I have been spending some time now reading up on best practices when writing a web app for the iPhone and worked on an existing idea of mine to produce one myself. I have called it Whit Twit and what it does is monitor Tweets in real time for key words and displays the number of hits if finds within a five second period. This is a great way to see trends forming and the cycling numbers every five seconds is somewhat hypnotic.

Unfortunately the keyword still has to be hardcoded in but I’m working on it so you can chop and change whenever you feel like it.

Theres more…clicking on the bird image will display the top 5 most recent tweets with your keyword.

It even has an icon on my iPhone complete with the bird image which looks really nice.

UPDATE: Since posting this theres been a couple of realltygood suggestions from readers including an alert to let you know when the number of tweets about a particular topic reaches a certain level. This is such a simple idea but one which will allow my app to function a little better.