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Twitter Applications for Everyone

Not sure what Twitter apps are good? Bad? Ugly? OneForty has got you covered. Find great Twitter applications based on user-reviews and even meet/view the developers who made them.

Twitter Beta-testing ‘Contributors’ Feature

Twitter announced a new feature, currently in beta, that businesses can leverage on Twitter to help make their business to consumer tweets more personal. The feature is called ‘Contributors’ and appends the contributor’s username to the byline.

Web 3.0? Nimbus and Focus.

At the current pace of the accelerating social media space – the next evolution in social media could send everyone racing, yet again, to understand and strategically gauge the best implementation of the medium…which may become completely reinvented. Relax, it won’t happen tomorrow or next week – but keep your expectations in check as it can always be right around the corner. What are we talking about? Web 3.0. Where your status will be called your “nimbus” and those things you want to follow or have interest in will be called your “focus.”

Behold: The Power of Twitter Lists

So, what the heck is the big deal about Twitter’s new API that allows you to create a Twitter list?

It’s a big deal, and here are the reasons…

Creating these lists, even if you don’t post to Listorious, will start to cement you as an authority on the resourceful tweeters that other seek to find. In other words, other Twitterers look to you in order to find the people they should be following.

Activate Your Natural Sales Force: Flip.to Leverages Social Media & Your Employees

At a time when some companies are completely banning social media in the office, and others are embracing it, it looks like Flip.to presents a compelling reason to keep your employees happy while you simultaneously give your bottom line more potential.

Build a potentially viral Twitter campaign in less than 5 minutes

We have heard of tons of strategies for Twitter promotions and marketing – and there is a new tool out there every 20 minutes to try and execute a campaign via Twitter. But here is one application so easy, and powerful, your Twitter promotion could go viral after only five minutes of setting up your promo.

Make Facebook your central hub to update all of your social networks using SocialToo

Everyday, it seems, another app comes from somewhere allowing you to update your social networks from a single location. TubeMogul recently made such an announcement, and there are countless plugins for WordPress that do the same, as well as plugins for browsers, such as Minggl for Firefox. Well, here is one for Facebook, called SocialToo. [...]

Top 10 Twitter Service Clients Account for 90% of Tweets

According to a recent study by Rapleaf, a ‘people database’ with insight into hundreds of millions of consumers across social media, the top ten Twitter service clients account for 90% of the Tweets. It’s similar to the actual distribution of Twitter users themselves. There are over 1900 Twitter clients available, so there is definitely still [...]

Live Video Streaming on Twitter

It will be interesting to see how applicable this function is, as Twitter is a ‘hyper-short’ communication system keeping things to a top-line, concise 140 characters. Video exchange can be time-consuming and is much more involved but could somehow evolve into another quick-format communication. Check out the Live Video Streaming Tool for Twitter here: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/07/29/stream-live-video-on-twitter/ [...]

700+ Twitter Tools…is this the ultimate guide to twitter tools?

Right now, he claims this is the biggest collection of Twitter tools on the web…might be true. Check it out: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/05/30/the-ultimate-list-of-twitter-tools/ Jason Small Social Media and the Big W Founder www.SocialMediaandtheBigW.comGoogle+

What took Twitter down yesterday

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-downtime/ In short, it was a malicious attack to overwhelm the system. They are becoming more of a rare occurrence, with the advancement of protective systems to frustrate the hackers…but once in a while, there is always ‘one in the crowd’ that gets through. I never understand these guys, their only purpose is to create [...]

A few great twitter resources

Hey guys – you should list your twitter account in twellow for starters: twellow.com Then use this tool to start batch following using specific criteria that will bring relevant followers around to you: refollow.com Google+