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"The #S42AT project lets you bookmark links you share by simply adding the #S42AT hashtag to your public status messages."

"These little bits of information" are complementary to what journalists do. Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise. He talks about journalists' role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area. But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.

We've delivered social messaging in a way that delivers an integrated value proposition, which will take us into different use cases than just having a room where people can have conversations," Socialtext founder Ross Mayfield said in an interview.

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

Twe2 has made it possible to send and receive SMS messages for free in around the Globe including the Middle East region under one condition, you and your receiver have an (also free) account on Twitter.

There are several promising iPhone clients for the Twitter messaging service. Jason Snell takes a look at three of them.

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.

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.

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

Belgium-based Twistory launched into private beta today at MobileWebCamp.

Pick of the Twitter is a free service that selects specific "tweets" (posts) from the public timeline of the messaging service Twitter.

Summize looked at about 4 million Twitter status update messages (tweets) collected from the public time line over a seven day period running from April 27 - May 3.

filesharing through twitter

Tweetcube is another service that adds additional functionality to Twitter. If you have been following MakeUseOf for some time you probably already know how to post voice messages, images and even sharing what you're listening to. TweetCube brings a new feature to your Twitter experience by letting you easily share files.

Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message.

Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It's just not completely obvious how to get into the "club." So, here's a newbie's guide to this new platform. We don't cover every feature of Twitter, but this should help get you started.

If you find yourself copying other people's Twitter messages and reposting them with such codes as "retweet" or "RT", you may be a Retweetist. Don't worry, you are not alone. In fact so many people are RT'ing that we can use this to see what are some of the most valued topics out there. Be a Retweetist today and retweet about it!

Send a message to Twitter about ocal traffic conditions, and use the service to find out what others are reporting.

twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of twhirl's features: * runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX * connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts * notifications on new messages * shorten long URLs (using snurl, twurl or is.gd) * cross-post twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku * post images to TwitPic * search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan * timeline filtering * color schemes * automatically check for new versions There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your twitter experience, and it offers various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.