Twitter.com "Always wondering what everyone's doing."
Millions are taking a minute or two out of their busy day to 'stay in touch' with 100's ... or even 1,000's ... of their closest friends to let them know 'what they are doing'.
Twitter is many things to many people.
It's a way for stars to keep in touch with their fan base.
It's a way for TV newspeople to connect with their millions of viewers in real time.
It's a way for oppressed political disadents to let the world what is REALLY going on in the midst of their revolution.
It's a way for Internet marketers to reach a mass audience with news about their product or service.
Whatever it is, Twitter.com is a social networking phenomenon which is taking the world by storm.
Truly a 'killer app"... that goes a long way toward putting the power of mass communication in the hands of more and more people.
Twitter: Aider and Abetter of Political Revolutions
According to the New York Times article 'Twitter on the Barricades: Six Lessons Learned' ".... Twitter, the newest social-networking tool, has been identified with two mass protests in a matter of months — in Moldova in April and in Iran last week, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the official results of the presidential election. But does the label Twitter Revolution, which has been slapped on the two most recent events, oversell the technology? Skeptics note that only a small number of people used Twitter to organize protests in Iran and that other means — individual text messaging, old-fashioned word of mouth and Farsi-language Web sites — were more influential. But Twitter did prove to be a crucial tool in the cat-and-mouse game between the opposition and the government over enlisting world opinion. As the Iranian government restricts journalists’ access to events, the protesters have used Twitter’s agile communication system to direct the public and journalists alike to video, photographs and written material related to the protests...." CLICK HERE for the rest of this article which covers 6 perceived drawbacks to the Twitter phenom..
TwitSpy.com Run your cursor over the map of the world, and 'eavesdrop' on random Twitter conversations wherever your curson happens to land. You are, in effect, spying on the Twitter public timeline in real time. Neat!
Want Twitter Traffic to Your Website? TwitThis.com has a great tool to add to any webpage you want to have 'twitted' to your visitors' Twitter followers. A bit of copy and paste script will put the above 'TwitThis' button on your webpage... or add the words 'TwitThis'.
Twitlogo.com Instantly generates a custom logo for Twitter.
Twitter Grader "... to help people evaluate and improve their Twitter presence..."
Twitter Karma "... a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from
Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them. By default, the list contains all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID...."
TweepMe.com "... the 100% opt-in group of Twitter users who all chose to
follow each other on Twitter. When a new member joins, every other
member automatically follows the new member, and the new member follows
them back. The process is gradual and happens over the course of weeks
or months depending on the number of TweepMe members...." Nominal cost for a lifetime membership.
Tweepler Helps you decide who to follow and who not to follow.
Twitter Widget Add your current tweet to your webpage or Facebook Page... or blog. See bottom of this column for an example of this widget.
The Media Buzz About Twitter
Time Magazine's article "Why Everyone's Talking About Twitter" "... This free service works by letting you broadcast a group text message
to your friends' mobile phones from either your own phone, an instant
message or an online form at twitter.com. All your notes are then
stored and displayed on your personal profile page on the site, which
includes links to your friends' Twitter pages, a thumbnail picture of
your choice, and a short bio. You can even send text updates directly
to your MySpace page. Just remember to keep it short: posts are limited
to 140 characters, and the topic is, invariably, 'what are you doing?'..." CLICK HERE for the rest of this prophetic March 27, 2007 article about Twitter.
According to Wikipedia "... in March 2009 Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury strip began to satirize Twitter, with the strip characters ironically highlighting the triviality of 'tweets' and Roland defending the need to keep up with the constant-update trend or else lose relevance. SuperNews!, similarly, satirized Twitter as an addiction to "constant self-affirmation" and said Tweets were nothing more than 'shouts into the darkness hoping someone is listening'. During a March 2, 2009 episode of The Daily Show, the host Jon Stewart negatively portrayed members of Congress who chose to 'twitter' during President Obama's address to Congress (on February 24, 2009) rather than pay attention to the content of the speech. The show's Samantha Bee satirized media coverage of the service saying 'there's no surprise young people love it—according to reports of young people by middle aged people'...." CLICK HERE for the rest of Wikipedia's article on Twitter.
Hubspot's 2009 Report on the State of the Twittersphere "... In last year’s version of this report, we discovered that Twitter was
growing at an astounding rate of 5-10 thousand new accounts per day. Clearly that rate has since accelerated and it has reached a point where it is futile to attempt to generate a flat growth rate number...."
Company's Aiding and Abetting Twitterers
ÜberTwitter "... a company devoted to delivering highly functional Twitter clients for mobile devices. Our first product is ÜberTwitter for the BlackBerry line of mobile phones...."
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