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There's an emerging degree of swarming, coordination, just in time planning, that makes a cohesive group appear to exist out of a series of autonomous individuals. I've personally witnessed people get rides from airports at midnight after the transit stopped, people collectively swarm to try track down a stolen bicycle, venue changes for meetings where nobody misses a beat, random get-togethers facilitated by a real time awareness. There is a kind of real time responsiveness not present with services such as email, the telephone, the classifieds or even newspapers and television mass media.

Twitter Tracker is a real-time listing of the top media, entertainment, and consumer product feeds we're currently following on Twitter.

The Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media.

Overall, Twitter is best thought of as a message queuing/routing system built on top of a cache/repository platform.

Wetpaint page for tweeple resident in New Zealand. The list is manual so add yourself by editing the page.

sweet twitter song

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.

A response to the Rachel Sylvester Times article that explains why Twitter is a good thing and she (and others) are wrong.

Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn't worth the return for the students benefit, so that's why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing.

The winner of our impromptu contest for best visualization of the Tools of Change (TOC) Conference Twitter activity is Stephen Smith for his Wordle tag clouds and stats over at toctweet.com

Tweet Tweet is a plugin for WordPress that will archive your tweets, and the tweets of everyone you follow, plus replies you receive from strangers, and direct messages too. All these tweets will be stored safely in your database.

Twitter is pulling Twitter search (ex. Summize) more closely into the fold (c/o getshust)