This is likely the largest collection of statistic accounts Twitter has ever seen. They’re covering the NFL, NBA, NCAA Basketball, and NCAA Football. There are hundreds of these accounts. The one thing they have in common is that they’re all powered by StatTweets.

Here’s the full list of accounts managed by StatTweets. The stats these accounts spit out are driven by StatSheet and is part of a larger campaign to spread sports news (beyond final scores) to the world. This is the dream service for hardcore sports fans and stats junkies. We’ll proactively apologize for clogging the timelines of anyone who loves this service a little too much. StatTweets makes ScoreBots look lame.

The best part of StatTweets is that it lets you key in on a single team. If you like the Celtics, you can follow just Celtics stats instead of stats for all NBA teams. You can also interact with any of the accounts by sending it an @reply with the hashtag “#statme” as the message and it’ll spit some stats back to you (view all uses). For the football games, the accounts will send out an update anytime the score changes with the new score and how much time remains, which is perfect for those people who can’t watch the game or watch the gamecast on a sports site.

Here’s a fun application built on the Twitter API and based on Twitter itself – Twitter Magnets. The concept is simple, you have 120 characters to create a poem that you can send to anyone. You get a randomized set of tiles at the start, but you can switch out your remaining tiles for new ones at any time to get new words. I chose to make a haiku below and submitted it to @twittermagnets.

If you’re interested in seeing what other people come up with, follow @twittermagnets and poems published will come up in their stream.

As more businesses realize how microblogging can function as an additional channel to promote their brands and products, interesting things have begun happening on Twitter. Though microblogging has been inherently more transparent than many other online communications (where users in chatrooms and forums may use anonymous handles), certain fictional characters have begun appearing in the public stream.

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