Your Twitter homework
a wealth of links on and about the little beast
Nothing stands still. Especially not online and most certainly not in the Twittosphere. Check these links at my Delicious account for additions to this list which was initially compiled in fall 2008.
For further study: who’s using Twitter?
For further study: good posts or sites about Twitter
TwitTown, an unofficial community and forum
Five ways to gather and report news with Twitter
Five things to do as a new Twitter user
An example of when a press release was redundant
Mistakes one shouldn’t make with Twitter and branding
Twitter is the ham radio of the internet
How a premier strategist in consumer connections uses Twitter
Why one fellow follows 10,000 people
A nicely comprehensive intro and guide to Twitter
Twitter and identity, with an interesting punchline
One person’s observations on Twitter’s usefulness outside the niche
Seven good tips for new Twitter users
An example of using twitter for reputation management and another post on keeping on top of tweets when you’re a conference speaker
For further study: Twitter applications, spin-offs, and “mashups”
These are for your own review and enlightenment. Many may be in testing mode. No guarantees provided.
PocketTweets lets you twitter using your iPhone
You can use these apps to twitter (and track the tweets you follow) using software on your computer instead of the web interface: Twhirl or TweetDeck or — a Firefox plugin, TwitterFox.
100 most popular Twitter mashups
Twitter charts (see how much you tweet)
TwitterSnooze (temporarily quiet the loquacious twitterers you follow)
Twittervision (a bird’s eye view)
Twistori (”I love”, “I hate”, you fill in the blanks)
Roomatic: start a themed chat atop Twitter
ReadWriteWeb’s take on the top 10 Twitter apps (as of 07/2007)
Monitter (monitor the twitterverse for a set of three keywords)
Automatically “tweet” your blog postings (though I don’t recommend this) by using: Twitpress or TwitThis or Twitterfeed.
TwitsLikeMe (find others with similar interests)
TweetWheel allows you to find out who knows who
TweetMyPage is a Firefox (browser) plug-in
TwitterCounter allows you to add your follower count to your blog
Holy cow: Twebinars are the latest craze.
RememberTheMilk has figured a way for you to send reminders to yourself using Twitter
