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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."

iTweet is the best interface for using Twitter on the iPhone or the Web! Built-in autorefresh, search and hashtags. Full follow, block and notifications features. See current Twitter trends with one click. Watch conversations with inline 'in reply to' links. Created by Colby Palmer using the Twitter API.

"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.

Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!

"Stweet is a mix of street and twitt, offering a real new way to discover geolocalised twitts from Twitter on a Google Street View panorama. Stweet is an artistic project dealing with the appropriation of geographical, photographic and real-time data from the Web. It offers a real new way enriched representation of information created on internet by two major players of the web, Twitter and Google."

Je ne sais pas trop à quoi ils jouent chez Twitter. Mais s'ils veulent transformer un service capable de transmettre des informations à une vitesse jamais atteinte et de générer des conversations d'un bout à l'autre du globe improbables en une chambre d'échos à rendre jaloux MSN, le Loft et le collectif des blogueuses maquillage, ils sont bien partis.

Les réseaux sociaux sont devenus en quelques années d'importantes plateformes de partage de contenu. Pour autant, une récente étude menée sur Twitter par Sysomos nous montre qu'une minorité seulement de contributions contiennent un lien vers une page web, et une part encore plus faible un lien vers une image. Analysons ces chiffres en détails.

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.

you can archive your list of twitter followers by using this Twitter Follower mosaic; create an image for your blog.

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Twibitz analyzes a Twitter user based on their profile and history to give you a snapshot of their "tweet style".

"Alpha.app.net is an ad-free social network. It's your real-time feed, a home for meaningful conversation, where you control your data."

Klout tracks influence across the social web. How influential are you?

PlugThe.Net will detect the endpoints of URLs in Tweets. So the plugin will show the title, the description and (if offered) the open graph image of the linked website.

On this site, you'll find a list of tweets with the keywords: US News, World News and Tweet News. This page will automatically update every 180 seconds, so you'll always have access to the latest tweets.

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