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Tipjoy is a social micro-payments service which is releasing its API to the world to allow handling of small payments with Twitter.

[documental.com] Un dossier complet sur Twitter : "Peut-on communiquer efficacement lorsqu'on ne dispose que de 140 caractères pour s'exprimer ? En d'autres termes, le micro-blogging a-t-il vraiment un intérêt ? A en croire les blogueurs confirmés, Twitter, l'outil phare du domaine, est devenu Le nouvel outil indispensable de leur panoplie 2.0." (...)

Une très belle entrée en matière. "Ce guide s'adresse à tout ceux qui s'intéressent au phénomène Twitter sans pour autant avoir les clés nécessaires à sa compréhension. Il se présente donc comme un guide en 4 parties à l'attention des particuliers mais aussi des entreprises. La première est une présentation générale du service, de ses usages et de ce qu'il a changé dans les méthodes de consommation de l'information pour ses membres. La deuxième partie s'attarde sur la galaxie de services dérivés qu'il a engendré. La troisième s'intéresse aux usages pour les entreprises. Enfin, la quatrième et dernière partie s'interroge sur le futur possible de l'outil de micro-blogging et sur ses utilisations insolites" (Le Blog du Modérateur). Bravo à Flavien Chantrel, Antoine Dupin SEOMAN, Fadhila Brahimi, François Mathieu, Yann Leroux, Benjamin Romei, Eric Dupin, Christophe Logiste, Emilie Ogez, Pierre Jollet, Kim Auclair, Emmanuel Gadenne, Hubert Vaudaux et Lilian Mahoukou.

Twitter is a website that is succeeded in micro-blogging (blogging very short messages). Logging into the Twitter homepage user can type ''tweets'' or short messages up to 140 symbols and send it out by clicking ''update''. Everyone who is online and in your network can instantly see

If posting on a traditional long-form blog feels too ponderous and sporadic for you, Twitter may be more your speed: it limits your micro-blogposts to just 140 characters, and you can post your dispatches from your iPhone, BlackBerry or any other mobile device capable of text-messaging on-the-go.

Organise the world of micro blogging

Actor Ashton Kutcher recently challenged CNN to be the first to 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site, had more than 959,360 Twitter followers as of 1 p.m. ET Thursday. CNN's breaking-news feed had about 12,000 more Twitter fans, with some 968,000. But the real intresting part is the Ashton reaches one million fans on his Facebook fan page while am writing this post Ashton has1,037 ,940 fans on his Facebook fan page.

Ok, so what is Twitter and why should you care?  First, let's start with what it isn't.  Twitter is *not* about micro-blogging.  Yes, it is described this way - yes even by it's founders.  But they have also admittedly publicly that much of the innovation on Twitter has happened in the user base - the convention for retweets (RT), for example, came from the user base.  For those of you who are new, RT is just a way to a convention for sharing a message from someone you follow to your own followers.  It's sort of citation plus recommendation plus message all wrapped in a little two letter acronym.

Edmodo is a Twitter-type micro blog specifically designed for teachers and students.

US talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey made her debut on micro-blogging service Twitter on Friday with a shout out to her fans. Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Friday--the same day Williams and Twitter's top celebrity, Ashton Kutcher, will join her on the show.

Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging and social media site, which is growing at a rapid pace. A lot of individuals and organizations are using Twitter in order to enhance their sales and marketing. It is also effective in brand building. Twitter is a social media site where you can express your views and thoughts in 140 characters. You can also share links along with your thoughts. A lot of tools are available which makes the usage of Twitter more smooth. I have been trying a lot of tools and each day many new tools emerge, which are simply superb. I would like to share some important Twitter tools that I have found useful in managing Twitter accounts.

"Micro-blogging and social networking site was unavailable Thursday as Twitter defended itself against a DoS attack"

Twitter been widely used micro blogging services for instant sharing with friends and followers. Since Twiter is updated instantly users can easily share information such as links, images, video and now you can share files instantly with all your friends on Twitter. FileTwt is a simple file sharing service on Twitter. Lot of us use Rapidshare for file sharing, but now FileTwt let Twitter user to share files up to 20MB maximum instantly. At present all files are hosted on Rapidshare, but FileTwt will soon start hosting the uploaded files themselves in a few days!

"Stephen Fry, technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit "twitticide" last month and consider leaving the micro-blogging service."

"Pensqr is a fun, organized & visualized space for people who share the same passion and interest about something. Pensqr is a topics based micro blogging service that aims to change the way you interact & connect to things of your interest. Open general topics, ask questions or discuss things you love in an easy, fun and visualized way."

Another way to follow Twitter

Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.

[Pisani] "L'émergence de Twitter et de la micro-messagerie, comme outil utilisable pour la couverture journalistique d'un événement ne fait plus de doute. Elle va aussi bouleverser la façon dont nous écrivons nos articles et la manière de raconter ce dont nous rendons compte, ce qui va bien plus loin."