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It may be the latest thing on the internet, but at heart, Twitter is just a good old-fashioned gossip. Here's how to get started.

How to prepare a presentation when your target audience is most likely to use microblogging tools such Twitter.

Twitter is my all time favourite microblogging as well as social networking platform. If I found some interesting Twitter tool or application I usually

For now, a marriage between Twitter and Facebook is not meant to be - but the courtship between the two Web 2.0 companies could be rekindled in the future. That was one message from Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, in a talk at the Churchill Club in San Francisco Tuesday night.

If you are the kind of person who can't help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. ...

One of the big complaints about Twitter is that conversations are hard to follow. Users can write a response to a Twitter message ...

Enter Plurk; it's another Twitter clone which takes the Twitter concept and puts it on a timeline. The service has an odd, quirky feel to it; it's much more visual than Twitter, and it's fun to use. It uses colors to emphasize your 'moods', and it introduces the concept of karma, which should be familiar to Reddit users; the more you use the service, the more karma you get. In this case, karma even lets you unlock certain features, which almost feels like a mini game (if you like very boring mini games). Finally, just like Pownce, Plurk lets you divide your friends into "cliques", which is just a fancy word for groups.

Twitter is removing "spammy" followers and if you're on twitter you may see a big drop in your followers. Don't be alarmed, it wasn't anything you've said. Gotta think some people may be legit though.

These are known spammers and other morons on Twitter. What is a Twitter spammer? Measure a user's ratio of how many they follow to how many follow them.

"There are hundreds of articles on Twitter all over the web, so I am not going to waste your time or mine on how to use twitter or the importance of it. All I can say is Twitter is the best thing that has been around in terms of marketing and networking." - direct quote from post

Below you will find 25 links to help you get started on Twitter and how to use and maximize opportunities using it's service.

These are my tweetstats -- this is a cool site to take a look at your twitter information. Enter your twitter ID and wait a bit and it will work.

A site to go look at your twitter stats-- here are mine.

Twixxer is a photo and video sharing component for Twitter.com users who are normally restricted to text-only updates that contain links to media.

The purpose of this little script is to allow a Twitter user to "follow" a bunch of other Twitter users in one fell swoop-a Twitter friend list generator if you will. Dembo made me do it.

Find new twitter friends

WhoShouldiFollow looks at who your Twitter friends follow to suggest new people. By adjusting the sliders on the results page, you can give greater preference in the ranking to less popular Twitter users, or those who are near you. The algorithm is an item-to-item collaborative filter, somewhat similar to how Amazon makes recommendations.

Scanner to block or not follow people that have a certain number of followers or a ratio of following to followers that is too skewed.

a little thingiemajigger here. It'll check the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those. If the person is following more than 1000 people (can be customised), and has a Following-to-Followers ratio higher than 1:1 (can be customised), you'll be informed (by a "Block" link).