Over the past year, we’ve been experimenting with several ways to use Twitter. Some of our apps were well received, some others not so much. In the past few months, we’ve been restructuring to focus on the business usage of Twitter as a communication and marketing platform. Therefore we will be shutting down four of our least performing apps on Friday (Nov 27)

Please don’t read between the lines. Our other apps are doing very well and they’re not going anywhere. This will free us up to keep improving on these apps, so expect more features and a better integration between them.

So, the Twtapps that we’ll be shutting down on Friday are:

TwtBiz: Twitter Business Directory. There are many well built Twitter directories out there and we see no need to maintain this one as it is.

TwtWlst: Twitter Registry Gift. We believe the general idea still has some potential, however it’s not one of our focus at the moment.

TwtPets: Game for pet lovers. Who doesn’t like pets, uh? We’ve enjoyed seeing all the Twitter Pets out there, however this is not an app in line with or current focus either.

TwtCard: Twitter Greeting Card. This was our very first app. It was a fun little project that got us started thinking about other ways Twitter could be used for.

We’d like to thank everyone who have used these apps and have taken the time to contact us with comments/suggestions. We really appreciated it!

For more information about Twtapps, be sure to follow @twtapps

Twtapps went live on Jan 7, 2009 (one month ago) with twtcard, twtpoll and twtvite. Technically twtcard and twtpoll were around a few days before.

So here are what we accomplished this month:

• Seven simple, fun and useful Twitter apps.
• Three of them featured on Techcrunch: twtpoll, twtvite and twtQpon.
• One mention @ Mashable about twtapps.

We finally have some stats from Compete.com

Thank you all for using, blogging, tweeting about twtapps!

It’s been about a month since we launched our first twtapp and we’d like to thank everyone who has used them so far. We especially appreciate the many feedback/suggestions we’ve received and we’re doing our best to accommodate all of the requests.

So, let’s take a look at how many cards, polls, invites, pets, and wish lists have been added/created so far.

twtpoll :: a simple survey/poll twitter app

Total number of polls: 2318
Average per day:  110.4

twtvite :: a simple event manager twitter app

Total number of invites: 536
Average per day:  33.5

twtcard :: a simple greeting card twitter app

Total number of cards: 770
Average per day:  21.4

twtpets :: a simple twitter game for pet lovers

Total number of pets: 90
Average per day:  8.2

twtwlst :: a simple gift registry twitter app

Total number of wish lists: 30
Average per day:  3.8

We have another simple twitter app today: #twtwlst is a simple gift registry twitter app, where you can create a list of gifts for any occasion and link to the exact product you want. Your friends can then mark some gifts as reserved, so you don’t get two of the same thing.

This idea was suggested by my friend Matt Gadda, who has been using and working on a much sophisticated version for about a year. So, thanks to Matt for helping me out with this one!