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Twesents

2009-05-19T14:23:00.002+01:00

Twesents lets you send virtual gifts to friends.

This is something that has been around for a long time on other social networks like Facebook. Twesents now introduces the concept to Twitter.

The website is beautifully designed using Adobe Flash. Not only does it allow you to send virtual gifts, but it goes a step further by showing the most popular (”trending”) twesents sent so far.

Million’s people choice Twitter Applications

2009-05-17T14:05:00.002+01:00

Time has changed a lot and with the time, knowledge and facilities have changed too. Few years ago very few people knew about the usage of internet, but today the use of internet becomes very easy and well known to everyone. Internet has become the easy way to discover your old buddies and connect with them. In last few years, social networking sites have become an important of our lives. And the services which are provided by these sites are so good that maximum social networking websites are surf by people on websites on an average. Twitter and twitter applications are one of the examples of social networking website amongst so many sites.

It is no wonder why millions of people enjoy social networking. Social networking allows people to share information easily and in some cases, very quickly.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows us to send short messages of 140 characters. These updates, known as tweets, are text-based messages that can be sent from a mobile device. Like SMS, twitter has up to 140 characters message in length. These messages are also sent to everyone who subscribed to receive our updates. In turn, we too can receive updates from others.

Twitter was launched in 2006, at that time competition was very high applications like Orkut etc. was already in the market but still twitter made its individual position in the market. In beginning it was estimated that twitter had approximately 3-4 million users and it was on third position as social networking service after Facebook and MySpace. But recently this year in February 2009, the monthly traffic on twitter was around 55 million which was a huge success. Twitter applications are also making its different position in the market. People are pretty much happy with the twitter applications and twitter. Various facilities provide by the twitter applications which other social networking websites do not provide.

It is not difficult to understand why Twitter is so popular. Apart from its simplicity, Twitter also provides users with the option to send or receive tweets via SMS, RSS, or through various twitter applications. Twitter also provides back-end functionality via APIs that can be implemented in other desktop and web-based applications. This lets users make updates without having to visit the actual Twitter site.

With the personal use twitter is also used in business. There are various twitter applications which are used in business. It can be used to widespread latest information of your company. From company’s latest news to blog posts. It can also enable easy internal group communication, feedback and collaboration.

by Jonathan Marino on 17-05-2009

Adf.ly

2009-05-15T22:12:00.003+01:00

adf.ly is a new link shortening service with a twist. The difference between adf.ly ond any of the countless others is that you get paid for each click on your shortened links!

When a user clicks on the short link, it first shows a full page interstitial ad and the user would need to click on “Skip Ad” before being forwarded to your link.

2009-05-11T20:36:00.003+01:00

Bypass 140 Character Limit in Twitter

Twitter is an awesome tool which increases your site reader but one thing which I don’t like about Twitter is that it has a 140 characters limit. So using this loop-hole of Twitter another site called PageTweet , will help you out to bypass 140 character limit. What it actually does is make you enter your message along with your url and nickname and then gives you a short url for that message. You can actually add the shortened url in your Twitter feed along with some another message.

How is this different from other url shortening services?
After reading the above lines, this would be the first question that generates in your mind. The url shortening services may help you to shorten your url but the url which this site will provides will make your viewers to your targeted site, which now has a PageTweet bar along the top that displays the message that you have typed in PageTweet site. It also shows a mini hit-counter for your shortened URL. Below is the example how this happens.

2009-05-09T14:19:00.002+01:00

Using Twitter to Bookmark

Ever since Furl was taken over by Diigo, I’ve been using StumbleUpon to bookmark my favorite pages. There are lots of great social bookmarking services out there, and the most popular ones are: Mixx, Reddit, Digg, and Delicious. But have your ever tried bookmarking with Twitter?

Twitter is a micro-blogging service but I recently discovered that it is also good for bookmarking.

Here’s how:

Drag and drop this button: TwitThis to your browser’s shortcuts toolbar.
Just click the ‘TwitThis’ button if you wish to tweet/bookmark a page.
Your Twitter account will pop up and just choose how would you like to tweet the page (Reading:, Check out, Watching:, etc.)
Mark your tweet as favorite and your done.
If you wish to retrieve tweeted/bookmarked pages, just go to your ‘favorites’ tab.

Twitter might not be as good as most bookmarking services, but it can do a good job for quick bookmarking. especially if you installed apps like TweetDeck. I’m in fact using Twitter more often these days to bookmark my pages, and I really love it because it’s so easy and simple.

2009-05-08T23:47:00.002+01:00

Brand Monitoring in Twitter: BackTweets Alerts you to Linking Activity

Most businesses who are trying to stay on top of what’s being said about them (or their competition) are very familiar with Twitter’s standard search engine. Search.twitter.com will provide a reasonably comprehensive set of results for term and hashtag references, but that may not be enough for businesses who need to stay on top of all relevant conversations.

One shortcoming of Twitter’s standard search is that it will fail to catch those tweets that may have linked to your/your competition’s site, yet don’t contain the specific terms or tags that you are probing for.

Imagine that someone has tweeted only the words “my favorite latte” and has provided a link to the coffee house you own. In this instance no key terms were used, and you’d likely never know that the reference ever existed.

(Click the image for a larger view.)

Enter Backtweets. With Backtweets, you simply enter a URL (the service will auto-resolve shortened ones) into the single field presented and hit return. It will deliver a reverse-chronological list of tweets containing the requested link.

In addition, it provides an RSS feed so that you can be notified automatically as new relevant tweets appear. If you would prefer to receive the updates via email, one option is to enter the feed URL into a service such as FeedMyEmail, who will send you a daily email.

The creators of Backtweets tell me that service will provide up to 500 results for any single search result at one time, and searches for links going back about 2 months.

Our sentiment is that Backtweets is an invaluable addition to the toolkit of any professional who needs to stay on top what’s being said on Twitter.

2009-05-08T22:16:00.002+01:00

Google Execs: Twitter-like Functionality Could Be Added to Search

While taking questions yesterday about alleged violation of anti-trust laws, Google execs including CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly told press that the company is, in the words of Reuters scribe Alexei Oreskovic, "looking at ... ways of integrating microblogging capabilities, such as those popularized by Twitter, into its search product."

That's news to us. Everything these days is about Twitter, though. Go to a party--talk about Twitter. Have a blog? Talk about Twitter. Use Twitter? Talk about Twitter. Apparently we can add to that: facing legal pressure over allegedly anti-competitive business practices? Talk about Twitter. There's absolutely no more information available about this - but below are three possible scenarios we can imagine for Google integrating microblogging into its search product.

The fact that Schmidt said what he did is just one reason to believe Google is going to do something with microblogging. There are several - most important is the fact that status sharing and activity streams are really useful, compelling and potentially valuable for both users and companies that dabble in them. Here's how it might go down.

TwtAD

2009-04-24T14:57:00.001+01:00

twtAd is a system that enables you to monetize your tweets. Based on a similar concept to Be-a-Magpie, twtAd pays you a few cents for every click to the URL from the link posted on your Twitter page.
Once you reach $20, you can withdraw the amount via PayPal.
The system has been up for only a few months, and has gained over 100,000 Twitter users and is growing rapidly.

2009-04-12T13:49:00.001+01:00

Twitter May Be Used to Host Random Content

Fact: Twitter uses Amazon’s S3 AWS to store user images.
Fact: Twitter apparently only checks the file extension to determine the file type of uploaded images, not an image library or a method that checks for binary image data.
Fact: This can be used (or abused) to obtain un-metered free hosting of files that are less than 800K in size.

How is it done? A user can rename any file with a ‘jpg’ ‘gif’ or ‘png’ extension and upload it as their background image on a dummy Twitter account.

Tweecious Twitter Links to Delicious Bookmarks

2009-04-08T16:25:00.000+01:00

Tweecious is a new Firefox plugin that automates the conversion of Twitter links to Delicious bookmarks. Once installed, the plugin checks to make sure you're logged into both services and then parses your tweets in order to post the links you tweet to your Delicious account. What's great about this particular add-on is not only how well it works, but that it doesn't require your passwords in order to do so.

Using Tweecious is simple - just install the Firefox plugin as usual. Then, upon reloading Firefox, you'll need to go through a short two-step procedure to finish setting it up. The first step lets you choose whether or not you want the plugin to backtrack and parse your old tweets or if it should just start from now on. After setting your preferences, the service verifies you're logged into both accounts and you're ready to go. From that point forward, anything you tweet is posted to Delicious. The links are tagged, too, thanks to an integrated tagging system that uses the Zemanta API.

2009-04-07T20:28:00.000+01:00

Top 10 Reasons Your Company Probably Shouldn't Tweet

Mainstream media has gone ga ga about Twitter, which grew more than 1,200% in the past year, doubled its members in the past few months and attained 14 million members in March, according to Compete.

Everyone and his dog seems to be tweeting, from CEOs, celebrities and not-for-profits to venture capitalists, banks, business services, government and, well, dogs (and cats and the random parakeet, too). Should your business be tweeting? Twitter is not for everyone. Here are the "Top 10 Reasons Not to Tweet."

2009-03-31T14:32:00.000+01:00

Twitter tweaks replies, hires ex-Google designer

It didn’t take long for Douglas Bowman, Google’s former visual design leader, to land a new gig. Creative Capital’s Spencer Ante reports that Bowman is taking the helm as creative director for Twitter, a spot that, up to now, was being held down by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.

2009-03-31T01:34:00.002+01:00

Twitter Legal Battle Heats Up, As Love Gives Fashion Designer A Bad Name

There is no doubt these days that what’s said on the internet is just as valid as anything said aloud in a public forum. Jobs have been lost over Facebook, and Myspace posts. Blogs have made, and broken careers, and it looks like Twitter is the latest to hit the news in social networking scandal.

2009-03-25T12:41:00.000Z

Pupils to study Twitter?

Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum

2009-03-23T14:23:00.000Z

Evan Williams Talk

How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses

JumpStart Twitter Intro For Beginners

2009-03-23T13:36:00.000Z

2009-03-19T19:13:00.000Z

Twitter's growth by 1382%

A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing "member community destinations" in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, it clocked in at a whopping 1,382 percent growth rate. That's to be expected, considering the amount of press the still-without-a-business-model microblogging service has gotten in recent months.

2009-03-17T00:20:00.000Z

Twitter As A Business Tool

Twitter 101: What is a Widget

I can say with certainty that Twitter is aiming for the mainstream. They are trying to move past the early adopters and heavy tech users. Why do I say this? Well just a few hours ago Twitter has started to “educate” their users with word definitions for words such as “Widget”.

2009-03-03T14:52:00.000Z

How Twitter changes marketing forever, a simple explanation

Traditional media is dying. More often your customers rely on their friends for referrals and not the TV or local newspaper ads. There is nothing that beats a personal referral because we trust our friends more than your ads. That being said, complaints to friends have the same powerful effect, but to your detriment. So it’s vital that you keep your ear to the ground.

2009-03-03T13:50:00.000Z

10 Features That Will Make Twitter Better

Twitter’s popularity has skyrocketed in the recent months. Usage statistics states that most people who use Twitter interact with the application via the web rather than a third-party client such as TweetDeck or twitterfeed.

Will social networks on the web ever make money?

2009-03-01T14:00:00.000Z

In the last month or so, there have been a number of events that bring up the big question: Will Web-based social networks ever become significant businesses? Or, put another way: Do these social networks -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace -- have the ability to "monetize" their audiences?

Twitter's rapid growth raises regulation issues

2009-02-28T13:06:00.000Z

Twitter is a child safety and privacy disaster waiting to happen, according to online safety experts.
The site - which has had a yearly 974% jump in UK traffic alone and attracts between 4m and 6m people, including celebrity twitterer Stephen Fry - is open to abuse if it fails to effectively self-moderate.

Green Living: Twitter

2009-02-26T23:27:00.000Z

It can sometimes feel like the world is moving too quickly. It only seems like yesterday that everyone was getting in a lather over Friends Reunited. Now if you’re not on Facebook you may as well get out your Zimmer frame and head for the tea dance.

Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document. Part I

2009-02-19T15:19:00.000Z

Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey (@jack), who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz).

Top 10 Twitter Tips For Beginners

2009-02-18T01:25:00.000Z

Ready to jump into Twitter, but don't know how to get started? Follow these 10 tips and you'll fit right in.

tweetergetter.com

2009-02-13T19:48:00.000Z

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Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter

2009-02-12T20:16:00.000Z

In today's carefully stage-managed Washington, the last thing anyone expects from members of Congress is candor or spontaneity. So perhaps it's not all that surprising that Representative Pete Hoekstra unwittingly triggered a maelstrom of criticism last weekend when he Twittered about his trip to Iraq.

Twitter? It’s What You Make It

2009-02-12T19:29:00.000Z

Writing can be solitary work, but not when you write a tech column. Feedback pours in so quickly — by e-mail, on blogs, in online comments — that it’s almost real-time performance art.

Twitter meetup spawns global charity event

2009-02-07T15:18:00.000Z

We’ve already seen that Twitter is turning into a source of breaking news. But it’s also clearly turning into a way of organising social movements extremely quickly.

The World is a Twitter

2009-02-05T23:07:00.000Z

Why the whole world is in a Twitter

When Mike Wilson used the social-networking site Twitter to tell the world his plane had crashed, he was demonstrating what many already knew - that for a growing number of people, twittering is becoming a way of life

2009-02-05T20:04:00.000Z

Celebrities on Twitter

2009-02-05T19:34:00.000Z

How boring Celebrities sign Twitter reveal mundane aspect lives

Millionaire celebrities, you might imagine, lead riveting lives, full to the brim with excitement and derring-do.