Without a doubt, Twitter has become a useful communications tool for everything from breaking news to emergency dispatches to business conversations. Most of us tend to use only a few of the features Twitter offers; just enough to do what we want to do. Twitter for business. Looking to use Twitter for business? Searches.

I put together the following “Twitter Cheat Sheet&# for a client, and thought it might be also helpful for others who are still struggling with how to get started with Twitter. Why Use Twitter. There are many reasons to use Twitter, but here are my top three. How to Use Twitter. Branding. Communications.

since 2007, and this semester is the first time that I’ve actually had a full week on Twitter (well, microblogging and lifestreaming to be specific). Before, I treated it sort of as an afterthought, including some information on Twitter during the two weeks that I covered blogging. I’ve been teaching a class on Web 2.0

So inspired by Cliff Atkinson’s book “ The Back Channel ,&# I decided to integrate a Twitter tool into the slides and thus into the body of the talk, consciously breaking in and out of the audience. The content you can view through the artifacts below, so I’ll reflect on the Twitter backchannel experiment.

The interview goes well, until the 30-year-old interviewer asks him if he had ever used Twitter as part of a marketing campaign. Scavo has no clue what Twitter is. Maybe you’re sitting there looking at Twitter’s “What are you doing?&# Just check into Twitter once or twice a day with these tasks in mind.

The prevailing Twitter wisdom is that we should avoid tweeting about ourselves too much, and post information in which others are interested. Twitter may be regarded as an outlet for personal self-expression, but those wanting to build brands through social media know it’ll take more than just talk to establish a loyal follower listing.

While I’ve noted the advanced Twitter search operators in the past, but wanted to spend some quality time looking at them in more detail. Keep in mind that most of these same search queries work equally well in Twitter search and various other applications, like TweetDeck and Monitter. For example: “michael jackson&# :).

For those of us who use Twitter tags purely for adding a layer of sarcastic commentary to our tweets, the idea of using tags properly — to categorize  tweets and make them easier for others to find — may seem a little humdrum. If a user’s looking for social media tips, they might find tweets using that tag through Twitter.

In fact, some web APIs, like the Twitter API , are relatively easy to use, and you can use them get access to useful and otherwise hidden data. Before you can start to play with Twitter’s API, you’ll need to know a few API basics. Now, let’s look at a few fun things you can do with Twitter’s API. link].

Along with the addition of collaboration features , Evernote now integrates with Twitter. My first reaction to this news was that Evernote was falling into the “me too&# trap that some companies get into with social media, especially with Twitter. Setting up myEN assumes you already have an Evernote and Twitter account.

Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses. They know that they should be engaging with the Twitter community, but aren’t sure how to do it. I’ve collected up some of the most common questions asked by Twitter-for-business newbies and answered them below. How do I get leads on Twitter?

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. For example,  flamingo_punk Wrote: “Mmmm! 

Last week, I admitted that I am an information junkie , and I wanted to follow up this week with a few tips for feeding your information habit by mining Twitter for information. Twitter Search. Twitter’s built-in search engine is probably my favorite way to find information in Twitter. Twitter Stream Graphs.

There are two schools of thought to the Twitter value debate. For the uninitiated - or those who tried Twitter once or twice and just didn’t “get it&# - Twitter is a nonsensical waste of time. Here are ten ways Twitter can be a productivity tool: 1. The Love - Feel the Twitter Love.

There are several tools available that can schedule tweets to post at a specific time on Twitter; they can be handy for a number of reasons. For example, you could create several tweets for Monday through Friday with a list of the guests that will be appearing on your podcast or radio show. Can Twitter Save Your Day? Web Life.

101 Examples of Social Business ROI Blog Post A few years ago, I put together a list of social media marketing examples. The list contains 324 examples of brands putting social media to use and at that point in the social media industry’s evolution, it was the best of what was around (and still might be). Twitter, 2011).

mentioned a number of the current corporate initiatives in the space, including those of Janssen-Cilag, which in February implemented an internal version of Twitter it called Jitter. After my post I learned (on Twitter) that Janssen-Cilag was highly commended in the 2008 Intranet Innovation Awards. People have no idea what Twitter is.

It is no secret that I love Twitter. have to admit that besides email, Twitter is my most important communications tool, particularly for my business but not exclusively so. The more I see where social media and online communications is going, the more I realize how Twitter has transformed the landscape in both big and subtle ways.

Twitter followers have become the status symbol of 2009, but how valuable are they, really? Your core followers — those you who actually listen to you and interact with you — are the real value of Twitter, and that’s why you should never, ever automate your Twitter account to increase follower count.

with Facebook's F8 , where it's already rumored that Facebook will both reveal its new "firehose" of public data (a la Twitter) as well as new approaches to monetization (see this piece from The Next Web , for example). But while we have a few days, one thing really stands out for me in Twitter's announcements last week.

In earlier posts, I provided some tips for improving your Twitter efficiency and mining Twitter for information. While both of these provide useful ways to utilize Twitter, you also need to be prepared to respond to other people quickly. Here are my top three real-time monitoring tools for Twitter. Written by Dawn Foster.

While Flipboard also offers various topic filters, the most interesting aspect of the app is that it can select news items based on what is shared by your Facebook friends and who you follow on Twitter. See for example the Twitter Ross Dawson daily created by paper.li Tags: Future of media Social networks Twitter Paper.li

I’ve written about monitoring solutions many times on this blog with posts about monitoring online conversations , monitoring dashboards , monitoring real-time information on Twitter , and more. This service is yet another Twitter monitoring solution. twazzup. You can mouse over avatars and links to get more relevant information.

For people new to the concepts of social media and reviewing their tool set, is Twitter a good choice as a tool? My concern about twitter is that it will be too random for most people, especially those who have not established any relationships / understanding of the people they are following. There is one exception to this.

Just over 4 years since the first Tweet was sent, Twitter has announced its plan to sell advertising on Twitter, by the name of 'Promoted Tweets'. Those companies best able to use Promoted Tweets well are those who are already on Twitter, and understand what gets traction and what doesn't. bizstone chirp promotedtweets twitter

So let’s start with Prediction #1: Twitter will become a media company, and the only “free radical of scale” in our Internet ecosystem. . Twitter has a chance to do what Google did – at least initially – provide a platform for advertising that actually adds value to the ecosystem in which it lives.

Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). Twitter. Twitter is referred to as a micro-blogging tool. The service allows people to post and read brief (140 character) messages (called Tweets) to the Twitter service. APIs allow numerous applications to extend Twitter in a variety of ways.

( image ) As I posted earlier , last week I had a chance to sit down with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. We had a pretty focused chat on Twitter's news of the week , but I also got a number of questions in about Twitter's next generation of ad products. also noted that should Twitter crack this code, its ad products would follow.

If you’re struggling to keep up with a noisy Twitter stream, you should check out Twimbow. It’s an online Twitter client that can help to keep your stream organized by color-coding and filtering tweets. Authorize the app to work with your Twitter account(s), and you’re ready to go. Color-coding your tweets.

A combination of events yesterday got me thinking about how much time I spend sifting my Twitter stream for valuable, work-related and/or professionally useful information. First, fellow WWD writer Aliza Sherman posted a tweet about starting a second account to follow only those twitterers you really want to pay special attention to.

Unlike some of the other social networking tools, Twitter doesn’t attempt to bundle all kinds of features and extras into its core product. That said, there are times when I need Twitter to do a bit more, and there are no shortage of tools out there to accomplish just that. What tools do you use to improve your Twitter usage?

Twitter continues its march of social networking dominance, spurred even further into the spotlight thanks to a recent high profile race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher and CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s decision to sign up this past Friday. For example, “[link] becomes “[link]. What Twitter apps do you use?

My insight into Twitter etiquette isn’t anything earth-shattering, but as the 140-character microblogging platform has become a daily tool for just about all of us (all of us reading WebWorkerDaily, that is), we’ve developed a loose set of norms when it comes to how we conduct ourselves on the service. Follow Dave on Twitter: @thedaveclarke.

I’ve been using Filttr for most of this year, and I tell ya it helps me deal with my Twitter stream firehose, plus these guys are really responsive with implementing suggested features, either via Twitter, email or Uservoice. For example, if I don’t have time to read all tweets in my “enterprise2.0″

Google TV has announced some of its partners and Twitter is on the list. According to the Twitter blog , Twitter on Google TV has most of the features and functionality in regaular Twitter. For example, you can visit a URL or click a hashtag to search for it on Twitter.    

One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Twitter now faces yet another inflection point - one I've been tracking for some time , and one that seems to be coming to a head. Now, I'm not saying Twitter isn't already a success. Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!),

Take Twitter, for example. Almost daily I have clients and colleagues ask me “Isn’t Twitter really a waste of time?&# and “I hear Twitter is losing users faster than they’re gaining them, so why should I join?&# So how do you keep from “wasting&# time on Twitter? link].

Do you know how people feel about you on Twitter? While things like feelings and sentiment can seem fuzzy and “touchy-feely,&# there are sentiment analysis tools available for Twitter that attempt to classify tweets into either positive, negative or neutral categories automatically using algorithms and lists of keywords. twendz.

Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « Bloggers Interview: Mike Rhodin, Lotusphere | Main | OLPC in NYC » February 04, 2008 XMPP and Microblogging (Twitter) Via Slashdot : Interesting article, follow the citation link for screen shots of the implementation. pubsub engine. Trust Us.

So inspired by Cliff Atkinson’s book “ The Back Channel ,&# I decided to integrate a Twitter tool into the slides and thus into the body of the talk, consciously breaking in and out of the audience. The content you can view through the artifacts below, so I’ll reflect on the Twitter backchannel experiment.

There’s an intriguing new article about Twitter and how it’s affecting corporate cultures and reputations in the June 1 issue of Business Week (&# Managing the Tweets&# - the online version is titled “ Web 2.0: Managing Corporate Reputations “). Employees as brand ambassadors! tools. What’s your take?

Scoble uses Twitter’s new Lists feature (which Darrell wrote about earlier this month ) to organize his Twitter stream and keep it easily digestible. Helpfully, Scoble has provided links to four of his Twitter Lists as examples: Tech News Brands. My favorite Twitterers. Tech News People. Venture Capitalists.

It works … for example, late last night I twittered a response to one of Jeremiah Owyang’s tweets pointing to his recent blog post about " What’s After The Social Web? The fact that SAP, Oracle and IBM are today all working with Twitter like updates is at least encouraging. Snip. ]. Startup Bubble?

One example given is a hotel that asks guests checking in for their Twitter name, swiftly ascertaining how influential in social media they are, and treating them accordingly. Tags: Future of business Influence Social media Twitter Capital wanes in its power relative to influence. More on that discussion later.

Recently I started to notice that a lot of folks were using the #dailygoals hashtag in their Twitter updates, among them former WWD blogger Mike Gunderloy. TrackDailyGoals is a site that hooks into Twitter to allow users to track their daily goals. For example, a recent update lets you schedule out goals a couple of days in advance.

Since Monday, nine  Delta Air Lines agents with special Twitter training have been rotating shifts to help travelers wired enough to know how to “dm,” or send a direct message. It was just the perfect example of this crazy, fast-forward techno world.”. Of course, an agent with a Twitter account cannot magically make a seat appear.

Can you make Twitter better? Tweetshare integrates with your Twitter and then allows you to create a richer destination for your Twitter community. For example, I shared an image of me singing karaoke at SXSW, and asked the question: “Did you sing at #Techkaraoke last night?&#. Twitter Fan Pages Brand Your Presence.

Most of the time, the documentation will include examples that you can tweak to get the output that you’re after. For example, here is the documentation for the MediaWiki API’s backlink query. It includes an example URL that looks for all the pages that link to Wikipedia’s home page. Construct the URL. link].

With public Twitter, people use nicknames. Within an enterprise, any type of "Twitter" system will be linked to directory systems in much the same way as e-mail and instant messaging systems are linked via address book synchronization techniques. With public twitter, one of the common usage patterns is to share links. Agree.

Earlier this year Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at HP’s Social Computing Lab did an analysis of Twitter networks, resulting in the article Social Networks that Matter: Twitter under the microscope. They studied a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users to gain insights into how they communicated and connected.

At the moment the conversational tools on Twitter are Tweader, Quotably and Twitter Threads. had an idea like the Facebook wall, to show Wall-to-Wall conversations between you and another Twitter user. The best I found was Twitter Advanced Search , where I can do a search like from:johnt to:trib (or vice versa).

have written another post on the rise of social shopping , including 7 examples. Here is an excerpt from the article on mini-blogging: The popularity of Twitter in part reflects a desire for immediate gratification in posting and consumption of information. Social media Social trends Twitter Web 2.0as easily as possible.

I mostly use Twitter on the mobile web, when I’m on the train. once tried to keep up with Twitter, but gave up that idea a while ago, now I just tune in and take a dip in the river now and again, there’s always lots of great stuff floating by. this is important as Twitter will only show you replies where your name eg.

Blippy.Blippy allows sharing of purchases among friends (or the world at large), using credit card transaction details or other online shopping sites, and has been described as the ‘Twitter of personal finance’. These 7 examples are in the vanguard of a far broader shift to true social shopping. Do Together. ShopSocially.

If you own a BlackBerry and use Twitter as much as I do, you’re more than likely frustrated with the experience of using the Twitter web site via your phone’s browser. With more Twitter applications available for the device, do any succeed in turning the BlackBerry into a great Twittering tool? Pros : Fast.

Flickr, Youtube, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter are all examples of social tools with community underpinnings. The most obvious example of this has emerged with Facebook’s new redesign. The interface update has put Status at the center of the experience, and it has put Facebook head to head with Twitter.

haven't read all the commentary, but one observation that seems undervoiced is this: If Google+ really works, Google will be creating a massive amount of new "conversational media" inventory, the very kind of marketing territory currently under development over at Tumblr and Twitter. Let's look at a typical flow for Tumblr, for example.

The team of Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have been dong a number of studies on social media and business (see for example: Thinking Like A Blogger: Is Blogging An Attitude That Can Be Taught? ). This is the same definition used in the prior 2008 study.

It was a great solution, but eventually, Twitter’s real-time information flow became much more useful for me. But the problem with Twitter is that it is kind of unwieldy. Twitter clients with built-in search help, but at-a-glance, Google Alert-like results would be ideal. It’s called TweetAlert.

agree that of all the contenders out there right now (including Twitter), Facebook has the most data, position, and potential to upset Google's dominance of the web. For an example of what I mean, look no further than Twitter. Last week I wrote a post in which I opined a bit about Facebook search. Well, no. At least, not yet.

This is a post about Twitter. If you've never used or heard about Twitter, the Wikipedia page for Twitter will give you a brief introduction. Come back when you've read it. :-) I love Twitter. Twitter has introduced me to some great people and really demonstrates the value in weak connections. Kind of makes sense.

Last week, Darrell Etherington wrote about how hard it is to measure the value of Twitter. One way to measure the impact that you’re having on the Twitter-sphere would be to see how many people link to your service, product or blog. As an example, let’s try searching for “[link] on Twitter Search and BackTweets.

Conference on business uses of Twitter , How Twitter Changes Everything. There have been many creative business uses of Twitter and a lot have been written about them so I will not repeat that stuff here. In these comments I am going to share my own personal experiences of twitter with business. But here is one example.

My insight into Twitter etiquette isn’t anything earth-shattering, but as the 140-character microblogging platform has become a daily tool for just about all of us (all of us reading WebWorkerDaily, that is), we’ve developed a loose set of norms when it comes to how we conduct ourselves on the service. Follow Dave on Twitter: @thedaveclarke.

If you follow a large number of people on Twitter, the volume of tweets you have to sift through can quickly become overwhelming. Well, Twitter has finally acknowledged this need, and is currently testing a new feature called “Lists&# that will finally build groups into the service itself. lists twitter 7, 2009.

For example, if you are trying to revive a YouTube channel, you need a strategy for producing compelling video and video production will need to be part of your overall content generation strategy. Tags: social media Facebook Twitter social network social superstar Can that channel be saved? Don’t “fishbowl&# post.

Main | Space and tools impacts thinking » 8/10/07 | The billiard ball example By Shawn. Follow me on Twitter. Filed in. When I talk about complexity to clients I mention that complex systems are impossible to predict in detail especially as your forcast extends into the future. And thats for a simple system.

Twitter was number 4 with 1.84% but it had the highest year-over year increase with 1170%.   This Twitter growth is consistent with the 1382% growth from February 2008 to February 2009 with 7,038,000 visits according to Nielsen.   The data comes from the Experian Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. percent of all U.S.

The Media Buyer Planner reported that the study found that Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook - in that order - are the top four social media tools used by marketers. would imagine that many of the Twitter uses fall into the recent category. As I written many times, I think Twitter and blogs complement each other.

Mathew Ingram posed an interesting piece, No, Twitter Is Not a Replacement For Journalism , on Gigaom.  see The New Twitter Journalism or if your prefer, Le Nouveau Journalisme Twitter ) as well as: Can Social Media Support Quality Journalism?   I have covered this topic a bit already. Huge difference.

Funny enough for a book with this title, the book really isn't about Twitter - or any other specific service. Twitter simply serves as the most familiar vehicle to have a discussion around how we operate in the world of blogging and forums and Twitter and Facebook and all the other social services that are out there.

Micah Sifry and Eric Kuhn weigh in with the point here in two contrasting pieces on the “Right&# and Twitter that the Right are making good use of Twitter to build a platform of support. One thing is clear from both articles is that using Twitter well will be an essential part of politics in the future. Sifry). Kuhn).

wrote the post quickly, but have been thinking about the signal to noise problem, and how solving it addresses Twitter's advertising scale issues, for a long, long time. Twitter is more than the sum of its 200 million tweets, it's also a massive consumer of the web itself. The same is true of Twitter's semantic challenge/opportunity.

I believe in only certain kinds of automation when it comes to Twitter. But I am all for automating select blog and podcast feeds into a Twitter stream, as long as it is done strategically. There are many tools that will send a feed into Twitter, usually with the title of a post followed by a short URL. First impressions? Stats.

There was as much grumbling about the Twitter-style format of the 140 Character Conference in New York this week as there often is about 140-character limit in Twitter itself. The 140conf — as it was called on Twitter — was the embodiment of a Twitterstream; it was Twitter in the flesh.

I found this post on 5 Killer Twitter Tools from Jim Goldstein, a photographer who also writes about social media. also looked at my Twitter name, billives and found the TweetReach for billives reached 30,533 people via 50 tweets. helps you find out when any Twitter user is most active on Twitter. xefer ?helps TweetBeep

A few different friends recently pointed me to stories about terrorists’ use of Twitter , which were sparked by the appearance, on the website of the Federation of American Scientists, of a report titled "Sample Overview: al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses."

My first conversation with Bill Anderson on scientific research in international development was so good we kept going to record a “part 2″ on the specific application of microblogging and Twitter in science.  Bill Anderson on Twitter for Science. Kevin Marks on How Twitter Works (in Theory!). The Podcast. Resources.

Yesterday I stopped by Twitter HQ to see Dick Costolo. Dick recently moved to Marin ( my home turf ) and took Twitter's COO job. For example, these services do not measure use of Twitter's API, which accounts for more than half of the service's traffic (through apps like TweetDeck, Twitteriffic, Exectweets or Stocktwits, for example).

SocialCast A friendfeed and twitter tools for the enterprise, this has been covered by Webware. Joint Contact This collaboration suite has microblogging features, and hooks into titter: “…A better way to Twitter. You currently manage your postings using a desktop Twitter client. presently on Twitter. Thanks.

I've spent a bit of time going back in time lately, at least as far as Twitter is concerned. Well, as Twitter hits inflection , it struck me that there was something really, really important that had to happen, in terms of how the service works. So when Twitter integrated search last week, it was, as I said, a very big deal.

First, if you are a heavy Twitter user, with a little bit of practice you can work it into your Twitter workflow, thereby offering you and followers a means to “escalate&# from connecting via a tweet to a more intimate voice conversation.  for example, on Craigslist or eBay or other community driven sites. 

Some examples of filtered feeds in my reader right now include industry analyst blogs filtered to only find posts about online community; searches across social websites where my projects are mentioned; and my some blogs filtered for just the the best posts using PostRank. The image to the right shows an example of how you might do this.

I could not make Twitter's press event today, but I did get a chance to sit with CEO Dick Costolo (the Web 2 Summit dinner speaker this year) yesterday afternoon, and got a chance to do a deep dive on today's news. More than half of these people log in to Twitter each day to follow their interests. Stay tuned

Follow me on Twitter. Here’s an example: Pecten Cameroons research revealed that other operators had achieved production gains by injecting demulsifier downhole in gas lifted wells, reducing viscosity in the production string and thereby increasing production. Filed in Anecdotes , Communities of practice. Thanks for the pointer.

My first post on Twitter was back in October 2006, and since then Twitter has come a long way; evolved from the architecture of participation, and the emergence of the platform. Plus there are so many 3rd party add-ons, and extensions and variations of Twitter (see e nd of this post ), my favourite at the moment is peoplebrowsr.

I have now written about both good and bad (see airport waiting area syndrome) transparency vs Twitter. Here is another example of good transparency. They decided to host the high points of the meeting on Twitter - essentially creating a digital archive of the minutes - that anyone in or outside of Humana could read and comment upon.

Google Plus is very impressive…it’s a shot at being a Facebook/Twitter hybrid and more…I pointed to a mashable post in Jul 2007 (4 years ago) to hints of Google social networking, then it was called Socialstream. As an online relationship model ; Facebook is symmetric, Twitter is asymmetric, and Google Plus is asymmetric.

This has been due in part to businesses needing to figure out how Twitter can benefit the enterprise. For anyone that uses Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca could take this entire post explaining what it is, but friend and Commoncraft founder, Lee LeFever, has done a fantastic job in his quick Twitter in Plain English video. Twitter).

great example of the latter occurs within Black and Decker. The HEROs can support this process and examples are given. Zappos shoes is a well known example. Zappos has become a well-known twitter success story by following these principles. Tags: Social Media Twitter Web 2.0 Sometimes the same person is both. 

And apparently, Twitter has gotten the memo on coworking 2.0 , because when the company moved in to Detroit to boost their efforts to sell ads to car companies , where did they set up shop? But being down with coworking isn’t the only way Twitter is bang on trend with the move. detroit satellite office Twitter

Over the past several years, the rise of social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have taken a lot of the conversations that once occurred on email to other channels on the consumer side. Instant messaging, Facebook and Twitter have all been in use for years for personal computing purposes. a “yes/no” button). 8, 2011.

Executive Forum last week the event hit #1 on Twitter globally , reflecting both the frantic Twitter activity at the event and the degree of interest and discussion from people following the event on Twitter around the world. If you want the full richness of the discussion on the day, go to the complete Twitter stream for #e2ef.

chrisbrogan.com Home About Best Of Contact Newsletters Rockstars Speaking 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business August 20, 2008 · 288 comments We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. Have more than one twitterer at the company.

My Twitter Page. On Twitter , for example, I personally don’t follow every single person who follows me. do go to each Twitter page for every person who does follow me and peruse a few pages of their tweets. That said, there is the theory that if you don’t follow someone back on Twitter, it is an insult.

Twitter, Facebook). For example, identity assurance of Twitter accounts comes to mind - not just the ability to ascertain the identity of a "customer" but for the customer to ascertain that the "company" Twitter account is valid and that the people behind those accounts are authorized. Operational CRM and Analytical CRM).

The next step is to push though the RSS feed out via Twitter (since that's all the rage at the moment). So, we create a Twitter account for them and a tool like RSS To Twitter. Pipes , Feedburner , RSS To Twitter , mashups , Web 2.0I was talking about this the other day.

There has been a lot of discussion about Twitter on this blog. This entire week will now be devoted to Twitter stories. Here is one example of how a company is using Twitter for a variety of customer facing activities. Isaac said that they first started experimenting with Twitter more as an interesting toy.

The New York Times published an article, Putting Twitter ’ s World to Use , that had some interesting applications. Ambient Devices, started before Twitter, provides glanceable technology to alert you to all kinds of things. This could be hooked to Twitter feeds if they have not already done it. Here is another.

Tweetshare Creates a Richer Twitter Presence. Facebook isn’t like Twitter where the rhythm and flow is such that you can get away with a more automated presence. Facebook is more about conversation, whereas Twitter can skip along with automated and scheduled posts in between actual interactions. Reason. Benefits to You.