e.g. @ioubeer [Steve Jobs] for depleting my bank account.
To redeem an I.O.U. you stamp it as “REDEEMED” to let the world know it has been cashed in.
Twitterblogger rating: 7/10 (I like it, but would prefer to call the person up and just say ‘thanks, can I buy you a wine?’
The first sentence can make or break a book, so this site saves you the work by serving up literary teasers twice daily. They post the first line of a book, without the author’s name or book title, but with a link to Amazon so you can see what book the line is from. Why? Because it’s fun! And for logophiles or aspiring writers, Twitterlit’s twice daily delivery of first sentences may be the most condensed form of education and enlightenment you can get.
Twitterblogger rating: 8/10 (Curiously addictive, but then…I am a writer)
Hope you enjoyed today’s entertainment. For more fun, follow me on Twitter and I’ll make sure you find out as soon as I’ve posted next week’s tools – all very exciting of course! (I’ll announce tomorrow morning what I’m posting for the week)
