5 awesome Twitter lists and 25 cool geeks worth listing | Royal Although Lists isn’t a new concept (Friendfeed has had them for months) they have proven to be a great addition to Twitter. Lists make it easier than ever to categorize users and curate content for your followers and yourself. The ability to create lists does indeed add fantastic value to Twitter, and lists can even be grabbed as an embeddable widget that can easily be customized and added to your personal website. Looking for cool twitterers for your lists? The Twitter team (by @Twitter) List URL: The Twitter team list is the most followed list on Twitter and contains a complete list of the Twitter staff. @jack – Jack Dorsey is a very cool and brilliant man who recently announced a new company he has been working on called Square (@square). @ev – Evan Williams is Twitter’s CEO. @biz – Biz Stone is a co-founder of Twitter. @nk – Nick Kallen has the Twitter bio “Wealth and personal achievement expert.” @vl – Vitor Lourenço is a product designer at Twitter.
85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow There are thousands of designers on Twitter tweeting about everything from ongoing projects to their personal lives. But only a small percentage of those tweet about design topics of interest to other designers and design addicts. These people cover everything from their design process to their own projects, and design resources from all over the web. Below is a list of more than 85 of those Twitterers. Have another designer to recommend? Multi-Disciplinary @abduzeedo - Fabio Sasso is a graphic and web designer, as well as . @AndrewKelsall - Andrew Kelsall is a web and graphic designer who does all sorts of creative work including logo and print design. @anthonywoods - Anthony Woods is a graphic designer and web and software application developer. @artistech - Artistech Newmedia is a design and production firm working with web, print, and video. @bartelme - Wolfgang Bartelme is a user interface and graphic designer. @bongobrian - Brian Paulowicz is a web designer and graphic artist.
Best of the Web - 1000 Twitter Apps, Tools, Clients, and Service Stupid Twitter Tricks • Perishable Press - Flock Might as well face it, Twitter is here to stay. Not that it’s all that bad, just used to be a lot more laid-back and enjoyable. These days it seems to have been taken over by the lowest common-denominator, mostly high-school twits or useless commercial propaganda. Even so, I still enjoy tweeting the occasional profound thought once in awhile, and even like to play around with various types of “advanced” Twitter functionality. “Tweet This!” I like to include an easy way for readers to “tweet” my posts, but the URLs are generally way over Twitter’s 140-character limit. All we need to do is add the following script to your web pages or your functions.php file: Then, in the location where you would like to display your shortened “Tweet This!” <a href=" This is basically a link using the Twitter API to specify the contents of our tweet. Once you have this code in place, it will generate “Tweet This!” Custom short links using your own domain name <? <?
How to Turn Twitter Into Your One-Stop Lifestream - Flock A lot of your online time is probably spent divided between publishing and sharing content on a variety of websites, from Flickr to YouTube. There are a few options that allow you to aggregate all of that content into a lifestream, such as FriendFeed, or for the more adventurous, there’s the self-hosted Sweetcron. But a lifestream isn’t any fun if no one is listening. Most of us have a few people who are interested in what we have to say in one place in particular – on Twitter. So why make the extra effort of interacting with people on two separate websites, or attracting visitors to your self-hosted lifestream, when you can easily use a Twitter lifestream to share all your online content? Set up all of your accounts to feed directly into your Twitter lifestream, and make sure to label each of these tweets with a relevant hashtag. Using hashtags gives Twitter that much-needed organization, turning it into a searchable lifestream. Videos Photos Bookmarks Music Shared Content
FrontPage Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social circles of key influencers a powerful business practice online. A new class of tools intended to surface influencers and the people they are influenced by are focusing on a hub of rapid, connected conversation that's wide open for analysis - Twitter. Could analysis of individual behavior on Twitter become a valuable tool for business development and marketing? Last week Twitter announced that it will soon allow users to create lists of friends that they can share with others. On the margins of the developing Twitter-as-business tool ecosystem are startups building light-weight influencer discovery and analysis tools. Shining a Light on Webs of Connection Still one of the most useful tools in this group, if still largely a proof of concept, is Pete Warden's Mailana.
7 Great Databases for Twitter Applications - Flock Everyday new applications are being developed using the twitter API. We strive to get seven selected twitter applications databases under one roof. Tweeter Apoo TweeterApps is your one stop shop as a resource of all twitter apps on the interwebs. Twitdom [postadsense] Top 50 Twitter Tracking and Analytics Tools - Flock With over 70 Million users on Twitter, it is definitely the “buzz” word of the year. Yet there are people who do not know about tracking and analyzing their stats, influence and success on Twitter. Today there are many social media tracking and analytics tools available that can track your performance on social media sites like twitter. TwitterCounter is a great twitter service that offers updated statistics of your followers, following, and daily tweets. 2.Twitteranalyzer It is an interesting tool that helps to get all kind of statistic chart about you and your friends behavior at Twitter site. 3. Tweetstats graph down your twitter stats including, tweets per hour, per month, tweet timeline, and reply statistics. 4. Twitalyzer is a free tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on dozens of useful measures of success in social media. 5. 6. What do they tweet about? 7. Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile. 8. 9. 10.
10 Better Ways To Use TwitPic - Flock By Kalvin “Dr. Kal” Chinyere, M.D. of Dr. Kal’s Weight Loss Tips. Follow him @DrKal. TwitPic is an excellent application that further boosts Twitter’s usefulness. Using TwitPic as if it were Flickr is similar to using your iPhone as if it were an iPod. Below are 10 ways to use TwitPic to improve the quality of your life and the lives of those around you. How to Use TwitPic Weight Loss Pictures: Use TwitPic to chronicle your weight loss. Funny Pictures: Use TwitPic to spread laughter across the Twitterverse. Drunk Pictures: Use TwitPic to improve your vision. Food Pictures: Use TwitPic to get food advice. Blind Date Pictures: Use TwitPic to set up better blind dates. Cheat Day Pictures: Use Twitter for memories. Five-Second Rule Pictures: Use TwitPic to destroy the five-second rule. Rash Pictures: Use TwitPic for medical diagnosis. Sanity Pictures: Use TwitPic to prove your sanity. Neighbor Pictures: Use TwitPic to bond with your neighbors. These are the ways I use TwitPic.