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Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter Robyn Twomey for TIME ENLARGE + Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up! (44) Facebook MORE... Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Related Audio Host Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movement Download | Subscribe Specials The World of Twitter Specials Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds Specials 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business Stories The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher More Related The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The Future of Twitter I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams w

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

Share & discuss any topic with TwinglyTwingly is a powerful group communication and microblogging tool in the era of the realtime web. Share, discuss and have fun with friends, colleagues, strangers and others interested in the same topics as you.

Facebook may be the social medium of choice for college students, but the microblogging Web tool Twitter has found adherents among professors, many of whom are starting to experiment with it as a teaching device.

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.

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.

Tweagle is a sleek Twitter client combining the best of Twitter and Foursquare. With Tweagle, users can listen to the voice of the city and easily share their location via Foursquare, checking in and tweeting at the same time.

Organize groups of people on Twitter into auto-updating lists.

Dynamic Twitter lists personalized for you and updated daily Formulists-generated lists continuously self-update and can be viewed or deleted from any twitter client!

Most important from your Twitter stream The Tweeted Times aggregates news in your Twitter stream and ranks them by popularity among your friends. Never loose any important news!

Looks very neat but costs £2.99 whereas Summify is free...

in2clouds Social Listener for Twitter

Optimizer for TwitterTM is the ONLY social marketing platform that integrates real-time analysis with guidance on what to tweet, when to tweet it, and who to target on message.

TwitPlus is an extension for your favorite social network Twitter! It installs in few seconds on your browser and bring you new features and a new comfort.

"Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. Higher scores are more bot-like. Use of this service requires Twitter authentication and permissions."

CheerMeter is a new free social media tool that tracks and analyses Twitter buzz around sporting events in real time.

Collect, organize, and share the best of the web. Remix your tweets, statuses, and other social goodies into a neat, tidy, permanent web page.

"Followerwonk helps you explore and grow your social graph. Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet?"

Track each shared link in real-time, and find out which ones are being clicked on across Facebook and Twitter using our social analytics in real-time

"Tweepi - the first and only Twitter Follow Management with stats...

Tweepi helps you make sense of your Twitter social graph, with stats.

Where are your Twitter followers located? Map My Followers and Tweet

Manage and anylyze your Twitter Community