Twitter2GTalk is a great way of showing your latest tweet as your GTalk status. The service takes your last tweet and shows it up as your GTalk status, albeit a few minutes later.

All you need to do is to login to their site with your GTalk login and enter your Twitter username in the settings page. It doesn’t even ask for your password. So feel free to spread the word about @hgeek =P

P.S. – see the email address in the image? Feel free to add me on GTalk anytime if you want to. =)

Wanted to check if a particular Twitter user was following you or any other user? Here’s how. My friend Lakshman Prasad, also known as @scorpion032, has written a small application that checks whether a given user is following another specified user.

The application, hosted over at Appspot, allows you to specify a Twitter username and check if that user is following another user that you specify. Check the following screenshot to understand better.

Twitter-Follow @Appspot.

Tired of Twittering? Or too lazy to write a 140-character tweet? Hey, don’t worry, you’re not alone. There’s now a dedicated website setup to generate random status messages that you can use as not only tweets, but as Instant Messenger status messages as well.

Social Status Generator is a website which generates messages based on tags that you choose from their cloud. For example, check out the following status message generated for the tag “food”.

(Yes, I find it quite amusing that my display picture was incidentally of Stewie Griffin’s. The status message is quite like what he would say. Family Guy FTW!)

Why wait? Go generate some wacky status messages over at Social Status Generator.

Day by day, new Twitter tools/mashups are being launched. And here are our picks, as of now, that will enhance your twitter experience.

1. Twits Like Me
Search for Twitter users with similar interests. Takes a while to run, but comes up with interesting results

2. TwitStamp (seriously cool !!)
Easily transform your current Twitter status into an image for use anywhere.

3. LessFriends
Do the people you follow on Twitter, follow you? Less Friends is a service that helps you find out.

4. CrowdStatus
Create a crowd of people and track their current Twitter status. Expanding to Facebook, Jaiku, and Seesmic as well.

5. Favrd
Lists interesting things that show up on Twitter, based on the number of times an item has been declared a ‘favorite’.

6. TweetLists
Lists popular links sent on Twitter by day, week, or in a live stream format. Also has a “twitterati” mode that lists links posted by people with the most followers.

7. Monitter
A trending mashup that lets you monitor the Twitter world for a set of three keywords and watch what people are saying in real-time. One of the besties among our personal favs. We used this one, to keep track of the Google Chrome launch.

8. Twuzzer
A live aggregation of tweets and photos related to large special events. Twuzzer is currently focused on the Beijing Olympics.

9. TweeTake
Already reviewed tool for backing up your Twitter Timeline.

10. TweetRush
A service based on the Rush Hour engine that aims to provide estimated stats on Twitter usage over a period of time.

11. TwitterRatio
Discover your Twitter ratio and see if you’re more friend or follower.

We are sure to see more and more innovative twitter tools/mashups. Subscribe to HarmLessGeek, so that you don’t miss another helpful tip. You can follow HarmLessGeek and receive updates on Twitter.