Are You All A Tweeter?

 

Five Fast Twitter Tips 1. Use “d” to send a direct message to someone [d sarahlib great to see you on Twitter!] 2. Use the @ symbol to respond to another person in a tweet [@ellyssa how about Tuesday instead?] 3. Use the # symbol to address a group [#CIL2008 anyone going to dinner at 7?] 4. Create TinyURLs to save characters when sending Web addresses (tinyurl.com) 5. Grab the RSS feeds for your friends’ tweets & subscribe via your news reader

Twitter Tools & Mashups Tools to enhance Twitter abound, thanks to an open API that allows third-party developers to create new related applications. Recently Twitter has joined the MySpace Data Availability Initiative, which will soon allow members to port their friends and information between Twitter and other online destinations such as eBay and Yahoo! But in the meantime, these popular Twitter apps should keep you busy. Autopostr Automatically posts Flickr photos to Twitter. www.autopostr.com MadTwitter A Windows desktop client inspired by Twitterrific. www.madtwitter.com RSS2Twitter Takes any RSS feed and posts the items to Twitter. www.pivari.com/rss2twitter.html Summize A real-time Twitter search engine that allows for keyword searches of tweets. summize.com TweetScan A real-time Twitter search engine that lets you track keywords and sign up for email alerts. tweetscan.com Twhirl A desktop client built on Adobe AIR that allows sign in to multiple Twitter and Friend feed accounts. www.twhirl.org TwitDir A directory of Twitter users. twitdir.com Twitstat A mobile Twitter client that lets you post updates and view replies and the 10 latest’ tweets from friends. www.twitstat.com/m TwitterFox A Firefox plug-in that alerts you to friends’ updates, formerly known as TwitterNotifier. www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox Twitterholic A list of the top 100 Twitter users based on their number of followers. www.twitterholic.com TwitterLocal Will generate an RSS feed of tweets from a particular geographic area. www.twitterlocal.net TwitterMail Sends your friends’ tweets to your email inbox. twittermail.com Twitterrific A Mac OS X desktop client for using Twitter. iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific TwitterSnooze Temporarily unsubscribes you to a Twitter member who may be at a conference or event. twittersnooze.com Twitt(url)y Aggregates all of the URLs that Twitterers are talking about and displays how many tweets each one received. twitturly.com Who should I follow? Makes recommendations of people to follow based on your existing subscriptions. whoshouldifollow.com Find oodles more by checking out these links: Firefox Add-ons tinyurl.com/2c3en6 Twitter Mashups from the Programmable Web tinyurl.com/62wpj4 All Twitter tools and mashups in one place tinyurl.com/2789fo Twitter Fan Wiki twitter.pbwiki.com Twitter Toolbox: 60+ Twitter Tools mashable.com/2007/09/29/twitter-toolbox Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools! mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools

Tweetorials The 12-Minute Definitive Guide to Twitter tinyurl.com/28lpm6 Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking: Twitter—A Beginner’s Guide, Part 2 tinyurl.com/6fofbh Newbie’s guide to Twitter tinyurl.com/2gchre David Lee King: Twitter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter tinyurl.com/2ljtmr The Twitter Disconnect tinyurl.com/6nsf8x Twitter in Plain English (video) www.commoncraft.com/Twitter David Free: Welcome To The Twitterverse (screencast) showcase.litablog.org/index.php/David_Free David Lee King: Twitter, part 2: the “fluff” (screencast) showcase.litablog.org/index.php/David_Lee_King

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