• Twitter Power Search – real time twitter search – Current twitter top trends

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• How addicted to Twitter are you? Quiz – The Oatmeal

  Fun quiz to see how much you are addicted to Twitter

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  • – By Ileane Smith

• Twitter Lists To RSS

  A service that will convert a twitter list into rss.

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  • – By Matteo Farber

• Kalinago English: Why Twitter lists are a good idea

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• HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists

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• Twitter Lists Widget: Embed Your Lists on Your Blog

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• The Power of Educational Technology: Twitter List Screencast

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• Dr. Z Reflects: 6 Resources for Using Twitter in Education

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• Tweeting temporal tidal data | Stuart Lewis’ Blog

  Stuart has created Twitter accounts that automatically tweet NZ tide information. The data is accessed from publically available services.

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  • – By Andrew Long

• Brizzly is the Next Twitter Client to Support Lists

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• SMART Board

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• Qwitter – stop smoking via Twitter?

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• gtFtr – Get Fitter with Twitter!

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• KINDERGARTEN SMARTBOARD SITES

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• Twitter Clients

  Real-time usage stats for every top Twitter Client

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  • – By Ileane Smith

• TweetPlot – charting and plotting

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• Twitter Links @ Educators

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• 9 Useful Twitter Retweet Button Scripts For Blogs | cheth Studios

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• Ad.ly – In-Stream Advertising

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• Tirer le meilleur parti de Twitter

  Une très belle entrée en matière. “Ce guide s’adresse à tout ceux qui s’intéressent au phénomène Twitter sans pour autant avoir les clés nécessaires à sa compréhension. Il se présente donc comme un guide en 4 parties à l’attention des particuliers mais aussi des entreprises. La première est une présentation générale du service, de ses usages et de ce qu’il a changé dans les méthodes de consommation de l’information pour ses membres. La deuxième partie s’attarde sur la galaxie de services dérivés qu’il a engendré. La troisième s’intéresse aux usages pour les entreprises. Enfin, la quatrième et dernière partie s’interroge sur le futur possible de l’outil de micro-blogging et sur ses utilisations insolites” (Le Blog du Modérateur). Bravo à Flavien Chantrel, Antoine Dupin SEOMAN, Fadhila Brahimi, François Mathieu, Yann Leroux, Benjamin Romei, Eric Dupin, Christophe Logiste, Emilie Ogez, Pierre Jollet, Kim Auclair, Emmanuel Gadenne, Hubert Vaudaux et Lilian Mahoukou.

  Tags: twitter, tutoriel, veille, recherche de l’information, aaaliens

  • – By recriweb prinkipo

• 101 Twitter Tools

  Twitter Apps by category.

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  • – By Ileane Smith

• StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging

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• TLISTS – Coming Soon

  Curate and manage Twitter lists for business. Service will be ready soon.

  Tags: twitter, lists, service, curate, news

  • – By Andrew Long

• Three Ways To Thank People for A Retweet | LucaFiligheddu.com

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• Searching For The Perfect Tweet « Ms. Ileane Speaks

  Resources to help you create the perfect tweet.

  Tags: Twitter, Tweet, HootSuite

  • – By Ileane Smith

• SponsoredTweets holding Supatweeta Referral Challenge Second Time – Espreson

  SponsoredTweets the sponsored conversation giant is holding its Supatweeta Referral Challenge for the second time. The first referral challenge was such a big

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• Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists

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• Getting the Most From Twitter Lists

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• How-to: Use Twitter Lists « Demo Girl

  Screencast for using Twitter Lists from Demo Girl

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  • – By Ileane Smith

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Realizing cash using affiliate marketing is one of the most satisfying jobs one could ever have, however what’s really good regarding the job is the fact that anyone can join and forge a path to success. Affiliate marketing has been known to be a efficient, simple technique of bringing long-term results, in fact, you can begin with a very small budget. Also, with affiliate marketing, you can have the advantage of doing your work from home while enjoying the freedom along with the flexibility of being self employed.

Clickbank is a good location to start as it’s one of the largest affiliate marketing programs in this profession where products are typically rated by how popular they are. You just have to go to their site, http://www.clickbank.com to create your Clickbank ID, and at the home page, proceed to “Earn Commissions” and seek out items and services that fit you and for your website.

Clickbank provides you a large and increasing network of publishers or affiliates to tap into. To be more specific, Clickbank features much more than one hundred thousand affiliates that are experts in finding potential customers for the affiliate program. The explanation for why so many affiliates are signing up with Clickbank is clear ” the procedure of gaining your commission in this network is absolutely fair and transparent.

For web merchants, you only have to register for the website free of charge and permit them to sell your products. Keep up a promotional site which provides the possible customers detailed information about your offered product or the services, and naturally, have a in depth support section for the product. Then, Clickbank would promote and even sell your product, give customer service for your product, allow their affiliates to pass on traffic to your web site and enable you to encourage new affiliates to advertise your web site. They will also furnish real-time reporting for both you as well as those affiliates and provide you and all of the affiliates a paycheck every two weeks.

Amongst the secrets to becoming successful in affiliate marketing is to come up with good subject matter established sites and place the affiliate links in all of the content. The main purpose here is to give your visitors good quality content regarding those items in which that are engaged in and keep in mind, the task of selling things has to be performed by the sales letter site which you are sending them to.

By all means promote many affiliate programs on the site though do not promote everything the world has to offer – only choose those affiliate programs which mesh well with your site and focus on that. Then, ti’s suggested that you automate that whole process, providing you enough time for different ventures because automation is another key to becoming a good affiliate.

It’s really hard to become a Clickbank super affiliate, but you must say NO to the thought of giving up. Remember that in the affiliate marketing line of work, you need to develop persistence, patience as well as knowledge as these characteristics would teach you to carry on no matter how hard the task is. Also, check the figures as this will help you find out what is working as well as what’s not. Make changes where needed though do them one at a time and be patient because with affiliate marketing, nothing happens that quickly.

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Wordpress out of the box allows primary management of the primary SEO meta information. To extend the functionality we add our own super-charged version of the All-In-One-SEO Pack. The SEO pack makes it simple to modify the page title and page meta description.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack is a great WordPress plugin that completes the SEO aspects for WordPress. For some reason WordPress still has not got the SEO fixed out of the box.

The All-In-One-SEO Pack provides for you to change the most significant page components – page title and page description. It also allows you to modify the page keywords, but as we all know, search engines no longer take note of these because they have been spammed too much in the past. Google ended using the keywords for page ranking in the early 2000’s.

Page Title tags

This is the No1 SEO component to control. Always make sure that you control the page title. The page title appears in the browser window at the very top of the screen. Search engines use this in the listings and display it in their search results.

Always try to make the page title only incorporate the keywords you want the page to rank for. Try to limit them to 2 or three maximum.

The page title is the MOST powerful SEO page element because it is like the title of a book. And just like a book title, if it is good it will be more appealing to readers.

If your page needs to extend to cover two or 3 keywords we have learned that you can still get solid rankings from adding multiple keywords to the title. But do remember that the closer the page title is to the keyword you want to rank for the better.

If you are a larger branded company you will probably want to add your company or brand name into the page title seeing this is displayed on Google. Keep it short and uncomplicated though. Do not add your brand statement just your brand or company name.

Page Descriptions

This element is NOT used by search engines for ranking purposes. Nevertheless, most search engines will utilize this in their search results so it is important. We have discovered that Google will use the description most of the time. We have not yet discovered how it decides if to use it or not. At other times Google will use the first piece of text that it can find on the page. On Flash pages this can be an issue considering there is no actual text content. This is one reason why you should always add at least one sentence of HTML text on a Flash based page so Google and other search engines have something meaningful to display in the search results.

By having a good description it will increase your click through rates because the text will be more fascinating to people. Ensure that you use a maximum of 156 characters. If you use any more characters Google will truncate the rest. If you can keep your descriptions to 140 characters or less this is even better seeing Google sometimes adds a date to the start of the description which is part of the 156 characters it displays.

SEO Meta data shown on Google listing

Changing the meta data and page title

At the bottom of every page and post you will find the meta tags plugin details. Update the details appropriately. Note: If you can only use see the title for the plugin and no details, just click the title and the section will expand.

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• Twitter / Over capacity

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  • 
    • – By Anders Sporring

• tweetworks | about

  Tags: twitter, resources, PLN, socialnetworking

• Twitter4Classes

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  • Please add yourself to the list under the correct age level if you use Twitter with your students including a link to your Twitter page so others may follow you! Thanks!
    

• Flickr Photo Download: Preview: The Twitterverse v1.0 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3

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  • – By Michael Marlatt

• Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Take to Twitter

  Tags: twitter, PLN, teaching, training, ideas

• Do Twitter Backgrounds Attract New Followers? « Ms. Ileane Speaks

  Tips for making twitter backgrounds, featuring samples from The Ellen Show, Mashable, Whitehouse and Kanye.

  Tags: Twitter, Twitter Backgrounds, Social, Networking, Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Brizzly

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Twitter meets Buzzom « Ms. Ileane Speaks

  Ms. Ileane Speaks shares 2 screencasts to introduce the newest tool to help manage your Twitter following called Buzzom.

  Tags: Twitter, Buzzon, Screencast, Social, Media, Followers, Retweet, YouTube, Video, Profile

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Ms. Ileane’s Blog: Tweet Smarter With Retweet Links

  TweetSmarter generates a RT url to a tweet in Twitter

  Tags: Twitter, Retweet

  • – By Ileane Smith

• 10 tools for presenting with Twitter : Speaking about Presenting

  Tags: twitter, presentations, twittertools

• MakeUseOf.com – The Complete Guide to Twitter

  In over forty pages Makeuseof publishing editor Mark O’Neill, tackles every Twitter feature, tip and trick you can think of. Learn to work the interface, to Tweet from your desktop, cool Twitter bots and funniest people to follow. With this free manual, Mark will make sure you get your black belt in Twitter.

  Tags: twitter, makeuseof, guide, Tutorials

  • – By Maggie Verster

• How I Got 1000 TARGETED Twitter Followers In 30 Days | Beginner Blogger

  How to get 1000 Targeted twitter followers in 30 days. See how Beginner Blogger did it.

  Tags: Twitter, Buzzom, BeginnerBlogger, WordPress.com, @ileane

  • – By Ileane Smith

• Link by Link – In Trafigura Case, The Guardian and Twitter Untie Gag Order – NYTimes.com

  Tags: socialmedia, culture, socialnetworking, trends, twitter

• 20 Hilarious Twitter Comic Strips

  Tags: twitter, cartoons

• Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine

  Tags: twitter, microblogging, socialmedia

• Twitter: The Swiss-Army Knife of Social Media – download image from Flickr

  Tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, apps, twitter, swiss-army-knife

  • – By Michael Marlatt

• Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less

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• Twinester – Create or join groups and communities for Twitter.

  Tags: twitter, nests

• No Friends of Facebook’s, in a Generation That Is – washingtonpost.com

  Tags: culture, future, trends, socialnetworking

• Authors experiment with Twitterfiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

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It is no secret that online videos are in. Numerous video websites keep popping up like mushrooms after the rain. What does it mean to you? Well, only the fact that you can (and should) use this trend for your own MLM lead generation.

Let’s do some numbers:

- According to InformiTV: Every minute, some 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. “That’s the equivalent of Hollywood releasing more than 57,000 full-length movies every week.”

- According to InformiTV: About13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. “That’s the equivalent of Hollywood releasing more than 57,000 full-length movies every week.”

- It hosts well over 60% of all internet videos.

- Alexa.com ranks YouTube the 4th most popular site on the internet.

Incredible amounts of people use YouTube on a daily basis and that fact alone makes it such a great place for your MLM lead generation and home business promotion. Think about it: out of millions of daily YouTube visitors, there are bound to be many that are looking for more information on your particular MLM home business.

Videos uploaded to YouTube also tend to fare well in search engine rankings. It’s not uncommon for a YouTube video to show up on the first page of Google search results (the fact that Google owns YouTube probably doesn’t hurt either).

Of course, the fact that YouTube is owned by Google does not hurt it either.

Here is one more thought: published YouTube videos are extremely easy to embed to your MLM Home Business website or blog. You can even ask your downline to use them on their websites as well – how great is that!

Videos allow you to make good use of your time when you have them published in hundreds of places all over the net. That’s exactly what makes MLM home business such a great industry to be in – leverage.

Now that you know what YouTube can do for your MLM lead generation, I hope you are ready to take it on. Don’t wait too long; you aren’t the only one reading this article!

The money in MLM Home Opportunity industry is never in the product, company, or compensation plan. It is in your ability to move (market) that product or company. How are you going to do that? Visit Ana Hoffman’s attraction marketing blog for excellent free information on MLM lead generation, law of attraction marketing, and other online marketing tips and secrets.

By now you know that Twitter has taken on a life of its own. What used to be considered a micro-blogging site is now the topic of most online conversations. You might be asking yourself what that may mean to your business and more importantly what it means to you.

As someone who didn’t want to use Twitter for quite some time, I finally dove in and learned what all of the excitement was about. Similar to other social networking sites like Flickr and Facebook and others, Twitter provides a forum for real time communication. It connects us all and brings us closer to others with similar interests.

What if you could find influential people in your industry and directly listen to them, learn from them, and have insight into what they’re focused on? Enter Twitter and the ability to search, find, and follow those in your industry. You may be quite surprised by all the people out there in your niche sharing ideas, news, and information. By following these people you can stay on top of industry trends and learn a great deal.

You may be thinking that Twitter sounds great for learning about a particular but what other value does it provide. After you’ve identified those you want to follow for work related reasons, you should also consider adding some individuals to your list that are aligned with hobbies you may have, goals, or aspirations. Twitter is shaped by you and for you so consider what content would add value to your life.

Just like you follow others, others can follow you on Twitter. You might be asking what the purpose or point of building a list of followers may be. This depends on what you are trying to accomplish with Twitter. If your goal is to use it simply in a casual way, then you may be looking to build a list of followers among your friends. If you are interested in Twitter for business purposes, you should consider your list of followers just like you would a house list that you market to on a regular basis.

After building a solid list that is comprised of followers that value what you have to say and offer by way of free information, consider how you can encourage them to move through your purchase process. One tip is to offer free information that they can register for or download from your site. You can use an auto responder to help move them through to the purchase of a product or service you or your company has to offer. This is one of many ways to benefit from Twitter.

If you haven’t already reached this conclusion, getting involved with is like have a direct dialog with prospects. Begin by offering something of value, gaining their trust and following. Once you’ve proven yourself as an expert or industry leader it’s time to promote products or services that help to solve a problem. Twitter is a great tool for building your online business and targeting prospective customers.

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The dental profession is a highly competitive field of expertise. Thousands of dentists graduate every year hoping to become among the most sought dentists in the world. Unfortunately many will eventually discover that making a name does not happen overnight.

If you want people to know you, you must broadcast yourself. You can use many marketing strategies, like word of mouth, classified ads and posters for this purpose, but the thing that will give you a definite advantage is called video marketing.

Video marketing is a high-tech and powerful tool used by many to grow their business. Anybody can take advantage of video marketing, even dentists. Video marketing for dentists is actually not very uncommon these days.

Almost everybody is going online and using the internet for a variety of reasons. Thus, it may be necessary for you to use the internet, too, in order to be a step ahead of your competitors. Learning your way through is not difficult at all, even though you may think that it is. The internet is there to make things easy for you, after all, so maybe it just takes a little getting used to.

To begin with, you must have a video of yourself, or the products and services that you offer. If you choose to make your own video, that is just fine, but if you are not particularly skilled at this and you have enough money to pay for a professional to do the job for you, then do as you please.

Once you have a video to show the world, you can use video uploading sites like YouTube. YouTube may not be the best in the world in terms of quality, but it’s one of the most popular sites with millions of members all over the world.

For more tips and strategies on how to generate traffic, leads and profits on a variety of topics such as video marketing for dentists and internet video marketing, visit http://www.InternetVideoMarketingSecret.com now.

• shanenickerson.com: the 46 stages of Twitter

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• Get Free Follow Me Buttons by TwitterButtons.com

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• Share Videos on Twitter with Vidly

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• readingpile (readingpile) on Twitter

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• ITEC 2009 – PLN: A gardener’s approach to professional learning – Dangerously Irrelevant

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  • “As a 6th grade teacher, I learned very quickly that the amount of time students paid attention to me was directly related to the strangeness of what I was talking about.

• TwittDir.com :: another Twitter Directory

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• TweetDeck Adds New Notification System and New Follower Column

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• Twitter Lists Are Live! [Update: Only for a Few People]

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• Musings of Sharon Hayes-Tucci, an Internet Entrepreneur: Things To Know About Twitter’s Lists

  Tags: twitter, lists

• TweepML: TweepML Allows You to Import Twitter Lists

  Tags: twitter, lists

• Cleaning Up The Stream: Twitter Kills Duplicate Tweets

  Tags: twitter, tools, microblogging

• buildingausercommunity.jpg (JPEG Image, 508×339 pixels)

  Tags: twitter, PLN, ning, 21stCenturyLearning, socialnetworking

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• Twitter | Advanced Search + Operators

  http://search.twitter.com/advanced AND http://search.twitter.com/operators.

  Tags: twitter, search, twittersearch, advanced, operators, searchsyntax, syntax, in:problogger, in:twitip

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• TwitBlogger | Blog Your Tweets

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, blogging, tools, apps

• twitTangle | untangling your messy timeline

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, tools, apps

• TweetCall – Twitter by Voice

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  • Speak your Tweets

• 30 Twitter Tips for Teachers « So You Want To Teach?

  Tags: twitter, twittertips

• Three Twitter Searches You Didn’t Think Were Possible

  Tags: in:twitip, in:problogger, twitter, search, searches, tips, howto

• Twaxed.com : Beware What You Share

  Tags: twitter, comedy

• 100 Twitter Feeds To Make You a Better Teacher – Online Courses

  Tags: twitter, usmepc512, readwriteweb2010

• ethnomusicaviva! ::: world music videos ::: avivagabriel

  Music of many genres, from many regions of the world. Musicians of many sensibilities. A collection that needs sorting, labeling, and finetuning…but has some intoxicating musical discoveries…worth the effort!

  Tags: music videos, world music videos, world music, worldmusic, musicvideos, avivagabriel, avivamagnolia, multikulti, multicultural, multi-genre, music, videos

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• UK High Court serves injunction over Twitter | Computerworld

  An injunction has been taken out against a Twitter user in the UK for impersonating a right-wing blogger.

  Tags: twitter, injunction, uk, impersonation, news

  • – By Andrew Long

• How to Use Google Reader as a Twitter Search Engine

  Tags: google, googlereader, twitter, search, searchengine, searchengines, RSS, tweets, howto, tips

• Twitglry a Twitter Tool and App Gallery

  Twitglry is a Twitter Directory cum Gallery showcasing the best and latest twitter tools, twitter applications and other twitter related goodies.

  Tags: twitglry, twitter, twitter directory, twitter app, twitter tool, showcase, gallery

  • – By tobrother d

• Twitglry – Twitter Tools and Apps Gallery

  Small listing. EverythingTwitter.com is the largest review site of Twitter tools and apps

  Tags: twitglry, twitter

  • – By Ido Notes
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• Follow Friday Listmaker | TweepML | Keep ‘em outta yr stream!

  Tags: twitter, #ff, #followfriday, listmaker, lists, apps, twitterapps, tools

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Extreme blog and Twitter popularity tips from Chris Brogan

Extreme blog and Twitter popularity tips from Chris Brogan

• twitTangle | untangling the mess of too many friends

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia, apps, twitterapps, lifehacks

• The Archivist | Save and Export Twitter Searches Before They Go Away

  Tags: twitter, backups, backup, archive, archives, twitterapps, apps, applications

• Cal Tweet-Upcoming Events Tag, Share & Promote on Twitter & Facebook

  Auto ReTweet Events, Control Frequency of updates on your Twitter page. You can stop it at any time. Basically it is an event management tool. Text message and Direct messages sent to any users that confirm on guestlist or rsvp prior to event. FREE

  Tags: twitter, tweetups, eventmanagement

  • – By Maggie Verster

• Google Wave :: Complete Guide

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• oneforty : the Twitter outfitter : Currently tracking 1627 apps that make Twitter even better.

  A Better Way to Discover Twitter Apps

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, apps, applications, directory

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• Share Lists of Twitter Users | TweepML

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia, group, tools, Lists, share, tweepml

• Following a group of people via twitter

  This list makes it possibloe to create a group of topic specific tweeps to easily follow.

  Tags: twitter, twittertools, tools

  • – By Maggie Verster

• Nine (9) Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter | Popwise | Fast Company

  Surprisingly good analysis. There are even a few surprises here!

  Tags: twitter, retweet, socialmedia, howto, advice, web2.0

  • – By Aviva Gabriel

• 1200+ Twitter Applications

  Tags: twitter, applications, apps, twitterapps

• Twitdom » Archives | The Twitter Applications Directory

  Tags: twitterapps, apps, twitter, applications

• Twitter As A Tool For Journalism [Presentation]

  Tags: twitter, journalism

• Twitter Power Tools for Health Activisits [Presentation]

  Tags: twitterapps, healthcare, activism, activists, tools, twittertools, applications, apps

• PollDaddy Twitter Polls | Send a poll directly to your Twitter stream! ( http://bit.ly/PXwe9 )

  Tags: twitter, polls, surveys, polling, twitterapps, twitterpolls, apps, applications, webapps

• My Friends on twitTangle | untangling your messy timeline

  Tags: twitter, lifehacks, twitterapps, apps, applications, followers, following, friends

• Business Applications Of Social Media Inside Organizations: Twitter

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• ► 380 tools for TWITTER »

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• Twitter CEO sees journalists as curators of tweets

  “These little bits of information” are complementary to what journalists do.

  Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise.

  He talks about journalists’ role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area.

  But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.

  Tags: twitter, journalisme, réputation, micorjournalism

  • – By Rem Palpitt

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• Independent Schools and Twitter: Best Practices « Message Matters – Lorrie Jackson

  Tags: twitter, marketing, socialmedia

• Twitter Background Checker

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• Design a Unique Twitter Background

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• 4 Ways to Optimize Your Twitter Background

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• Permanent Link to 100 Twitter Feeds to Sharpen Your Writing Skills

  Tags: writing, twitter, resources, tools, howto, tips, advice, writers

• Resource Kit To Create, Customize & Find Twitter Backgrounds

  Tags: twitter, backgrounds, background, tools

• Follow Learning Technology professionals on Twitter

  Tags: twitter, twitterapp, twittergroups

• Mobile Libraries: 100 Ways to Use Twitter In Your Library

  Tags: library2.0, library, twitter, blog, resource

• Clay Risen — Germany’s Election and the Digital Dark Ages – washingtonpost.com

  Mainstream politicians have responded by pressuring service providers to shut down extremist sites and member pages. Although well-intentioned, that strategy is just further proof of how out of touch they are: As any record company exec will tell you, the Web is far too dynamic a place for blunt regulations. The only way to win over Europe’s digital generation is to engage with it on its own terms, in its own media. European political parties need to realize that in the era of Internet politics, winning means ceding a little control — otherwise, they might lose it completely.

  Tags: twiter, digital media, politics

  • The last paragraphi is the kicker, but the whole article shows why some political groups get social media and some don’t. – By Andrew Lyons
  • Mainstream politicians have responded by pressuring service providers to shut down extremist sites and member pages. Although well-intentioned, that strategy is just further proof of how out of touch they are: As any record company exec will tell you, the Web is far too dynamic a place for blunt regulations. The only way to win over Europe’s digital generation is to engage with it on its own terms, in its own media. European political parties need to realize that in the era of Internet politics, winning means ceding a little control — otherwise, they might lose it completely.
    • This type of thinking is lost on political, union and third sector thinking which still aims at smothering the masses with what they think they need instead of simply providing the tool sets for people to use in their own ways to suit their own needs. – By Andrew Lyons

• TweetTwainer: Tips, Tools, Tactics & Strategies for Twitter

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia

• The Twitter Guide – A Guide to Using Twitter

  Tags: Twitter Guide, Twitter Guides, Twitter Intro, Twitter Tutorial, Twitter Tutorials

• The #p2 Hashtag and Strategies for Progressives on Twitter | The Exception Magazine

  Tags: twitter, hashtags, #p2, progressive, progressives, political, politics, community, communities, socialmedia

• 80+ Essential Twitter Tools « :: My Social Mix ::

  Tags: twitter, twittertools, tools, twitterapps, apps

• Progressive Twitter Group

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• 50 Terrific Twitter Tutorials for Teachers | Online Colleges

  Tags: twitter, Twitter and Education, Twitter Tutorial, Twitter Tutorials, Teaching Aids, teaching tools

• 8 free Twitter clients for better tweeting

  Tags: twitter, apps, interfaces, clients

• Are You Following Me Too?

  Tags: twitter, tools

• Twitter is dead | Adventures in IT – InfoWorld

  Tags: no_tag

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• Twitter Apps

  Tags: twitter, twitterapps, apps

• My Tweeple

  Easily see who you’re following and who’s following you. Follow, unfollow, or block–easily.

  Tags: twitter, tools, followers, following, apps, twitterapps, follow

  • Easily see who you’re following and who’s following you. Follow, unfollow, or block–easily. – By Aviva Gabriel

• 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter | Copyblogger

  Tags: twitter, viral, howto, tips, advice

• Twitblocker

  Are you being overwhelmed by twitter friends who can’t stop talking, but they’re like… still your friends? Install this greasmonkey script, then double clicking the chattering peeps will temporarily remove their tweets from your timeline. Restart your browser to get them back. Simple eh?

  Tags: twitter, tools, followers, following, apps, twitterapps, follow

  • Are you being overwhelmed by twitter friends who can’t stop talking, but they’re like… still your friends? Install this greasmonkey script, then double clicking the chattering peeps will temporarily remove their tweets from your timeline. Restart your browser to get them back. Simple eh? – By Aviva Gabriel

• Twitter Fan Wiki / FrontPage

  Tags: twitter, wiki, web2.0, apps, twitterapps, twittertools, tools, resources, wikis, fans, twitterfreaks, socialnetworking

• Ten reasons why Twitter will eventually wither and die… « e-Learning Stuff

  Tags: twitter, posttwitter, blog

• TrueTwit | Validate Followers …Before a Bot or Spammer Plagues You!

  TrueTwit is a validation service for Twitter. It distinguishes between people and bots, helps prevent spam, and SAVES YOU TIME in MANAGING (BLOCKING) BAD FOLLOWERS!

  Tags: twitter, block, spam, anti-spam, validation, followers, bots, robots, spammers

• 25 Twitter Projects for the College Classroom | Online Colleges

  Tags: Twitter, web2.0, Classroom, Education

• Analyzing Influence on Twitter | Social Network Analysis + Quantized Social Interaction | Web Ecology Project

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia, web2.0, SNA, social-network-analysis

• 10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore

  Tags: twitter

• How Twitter saved my career… and my life

  Tags: unemployment, employment, work, jobs, career, careers, twitter, socialmedia

• FolExt | share photos on Twitter

  Tags: twitter, photos

• 101 Ways to Use Twitter on Campus | Online Colleges

  Tags: twitter, pedagogy

• Last update: 09/15/09

  Tags: Twitter, teachers

• #Edchat – the new Teacher Movement on Twitter | Kirsten Winkler

  Tags: edchat, twitter, social_networking

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• 100 Best Twitter Feeds for All Your News and Know How | Rated Colleges

  Twitter feeds for News and Technology

  Tags: twitter

  • A good collection of essential Twitter accounts. – By Wins Fern

• 50+ Really Cool Twitter Mashups

  Tags: twitter, mashup

• a tiny thread

  it threads Twitter conversations

  Tags: twitter

• TwitRes – Share your resume on Twitter

  Tags: twitter, cv, resume, share, job, free, tool

• HOW TO: Use Twitter’s Advanced Search Features

  Tags: twittersearch, twitter, seach, howto

• HOW TO: Develop into a Leader on Twitter « Bit Rebels

  Tags: social_media, twitter, training, resources

• Penn Olson – It’s Twitter War For Demi Moore and Perez Hilton

  Tags: twitter, Perez Hilton, Demi Moore

• 10 Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer « Ask a Tech Teacher

  Tags: twitter

• 5 Fun and Fabulous Twitter Tools for Nonprofit Organizations and Activists « Nonprofit Tech 2.0

  Tags: twitter, nonprofit

• edSocialMedia » A Twitter Twist: Bay Ridge Prep Case Study

  Tags: twitter, socialmedia, marketing, trends

• Twitter Business Strategy

  Any capitalist knows that for any business the ROI is crucial as well as the “revenue approach” with any great startups. When a startup is “growing extensively” as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today, they tend to get a lot of attention from across the financial markets.

  Tags: yodspica, business, twitter, strategy, finance, revenue

• Directory « TweetDeck

  Tags: twitter, tweetdeck

• TweetMixx: A Better Way to Track Twitter Trends and Topics

  Tags: Twitter

• La vérité sur Twitter

   Le blog groupe Reflect

  Tags: twitter, analyse

• The Limits of Twitter

  Tags: twitter, politics, social media

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• Alltop – Top Breaking Tweets News

  Tags: twitter, news, breaking tweets

• Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags

  All about Hashtags

  Tags: Hashtags, Twitter

• Why You Should Join Twitter Today – 3 Dog Media

  Blog post about why you should twitter. Good links/illustrations of noteworthy twitter exchanges.

  Tags: twitter, stories, csc3315, marketing

• Twitter Armour- Ultimate List of Power Tweeting Tools | cheth Studios

  Tags: Twitter

• Researchers Without Borders and Twitter

  This is a list of people that RWB community members might be interested in following.\n\n

  Tags: RWB, twitter, innovation, sustainability

• 7 Great Databases for Twitter Applications | 2experts Design – Web Design and Graphic Design Blog

  Tags: twitter, databases

• –Engage :: What is twitter anyway?

  Tags: Twitter

• Birds on a Wire – Reviewing Twitter Books

  Tags: Twitter

• Why Twitter is underhyped and is probably worth five to 10 billion dollars | scobleizer’s posterous

  A great discussion of why Twitter is great for business and simultaneously undervalued.

  Tags: twitter, business, value, news

• Why Don’t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them.

  Tags: Twitter

• A Gruesome Coward – A Blogger’s Voice-A-Thought

  Tags: no_tag

• How to Find the Top 10 Twitter Trending Topics in your City on a Google Map?

  Tags: Twitter

• Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter opens a door to Iowa operating room – Yahoo! News

  Tags: twitter

• 12 Solid Tips To Enhance Your Twitter Reputation

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter is Now Bigger than MySpace in the UK

  Tags: Twitter

• Update Twitter, Facebook and MySpace Status While Surfing Your Website | cheth Studios

  Tags: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

• 100 Twitter Tools to Go to The Top – Ultimate Collection! – Gnoted.com

  Tags: Twitter

• YouTube – Twitter TweetDeck Tutorial

  Tags: twitter, tweetdeck, tools, tutorial, how-to, microblogging, productivity

  • Handy little instructional vid for tweetdeck – By H. Hampson

• Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Maximising Twitter Search with RSS

  Tags: Twitter, search, tools

• On a Street Near You: Happy Saturday…sorta!

  Tags: neighborhood, community

• The hoopla is about Obama Speaking with Kids? — So What! – A Blogger’s Voice-A-Thought

  Tags: children, education, Obama, addressing schools, politics

• A quick Twitter guide for business users

  For a service that is remarkably simple, Twitter is often difficult for new users to understand and to quickly turn into something useful. In fact, the simplicity of Twitter can actually be a barrier in the beginning, because there’s not much to help a new user get started. So, we’ve put together this guide, which will help you understand the basic jargon of Twitter, find a good set of Twitter add-ons to streamline and strengthen your Twitter experience, and give you a list of 100 technology experts who are active on Twitter and are worth following.

  Tags: twitter, guidelines, tutorials, business

  • For a service that is remarkably simple, Twitter is often difficult for new users to understand and to quickly turn into something useful. In fact, the simplicity of Twitter can actually be a barrier in the beginning, because there’s not much to help a new user get started. So, we’ve put together this guide, which will help you understand the basic jargon of Twitter, find a good set of Twitter add-ons to streamline and strengthen your Twitter experience, and give you a list of 100 technology experts who are active on Twitter and are worth following. – By Maggie Verster

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Funny or not?

Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

• How To Make a Unique Website For Your Twitter Updates | Website design | Tutorial Blog

  Tags: Twitter

• academic earth

  video lectures from the world’s top scholars

  Tags: university, education, lectures, videos

  • video lectures from the world’s top scholars – By Thiago Gias

• Twitnest – visualize your follower trees

  Tags: twitter, visualization

• See what journalists are saying on Twitter with JournalistTweets from Cision

  Tags: journalisttweets

• 20 Creative Twitter backgrounds & 10 Graphic Designers to follow – Twitter treats!! | Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate resource of Graphic Design

  Tags: Twitter

• How To: 5 Top Methods & Applications to Reduce Twitter Spam! | Thoughtpick Blog

  Tags: Twitter

• Snapatar – Update your Twitter avatar using your webcam!

  Tags: webcam, avatar, graphics, twitter

• 35+ Creative Twitter Backgrounds by Designers | Pro Blog Design

  Tags: Twitter

• TrueTwit Sign Up

  This might be a solution for SPAM.

  Tags: no_tag

• Screenr

  Instant screencaster from Twitter – cool tool that lets you easily create and share screencasts from twitter. (from @langwitches)

  Tags: twitter, tool, tools

  • Instant screencaster from Twitter – cool tool that lets you easily create and share screencasts from twitter. (from @langwitches) – By Vicki Davis
  • Instant Screencaster from Twitter – By Vicki Davis

• Kalinago English: The English Language Teacher’s Guide To Twitter, tech tip #11

  Tags: twitter, kalinago

• Jacques of all Trades

  Educational Foundations, Associations and Think Tanks on Twitter.

  Tags: education, twitter

  • Educational Foundations, Associations and Think Tanks on Twitter. – By Vicki Davis

• How to Create a Cute and Adorable Twitter Icon in Photoshop | Naldz Graphics

  Tags: Twitter

• 12 (autres) choses à faire sur Twitter

  Tags: twitter, outils

• The Punctuation of ReTweets | Dan Zarrella

  Tags: Twitter

• In Life Timing Is Everything, On Twitter It’s More Important Than That

  Tags: Twitter

• louisgray.com: SocialToo Status Extends Facebook Updates to Twitter

  Tags: Facebook, SocialToo, Twitter

• A Tweet a day keeps the doctor away | News | TechRadar UK

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Tools & Third-Party Apps for Managing Followers, Followed

  Tags: twitter, apps, tools, twitterapps, applications, services, webapps, third-party

• Free Twitter logos, Twitter buttons, Twitter icons, Follow me buttons, Twitter graphics, Twitter designs

  Tags: Twitter

• Pockets

  Tags: twitter, voicemail, tools, videoconference

• Kutano: Browse the Web With a Contextual Twitter by Your Side

  Tags: Twitter

• The 20 Least ReTweetable Words | Dan Zarrella

  Tags: Twitter

• How To Download All Your Twitter Updates

  Tags: Twitter

• Help people find answers to their questions | Twixperts.com

  Tags: experts, twitter

• Woofer: The 1400 Character Anti-Twitter

  Tags: Twitter

• Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine

  Locking down work computers has a psychological effect on employees that reduces productivity.

  Tags: no_tag

  • Good article about the hazards of locking down your employee’s computers and keeping them from optimising them for their own needs. – By Andrew Lyons
  • The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies’ success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
    • Locking down computers has never worked to increase productivity, espacially in the information age when many of the social sites are also the more easily, quickly accessible information research access points. – By Andrew Lyons
  • The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies’ success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people w
  • Here’s why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies’ success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
  • Here’s why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies’ success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.
  • Here’s why: The restrictions infantilize workers—they foster resentment, reduce morale, lock people into inefficient routines, and, worst of all, they kill our incentives to work productively. In the information age, most companies’ success depends entirely on the creativity and drive of their workers. IT restrictions are corrosive to that creativity—they keep everyone under the thumb of people who have no idea which tools we need to do our jobs but who are charged with deciding anyway.

• louisgray.com: Twitterfall Launches Twitter Reply Search Engine

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Security Exploit Still Hasn’t Been Fixed

  Tags: Twitter

• Teens Don’t Tweet, Or Do They?

  Tags: Twitter

• The URL Shorteners that will get you the Most (or Least) ReTweets | Dan Zarrella

  Tags: Twitter

• Engage Daily Blog: When You Tweet, Think “How Can I Help?”

  Tags: Twitter

• Most Faculty Don’t Use Twitter, Study Reveals — Campus Technology

  Article on twitter and faculty members in higher ed. I didn’t see anything surprising in the findings!!!

  Tags: twitter, faculty, microblogging

• Teens Don’t Tweet? They May Start Soon

  Tags: Twitter

• Is It Time for Twitter to Sell?

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Etiquette: Should You Follow Everyone That Follows You?

  Tags: Twitter

• WordPress › Tweefind « WordPress Plugins

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter OAuth: Why It Matters [Video]

  Tags: Twitter

• More Free Twitter Icons and Badges

  Tags: Twitter

• TwitterSense. It’s Coming.

  Tags: Twitter

• Introduction to Twitter for Educators

  Tags: twitter, slideshare, presentation

• Alltop News and Updates: How to get tweets about breaking news in popular topics

  Tags: Twitter

• Snapatar strives to keep your Twitter avatar updates simple

  Tags: Twitter

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-twitter-search-tips/

  Tags: twitter

• louisgray.com: A Better Retweet Button Is Out There (via @jeresig)

  Tags: Twitter

• Get More Twitter Follower with FlashTweet – Espreson

  FlashTweet is a Twitter account management solution that simplifies the process of adding your twitter friends.

  Tags: twitter, FlashTweet, Get Twitter Follower

• Social Media & Family: Finding the Balance | GeekDad | Wired.com

  Tags: no_tag

  • while I’m taking the kids and the dog to the park, I can be Tweeting
    • I’m not really seeing the “balance”here if dad is tweeting while taking the kids to the park. – By Bill Genereux

• 1000+ Free Twitter Logo And Badges To Download

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Icon design tutorials, WP Plugins, jQuery Plugins and tutorials | ExtraTuts

  Tags: Twitter

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Use SEO to your advantage even on Twitter, and do not forget to implement important keywords in your Twitter Tweets. Test.

• Literature and Latte – Scrivener

  Tags: writing, software

• Add twitter remote to your blog or website

  Tags: twitter, twittercounter, widget

• 20 Twitter Applications Everyone Should Be Using

  tools for twitter

  Tags: twitter

  • tools for twitter – By Robin Seneta

• 101 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals

  Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

  Tags: business, twitter

  • Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there. – By Maggie Verster

• How to find out who has favoured your tweet using google

  Tags: twitter, favourites, twittertips

• TwitDiff

  Tags: twitter

• Kentucky Real Estate Investor Foreclosure Secrets

  Simple 5 step system teaches you how to buy foreclosures with no money, risk or credit.\n\nGet free foreclosure report from http://budurl.com/foreclosuregold

  Tags: foreclosure goldrush, foreclosure report, free foreclosure report, real estate investing, brian evans, money making properties

• Avartize.com – Avartize your Avatar

  Avartize.com gives you, the Twitter user, the option to easily pimp your profile picture, also known as your avatar. Set your state to “busy,” tell your friends you’re on fire — or let everybody know you are out taking in that special event.

  Tags: avatar, avartize, overlays, icon, profile, picture

• Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources – Social Media In Learning

  Tags: twitter, education, teaching, resources, training

• Twitter Is Revamping Retweets, Launches A Retweet API

  Tags: twitter, retweet

• TwitBlock – ridding the Twitterverse of spam

  Tags: no_tag

• http://www.tweetsh.com/

  Here’s a web interface for Twitter aimed at hardcore geeks who like Bash, unix, etc. type environments.

  Tags: twitter, shell, terminal, geek, news

• Marketers Embrace Twitter over Facebook – eMarketer

  Tags: Twitter

• How to use Twitter and tweet for free business growth

  Tags: twitter, business

• Twitter Talkback: What Makes a Quality Tweet?

  Tags: Twitter

• Facebook Friends FriendFeed

  Tags: no_tag

  • I’ve been using FriendFeed for awhile and if you subscribe to my feed you’ll see just about everything that I do online. My feed includes all the articles I bookmark with delicious. When I write a new blog post it automatically shares it on my feed. Every time I tweet on Twitter and when I update my status on Facebook, they’re included here. When I add a video to my favorites on YouTube it is shared here as well. Currently there are 58 different sites that you can link to your FriendFeed, so it’s like the one stop shopping place for everything online!
  • FriendFeed also has a search function where someone without even registering on the site, can easily search all FriendFeed updates.
  • Facebook has been in the news quite a bit this week which they started off with the announcement that they have acquired the social-identity aggregator, FriendFeed.

• Twitter the Smart Way with TwitIQ

  Tags: Twitter

• Your Twitter Avatar – Photo or Graphic?

  Tags: Twitter

• If Twitter Consisted of 100 People [Gorgeous Graphics]

  Tags: Twitter

• My Languages: Twitter Talkback: What Makes a Quality Tweet?

  Tags: twitter, social_media, social_networking

• 5 Tips for Getting More From Twitter | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter in Education and Business

  Tags: twitter, twitter4ed, school2.0, blogtwit1

• Lists of Tools for Twitter

  Tags: wiki, twitter, twittertools, tools

• Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Cracks Down on Pay-for-Followers Scheme

  Tags: Twitter

• The Proper Way to Pitch on Twitter

  Pitch

  Tags: Twitter

• Localtweeps :: Help localize your Twittersphere!

  * Get found by tweeps near you
  * Find tweeps near you based on location or keyword
  * Post and browse local events and specials

  Tags: twitter, tools, social network

  • * Get found by tweeps near you
    * Find tweeps near you based on location or keyword
    * Post and browse local events and specials – By sandy ingram

• TwitterMap

  Tags: no_tag

• 100 Terrific Twitter Feeds for Teaching Advice | Online Universities.com

  Tags: Twitter, teachers, education

• HOW TO: See Twitter Like Someone Else

  Tags: Twitter

• CtwittLIKE

  See twitter like someone else does ie enter their username and see what they see (apart from protected updates I guess)

  Tags: twitter, followers, ctwittlike, timeline, profile, socialmedia, microblogging

• Screenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way

  Tags: Twitter

• Screenr: Instant Screencasts for Twitter

  Tags: Twitter, video

• Top 10 Signs You ARE Worth Following On Twitter | David Risley dot com

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter in Education « ~ Mark’s Musings ~

  Tags: twitter, training, resources

• What Apps Should Twitter Highlight? Twitter HQ Wants to Know

  Tags: Twitter

• Tweetings Mobile – Twitter Client for the Apple iPhone & iPod Touch

  Tags: twitter, iphone, ipod

• CTwittLike: See Twitter Like Someone Else

  lets you view Twitter as someone else, with all the Tweets from the people he/she follows. For example you can enter Oprah and see her Twitter stream the way she sees it.

  Tags: twitter, tools, twittertools

• FeedBlitz News: Add Customization to Your Twitter RSS Feeds

  Tags: Twitter

• Tweeting First: The New Way Mainstream Media Breaks News

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Beer and 8 More Awesome Things at Twitter HQ [Pics]

  Tags: Twitter

• Free Twitter Backgrounds from 26 Websites

  Tags: twitter, backgrounds, graphics, free

• The Top Twitter Client Is Still the Web

  Tags: Twitter

• Should You Block Twitter Spammers? | Twitterrati

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter’s 20 Most Prolific Spammer Avatars [Pics]

  Tags: Twitter

• Of Microblogging, Twitter and Hype Cycles | Gartner blog

  Geoffrey Man discusses the placement of Twitter in the “trough of disillusionment” and why it’s a good thing (c/o jk)

  Tags: microblogging, twitter, gartner, cycle, trough, news

• Screenr: Simple Screencasting for Twitter Users

  Tags: Twitter

• 50+ Really Cool ‘Fail Whale’ Images/Graphics

  Tags: Twitter

• 10 Ways To Avoid Being Sued On Twitter

  Tags: Twitter

• The Science of ReTweets: Updated Presentation | Dan Zarrella

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter is a Twademark. Tweet: Not Yet, Maybe Never

  Tags: Twitter

• Archive – netwitsthinktank.com

  Tags: twitter, training, resources

• 65% of Tweets Still Come From the Web

  Tags: Twitter

• An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World… Sysomos. | The Opportunity Blog

  Tags: Twitter

• How Are People Really Using Twitter?

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter Blog: Location, Location, Location

  Tags: Twitter

• Would You Gamble With Your Twitter Followers?

  Tags: Twitter, silly

• Twitter had been in talks to buy FriendFeed too, co-founder Stone says | VentureBeat

  Tags: Twitter

• Facebook | Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter to roll out commercial accounts this year | VentureBeat

  Tags: Twitter

• Lifehacker Founder Wants To Hack Your Tweets With A New App

  Tags: Twitter

• TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet

  Tags: Twitter

• Facebook’s Twitter App: How Far Will It Go?

  Tags: Twitter, Facebook

• TwitReply Lets You Automatically Join Conversations On Twitter | LucaFiligheddu.com

  Tags: Twitter

• Instant Teleseminar Service

  Glad I found this site! Perfect for holding group seminars everywhere around the world.\n\nCheck it out – http://www.instantteleseminarservice.com

  Tags: teleseminar, webinar, online conference, teleconferencing, work at home, stay at home, online business, ecommerce

• The World According to Twitter a collaborative twitter book

  Tags: twitter, publishing

• Why Do People REALLY Tweet? The Psychology Behind Tweeting! | Thoughtpick Blog

  Tags: tweeter, training, resources

• eLearn: Feature Article – Learn From Rogue Tweeters:

  Tags: twitter, marketing, trends

• Finding Great Content to Tweet | Blog Godown

  Tags: Twitter

• Is This How RTs Are Going to Look After Project Retweet? | Twittown Blog – The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums

  Tags: Twitter

• What Exactly Do 1.6 Billion Retweet Buttons Get You? About 6 Million Actual Retweets.

  Tags: Twitter

• TWEET SUCCESS: Why We Love Twitter’s 140 Character Limit

  Tags: 140char, limit, microblogging, twitter

  • Even so, I can be away from Twitter for hours on end and feel absolutely no compunction to go back and read the tweets I missed. Nor is there any social expectation to do so. That’s refreshing!

• Twitter, Pharma, and Social Marketing || :: PharmaGuy :: ||

  Tags: pharma, marketing, social, socialmarketing, twitterpharma, pharmaguy

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• Wiffiti – Twitter Feed Screens – Very Cool!!

  Tags: wiffiti, twitter, presentations

• Wectar (Web Nectar) | Insert URL + Find Recommended or Related Sites

  Tags: search, searchengines, wectar, searchengine, metasearch, delicious, semanticsearch, webapps, bookmarks, bookmarking, socialbookmarking

• QuickRate – Cut to the chase opinions from twitter

  Tags: twitter, analytics

• Learn How to Search Twitter || Hive Mind

  Tags: twitter, search, howto, tools, tips, advice, boolean, syntax

• Twitter and The Butterfly Effect

  Tags: blogging, problogger, twitter, tweets, viral, marketing, viralmarketing, howto, tips, advice, tools, socialmedia, socialmarketing, socialmediamarketing, SMM

• PLEASE!!!!! Stop the Social Spam; 5 Ways NOT to be a Social Spammer.

  Tags: twitter, spam, abuse, marketing, etiquette, marketess

• Read QuoteURL: a new Twitter Tool to Quote, Save and Publish Tweets

  Tags: twitter, archive, backup, backups, conversations, saving, save, archiving, backingup

• Give Yourself An Instant Payraise Starting Today!

  Personal finance expert and coach will show you how to have a passionate love affair with your money – the road to a financial freedom.

  Tags: get rid of debt, be debt free, money management, financial freedom, make money online, wealth building, save money

• YouTube – Meridian on Q13 Fox 090505

  Tags: no_tag

• INTERNET MILLIONAIRE reveals his money-making secrets

  The World’s #1 Internet Wealth Advocate Reveals His Shortcuts To Making Real Money Online\n\nIt’s time to get back the freedom that’s rightfully yours, reclaim control of your financial future, wage war on poverty and finally make all the money you want so you can be secure as your family’s provider.\n\nCheck out: http://budurl.com/supercashpromo

  Tags: wealth building, wealth creation, Stephen Pierce, home business, money making, financial freedom

• Tweet Blocker – Cleaning up the Twitterverse of spammers

  Tags: twitter, spam

• Twitter Backup | Create an OPML Feed for Google Reader of Tweets

  Create a feed of your own tweets, those you follow, and those following you. Import the OPML file into Google Reader.

  Tags: twitter, backup, backups, RSS, feed, OPML, howto, tips, advice, tweets

• Some Lesser known Twitter Search Tricks | cheth Studios

  Tags: Twitter

• 350+ Fresh Twitter Icons | Blog Godown

  Tags: Twitter

• Most Stunning Twitter Visualizations | cheth Studios

  Tags: Twitter

• Are You Looking for Twitter Logos, Follow Me Buttons and Icons? | SociableBlog.com : Social Media Blog

  Tags: Twitter

• Choose the Top 50 Tweeples to Follow – PRsarahevans – pitchengine.com

  TWEET the following: I nominate (i.e. @twitterID) as a #Top50Tweep in http://bit.ly/41Ezxs

  Tags: Twitter

• TWITTER BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS | Spreadsheet List

  Tags: twitter, medicine, biomedicine, medical, biomedical, journals, list, lists, spreadsheet, spreadsheets

• Twitter’s platform shortcomings | Scobleizer

  Tags: twitter, platform, flaws, problems, defects, scobleizer, socialmedia, socialnetworking, APIs, third-party-developers

• Who Works At Twitter? An Update! | Twittercism

  Tags: Twitter

• Royal Opera House Blog writing a collaborative twitter opera

  Tags: opera, twitter

• TwitterOrganizer – New Twitter Tools Every 4 Weeks

  Tags: twitterorganizer, twitter

• HOW TO: Take Advantage of FriendFeed’s Unique Features

  Tags: friendfeed, socialnetworking, FF, howto, tips, advice

• Neighbors Twitter, blog to keep criminals at bay – Yahoo! News

  Tags: twitter

• 10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets

  Tags: Twitter

• Delicious Creator Quietly Launches Threaded Twitter Conversations

  Tags: Twitter

• 50+ Most Amazing and Funny Twitter Comics | cheth Studios

  Tags: Twitter

• What Does Google Think of Twitter? [Pic]

  Tags: Twitter

• Feeding Twitter Updates into Your Course « North Institute

  How to add RSS to your Blackboard course

  Tags: twitter

• How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends’ Tweets In Google Reader

  Tags: Twitter

• Twitter DoS and single points of failure ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes

  Tags: twitter, dos, network, laconi.ca

• TWITTER THE OPERA: Now We’ve Seen Everything

  Tags: Twitter

• 12 weird and wonderful Twitter Retweet Bots – The Next Web

  Tags: Twitter

• TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are Pointless Babble

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• Seesmic Web Adds Killer Inline Previews to Tweets

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• Twitter Tips for Beginners [VIDEO]

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• Instant Messaging in Twitter with T-Messenger

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• louisgray.com: Seesmic Web Upgrades, Adding Favorites, Hashtags, Previews

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• twittermood.org – see the mood of Twitter graphically

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• Twitter Retweets: What You Need to Know [Slideshow]

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• BREAKING: Twitter Announces Project Retweet

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• Twitter Blog: Project Retweet: Phase One

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• louisgray.com: Twitter to Embrace Retweeting, Releases Developer Preview API

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• PROJECT RETWEET: Twitter’s Plan to Officially Support Retweeting

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• Twitter CEO’s wife tweets about labor, ongoing birth of first child | VentureBeat

  So, I guess some people are OK with twittering their labor and delivery – however, as the Mom of a 9 lb pounder, 10 lb 3 oz, and 8 lb 12 oz babies – I didn’t have time nor inclination to tweet these private moments. To each his own.

  Tags: education, twitter, socialmedia

  • So, I guess some people are OK with twittering their labor and delivery – however, as the Mom of a 9 lb pounder, 10 lb 3 oz, and 8 lb 12 oz babies – I didn’t have time nor inclination to tweet these private moments. To each his own. – By Vicki Davis

• Social Mojo: What Kind of Twitter User Are You?

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• TwitBlock – A Junk Filter & Bulk Blocking Tool for Twitter Users

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• Twitter’s Latest Security Threat: Botnets

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• How to Manage Twitter | Chris Brogan

  At the time of this writing, I have over 91,000 Twitter followers. No, I don’t read every word they type. No, I don’t recommend that you try to get 10s of thousands of followers…but here’s how to manage the followers you DO have in a way that’s mutually beneficial…

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  • …here’s how to manage the followers you have in a way that’s mutually beneficial… – By Aviva Gabriel

• 140 Characters No Longer the Twitter Limit | SociableBlog.com : Social Media Blog

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• man TweetShell: A Browser-Based Terminal For Twitter

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• CoTweet, A New Promising Web Based Twitter Client | LucaFiligheddu.com

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• Backup and Search Your Friends’ Tweets with Google Reader – Social Networks – Lifehacker

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• Gapminder.org – For a fact based world view.

  To promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

  Tags: spreadsheets, graphs, stats, statistics, visuals, visualize, interactives, interactive

  • To promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. – By Fred Delventhal

• Denial-of-service attack | DDoS | Wikipedia

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• Twitterface | Design Your Interface

  Twitterface gives you the ability to design your own interface. When you show people this cool, new tool, your brand will be front and center, and you control the place you run in and out of all day long.

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• Discover Music Through Twitter | Best Ways | Wired.com

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• Foller.me – before you follow…

  No login required. Foller.me allows you to type in any twitter id and get back a cloud of tweet topics, hashtags used, and mentions made by that account. The information is pulled from the most recent 200 tweets.

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• Twitter @jimconnolly | Why I cleared my Twitter account of 23,000 followers

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• twitcam \ Stream Live on Twitter

  Stream live on Twitter

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  • Stream live on Twitter – By Linda Nitsche

• 105 Twitter Apps for PR

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• Mass Twitter follow and unfollow tool: Very handy!

  This is a handy tool as I can create lists for workshops to get teachers to follow other teachers quick.

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  • This is a handy tool as I can create lists for workshops to get teachers to follow other teachers quick. – By Maggie Verster

• ClickableNow

  Add Clickable Links to your Twitter Background Image

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  • Add Clickable Links to your Twitter Background Image – By Fred Delventhal

• Sysomos | In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World

  Original report on twitter users. Lots of stats.

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• A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide

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• JustBought.It Turns Twitter Into a World of Mobile Shoppers

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• WP: With Twitter, NFL loses control of image game – Washington Post- nbcsports.msnbc.com

  Athletes use twitter to grow fanbase and connect with fans as people rather than helmets and pads. NFL resistant to loss of control.

  Tags: sports, nfl, twitter, athletes, fanbase, marketing, csc3315

• Are Your Tweets “Banned” from Twitter Search Results? | How to Get “Unbanned”

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• Twitter Newbies FAQ

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• 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business

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• 5 Twitter Ice Breaker Tweet Posts

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• How to Cut Down on Twitter Spam | Twitterrati

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• 3 New Cool Twitter Search FireFox Addons

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• Twitter Reaches 44.5 Million People Worldwide In June (comScore)

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• .: sermad :. » Blog Archive » Making the physical invisible

  ‘The Physical Internet’ as a buzz phrase has been thrown about a fair bit recently and only really recently have I seen things start to get interesting. I really like the idea of making the internet tangible and a flipside to this is taking a real world interaction and broadcasting this onto the net. A few things have made this much more attainable ->

  1) Twitter and other systems have opened up to let other systems interact through them via an API to send/retrieve data.

  2) Electronics such as arduino or ioBridge have made the geeky electronics bit much easier.

  3) Programming interfaces such as Processing or Openframeworks have made the geeky programming bit much easier.

  Here is a little recap of some interesting/useful/useless/fun interfaces.

  Tags: twitter-iobridge, twitter-experiments, twitter-weirdness, twitter-projects

  • ‘The Physical Internet’ as a buzz phrase has been thrown about a fair bit recently and only really recently have I seen things start to get interesting. I really like the idea of making the internet tangible and a flipside to this is taking a real world interaction and broadcasting this onto the net. A few things have made this much more attainable ->

    1) Twitter and other systems have opened up to let other systems interact through them via an API to send/retrieve data.

    2) Electronics such as arduino or ioBridge have made the geeky electronics bit much easier.

    3) Programming interfaces such as Processing or Openframeworks have made the geeky programming bit much easier.

    Here is a little recap of some interesting/useful/useless/fun interfaces. – By Michael Marlatt

• 5 Reasons Why Twitter’s Growth Cannot Be Stopped

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• Update Twitter With a Keyword Bookmark – Bookmarklets – Lifehacker

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• If Only 100 People Were in Twitter – Visualized – Gizmodo

  Great visual showing what twitter would look like if it was 100 people! Great visual.

  Tags: education, twitter

  • Great visual showing what twitter would look like if it was 100 people! Great visual. – By Vicki Davis

• Quid Pro No | Social Media and Mutual Following/Friending…Quid Pro? NO!

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• Twitter MUST Stop the Spam Use of APIs Now

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• Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet

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• Blogger Buster: 16 Useful Twitter Tools for Blogger

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• Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book Now Available for Download

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• Emergency alert provider sues Twitter over patents | Computerworld

  As Twitter’s ongoing global love-in continues it was only a matter of time before the inevitable patent violation law suits.

  Tags: twitter, patent, violation, sue, news

• Sysomos | In-Depth Look at the 5% of Most Active Twitter

  Tags: twitter, statistics, users, analysis, trends

• Report: MySpace sinking fast, but Facebook soars | csmonitor.com

  In a new report, Nielsen reveals that Facebook users spent an extraordinary 13.9 billion minutes on the site – in the month of April alone. Lagging far behind, at 5 billion user minutes, is MySpace, the network launched in 2003, and purchased by News Corp. in 2005. For years, MySpace was the go-to networking site, but it recently lost significant ground to Facebook and Twitter.

  Tags: csmonitor, Facebook, MySpace, csmonitor.com, Twitter, social, networking

• Essential Guide to Using Twitter for Inspiration | Hi, I’m Grace Smith

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• Get More Twitter Followers TODAY | chrisbrogan.com

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• Integralis Expert Resource Available to Discuss Twitter Denial of Service Attack and Web 2.0 Security

  Explains what today’s (8/6/2009) “denial-of-service” is all about, and what it means for security of users in the web 2.0 arena (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

  Tags: twitter, denial-of-service, 8_06_2009, service, down, out

• Twitter hit by denial-of-service attack – CNN.com

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• Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)

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• Twitter Uses Tumblr For Status Blog

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• Twitter Blog: Denial of Service Attack | 8/6/2009

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• Twitter Denial of Service Attack | Streaming Tweets on DDoS

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• Techmeme: Twitter is Down due to DDoS : Still Quirky, Although “Up” as of Afternoon, August 6, 2009

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• Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack | The Social – CNET News

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• NYTimes | Twitter Tries to Regroup After Web Attack

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• NYTimes 8/6/09 5:00 PM | Twitter Still Struggling to Restore Service After Attack

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• Tao of Twitter | by Lama Surya Das, Jewish Brooklyn Buddhist Teacher | +kenwilber.com

  Tags: twitter, taoism, daoism, tao, dao, spirituality, webculture, culture, web, internet, socialnetworking, socialmedia, lama surya das, ken wilbur, buddhism, buddhist, teachings, dharma

• Update: Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack | InfoWorld

  “Micro-blogging and social networking site was unavailable Thursday as Twitter defended itself against a DoS attack”

  Tags: twitter, denialofservice, dos, attack, news

• Seven Reasons Why HootSuite 2.0 is The Best Web-Based Twitter Client | LucaFiligheddu.com

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• Koobface Virus Gets Smarter; Targets Twitter and Facebook Users [Alert]

  Tags: Twitter, Facebook

• 3 Steps To Building A Profitable Freelance Business Using Twitter

  3 Steps To Building A Profitable Freelance Business Using Twitter

  Tags: twitter, business, relationships, freelance, freelancing, freelancers, advice, tips, howto

  • 3 Steps To Building A Profitable Freelance Business Using Twitter – By Aviva Gabriel

• 4 Ways to Make Money with Twitter

  4 ways to Make Money with Twitter featuring money making sites like Magpie,Sponsored Tweets,TweetROI and TwittAd. This site helps you make money out of your Twitter account in different ways.

  Tags: magpie, Make Money Twitter, Sponsored Tweets, TweetROI, TwittAd, Twitter

• Twitter Restores Service After Online attack – NYTimes.com

  Tags: culture, twitter, trends

• 6 Twitter Directories To Add Yourself To

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” One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service Twitter is sharing links. However, this activity is also one of the most dangerous, too. Ever since Twitter gained in popularity, hackers and spammers have been using the service to direct traffic to their unsavory websites. For the end user, clicking on those bad links could result in, at best, an annoyance as they’re directed to some spammy website or, at worst, a full-on malware attack on their PC.”  Read full story here…

Some of my own sites unfortunately have been infected with such bad stuff like  malicious PHP code and as a result been declared malicious URLs by Twitter and Google as well last week.

To avoid any more blocking I’m moving them to a new server right now. No fun at all, but it seems to be fastest way to get rid of  this hacker B.S, the Twitter/Google penalty and to get the sites back into good standing again….

Hope this Twitter Filtering  helps prevent such money and time consuming bad experience for others….

I will keep you updated what happened to my sites after moving and what Google / Twitter said soon…