Twittering Tips for Beginners - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/twittering-tips-for-beginners/

Can't escape from new technology

As a tech columnist, I’m supposed to be on top of what’s new in tech, but there’s just too much, too fast; it’s like drinking from a fire hose. I can only imagine how hopeless a task it must be for everyone else. But one thing’s for sure: The whole thing would be a lot more palatable if somebody would explain the basics. Something like this.

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Tweepler is a Twitter application that allows you to organize followers

Tweepler is a Twitter application that allows you to organize followers.

Who to follow on Twitter

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30 twitter tools that help you do things like search, monitor and send alerts based on twitter traffic

20+ Great Twitter Tools for Firefox

People love Twitter, and they love Firefox, so it only seems natural that there would be quite a few tools to merge these two items.

Below is my compiled list of every term, shorthand and tool that I researched on the net (after being disappointed with http://twittonary.com/ – they can use my list below if they give credit!). I am sure many new tools are still being developed and I may have missed many that will be in Warren and Deb’s handbook (feel free to comment on the post if you know of any I missed- I am sure there's more! ) I colored coded my list by: Terms ( orange ), shorthands ( green ) and tools ( purple ) all in alphabetical order.

Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to send updates (aka “tweets”) to the Twitter website and your twitter friends, similar to the Facebook status (with a limit of 140 character input). You can find and interact with people with similar interests. You can follow them, and others can follow you. It’s an instant-messaging-meets-social-media-networking tool. Below is my compiled list of every term, shorthand and tool that I researched on the net.

Recently I've been very intrigued with twitter. It has been my source of interaction for the most part - I work on the computer day and night (ya I know I should get out more!). And I also use my iPhone to tweet while watching television. For those who don’t know, Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to send updates (aka “tweets”) to the Twitter website and your twitter friends, similar to the Facebook status (with a limit of 140 character input). You can find and interact with people with similar interests. You can follow them, and others can follow you. It’s an instant-messaging-meets-social-media-networking tool.

twitter dictionary

Below is my compiled list of every term, shorthand and tool that I researched on the net (after being disappointed with http://twittonary.com/ – they can use my list below if they give credit!). I am sure many new tools are still being developed and I may have missed many that will be in Warren and Deb’s handbook (feel free to comment on the post if you know of any I missed- I am sure there's more! )

[to come]

bookmarklet automatically shrinks your too long tweets down to the magical 140

Web tool that can convert long sentences into condensed text by making substitutions/Just for twitter

Shrink your tweets

Diminuir textos em 140 caracteres

Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco.

Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. The company had just contributed a major chunk of code to Rails 1.0 and had just shipped Odeo Studio, but we were facing tremendous competition from Apple and other heavyweights. Our board was not feeling optimistic, and we were forced to reinvent ourselves.

L'histoire du projet twttr qui est devenu ce que l'on sait. Je me souviens l'avoir découvert via Tara Hunt & Factory Joe lors d'un SxSW festival en 2007.

New to Twitter? Looking for some ways to get more out of your Twitter experience? For a while now, I’ve been putting together a list of helpful tools and resources for Twitter. I don’t claim to be an expert on Twitter, but I know a thing or two, and I found each of these pretty useful and/or interesting. Hopefully you’ll find something useful on this list.

CEOs who use Twitter

C Level Tweeters

Intressant om affärsmodeller i gratisekonomin.

The singular thing that distinguishes Twitter from blogs, RSS, IM, email, etc. is synergy

Twitter tools for cell phones.

Phone apps

Blackbird - Twitter client for the BlackBerry. Here’s the over-the-air installation file. TinyTwitter - Actually works not just on BlackBerries but also Windows Mobile devices and any Java-enabled mobile device. TwitterBerry - The most popular Twitter client for CrackBerries. I used this one for a while on different BlackBerry models.""

1. Manage to do lists This one is my favorite, simply because the two sites here make it so easy to never forget - even when your brain is lost inside the Twitterverse. Both Remember The Milk, and Toodledo have commands you can use to add to do items. Next time you’re telling your followers what you ate for lunch, you can also make a note to call the cute waitress you met while you were there. 2. Set a timer 3. Add a Google Calendar item 4. Get your flight information 5. Track your expenses 6. Get news alerts 7. Track packages 8. Freelancers: track job time 9. Keep track of gas mileage 10. Get the weather forecast

Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth.

Application Databace

As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. The use of Twitter is highly intertwined with the use of other social media; both blogging and social network use increase the likelihood than an individual also uses Twitter. Twitter users and status updaters are also a mobile bunch; as a group they are much more likely to be using wireless technologies -- laptops, handhelds and cell phones -- for internet access, or cell phones for text messaging.

Look who is Twittering now...

In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications for sending out short messages to networks of friends like Twitter, Yammer and others.

Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebook platform one of which is the opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses. This is a huge update and one that I think is going to take Facebook to the next level. There are additional updates listed in the Facebook blog post:

Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebook platform one of which is the opening of status upd ...

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Twitter beginners need to understand the rules of etiquette for the service. So before you stick a foot measuring 140-characters-or-less in your mouth, check out our advice on how to follow and un-follow, share politely, direct message appropriately, and more.

Google used to get 100% of my queries. Today, I bet Twitter is getting at least 10% of them. There are some things Twitter is just flat out better at for getting information than Google.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Flewmoorman.com%2Fgoogles-first-real-threat-twit

Author noted he does almost all searching in firefox search bar. Recently noticed that am changing the settings there frequently. Google used to get 100% of my queries. Today, bet Twitter is getting at least 10% of them.

Clever. "Twitter is building a human powered search indexing engine. It is an engine that will build better results than any rules based index and has gotten millions of people super motivated to contribute for free every day (even though they don’t know it)."

The article's overall argument is a huge exaggeration, but the notion that searching across Twitter is better than searching across the entire Web for certain types of information has some truth to it. Especially for product reviews, the search space on Twitter is much less clogged with manufacturers and third-party distributors trying to sell shit -- basically, because of the social culture of Twitter, mentions of any product you might search for will be described and discussed from a personal and social point of view. However, this only works insofar as people treat Twitter as a personal messaging and status update service. I'm sure the Internet was great for product reviews too before companies started making their own websites. So if Twitter monetizes by building platforms for corporations, then it will become far less useful for product information. I don't buy the other advantage (evaluating readership through links) at all, because Google does the same thing with PageRank.

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There are so many Tweets and so little time. What’s a “Tweeple” to do? Twitter aggregator and trend websites use a variety of tactics to filter out what’s up and coming and of interest to the Twittersphere in contrast to the mass of mundane Tweets.

12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter | Online Marketing Blog

Twitter 21 useful apps

Top 21 Twitter Apps.

List of the twenty most popular Twitter application

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The hottest microblogging service, Twitter, is changing the way TV, literature and media operate.

* Create a private, custom action aggregator to track sentiment and glean intelligence from conversations around the web through action streams. * Provide a private microblog community for simple internal employee or team collaboration. * Publish a public microblog to nurture and grow your community while increasing your page views. * Create a public social network to connect to your community across the web instead of competing against other social networks.

Motion, a new free social application for Movable Type, has just launched in beta.

Good advice and tips. Noticing this more and more that people are tweeting from phones during presentations. Wave of the very near future.

Thanks to Paul Stewart for this one via Twitter :)

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fpistachioconsulting.com%2Ftwitter-presentations

How to manage back-channeling during workshops and conference presentations.

People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms. Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences. So the next time you present at a conference, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. The challenge is how to adapt to presenting with the back-channel.

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Twitter’s simplicity of functional design, speed of delivery and ability to connect two or more people around the world provides a powerful means of communication, idea-sharing and collaboration. There’s potency in the ability to burst out 140 characters, including a shortened URI. Could this power have any use in healthcare? After all, for example, doctors and nurses share medical information, often as short bursts of data (lab values, conditions, orders, etc.).

Information about utilizing Twitter and healthcare

The possibilities that I believe Twitter offers currently far exceeds the constraints. I won’t offer work-around solutions to these constraints in this post. I want to focus on the possibilities because once we see the potential, we may have stonger motivations to deal intelligently with the constraints. So when reading this list, don’t get hung up on the details, the fears, the anxieties that may be provoked by the realities of health care as it is practiced today. It’s the 21st Century: let’s be imaginative, determined and innovative. Let’s be remarkable.

Stephen Fry tops our Twitter league, but which other famous faces are we following?

"You know Twitter has made it into the mainstream when celebrities rush to join the micro-blogging service. But who is the most popular Twitterer of them all? We present our list of 50 Twittering celebrities, ranked in order of who has the most “followers”, or people signed up to read their messages. In essence, the list represents a Twitter Popularity Index."

You know Twitter has made it into the mainstream when celebrities rush to join the micro-blogging service. But who is the most popular Twitterer of them all?

Twitterのリンクの収集サービス

Elementary rules of usage for twitter. "“This is a new genre of writing,” said Mr. Sagolla. “A new form of literature, in some ways.” " Being publised "We are working on a book to compile the most relevant styles and tips for effective short form writing. We will most likely publish it first as an iPhone App, then as a paid PDF download. If you are interested in publishing this in printed form, please contact us:"

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Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. In this article, you’ll read about 10 excellent user interface features that can enhance the Twitter web experience.

Very insightful list of things to add to Twitter

Today, I presented a session remotely at the Presentation Camp at Stanford University, California. My session was on “How to engage your audience with Twitter” and I tried to do exactly that during my presentation.

Or "How to address an audience that's tweeting." This takes a very skilled presenter. Especially with all of the down heads.

5 Twitter Applications and Tools that Made Me a Better Twitter User in 2008

Wichtige Twitter-Clients für Desktop und iPhone

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Source pour apprivoiser, qualifier et exploiter Twitter comme outil et environnement de communication, de réseautage, de veille et de promotion.

Buzzable

ferramenta de grupos para twitter

Createt Twitter Groups

Per Manisha: "Jeremiah Oqyang discusses the power word of mouth marketing has in his article about WOM marketing and Twitter- "ReTweet: The Infectious Power of Word of Mouth". The repaid speed at which information is shared on Twitter makes it a powerful source for marketing- especially WOM marketing. If someone takes the time to "ReTweet" this means not only did they take it as a source of information, but that they also wanted to share this information with their friends by copying the original tweet and sending it on. He states "we trust the opinions of people we know more than anyone else", so how does this influence companies?"

Sowas wie der Bundestweet auf wahl.de, aber nicht vollständig

JaikuEngine is a social microblogging platform that runs on AppEngine. JaikuEngine powers Jaiku.com.

Run Jaiku locally or on GAE

The source for the Django app jaiku, which runs on the google appengine.

JaikuEngine is a social microblogging platform that runs on AppEngine.

tLater lets you schedule your tweets for a later date/time, saving you from being glued to Twitter. Also emails you keyword alerts, sends “thank you” notes to new followers and handles multiple Twitter accounts e

Les outils de twitter

10 Twitter Tools that Help You Work Smarter - http://www.twitip.com/10-twitter-tools-that-help-you-work-smarter/

Getting started ideas

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At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn’t get it, and he’s certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn’t understand the massive valuation ($250 million or more) that Twitter won in its recent funding. I told him why I thought it was more than justified: Twitter is, more than anything, a search engine. I told him what I thought of Twitter as a micro-blogging service: it’s a collection of emotional grunts. But it’s wonderful nonetheless. And enough people are hooked on it that Twitter has reached critical mass. If something big is going on in the world, you can get information about it from Twitter.

I don't want to think of it that way, but this is one of the best explanations I've read.

TwitterJobSearch.com - the world's first job search engine to harness the power of Twitter. Search the hottest, most recent best paid jobs in the entire Twitterverse.

Twitter can be at first glance a strange phenomenon and many don’t understand its purpose right away. However, Twitter is a powerful tool that is growing in popularity as word spreads of its potential capabilities. The idea of writing small blog posts of 140 characters or less to a group of your followers is actually a revolutionary new way to bring communities together, learn from each other, and keep updated with all that is happening. Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn’t worth the return for the students benefit, so that’s why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing. Find out how to get started with Twitter, ways to use it in an educational setting, and tools to help you use it better with these resources below.

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I often get the question “How do you follow so many people on Twitter”. Using Tweetdeck it’s actually quite easy. I made this video tutorial to show you exactly how I do it. If you have any questions please leave a comment and I’ll be happy to answer them.

Get and set definitions for #tags - A dictionary for (hash)tags

Twitter hashtag dictionary

way to define hashtags for Twitter

Tagalus lets users define tags so that others can understand what they're talking about. Other users can vote on definitions and decide which best describes the given tag.

#knmknk

defines hashtags

We’ve compiled an alphabetized glossary here for you so that you can just scan down the list and find the term that you are looking for, as well as a list of popular Twitter applications and instructions for incorporating Twitter into your website and blogs.

A post that is a tutorial for a beginner on twitter

Great site explaining twitter

This makes your time on Twitter a pure joy, as these help people identify with others. This article will focus on explaining the cool tools that litterally & awesomely extend features offered by Twitter.

Find the tweets you've lost

Tweleted allows you to recover Twitter messages — tweets — after they've been deleted.

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teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we’ll take a look at 100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool.

to follow street art trends - or find people - etc -

services that look for a specific keyword, topic, or hashtag (all falling under the fuzzy category of meme or viral idea) and cluster related tweets together.

Seesmic Desktop is a desktop app, operated by Adobe Air. Seesmic Desktop allows you to view multiple accounts in one window.

Twitter App

Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0)

Some basic web marketing rules

Erklärt das Konzept des "Social Objects" sehr anschaulich - einem Design Paradigma für funktionierende soziale Anwendungen

"socialize your product online"

Great list of apps to make the most of your Twitter experience and increase your blogging skills.

powerful twitter search engine. ROCKS! FriendFeed better run out and drink some of this juice!

A powerful twitter search engine with a nice interface

Super Cool Twitter Search & It Rocks!_Twazzup

TwitZap lets you slice Twitter into channels of stuff that matters to you. Once your channels are set they will update in real-time, all in a familiar interface.

auto-refresh

Twitter search tool that lets you create channels to monitor activity in realtime.

10 High people to follow on Twitter.

On the microblogging service, professors and administrators find work tips and new ways to monitor the world

Jeff Young

the famous profile of 10 academic twitterers

An overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education for a group of educators attending Twizza (Twitter & pizza) gathering in Perth, Western Australian on April 8, 2009. Created by Tomaz Lasic (@lasic, http://human.edublogs.org) human edublog twitter lasic

Interesting overview and resource guide for using twitter.

uses skrbl tool to present tips for using Twitter

You know a phenomenon has gone mainstream when it's spoofed on YouTube.

Encontramos un video en internet que está dando que hablar. No es una iniciativa real, es más bien una parodia, pero quizás sin proponérselo está promoviendo pensamiento creativo al respecto, y quien sabe si alguien ya se está inventando una manera de aplicar este concepto (chistoso) a la realidad

As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next level.

Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons.

reasons to twitter in school

Need a Twitter expert in your corner? I’m here to help! New, Advanced? Shy? Submit a Question I’ll take the most rudimentary basic question to the most advanced, don’t be shy. This is a living FAQ, if you have a question for me, Jeremiah, leave a comment and I’ll answer, if you’re really shy, you can email me, but I can’t promise I’ll see it (I get a lot of emails). I’ll be updating this over time, so please bookmark, and share with your network. Was this helpful? spread the word If you liked the post, please tweet it, by copying and pasting this into twitter: Got a question about Twitter? ask @jowyang http://snipurl.com/dmizv Alright, let’s get to work, I’m here to help, this faq will grow over time. Ask Jeremiah: Comprehensive FAQ Guide to Twitter What are common terms and phrases I need to know? Do I Tweet or Twitter? Twitter, which evolved from simple status messages to now a global conversation, is referred to in a number of times. Asking folks: “Are you on Twitte

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Need a Twitter expert in your corner? I’m here to help! New, Advanced? Shy? Submit a Question I’ll take the most rudimentary basic question to the most advanced, don’t be shy. This is a living FAQ, if you have a question for me, Jeremiah, leave a comment and I’ll answer, if you’re really shy, you can email me, but I can’t promise I’ll see it (I get a lot of emails). I’ll be updating this over time, so please bookmark, and share with your network.

interesting twitters

@alawine 10 powerful tools to manage your followers, very cool collection: http://bit.ly/12ulT [from http://twitter.com/markivey/statuses/1399546408]

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"Twitter's growing fame as a text platform is slightly deceiving. A huge amount of music gets posted to to the messaging service every single day — the trick is knowing how to find it."

The Best Ways to Discover Music Through Twitter

"...Twitter is a note-taking technology, end of story. You take short-form notes with it, limited to 140 characters. [...] If I attend a public lecture but I start to jot things down in a Moleskine, it would seem that only a particularly virulent form of social fascism would ask me to put that notebook down and begin 'sharing ideas' with the people next to me. No thanks – I'd rather write, actually. [...] there seem to be quite a lot of assumptions at work [when people object to microblogging], with so many class, political, and even gender implications for who is allowed to speak, who we are meant to listen to, who can write, how they are permitted to do so, in what social contexts writing is meant to occur, and what topics can be legitimately addressed by others, that I'd hope a much longer discussion about this might someday take place."

"What very much bothers me about this attitude toward Twitter is something else: if you were to go around the United States reading the handwritten diaries of, say, high-school girls or adolescent boys or even well-read college students, you would find equally inane chattering: "I feel fat today." "Can't wait for summer in Boca! But I need new shorts." "My history professor is HOT." "I hate holidays. Christmas at home is so boring." Are you really going to tell me that the average contemporary, hand-written diary is any more interesting than that?...I fail to see any clear distinction between someone's boring Twitter feed – considered only semi-literate and very much bad – and someone else's equally boring, paper-based diary – considered both pro-humanist and unquestionably good. Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would have Virgil, and so would have Sappho. It's a tool for writing. Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed."

Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would have Virgil, and so would have Sappho. It's a tool for writing. Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed.

With the caveat that this post doesn't have much to do with architecture, but with the further caveat that I will be speaking about media – specifically online media – next week at the Australian National Architecture Conference, I thought I'd offer a few thoughts here about Twitter.

It seems "Twitter" is code for "Please tell me how you think Twitter is stupid and useless." This article begs to differ.

He's called it, but I'm sure many people are feeling the same. And furthermore, Twitter's so trendy right now it can't possibly last. The kids who join a niche precisely because it's a tiny, obscure little niche are going to be leaving Twitter in droves.

Author says "In the last six months, Twitter has gone nuclear. There are three reasons why and I explore them in this post. However, they also point to why Twitter is about to jump the shark and we should begin asking ourselves what's "the next big thing."...As I have written before, no community has ever had staying power. Twitter right now is poised to fall victim to the same trend. Let's take a look at three reasons why Twitter has witnessed incredible growth, all of which point to why the service is peaking right now."

Though Twitter itself may be a bubble soon to burst, I do not think microblogging is going anywhere.

As long as Twitter maintains a following I feel every business should join it and converse with their customers

How to Tweet

The fundamentals and usage of Twitter for beginners.

An overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education for a group of educators attending Twizza (Twitter & pizza)

An automated service that lets your friends on twitter know what articles you digg.

twiggit is an automated service that lets your friends on twitter know what articles you digg.

When Twitter is inevitably replaced by something else, I don’t want to lose all those incidentals, the casual asides, the remarks and responses. That’s all really. This seems like a nice way to do it, and I’ll probably do it again in a couple of years time.

I wanted to test Lulu’s capacity for hardback books, to continue experimenting with the literary cornucopia machine, and to see if you could make a traditional diary/journal in retrospect. And you can, and it’s quite nice (apart from some weird kerning issues). No, most of it doesn’t mean anything, certainly not to anyone else, but it makes physical a very real time and effort.

This is nifty - use the twitter api to download your tweets and publish them to a book using Indesign and Lulu. Ok, so you need a bit of time on your hands, but still, the results are cute.

booktwo.org physical twittering

Interesting article. There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium.

RT @LeoLaporte People love [..] Twitter, he said. "But what they ignore is that there’s a dark side to all of that http://bit.ly/KseM [from http://twitter.com/meika/statuses/1397262354]

Last year, Leo Laporte became a Twitter quitter. The host of one of Silicon Valley’s most popular podcasts was none too excited that of all the names in the world, the burgeoning message service had picked one that hit piercingly close to home. The online broadcasting network that Laporte owns and runs a short walk from his house in Petaluma is called TWiT.tv, after his company’s flagship show, “This Week in Tech.”

About twitter as a company and as a social network

too much power in Twitter's hands?

There were some fascinating statistics released recently from Nielsen Online about the growth of Twitter. These stats will blow you away

There were some fascinating statistics released recently from Nielsen Online about the growth of Twitter. These stats will blow you away: 1,382% year-over-year growth in February 2009. Total unique visitors grew from 475,000 in February 2008 to seven million last month. Twitter is the fastest growing member community site for...

includes "Twittiquette for Institutions" sidebar

So, you’ve been on Twitter for awhile and realize it has some value beyond updating others on your every move. You may have followers and conversations, but most of your tweeps are on the surface. So, how do you build stronger connections? Here are 6 ways to take your connections deeper: 1. Add Value One big theme here is giving value on Twitter. People do not want to be sold, spammed or overwhelmed with tweets of little value. Think before you tweet. Ask, will this add value? Will this help someone? 2. Listen. Really? I thought Twitter is where I get to talk and tell people stuff. - Use the Favorites to save things you are listening to and might want to talk about later. - Try to read your tweet-stream in batches rather than watching your Tweetdeck all day. 3. Get engaged. Start conversations. - If someone in your stream asks a question? Reply. Share your knowledge. - If someone is looking for help? Offer your help or make an introduction to someone who can. - Like what s

RT @tweetmeme 6 Tips For Building Deeper Connections With Twitter http://bit.ly/ZxhBn [from http://twitter.com/Doug_Caldwell/statuses/1409223825]

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RT @dustyedwards: 6 Tips For Building Deeper Connections With Twitter ... http://bit.ly/yIjV2 [from http://twitter.com/Bleau/statuses/1611408833]

As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter.

As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter. "Despite the fact that Twitter is primarily aimed at individual users in the consumer market, many of those individuals work for companies and 'tweet' about business issues, leading businesses to explore how they could best use it," said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner.

Twitter

a current melange of the most talked about stories from social messaging utility twitter.com - the screen into the greenhouse of worldshaking linkage and chatter.

How CEOs are using twitter

CEOs using Twitter.

From Digg's Kevin Rose to Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, 18 CEOs who tweet offer microblogging tips

twitter tools

Direct Messages und Replies auf das Handy schicken lassen

Twe2 supports a ton of countries ;) Why can't Twitter?

web layout/feel for ideacus... I mostly like how the top makes you feel like it's a totally different page...

A post about and video showing the Twitter-like collaborative WordPress Theme P2.

P2 - twitter-like realtime-editable theme for wordpress

A intruiging blog theme for wordpress. Allows you to blog in real-time. Need to take a closer look at this

Jere, oliks tää P2 se teema jota sä näytit mulle aikasemmin? Aika lupaava mikrobloggaus-intranet-härveli ton videon perusteella...

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Twubs are hubs around metahashtags - bringing together Twitpics, RSS Feeds, videos, Photos...

'This short guide details how to identify, track, use, and organize hashtags in an efficient and useful way. Just be sure not to flaunt your new hashtag wisdom.'

"Twitter is a fun and useful tool, but there are a lot of quirks, rules, and standards that come along with it. To be effective on Twitter, you’ll need to learn the lingo, mechanics, and the ins and outs of interacting with followers. Here, we’ll take a look at 100 tips that can help you do just that."

A good categorized list that has tons of relevant links and short explanations that are enough to be helpful but not so much as to be overwhelming.

Your audience is tweeting - How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. You can also ask multiple choice questions and watch a graph evolve as people vote.

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How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets

The first place to buy and sell twitter names or exchange them for things

Buy and sell twitter names

Twitter und verwandte Applikationen in Relation

See also: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/06/what-is-the-the-future-of-twitter-only-you-know.html

It used to be that you compulsively checked your BlackBerry to see if anything new had happened in your personal life or career: e-mail from the boss, a reply from last night's date. Now you're compulsively checking your BlackBerry for news from other people's lives. And because, on Twitter at least, some of those people happen to be celebrities, the Twitter platform is likely to expand that strangely delusional relationship that we have to fame.

as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.

Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us — and the future of American innovation

Twitter makes the cover of TIME Magazine.

The enterprise is a mini-world of rules in its own right and the freewheeling environment of the Web has to be combined in some workable way with the tighter constraints of the workplace.

Usare il microbloggng tra dipendenti in intranet: consigli e utilizzi possibili by Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion writes about enterprise microblogging tools, showing that there are some issues to solve if we want to use this for "real business" (tm) One of the things is Filtering, i.e. how to dig out the tweets that are relevant to your work and current context. This will in my mind make out hte difference - enabling microblogging to become the tool for knowledge workers, not only in communication with peers, but also for exploring and searching information.

Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for business

analiza 17 herramientas twitter para entornos empresariales

comprehensive Twitter Toolboxes

Great online web 2.0 twitter tool

twitter 第三方web端

之前居然没有收到diigo，只是twitious了一下

TwitZap is the ultimate Twitter client. Real-time Twitter monitoring. Tweet while Twitter is down.

Mixero - http://mixero.com/

iPhone Version Soon

The new generation Twitter client for people who value their time and are tired of information noise.

by forcing users to commit their thinking to the bite-size form of the public tweet, Twitter may be giving a powerfully productive new life to a hitherto underexploited quantum of thought: The random, fleeting observation.

perspectives on twitter

For those of you increasingly convinced that you're the last human alive who doesn't get the point of Twitter, I have comforting news: Nobody does. Not really.

Dual Perspectives article by Julian Dibbell: ... Sure, it's easy to dismiss Twitter because of the content — the endless stream of latte orders, flight delays, mood swings. Who cares? But that would be a mistake. Early critics of the television also wrote it off as a time waster with few redeeming social or cultural values: the boob tube. But TV became a powerful change agent regardless of, or even in spite of, the programming. The medium was the message. ...

Read in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com.

Why Twitter from Wired Magazine

For those of you increasingly convinced that you're the last human alive who doesn't get the point of Twitter, I have comforting news: Nobody does. Not really. Sure, the twittering masses (17 million registered U.S. users, by latest count) have some idea what their habit is good for. For many, Twitter's steady stream of one-line updates — "microblogging," as the form is known — is a low-maintenance way to feel connected to family, friends, celebrities. For others, it's a marketing tool, a public diary, a communal news feed, or even, simply, a sort of brain game — a text-message Sudoku, where the daily challenge is to fit the maximum amount of cleverness into the minimal space of a 140-character limit. But knowing how people use Twitter isn't the same thing as knowing why they use it. And that turns out to be a puzzle even seasoned Twitter watchers have found difficult to crack.

Use Twitter to send a direct message to "tweetname" with the domain you want. We'll reply with "Success!" or "D'oh."

Checking out http://tweetname.com - It lets you register domain names via Twitter [from http://twitter.com/jeroxie/statuses/1637234779]

Service to register domain names via twitter. Oh, I'm in trouble now....

Twitter version of synopses of all Shakespeare plays. Genius!

Alle Shakespeare-Dramen in 140 Zeichen

Synopses of Shakespeare's plays in 140 characters or less

RT @ShakespeareGeek @Pogue: All the Shakespeare plays' plots, in 140 char or less: http://xrl.in/235e [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/1604620746]

twittering Shakespeare

All of Will's work - twittled down

25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole

video tutorial de commoncraft esxplicant twittsearch

Another great video from CommonCraft, this focussing on Twitter Search

Twitter FollowFridays

twitter aggregator about endorsements

Tweetboard - True Twitter Conversation

You can integrate this into your website. Turns tweets into conversations.

Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.

like a forum that you can embed on any page.

But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood.

How Twitter as a Hive Mind and information sharing technology is useful for everyone. How Twitter is more than just narcissistic microblogging.

Collectively, Twitter’s messages are a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and revealing public opinion.

Taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain...

„Twitterer empfehlen Twitterer“ - nach dieser Methode entsteht aus deinen Empfehlungen ein Verzeichnis der interessantesten Menschen auf Twitter. Die Ranglisten zeigen, wem sich zu folgen lohnt.

„Twitterer empfehlen Twitterer“ - nach dieser Methode entsteht aus deinen Empfehlungen ein Verzeichnis der interessantesten Menschen auf Twitter. Die Ranglisten zeigen, wem sich zu folgen lohnt.

discover, rate and share

Check out my Blog: http://brazil.communitiesdiscovered.com/?p=849

CoTweet is a platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter.

Posterous, though not really made with the web-created post in mind, does have a web posting WYSIWYG editor that does just fine. It’s a little bit more difficult to post and preview, but that’s not where Posterous tries to excel. ... You can basically import content from any blogging platform ever created (you can export too), and push your Posterous content out to any social site where you have a following.... n a twitter mood, email your post to twitter@posterous.com. Only want to update Flickr, send your email to flickr@posterous.com. Want to do just those two, that’s okay too; email flickr+twitter@posterous.com you can even add tags ((tag: social media, photo)). ... Posterous’ knockout posting punch is email — the technology that most of us take for granted on a daily basis. What Posterous can do with your emails is simply incredible, and we recommend creating all of your posts by emailing post@posterous.com.

Twitter became big news once journalists realized its power as a tool for breaking stories during the Mumbai Massacre in 2008. In the aftermath of the micro-blogging platform hitting the headlines, there was an explosion of professional journalists in the Twittersphere. This growth has been fueled by increasing mainstream awareness of the importance of social media to the future of a crisis-ridden industry and the elevation of Twitter as a platform for news dissemination, citizen journalism and audience interaction. So, how are journalists using Twitter? How is the service changing traditional reporting practices and what (if any) are the rules of engagement with the platform for professional journalists?

"So, how are journalists using Twitter? How is the service changing traditional reporting practices and what (if any) are the rules of engagement with the platform for professional journalists? I interviewed 25 of the journalists I follow on Twitter (most of them Australian with a smattering of South African and U.S. respondents) to find out first-hand."

Article by Julie Posetti about how journalists use Twitter - May 2009

Twitter became big news once journalists realized its power as a tool for breaking stories during the Mumbai Massacre in 2008. In the aftermath of the micro-blogging platform hitting the headlines, there was an explosion of professional journalists in the Twittersphere. This growth has been fueled by increasing mainstream awareness of the importance of social media to the future of a crisis-ridden industry and the elevation of Twitter as a platform for news dissemination, citizen journalism and audience interaction.

The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.

An interesting research on Twitter users. It would worth to know the findings while we add ourselves into the big number.

Twitter

According to the “Consumer Internet Barometer” from TNS and The Conference Board, 41.6% percent of Internet users who used Twitter did so to keep in touch with their friends. In addition, 29.1% used it to update their status, 25.8% to find news and stay updated, 21.7% for work purposes and 9.4% for research.

the twitter dynasty

"Lots of big brands are embracing social media, but which platform is most popular? At least as far as Fortune 100 companies go, Twitter (Twitter) easily takes the top spot, according to a recent study from PR firm Burson-Marsteller. "

Lots of big brands are embracing social media, but which platform is most popular? At least as far as Fortune 100 companies go, TwitterTwitter easily takes the top spot, according to a recent study from PR firm Burson-Marsteller.

Lots of big brands are embracing social media, but which platform is most popular? At least as far as Fortune 100 companies go, TwitterTwitter easily takes the

Your Voice & Sounds on Twitter. Record your voice and tweet it, right away.

Very easy way to tweet your voice.

Your Voice and sounds on Twitter

音声ファイルでTweet

microSyntax is about conventions, not standards. http://bit.ly/gsWQe << iRobt openIDeas tagLinks syndicNation

MicrosyntaxはTwitter語とTwitter文法のオンライン辞典を目指す http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/20090525rt-microsyntax-sets-out-to-make-sense-of-twittergrammar/

Stowe Boyd's project to bring structure to the microstream

Deep structure for the real time stream.

Stowe Boyd

As a result of all this activity, and the potential for collective action in these efforts, we are launching a new non-profit, Microsyntax.org, with the purpose of investigating the various ways that individuals and tool vendors are trying to innovate around this sort of microsyntax, trying to define reference use cases that illuminate the ways they may be used or interpreted, and to create a forum where alternative approaches can be discussed and evaluated. We may even get involved in the development of proof-of-concept implementations that can act as reference architectures for microsyntactic extensions to the Twitter grammar emerging in the real time stream.

Like Microformats but for marking up syntactic data eg Twitter

왜 십대들은 트위터를 안쓸까? 트위터는 열린 네트워크... 십대들은 그게 싫다??? 페이스북은 닫힌 네트워크..나를 친구맺는 사람이 누구인지 알고 승인을 받아야 한다.

RT @thecleversheep: Twitter to a 16 year old. RT @Educator:"Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter: It Doesn’t Feel Safe" http://ow.ly/hbig [from http://twitter.com/teachernz/statuses/2625404256]

Kevin Marks, 14 Aug 2009. Flow, faces, phatic, following, publics, mutual media, small-world networks. "The subtlety is that the publics are semi-overlapping ... we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation."

It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it.

It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. &quot;Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton&#039;s Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I&#039;ve learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it.&quot;

At its heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in and out of it, when you have time, and what you see is notes from people you care about.

It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. "Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it."

Curious as to exactly *why* they did. Excerpt: "Twitter released Twitter 101 for Business, a guide for getting started with using the Twitter service. It covers the basics of Twitter, how to get started, the lingo, and includes case studies. Here’s how Twitter describes its value to businesses on its new Twitter 101 website."

guide for business on twitter

Tradução de mensagens no twitter

I like the interface - simple and clear.

translation

language translation easy and free

@myen #Bookmarks tweeps.info http://ow.ly/15IfaB [from http://twitter.com/JohnPrather/statuses/2735789017]

ついったユーザーをプロファイルしてくれるサイト。

>認証済みアカウントとは？ アカウントが本人のものかという混乱を避けるため、Twitterは「認証済みアカウント」の実験（ベータ版テスト）を始めます。われわれは、日頃からなりすましや、本人かどうかという混乱に悩まされる人たちの信頼性を確立するよう働きかけています。Verifiedのついたアカウントは本物です！ どういう意味？ この仕組みがあれば、われわれが知っているプロフィールのどれが「本物」で信頼できるかを、簡単に見極めることができます。これは、われわれがその人や存在と連絡を取り合い、プロフィールが確認されたものであることを表し、認証されたことを意味します。（これは、実際に誰がTwitterに書き込みをしているかを認証するものではありません） これはまた、「認証済みアカウント」マークがないプロフィールが偽物であるというわけでもありません。Twitter上の大多数のアカウントはなりすましではありませんし、われわれはなりすましを100％チェックできるわけでもありません。今後は、誤ったアイデンティティーやなりすましがあった場合に対処するため、一部のプロフィールを認証するにすぎないのです。 もし、まだ認証されていないアカウントが本物か迷っている場合は、その当人の公式ウェブサイトを確認し、その人のTwitterプロフィールにリンクが貼られているかを見てみることができます。（たびたびになりますが、リンクがないからといってなりすましということではありません） 誰のアカウントに「認証済みアカウント」マークが表示されるの？ われわれは、なりすましやアイデンティティーの混乱等の問題を抱える著名な方のプロフィールから認証を始めます。（例えば、著名なアーティスト、アスリート、俳優、政府関係者や公共機関等です。）将来はもっと沢山のプロフィールを認証する予定ですが、まずは費用と時間の関係で、一部のアカウントのみから始めます。何ヶ月かを経てテストが進歩してきたら、もっと沢山のプロフィールにまで範囲を広げてこのテストを行なっていけるでしょう。 なりすましなどの問題に困ってます。自分のアカウントを認証できるの？ すべてのプロフィールを認証することはできませんが、もしあなたのアカウントが日常的になりすましなどの問題がある場合は解決に向けてお手伝いします。 …

With this feature, you can easily see which accounts we know are 'real' and authentic. That means we've been in contact with the person or entity the account is representing and verified that it is approved. (This does not mean we have verified who, exactly, is writing the tweets.)

"To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a 'Verified Account' feature. We're working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis. Accounts with a [check mark indicating they are] Verified are the real thing!"

"With this feature, you can easily see which accounts we know are 'real' and authentic. That means we've been in contact with the person or entity the account is representing and verified that it is approved. (This does not mean we have verified who, exactly, is writing the tweets.)"

To prevent identity confusion. Test-Version.

To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a 'Verified Account' feature. We're working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.

CTwittLike is a new and interesting Twitter application that lets you view Twitter as someone else, with all the Tweets from the people he/she follows.

watch your Twitter Stream as someone else sees it

See twitter like somebody else (i.e. see all the public tweets they would see)

see twitter like someone else

Algumas pessoas já devem ter se cansado dessa restrição de 140 caracteres imposta pelo Twitter. Para compensar, já está no ar o Woofer, que pode muito bem ser definido como a versão inversa do Twitter.

ao contrario do twitter, pede pra escrever no mínimo 1400 caracteres...sátira do twitter, é um macroblog

from twitter, chart sharing

Service to share charts on Twitter

Once registered, tweeting Best Buy employees from across all operations can send messages from the @Twelpforce account, and if they add the hash-tag #twelpforce, their messages will automatically show up under the twelpforce handle with a credit to their proper Twitter account. This is similar to how we handle the auto-posting of TechCrunch posts on our Twitter account.

Best Buy employees can use their company and Twitter ID to register for the service here, after which tweets from the lot of them will be displayed in a single stream on the same page. Once registered, tweeting Best Buy employees from across all operations can send messages from the @Twelpforce account, and if they add the hash-tag #twelpforce, their messages will automatically show up under the twelpforce handle with a credit to their proper Twitter account. This is similar to how we handle the auto-posting of TechCrunch posts on our Twitter account.

Brilliant: Best Buy transforms army of employees into helpful customer service Twits w/ @twelpforce http://bit.ly/VaxMa [from http://twitter.com/markivey/statuses/2804744718]

This pov (Twitter as social grooming) makes a lot of sense to me. But I would also dispute the term "pointless babble" itself: the two examples of "phatic" (non-information-conveying) expressions given here, "hi", and "thank you", actually can convey quite a lot of information, depending on context.

Spirited and spot on defence of the cod analysis of Twitter that some commentators engage in as a form of denial...

Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear.

Refreshing perspective on twitter. Makes me want to tweet. (Aside: this shines some light on things I've been trying to figure out about IM lately too. It might as well be re-titled "why IM should never be logged".)

informal summary by Monica Rankin of her use of Twitter in the classroom

Are tweets copyrightable? This article by Brock Shinen who is a business, intellectual property and entertainment attorney argues that it isn't IF the content that you post via Twitter was not copyrighted to begin with. Facts are not copyrightable. There is also the amount of content that you take from an original work that plays an importance.

A seriously good article on whether you can copyright tweets. Short answer: no.

Short answer: no, with a but; long answer: yes, with a maybe.

'Many people believe they own everything they post online, be it Tweets, Facebook status, or whatever. The truth is that most people are most likely incorrect in their assumption.'

Can you copyright tweets?

"One consequence of Twitter rapid rise up the rankings is that the micro-blogging service has now overtaken most of the UK newspapers online."

Hitwise UK hat ein wenig in den Statistiken gegraben. Ergebnis: Fast zehn Prozent allen ausgehenden Traffics bei Twitter landet bei Nachrichtenseiten, davon wieder 41 Prozent bei den Homepages von Zeitungen.

Last week (w/e 14/03/09) Twitter.com was the 54th most visited website in the UK, up from 66th the week before. One consequence of Twitter rapid rise up the rankings is that the micro-blogging service has now overtaken most of the UK newspapers online. As the chart below illustrates, last week Twitter received more UK Internet visits than the homepages of the Guardian, Times, Sun and Telegraph. It also over took Google News UK. Of the main newspaper homepages, only the Daily Mail received more UK Internet visits than Twitter last week.

Estudo da Hitwise Intelligence afirma que audiência do Twitter já é maior que a de homepages de jornais no Reino Unido

Of the newspaper brands, only the Mail's site has more traffic than Twitter

a simple url shortener powered by bit.ly

Een URL-verkorter die NOG kortere URL's geeft dan Bit.ly (maar wel van Bit.ly is, dus dat zit wel goed)

Accorcia URL

Use this as your guide to uncovering the gems that make Posterous a glamorous blogging alternative and the email-to-blog-to-everywhere platform that strips the hassle out of blogging.

There’s something interesting happening in the space between Twitterhttp:/​/​www.blippr.com/​apps/​336651-Twitter and a full blown blog. We’re seeing more and more of our social friends turn to sites like Posteroushttp:/​/​www.blippr.com/​apps/​337125-Posterous for 140 character plus musings, or simple and fast photo and video sharing. Whether you need a little more space to create a lifestream that serves as a compliment to your Twitter presence, or you’re looking to totally replace your existing personal or group blog, Posterous makes the transition and posting process dead simple. The Posterous possibilities are endless, and the best part is it that takes very little effort to maintain your site and attract a subscriber base.

Just spent about 3 hours using some of the resources here. Must have

Massive is hardly enough to describe this compendium of Twitter stuff

Every day I run across some cool new site for Twitter. Who would have thought that micro-blogging would inspire so many random data mines & apps? I’ve compiled several published lists, my bookmarks & links I’ve been sent – so I can’t claim to be the origin of this list. Keep in mind, many of [...]

Whether or not Twitter has hit a traffic growth ceiling, the 140 character status update platform has already proved it can permeate past its early adopter audience and attract a more mainstream user-base complete with Twittering athletes, celebrities, and government officials.

Here are 10 hilarious Twitter parody videos.

Collection of twitter parodies from mashable http://bit.ly/Q6280 [from http://twitter.com/lbraun2000/statuses/4444794604]

De roligaste parodierna på twitter

Dana Oshiro, 1 Oct 2009. "a list of 6 services you can use to get the answers you need from your Twitter friends and followers."

Twitter

WP Cumulus & Twitter

Twitter Tag Clouds

This is the power of collaborative news networks. By forming a network, newsrooms can discover not just a greater volume of news, but a greater volume of relevant, high-quality news than one person, one newsroom, or one wire service could alone.

innowacja w dziennikarstwie polegająca na kolaboracji i użyciu twittera...

Bon pour le mémoire

Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences. Raindrop's mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend's blog or as part of a social networking site. Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).

Looks promising as a client to manage email+Twitter+Facebook+Web2.0 messages and notifications.

When Sysomos published its initial "Inside Twitter" report last month that looked at the people on Twitter and how it was being used, we discovered that 5% of users accounted for 75% of all activity. This finding was based on indexing 11.5 million accounts, and then looking at the top 5% users who accounted for most number of Tweets.

We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day. The actual percentage of machine-generated tweets among the most active users is probably higher than 32% because there many bots that update less than 150 times/day. Based on our previous "Inside Twitter" report and this report on the most active users, 24% or one-quarter of all tweets overall, are generated by these very active bots. Many of these bots, however, are not spam, with some examples being @diggupdates, @deliciousrecent, @imdb, @twitseeker, @rosehose, @ladyreporter, @nieuwslijstnl, @dogbook, @ combatsi. The last three on the list - news updates from Netherlands (@nieuwslijstnl), real-time updates on what pets are doing (@dogbook), and updates from Second Life game (@combatsi) - each generate more than 2,000 tweets/day and rank as the most active bots.

Machine bots ≠ SPAM. Sysomos study says 32% of tweets by most active users are by robot but includes useful services! http://bit.ly/6i2t3 [from http://twitter.com/JMaultasch/statuses/3166705193]

5% most active twitter users

retweet science

Post shows the best subjects, words, punctuation, days and times to maximize retweets.

interesting take. About Dan Zarella's report. http://twitter.com/danzarrella http://danzarrella.com/

via AngelaMaiers RT @louisgray- 15 Twitter Tools for your Toolbox-

by Dirk Metzmacher: Um die Arbeit mit dem Kommunikationsinstrument zu erleichtern, unterstützen uns Tools unter anderem bei der Analyse, dem Filtern nach Hash-Tags und Keywords, der Integration von Medien wie Fotos oder Videos sowie bei der Einbindung in die Website oder das Weblog.

Twitter, in other words, is precisely what you want it to be. It can be a business tool, a teenage time-killer, a research assistant, a news source — whatever. There are no rules, or at least none that apply equally well to everyone. In fact, Mr. Williams said that a huge chunk of Twitter lore, etiquette and even terminology has sprouted up from Twitter users without any input from the company. For example, the people came up with the term “tweets” (what everyone calls the messages). The crowd began referring to fellow Twitterers by name like this: @pogue. Soon, that notation became a standard shorthand that the Twitter software now recognizes. The masses also came up with conventions like “RT,” meaning re-tweet — you’re passing along what someone else said on Twitter.

Notes on how to find people and things on twitter

RT @tweetmeme BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates http://bit.ly/4a4KV8 - Interesting. [from http://twitter.com/Nfernus/statuses/3894519662]

RT @yonitdm: BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates - http://bit.ly/fZ13n (via @mashable) [from http://twitter.com/cyberdad/statuses/3894386304]

One of Twitter'sTwitter strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on Twitter by typing @ and then their username.

more evidence of facebook copying twitter

RT @mashable: Considering what this means for Twitter: "BREAKING: Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates" http://bit.ly/fZ13n [from http://twitter.com/Ipu_chan/statuses/3894493236]

This is one hardcore piece of Twitter for Business 101. Great way to put a training guide online!

Twitter guide

WSJ article: Twitter yourself a job http://tinyurl.com/a7mtft [from http://twitter.com/pabaker55/statuses/1097446686]

artículo al que se refiere @angelmendez

The idea was born out of a simple necessity - to share thoughts, insights or quotes on Twitter, and follow interesting thoughts from other people. But due to other noise available on the Twitter, these thoughtful tweets were getting buried, and were hard to discover. Now using Tweeght, it's easy to discover thoughtful tweets and hence interesting people to follow.

Tweeght is not only a Tweet, but also a Thought.

not only a tweet, but also a thought. Post a thoughtful tweet. Someone may like to quote or retweet you.

great post, badly laid out, awesome content

This is an excellent post. Great to link the emergence of microblogging to the theory of Christensen on disruptive innovations! Reading his books are the best way to truely understand the business impact of web 2.0 technologies.

Will Microblogging overtake email? http://tinyurl.com/df6by4 [from http://twitter.com/FredericMartin/statuses/1328854748]

sidebar that allows you to see all of the tweets that were made about a specific webpage. There is a box at the top that allows you to add comments and tweet them out to your followers. Clicking the ‘tweet this’ box adds your comments to the webpage as well as your public timeline on Twitter. You can reply to tweets, re-tweet them, @ mention the person, and even mark them as spam. When you re-tweet or reply from within AddATweet, your comments are posted right under those that you were responding to, making it a threaded conversation.

tool for posting website comments to twitter

AddATweet é uma aplicação para comentar em qualquer site que desejar, usando sua conta no Twitter.

有点像bookmark的评论

2009.08.16 :: Am going to start documenting websites that openly practice exclusion of web surfers.. This one claims its download does not install on anything prior to Firefox 3.0 which excludes everyone for whom the same will not install based on their current computer configuration..

interestingtwitter id based aplication enables to post comments avoiding login sites, and publishing them on twitter as well. differently from other integrations, the comments remain on the page visited, not only on the social media site.

Twitter in Pictures

History of Twitter

rocksinmydryer

People's "Top 10" Twitterati lists by niche

As some commented on the last post - the list does have a bit of a ’social media’ focus - so why don’t we come up with a series of lists of people to follow in different industries. For example: * If you’re interested in entrepreneurship - ‘Ten People all Entrepreneurs Should Follow on Twitter’. * If you’re a designer ‘Ten People all Designers Should Follow on Twitter’. * If you’re a dad - ‘Ten People all Dads Should Follow on Twitter’. * If you’re into politics - ‘Ten People all Political Buffs Should Follow on Twitter’. * If you’re a blogger - ‘Ten People all Bloggers Should Follow on Twitter’. * If you’re a rocket scientist - ‘Ten People all Rocket Scientists Should Follow on Twitter’.

New numbers about 'community destination' sites in the U.S. reveal that Twitter grew well over a thousand percent between February 2008 and February 2009. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.

Latest news from Twitter and Micro Blogging

social calendar and event promotion application for Twitter

Taweet (beta) is a social calendar and event promotion application for Twitter. Taweet adds a whole new dimension to your Twitter experience: the future. The casual format of Taweet allows users to answer one simple question, "What are you doing in the future?" ...and search the future to see what others are doing.

Having a Twitter account may be all the rage, however there is something to be said for the power of focus.

twitter in education "Jane Hart, a social media and learning consultant, classifies Twitter and other micro-blogs as tools for personal and informal learning. “The point of social media is to turn learning into a more participatory activity,” she says. Learners use social media tools to ask and answer each other’s questions, and as Hart maintains, “Micro-blogs can support collaboration and understanding.”

pistachioconsulting.com/services/research

about Twitter and other micro-blogging techniques for informal learning in the enterprise

No e-mail message, phone call or Web site could have achieved the same effect.... Most people are supportive and happy to help you out. There is, however, such a thing as Twitter snobbery. Twitter, in other words, is precisely what you want it to be.

Businesses should lose their inhibitions over using the microblogging tool to get closer to their customers

Twitter como canal de comunicación con los usuarios

It offered followers special discounts on rebuilt PCs. Twitter let Guerrero get to customers quicker and at lower cost than by direct mail. It let anyone interested in a deal follow him for announcements. It reduced his need to jockey for prominent space on the company's massive Web site, where refurbished products were often relegated to the online equivalent of Siberia.

SHARED USING: http://www.tagle.it

090906 part of a special section on microblogging

We asked the author of @thewholeworld, who has about 2,500 followers, to run a series of three tests promoting various funny videos or articles. What we found was surprising; nearly all traffic to those links was within five minutes of the tweet. After that… nothing.

A marketers view in some respects but interesting none the less. "The moral of the story is that twitter is like any social event you've ever attended. You can't expect the person you've just met to know what you told someone in a previous conversation. So get involved, have fun and make connections with your consumers."

Based on anecdotal empirical testing, the average useful lifespan of a link shared on Twitter is only ~5 min.

with 5 take aways

Fuel Interactive is a full-service web design, development and marketing agency

100 herramientas para Twitter

On Tuesday, The Times published an article I wrote about Twitter and Yammer, two microblogging services that let users blast short messages to a group of virtual followers. Twitter has gotten a lot of buzz since it was created in 2006. Yammer is new on the scene, just six weeks old, with a different goal: to be Twitter for businesses. Yammer was created for employees of Geni, a family tree Web site. When they discovered how useful it was for them, David Sacks, the founder of Geni, decided to spin Yammer off into its own company with $1 million of Geni’s venture funding. Mr. Sacks, a PayPal co-founder, now runs both start-ups and is raising a new round of funding for Yammer. On Twitter, people write about the important and the mundane, like, “At school and debating whether I should have more coffee.” With a workplace focus, Yammer will not deal in such trivialities, Mr. Sacks said. “People don’t want to hear from their friends five times a day about what they’re doing. But they do wan

Yammer, similar to Twitter, asks, "What are you working on?" Can this be helpful for work?

"E-mail no longer serves its proper purpose, which is to request an active response... All the rest of the stuff that clogs in-boxes — mass e-mails sharing a link to an article, for example, or notifications of company events — makes e-mail less efficient." —nytimes.com, October 21, 2008

Describes the successes of Yammer: the Twitter for work.

For the last few months, I’ve been focused on how to help people understand and use Twitter for business. As part of my preparation to speak at the WritersUA conference about using Twitter, I developed a new ebook, Twitter for Beginners. I’m pleased to share this ebook with...

poste mais de 140 caracteres no twitter

"The truth is, you don’t have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter. At its best, the social medium is a perpetual, personalized news service about topics of your choosing — whether health care reform, tech news or the latest episode of “Gossip Girl” — filtered and served to you by people who care a lot about what you care a lot about. Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of the day than to broadcast their own thoughts. And once you get pulled in, you might just find you have something to say after all. Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, suggests that naysayers simply log on to Twitter’s home page and search for a topic they are interested in, whether it’s their favorite sports team, the name of their company or a topic in the news. Within a minute, they understand the appeal, he said." [continues with more suggestions]

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Ftechnology%2F04basics.html

Twitter

Reading: Friendfeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app that no one uses http://tinyurl.com/de3ao9 [from http://twitter.com/ErikNYC/statuses/1471115840]

http://tinyurl.com/de3ao9 [from http://twitter.com/doktordab/statuses/1472301884]

RT @TechCrunch: FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses http://tr.im/imfp [from http://twitter.com/peterto/statuses/1467550396]

FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest application that no one uses.

e fact is that FriendFeed may just be too complicated for the average user to quickly understand.

FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses http://ff.im/-1Y9U2 [from http://twitter.com/web2sil/statuses/1468873461]

Growth at Twitter, FriendFeed’s primary competitor, continues unchecked. According to Comscore the site is growing at approximately 33% a month and attracted just under 10 million unique worldwide visitors in February. It had just 1.2 million in February 2008. More importantly, every time I turn on the news, it seems the talking heads are pushing their Twitter account as their online identity. That kind of mainstream attention is driving users by the boatload. Meanwhile, competitor FriendFeed, despite a continuous stream of innovative new features, is languishing. It has just 637,000 monthly uniques according to Comscore, or about 6.4% of Twitter’s flow.

Failed Twitter Takeover http://tinyurl.com/dn67kt [from http://twitter.com/ironpark/statuses/1268439427]

The social network intends to grow during the downturn, but Facebook's imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter.

The social network intends to grow during the downturn, but Facebook's imprecise and illiquid stock valuation limited its appeal to Twitter

How to use Twitter for Social Learning http://bit.ly/cg8e1G

I had a number of requests to separate out my Guide to 140 Learning into how to use the different tools (Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz), so my How to use Twitter for Social Learning is now available HERE at the C4LPT website. . However, I have reproduced the contents list below. About this Guide GETTING STARTED Getting started with Twitter Accessing and using Twitter THE BASICS Building Community Communicating with others Sharing links and resources Keeping up to date Problem solving Serendipitous learning Presentations, Events, Classes & Training Using the backchannel at an event Incorporating the backchannel in a...

IBM&#8217;s got BlueTwit. Oracle&#8217;s testing OraTweets. SAP&#8217;s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so ...

yammer

Internal microblogging/sharing at Best Buy.

http://www.tweepme.com - the first 5,000 members receive free lifetime subscriptions #TweepMe [from http://twitter.com/maxOz/statuses/1348666331]

TweepMe - http://www.tweepme.com - the first 5,000 members receive free lifetime subscriptions #TweepMe [from http://twitter.com/LauraleeGuthrie/statuses/1341826380]

http://www.TweepMe.com/ #FAIL [from http://twitter.com/93octane/statuses/1726756745]

http://www.tweepme.com - the first 5,000 members receive free lifetime subscriptions #TweepMe http://ff.im/1zKDb [from http://twitter.com/Jagger202/statuses/1345057787]

http://www.tweepme.com - the first 5,000 members receive free lifetime subscriptions #TweepMe [from http://twitter.com/gregbond/statuses/1344451761]

RT @BertDecker RT @mashable TweepMe seems to totally misunderstand the point of Twitter. Not recommended. http://www.tweepme.com/ [from http://twitter.com/zecool/statuses/1338985420]

Gimmick or good idea? I want to find out.

This seems like an unbelievably sad effort to rapidly boost follower numbers

Examples of loca businesses using Twitter

"Influential Marketing Blog: 9 Ways To Make #Twitter More Useful For You" http://j.mp/cO9L39

Good ideas for twitter for business and personal use

We’ve written about some very specific applications for different mobile devices, and now we want to tell you how to be a power Twitter user on any mobile device with a browser, and how to post your tweets safely and hands free while on the go.

We’ve written about some very specific applications for different mobile devices, and now we want to tell you how to be a power Twitter user on any mobile device with a browser, and how to post your tweets safely and hands free while on the go. Matt Singley is a business process advisor that focuses on social media and UGC sociology. He authors a blog at Singley’s Blog Thoughts.

twitter media

On Twitter, what really matters is how you play the game. It's still early in the first inning, and if you haven't already, now is the time to get off the bench. Here's how.

Twitterfeed grows readerships.

A post about not just using RSS feeds on your social network site. Making it personal and sharing links and information from other places.

Many newsrooms are doing this through “live Tweeting” everything from ball games to trials. Tweeting while watching is certainty a popular use of Twitter, so this is promising.

scroll through your Twitter messages and star your favorites for reference as if you were using Google Reader

TwitterをGoogleReader風に表示出来る、サーバーインストール型アプリケーション。PHP+MySQLで動作するっぽい。via http://www.moongift.jp/2009/03/twittereader/

TwitteReader lets you see latest tweets as feed items a la Google Reader, clicking expands full text. http://is.gd/mFyK

Mark Twitter messages as read and unread Keep track of what you have already read from who you follow

There's been a lot of buzz around Twitter about 'ReTweeting' lately. Quite a bit of it has been a result of some of the conversations like this one at

RT: @BookBuzzr: 4 ReTweet Tools and Trackers http://bit.ly/EOutW [from http://twitter.com/nickdaws/statuses/5530470350]

Knowledge and tools to help you use Twitter to transform media, entertainment, and journalism.

blog official

Tech Crunch says: "Twitter has just launched a new site called Twitter Media, where it’s offering media organizations and journalists some case studies and guidelines to better connect with their Twitter fans... Twitter has also launched an official Twitter Media account. The site has the description, “Knowledge and tools to help you use Twitter to transform media, entertainment, and journalism.” at the top, then gets right down to business with a series of blog posts. The first details how the Oxygen network used Twitter and other networks to hold a “social viewing party” as an episode was broadcast, which helped boost ratings 92%. (As a control the network only did this on the East Coast; the West Coast, which didn’t hold a “viewing party”, only saw a 14% increase in ratings over the previous season of the show). The site allows users to browse by media platform (tv or web); type (case studies or howto); and topics, which include API, design, legal issues, and news."

Recursos para uso de Twitter en periodismo

As you no doubt have heard, Twitter’s traffic is growing at an incredible rate – the most recent numbers we’ve seen show that the microblogging service

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Twitter tool which lets you mass spam everybody

All about Twitter

Article riche sur le microblogging

Usages, services, applications... Une revue complété du phénomène de microblogging et de son outil phare Twitter

Tout savoir sur Twitter et le Microblogging

Tout savoir sur twitter [WRITTEN IN FRENCH]

explication of social dynamics/etiquette, good links

establish a following policy

Unless you are a Twitter user who immediately follows everyone who follows you, we have all experienced losing Followers because, for whatever reason, we did not follow them in return. To be sure, deciding when to follow or not follow is not only a personal decision, but one which is driving a growing debate in the Blogosphere. How this debate plays out may have a profound impact on how people use Twitter and how the service will grow in the future.

amazing twitter research capabilities.

Twitter for Research: Why and How to Do It, Including Case Studies

Laura Fitton presents a side-by-side comparison of 15 enterprise microsharing applications.

A comparison of 15 internal "enterprise 2.0" tools similar to Twitter

the first side-by-side comparison of 15 enterprise microsharing applications:

Twitter (Twitter)’s “water cooler” collaboration, support and problem-solving qualities have led to much discussion about a similar application for internal “Enterprise 2.0″ collaboration and communication. Yammer’s success touched off a spate of announcements about similar applications, and Jeremiah Owyang and I have been tracking the growing list.

O Revisit é uma opção mais gráfica para acompanhar o buzz sobre um dado assunto ou menções sobre usuários específicos (twitterwall). Traça relação entre tweets, retweets, replies e favorites dentro de um período de tempo ou do dia atual. Segundo palavras do criador: "Revisit is a real-time visualization of the latest twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. Use it create your own twitter wall at a conference or an ambient display at your company or whatever other idea you come up with. In contrast to other twitterwalls, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies". Mais informações em http://flowingdata.com/2010/04/26/conversational-twitter-threads-visualized/.

Nice! - Visualizing Twitter Conversations in Real Time: http://j.mp/bYmj9w (via @AmirKassaei)

Revisit is a real-time visualization of the latest twitter messages (tweets) around a specific topic. Use it create your own twitter wall at a conference or an ambient display at your company or whatever other idea you come up with. In contrast to other twitterwalls, it provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream, and emphasizes the conversational threads established by retweets and @replies.

Wow, this is pretty wild: http://bit.ly/bYmj9w #visualizations #flowingdata

RT @draenews: Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles : eLearning Technology: http://bit.ly/bhtFRJ

Twitter notes and helpful articles

How to Google's friend connect works with Twitter

We're trialling Friend Connect on Dogear Nation's website, will be interesting to see what the take-up is like.

circa March 2009

tips for twitter

Talks about the increases of CEOs using twitter and other SoMe.

advice for ceo's who twitter

RT @fdebailleul: RT @olivierl: Le Top 10 des relous sur Twitter - http://bit.ly/771up MAXI LOL MT @BinaryJuice @gonzague via @rob1p

LOL RT @gonzague: Le Top 10 des relous sur Twitter - http://bit.ly/771up via @rob1p

RT @AlexxCom: RT @henrymichel - Le top ten des relous sur Twitter - Excellent !! #twitter http://bit.ly/CFSYi

Funny one. RT @thekitchenfr: Bien vu. Le top 10 des reloos sur twitter : http://www.henrymichel.com/humour/top10-relous-twitter/

Le top 10 des relous sur twitter http://dld.bz/b5yw Perso, j'assume ! – Emilie Ogez (eogez) http://twitter.com/eogez/statuses/12992478078

RT @gonzague: Le Top 10 des relous sur Twitter - http://bit.ly/771up via @rob1p

An interesting post about Twitter traffic growth in the UK. But, the most interesting part is the chart showing sources of traffic for various vertical categories of websites. Notably that over 40% of traffic to sites in the 'Entertainment' category is coming from either Twitter or Facebook. This reinforces my hypothesis that social media is a particularly powerful marketing channel for content.

Interesting article about how Twitter is becoming a powerful director of web traffic:

Twitter downstream traffic stats June 2009 from Hitwise

Significant growth in 2009

Thorough article that deals with the criticisms of Twitter.

Twitter sucks, so change your friends

Twitter sucks, so change your friends. ? Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 ? the soundtrack to the day you wish you?d had

There are three broad themes coming out in the Twitter critique: * That it’s full of trivial rubbish * That’s it’s reality TV without pictures * That is for narcissists and fosters mental ill-health (WTF??) To which I, not surprisingly, say ‘Bollocks’.

How CEOs are using Twitter

RT @petergold99: CEO's on Twitter. Interesting news post. http://bit.ly/12oq9c [from http://twitter.com/theholodeck/statuses/1704520144]

Good Article on ReTweets.

Tweet unto others as you would like to be tweeted.

May 20, 2009

An easily indexed and searchable website featuring all of those comments that find their way onto social networking sites and come back to bite you in the ass. If you

via oso

Proof positive people are too stupid to deal with the Digital Age.

service enables publishers to offer premium tweets via direct message to paying subscribers

Is this the end of the world as we know it? Maybe. I'm not ruling out that a good Twitter stream is worth paying for - I just haven't seen it yet.

reading Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp http://ow.ly/cPDN [from http://twitter.com/ploked/statuses/2072907093]

A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream.

A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream. ...

A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream. This is a theme we’ve touched on in the past. There is a huge market for celebrity fan pages that Super Chirp will play right into. In fact, 83 Degrees CEO Narendra Rocherolle wrote a guest post here last year called A Missed Opportunity - Britney On Twitter where he talks about the idea. Twitter is mobile and it’s real time, two huge advantages over normal fan sites. And it’s constantly refreshed with new content. Britney Spears has 1.7 million Twitter followers. How many of them would be willing to pay $1, or $10, per month to see a premium stream of her content?

I've dug through countless services to find some interesting, loopy, and just plain cool tools that allow you to do more than talk to friends. From receiving tweets when your clothes are clean to tracking packages, Twitter is a great place to solve many of the day's tasks.

If you want to do more than just talk to friends on Twitter, here are some fun tools to extend Twitter's capability. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Webware.

Twitter is a great personal and social communications platform. But that's not all you can use it for. I've dug through countless services to find some interesting, loopy, and just plain cool tools that allow you to do more than talk to friends. From receiving tweets when your clothes are clean to tracking packages, Twitter is a great place to solve many of the day's tasks.

Eight uses of Twitter are provided here, from tracking packages, car service and task lists to providing an audio versio of Twitter.

If you want to do more than just talk to friends on Twitter, here are some fun tools to extend Twitter's capability.

I am so glad to exist in a time where someone thought that the world needed a Twitter Sex Guide. And then wrote it. ...

Some links NSFW

sacar ideas para articulos

seems i'm one of the 50+ semantic web pros to follow: http://bit.ly/frkN - hello new followers... [from http://twitter.com/friedcell/statuses/1132771324]

10 façons détaillées d'intégrer Twitter dans son blog ou dans un site web

tres façons d’intégrer Twitter dans un site ou un blog : si vous en connaissez certaines vraiment intéressantes et peu répandues, hop un petit commentaire.

Twitter search engine that rather than focusing on what people are saying, focuses on the web pages people are linking to.

OneRiot is a social search engine that finds the pulse of the web. Search with OneRiot to find the news, videos and products that people are talking about right now in relation to your search term.

Try our Twitter Search — find the news, stories and videos people are tweeting about right now.

search twitter but see linked webpages...

Schmidt says "Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man's email systems". Has he missed something?

Sergey Brin: "In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don't have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?

ツンデレ >Schmidt also plugged Google's new Twitter account

twitter personal accounts professional

Things that we need in life in order to survive: food, water, air, and Twitter followers. Here are some tips to help retain your Twitter followers.

Quite an honest list. All amateur tweeters should refer.

RT @problogger: 10 Ways to Keep Your Precious Followers on Twitter - http://bit.ly/ZVkpi [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/1849724732]

twitter switch to Bit.ly

A little startup called Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as the default link shortening service on Twitter. This isn't just about shortening links, though. "The truth about Bit.ly," enterprise software analyst James Governor said today, "is that it's not a URL shortener, it's a trend management and metrics platform." The key idea behind the Web is that pages are connected through hypertext links. Google changed the world and made money beyond anyone's wildest dreams by analyzing those connections between pages. It was a simple proposition, at its core: the more a page is linked to, the more authoritative it is. The web isn't just pages anymore, though. Now the web also includes people as a fundamental factor to take into consideration.

important point: google analyses where links points, bit.ly analyses what links get shared where - twitter is another linking/pointing technology driven by people

Reading: Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As The King of Short Links; Here's What It Means http://bit.ly/bqqa2 [from http://twitter.com/sandroalberti/statuses/1731512637]

Useful stuff: "TweetDeck vs Seesmic Desktop" ( http://tinyurl.com/c44xe7 ) [from http://twitter.com/johnhaydon/statuses/1767794271]

ble to see a demo