Recommended Applications

Although there are a lot of Twitter applications out there Twitter has a list of favorite applications and warns for other applications, for they could be spam. This Twitterpage links to a list of applications on the Twitter Fan Wiki that I used to write about for my thesis chapter about applications. I wonder why Twitter would have favorite applications and links to a site that any user can modify? Are there two kind of applications, safe and unsafe? Do unsafe applications cause severe spam? Only one application is connected to Twitter, it is called Widget and can be connected to Myspace, Facebook, Typepad or Blogger. So this is more an extension of Twitter than just another application to tweet with.

I have had my share of external Twitter applications lately and I am still thinking about categories for them. I am curious if there are any malicious applications and I would like to test them, although not with my regular Twitter account! A better solution would be looking for stories about these applications. But maybe they have already been banned or blocked from the Twitter API. I should create a list of applications that I already used, the platform they function on and if they are one-way or two-way applications. And There are still some applications I want to use, although this is not necessary for my thesis.