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Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start. The following 10 (+1 bonus!) beginner's guides to Twitter each do a tremendous job at informing without confusing.

Facebook Pages are becoming a lot more like Twitter in terms of the ways marketers can use them to reach and engage people inside Facebook. Twitter has proven that the "status update subscription + news feed" conversation model works well for a variety of marketers - from large brands to self promoters like bloggers, consultants, and real estate agents.

If you're looking to connect with other bloggers on Twitter then this is the place to be because below are over 500 of them who each submitted their twitter profiles in the first ever ProBlogger Social Media Love-In.

Group of Twitter applications for managing your multiple Twitter accounts effectively to improve your social media marketing.

Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

Twittersphere is growing. In 2008 Forrester Research estimated that, Twitter had 4-5 million users and Nielsen Online showed on its report, Twitter ranked No.1

All you need to know about Twitter Spam, Twitter News, Twitter Information, TwitterFilter, Social Marketing, Google Wave

Après plusieurs mois en bêta privée, c'est aujourd'hui que sort Socialomate, nouvel outil pour Twitter développé par Jean-François Ruiz (que vous connaitrez certainement pour la Startup Academy ou le Webdeux Connect) et son équipe. Socialomate se définit comme votre "Assistant social media" et va vous permettre d'automatiser une relation par message privé avec vos followers Twitter. Un peu à l'image des outils d'emailing qui permettent de réaliser des scenariis avec une base d'utilisateurs, l'outil permet de créer des campagnes sur différents critères, et ensuite d'automatiser l'envoi d'un message. Oui, vous avez bien lu, c'est un outil pour envoyer du dm en masse et/ou en automatique. 

Leading Twitter Community Manager! Better Manage Your Twitter Relationships Focus on Your Influencers, supporters & potential customers. Stress-Free Social Productivity: Commun.it analyzes relationships and helps you engage with your top members.

More stats on Twitter performance and demographics as at June 2009. This social media analytics company examined 11.5 million Twitter accounts.

4 online tools to monitor and optimize your social networking activities.

Twitter told developers explicitly that they should stop making third-party clients. According to Twitter, Repeated privacy policy violations and an inconsistent user experience are the reasons for implementing these restrictions.

IM meets Twitter. Joint is an IM platform that uses your existing Twitter network. It takes away all the constraints of Twitter messaging and lets you have engaging, flexible, and realtime conversations.

8 Lessons Learned from Being a Publisher on Twitter

Twitter in its native form assumes we're ok with not keeping up with the abundance. / Social asymmetry addresses the scaling problem. / Twitter is an app that scales as as platform. / We'll complicate simple things as much as we have to.

Show your Twitter friends on a map that can be easily added to your blog's sidebar. There's more information at http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/social-networking/twitter-followers-map.html via @cnansen

If your not using this tool, your missing the boat. Since reversing the company's strategy away from short video clips and more toward the world of status updates, Loic Le Meur and the Seesmic team have forged ahead in working to deliver a strong alternative to TweetDeck, letting Twitter and Facebook users update their status, view friends' updates and manage their social networking accounts from their desktop - complete with multiple account support, multiple columns, and all the standard features you would expect, from profile viewing to direct messages and search. Yesterday, at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event, Loic demonstrated not just a new version of Seesmic Desktop, but also a Web version that operates completely in the browser. And guess what? It's good - easily the best Web interface I've seen for Twitter yet.

This report "Tweeting for Teachers" says social media should be part of teacher PD. as much as I agree with that, if you just unblock social media, it doesn't mean teachers WILL use it for PD. Teach them how. Plus, expect pushback from teachers who don't want to mix personal and business. Although Facebook won't allow 2 profiles for a person, Twitter will and some teachers may want to take that route.

3 applications for new twitter who change social web : hoverme , qwerly and lazyscope