The idea of sending a message in a bottle to a stranger once was a thought only enjoyed by those near the coastline. Even then, you always have to worry about those uptight Eco nuts getting mad at you for throwing “meaningless” trash into the sea.

With the creation of a twitter application 140inabottle you can send your messages anonymously to other people without worrying about harming our precious planet. All you have to do is browse on over to http://www.140inabottle.com

The 140inabottle website only requires three things of you, first you have to write your witty message you want to be sent in 140 characters or less, then you enter the verification text into the re-CAPTCHA box to verify that you are indeed human and lastly click the send button.

Your message will then be sent to a random twitter user via the @140inabottle account within three months.

There are so many different twitter applications out there these days. But which one is right for you? Here’s a first look at Brizzly by Think labs.

Brizzly is a web based twitter application. It has all the same features as all the other twitter apps and has some added bonuses.

1. “Trends and News”

This section displays the popular topics of right now and explains what that specific trend is all about. For example one of the trending topics was “Tweetie 2″ with a discription of “A new version of the iPhone Twitter app was released today. Some are whining that its $2.99 …”. Users or Brizzly can also edit the descriptions if they feel that they do not properly depict the reasoning behing the trend.

2.  Mute

We all have them, those people that just post the worst updates but you just cant unfollow them because they might be family or a good friend. Brizzly has introduced a feature called Mute. Mute allows you to make sure that you never see another annoying update from that person without actually unfollowing them.  You can always Un-Mute people once you feel that you want to hear from them again.

3.  Readability

Short url’s are great if you want to include a url to your blog post in your 140 character or less tweet, but with shortened url’s you cant always know where the link will lead you to. Brizzly will expand url’s from many of the popular url shortening services into the full url so you can see if you’ve been rick rolled or not. When the expanded url turns out to be a link to a youtube video it will automaticly embed the video right there in Brizzley.

Brizzly is currently in a closed beta so if you would like to sign up and try it for yourself here using the invitation code “henrysentme” without the quotes.