Alex takes a tour of Twitter apps that might help unclutter your life: "Working on Twitter, I see all sorts of interesting uses of our service. Twitter is a great way to keep up with friends and family, but it can also be a great way to keep up with everything going on in your life without cluttering things up with sticky notes, emails, and other junk. Clever developers have come up with extensions to Twitter’s functionality purpose–built for notes, events, reminders, and even whom you owe a beer to."

We're not sure exactly what he means but Anil Dash has just asserted that he has won at Twitter. Congratulations Anil!

If you browse the mobile web on your phone you might like to check out m.twitter.com. We added a couple features.

1. Find Folks (people search)
2. Join (we didn't have this before)

The picture above approximates the look of people search results on a Sony Ericsson k750i.

If you're a CSI fan, you might have caught this episode featuring Twitter as one of the clues used to solve the mystery.

Make your feelings known with plusplusbot. You can ++ (pronounced "plusplus") or -- ("minusminus") anything. Think brownie points (but archived forever). Here's how it works:

1. Make sure you have a Twitter account
2. Follow plusplusbot
3. If you love something add ++ after it like this:

coffee++ because it keeps me alert

You'll get a confirmation message with coffee's current score, and plusplusbot.com will update itself. (To indicate your displeasure, use -- after a target name.)

Designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm has brewed up a very creative Twitter app. Foamee is an IOU system built on Twitter that helps you track who you owe beers (and who owes you a beer). Just follow ioubeer and then send it @replies. Here's the how-to for specifics.

Are you a surfer, swimmer, or beach goer in the San Francisco Bay Area? You should check out this Twitter account.

SFSurfrider: "Ocean Beach is now contaminated. Oil globs throughout the surf zone. Stay out of the water"

That message and more like it if you follow SFSurfrider on Twitter. Click the link or text FOLLOW SFSURFRIDER to 40404 to get the updates.

Here's a fitting way to stay up to date on the Writer's Strike that's going on right now—follow writersstrike on Twitter.