Twitter Remote (beta)
Twitter Counter ( http://www.twittercounter.com ) recently released a widget called Twitter Remote. Twitter Counter is a great utility that shows you how you are trending on Twitter. It shows you if you arelosing followers, adding followers, projected numbers based on increases etc. It also allows you to compare you stats against another user and if your interested, it highlights featured users that are interesting and trending up. It is a great app if you are self obsessed with popularity (which I am!). No seriously it is a great little tool.
Over the last couple of days they released a widget that you can embed on your site (in the sidebar). It shows your twitter stats as well as the stats of people who come to your site. It also gives people the option of following those people showing up in your list. Once a user adds their twitter profile to your list, they can message you from the widget (sort of like a comment inline) as well as tweet about your site to their followers.
Right now I see limited usage for it. For people who are trying to get more followers, it gives them more exposure (free advertising!). For blog owners it replaces some of the functionality from a “follow me” badge and incorporates some info, which is nice. Since it is in beta I won’t knock it too much, but the tweet functionality can use some design work. Scroll bars on a 100w x 60h box is not pretty. Check it out here
