- About: Twitter "tweets" are short messages (140 characters) posted to Twitter, from cell phones, applications, browsers, or instant messages - see a video demo of Twitter
- Definition: Twitter is statusing + microblogging - "Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message." crunchbase on twitter
- More Definitions of twitter on the Web
- Twitter» home - inbox, direct_messages_sent, followers, friends, help, account settings, Public Timeline, search.twitter.com, more...
- My favorites tagged with "twitter" at Delicious, for example:
- Twitter Lingo - what to text to Twitter's 40404 to "run" commands, e.g. "help", "nudge", "get", etc.
- The Big Juicy Twitter Guide (e.g. Twitter Guide Part #1: What is Twitter? )
- Google "joined forces with Twitter and Twittervision to give you instant updates on Super Tuesday. You can watch Twitter texts from across the country and send in your own updates!"
- Twitter Applications
- Alternate Twitter Web Interfaces: Monitter, iTweet.net, Power Twitter, Tweetvisor, Twitterfall, TwitIQ
- My Favorite iTweet.net, Power Twitter, Tweet_Cloud, Tweetvisor, Twittervision, badges, gcal1, rtm2, search.twitter.com, search twitter, tweetscan, twittercal.com, twittersearch, What am I doing?
- Twitter application database: Twitdom
- My list of Twitter Applications
BrightKit.comHootSuite - (not to be confused with BrightKite) - About, "HootSuite is the ultimate Twitter toolbox. With HootSuite, you can manage multiple Twitter profiles, add multiple editors, pre-schedule tweets, and measure your success."- hellotxt.com - Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr, Meemi, Beemood, GoZub, Frazr, Numpa, Facebook, Plaxo, Plurk. "HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way"
- monitter.com - 'Simple. It's a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?'
- Ping.fm - Can post to Microblogs, Statuses, and Blogs - e.g. Twitter Facebook Plurk MySpace LinkedIn Tumblr Identi.ca Brightkite FriendFeed Jaiku Blogger Plaxo LiveJournal Bebo Mashable Xanga hi5 kwippy wordpress rejaw friendster delicious yahoo360 koornk
- Posty - Adobe AIR app that can post to various microblogs - e.g. Twitter Jaiku Pownce Tumblr Friendfeed Identi.ca
- search.twitter.com - Realtime results for a search string
- shareaholic contains a twitter client (Can tweet from the Location bar)
- twitku - TwitKu.com a free social network mashup - Post to Twitter and Jaiku, and/or Pownce from twitku
- Twitterbar - a Mozilla browser Add-On
- twittercal - send direct messages from cell phone, browser or instant message to your Google Calendar via twitter user called "gcal"
- twitterfeed.com - have your blog automatically twitter your posts
- Twitterfox - a Mozilla browser Add-On
- Twittervision - "A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter."
- Remember the Milk (RTM) - send direct messages from cell phone, browser or instant message to your todo list via twitter user called "rtm"
- "Here are 55 articles and tools that will assist you with your Twittering": www.thespinningdonut.com/55-twitter-tots
* my list of Alpha» high-level topics, a byproduct of My_System. Sort of like having a personal Wikipedia. Each new topic is started ("done once") from a template or a quick template kept at docs.google.com. Sometimes this topical document (e.g. Social») morphs (publishes elsewhere) e.g. on googlepages, my Word Press Blog , lilurl, jaiku'd, twitter'd, zoho, etc.
1 twitter.com/gcal/
What is twittercal? It's a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar.
Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client. For example: d gcal dinner with mom tomorrow at 6PM
Direct Text: how to send Twitter friends private messages
2 rtm = Remember The Milk (www.rememberthemilk.com) - www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter
RTM is a ToDo list manager.
changed June 7, 2009