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Almost everyone has heard of Twitter by now as one of the newest tools on the internet to let other people know what you’re up to. Social networks like Facebook, Myspace, and Linkedin allow you to update your status and let your followers and friends know what you’re currently working on, the mood you’re in, or anything you want to post.

Twitter gives users 140 characters of space to create a “micro-blog” entry which can be public for anyone to read or private for those you approve and let follow you. It is a text-based service which allows you to also reply to other people’s tweets. There is also a feature where a user can star another user’s tweet as a “favorite.” This allows a user to mark or bookmark another user’s tweet for any number of reasons.  The favorited tweets are collected under the Favorites page on the user’s dashboard. I favorite tweets that amuse me and that I may want to reread later for a laugh.  Other people may use this feature to remember a thread of conversations or to remind themselves to respond to another user’s tweets. There are tools out there to see how many people have favorited your particular tweet, one such tool is Favrd. It allows you to view the most popular tweets for the last two days. 

Twitter users can also sign up and see who has favorited their tweets.

But what about seeing who you may favorite the most? 

Twitterbelle, created by Poeks, allows twitter users to see who they favorite the most. When I asked Poeks why she created the application, she told me that she was curious to know who she liked most out of the people she followed on Twitter. The results allowed her to then view the profiles of the users and find new people through those users’ followers for her to follow.  

Her first Twitterbelle application was not a web-based one but after a number of her followers asked her to make one that was easily usable and accessible, she began researching the best way to create Twitterbelle for the public to use. Since some users may have thousands upon thousands of favorited tweets, Poeks developed Twitterbelle to show your top favorites based on your last 200, 500, or 1000 favorited tweets from other users. 

I asked her how well Twitterbelle has been received since it was released earlier this month and she told me in the first few days it was accessed over 9,000 times.  She has also been complimented by many Twitter users, and the buzz has been growing about Twitterbelle in the last week.  A simple google search for “Twitterbelle” results in over 7 pages of relevant search results.  Many twitter users have blogged about what a useful tool Twitterbelle is for analyzing your top favorites and helping you find new people to follow. The fame of Twitterbelle has also gone global, as Poeks showed me that on Twitter when you enter Twitterbelle into the search bar, people are tweeting about Twitterbelle around the world. There were people mentioning it in Chinese, Spanish, and French.

My top favorited Twitter people: http://www.twitterbelle.com/mollydigcat/

#followfriday, a popular trend on Twitter that many users do on Fridays to recommend other people to follow, typically had the following tweet, “#followfriday @user @user @user.” But with Twitterbelle available to any twitter user, this past Friday’s follow friday tweets began to look like this, “#followfriday Follow who I follow – my top recent 50 on Twitterbelle.”

Poeks has plans to add new features to Twitterbelle in the upcoming months. To stay updated on the latest twitterbelle enhancements, follow: http://twitter.com/tw1tterbelle. Also, for a good dose of funny quips mixed with daily musings, follow Poeks: http://twitter.com/poeks.