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List of Arabians’ Developed @twitter Applications

For a second I thought if there are any twitter based applications that were developed by Arabians, when I found three of them which were recommended by some of my friends on twitter. The applications I found varies from desktop applications to web based ones. I know they are not a lot, but this is actually a reason of why I’m creating a list of such applications; this post might be a motive for other Arabian developers to go on creating more applications, not just for twitter, but for any service.

You will wonder, a post about twitter applications, by “Arabian” developers and in English? Umm..Yes, most of the traffic i get on my web site comes from foreign places around the world, so I hope this will be a good introduction for such applications as a proof that we can do some great applications too

1. Kzalek
   

   One of Kzalek's Interfaces

   Application Type: Desktop Application based on Adobe Air
   Developed By: Moustafa Farghally @keepondev
   About Application:

   • The application is using Twitter’s API for all twitter based actions, Bit.ly APIs for URL shortening, untiny.me APIs for URLs Extraction and sending images to twitter using twitpic.com APIs. What is really great is that you can translate tweets using Google Language APIs.
   • It can work on Linux, Mac and Windows.
   • Searching in the latest tweets and twitter search is also supported.
   • Conversation like replies.
   • Pinned to dock, or not a property which you can set in the application’s settings.

   My Review: I was amazed when I saw such application, it has almost all stuff you will need communicating with twitter but in a really amazingly fit Arabic interface. Just go to kzalek.com and give it a try, you will totally like it.

2. TwitSot
   

   TwitSot

   Application Type: Web Based
   Developed By: Khaled Attia @khal3d
   About Application:

   • The application allows you to create your own surveys/polls using Twitter’s API.
   • Once you sign in using your twitter username and password (UPDATE!) your twitter account and OAuth, you are able to create your own poll(s) and it will be published on twitter immediately so your friends (followers) are able to see it and pickup an answer.
   • People are also allowed to comment on each poll and publishing each comment including the poll’s URL on their streams too.

   My Review: Great addition to Arabic applications with the service provided with TwitSot. More features I think Khaled can be able to add to each poll like embedding polls in other web sites, but till now the service is really promising.

   

3. TweetToEmail
   Application Type: Web Based
   Developed By: Ali Bin Yahia @binyahia UPDATE!
   Developed By: Mona Noah @monmonaya , Mohamed Meligy @meligy and Ali Bin Yahia @binyahia
   About Application: As being mentioned on TweetToEmail’s website, in a three simple steps.
   • Create a Group: It’s easy! Simply create new group and select hash tag for group from the drop down box
   • Add Contacts: Add or import the emails of your contacts who you wish to send your Twitter updates to their emails.
   • Tweet To Email: Add Group’s hash tag to your tweet to send your tweet automatically into the email inbox of your contacts in the group.

   My Review: Kinda cool for bloggers who usually want to drive traffic to their website, it’s something like optin forms but the twitter way. I think it should allow users to accept being added to a specific group or not, as currently I dun think you can remove yourself from a group you have been added to.

   

So, those are three applications I found, try spreading the word around as those services/applications are really close in their greatness to other foreign applications that are used long time ago.

If you have more applications that can be added to the list, you can use the contact me form to let me know about it and I will see what I can do about that.