Twitter

[Mike Ungerman]

Post all things related to Twitter in this discussion by replying in the text box. Don't post a seperate discussion for each observation or question. Let's keep this organized folks.

[Mike Ungerman]

Six Ways to Make Twitter Useful

From PC Magazine's blog: Twitter's usefulness goes far beyond finding out what strangers ate for lunch. Read breaking news, get customer service, or even chat with your favorite celebrities.

Click on this link to read the whole story: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341087,00.asp

[Mike Ungerman]

TwitterFox for FireFox

So, ok, you don't text well with your smart phone, but you're in front of your computer a lot (as I am). This add-in for FireFox lets you integrate your Twitter account with your FireFox browser and have access all the time you're online.

Here's the link: http://twitterfox.net/

I'll have to admit it, having had problems with Internet Explorer one time too many, after switching to FireFox I'm really liking this browser as my primary browser. And it has so many nice add-ins like this one, I don't ever think I'll go back unless there is some serious compatibility issue with a site.

[Sheila Bigel]

Mike:
Thanks for the tip about the Firefox add-on. I just signed up for Twitter this week and I think the add-on makes it more meaningful.
Sheila

Mike Ungerman said:

TwitterFox for FireFox

So, ok, you don't text well with your smart phone, but you're in front of your computer a lot (as I am). This add-in for FireFox lets you integrate your Twitter account with your FireFox browser and have access all the time you're online.

Here's the link: http://twitterfox.net/

I'll have to admit it, having had problems with Internet Explorer one time too many, after switching to FireFox I'm really liking this browser as my primary browser. And it has so many nice add-ins like this one, I don't ever think I'll go back unless there is some serious compatibility issue with a site.

[Mike Ungerman]

10 Tips for Twitter Beginners

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2341095,00.asp

[Hewie Poplock]

See the Meeting notes for March 22, 2009 for some links on Twitter.

[Mike Ungerman]

Follow Gearlog on Twitter

Here's a good use for Twitter: staying up on the latest tech as it happens: http://twitter.com/Gearlog

And here are some of the recent tweets, just for an example of what you'll be getting:

# We Want to Know: Are You Using Your Handset to Surf the Web? http://tinyurl.com/c7x4uyabout 5 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Don't Shoot In Auto: ISO http://tinyurl.com/ccrl68about 6 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Life Lesson: Don't Leave Naked Pics on Cell Phone http://tinyurl.com/dmv2zwabout 6 hours ago from twitterfeed

# MacBooks Get a Memory Boost http://tinyurl.com/cqe8fbabout 6 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Vuzix Augmented Reality Accessory Kit Turns Real-Life Virtual http://tinyurl.com/co69leabout 8 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Wrap Your Shuffle in Some iLuv http://tinyurl.com/d4zk6pabout 8 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Apple Announces Date forr WWDC 2009 http://tinyurl.com/dcogrqabout 8 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Cheap Geek: Western Digital 320GB Hard Drive, Casio Exilim Z80, Dell PowerEdge 840 http://tinyurl.com/dd639aabout 8 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Maingear Etches Your Mugshot On A Laptop http://tinyurl.com/cj5nvsabout 9 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Scientists See Asteroid Explode Above Earth, Someone Gets 100 Points http://tinyurl.com/dny5rhabout 10 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Hyundai Unveils BLUE-WILL Hybrid Concept http://tinyurl.com/cjbevvabout 11 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Alltel is Still Breathing, Expands My Circle http://tinyurl.com/clwwkyabout 11 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Italians Develop Brain-Powered Wheelchair http://tinyurl.com/dywdrwabout 19 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Italians Develop Brain-Powered Wheelchair http://tinyurl.com/c28r9sabout 19 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Seeing The International Space Station From Earth http://tinyurl.com/cjm3bjabout 19 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Octo-Robots Planned for Underwater Exploration http://tinyurl.com/cg4crfabout 19 hours ago from twitterfeed

# Sprint Pushing 'Clear' Wimax to 10 Cities in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/dje8gg1:44 PM Mar 25th from twitterfeed

# Google Adds My Location-Based Voice Search for BlackBerry http://tinyurl.com/dbflj71:44 PM Mar 25th from twitterfeed

# Peugeot to Race Diesel Hybrid at 2011 Le Mans http://tinyurl.com/d3e8yf12:16 PM Mar 25th from twitterfeed

[Mike Ungerman]

TwitSeeker: Who You're Looking For...By What They're Talking About

TwitSeeker is basically an alternate search engine for finding twitter.com users - "twits" - and browsing the results all in one combined control panel. It works by using the twitter.com API, and finds twits not by what's posted in their bios but rather based on what they've been tweeting about lately. It uses a custom tag cloud generator written by the author, and was created as an experimental tool to help users quickly build up a twitter community around specific topics.

http://www.twitseeker.com

I have wanted the ability to seek out other people posting with similar interestes. Now you can search either current postings or profiles by key words and/phrases. Once you get your results, you have the option of following them using TwitSeeker's follow service. This saves going to each person's profile and then following.

[Mike Ungerman]

TweetGrid: The Ultimate Voyeur!

While Tweeting around, I came across TweetGrid. It's a real time search engine for literally everything that is being posted on Tweet by anyone in the world. This display http://tinyurl.com/6yawwu shows you one grid setup. Just change any of the search terms for things you are interested in and you'll get everyone posting about that topic. Then you can login to your account if you like and follow any of the posters.

Amazing.

[Mike Ungerman]

33 Reasons to Use Twitter - A Guide to Finding Value in the Service!>

Twitter brings with it the question: what does it do and why should I use it?

Check out Jeff Quipp's blog, and his good suggestions. http://tinyurl.com/qldgf9

[Mike Ungerman]

A Twitter Friend Wheel

What is a Friend Wheel? It's a circular diagram showing all the people who you follow and those that follow you. In interactive flash form, you can click on any friend and see their connections to each other. It was interesting to see how we're interconnected. Once again showing the theory of "6 degrees of separation."

Here's my wheel in flash format: http://tinyurl.com/nt87av

What's even cooler, is to drag and drop any of the people into the center of the wheel and see their relationships. You can move multiple people around and get a better idea of who's connected to who. Cool.

To get your own, just click on the link below my wheel or go to: http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/

And if you want to follow me, go to Twitter and search on "mike2977"; in return, I'll follow you.

[Mike Ungerman]

Twitter for Fun and Profit

It was only a matter of time until people took advantage of Twitter with tools to automate the following process and affiliation to make money on sales of those tools, and then ties into other business opportunities.

Interesting to see what's going on whether or not you're interested in the tool or opportunity.

Hummingbird

The headline screams: Here's What The Twitter Elite DONT Want You To Know! The Ultimate Secret to Twitter Success and a marketing pitch is made: http://www.twitaddict.com/hummingbird/

Here's a sales pitch with a captured session using the software. Looks interesting, but pricy.

FriendAdder

A less expensive add-on is FriendAdder. Here's a similar review from the same guy marketing Hummingbird:

http://twitter.infouwant.com/friendadder/

TweetLater

This is a tool to manage your tweets. Schedule them for certain times, bulk upload, track keywords, save and reuse drafts, send direct messages automatically to new followers. See the complete list at: http://www.tweetlater.com/

[Hewie Poplock]

Time Magazine has its cover story about Twitter. It came from obsurity to the cover of Time Magazine is a short time.

You can read Time's article at this link