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Topify, a simple but powerful tool, saves a lot of time and energy when replying to direct messages and responding to new followers. Topify also has an added value in detecting spam followers.

Tweetmic is a new iPhone app that allows you to upload audio to Twitter. I guess you'd call it 'Tweetcasting'? Slowed down by all that time consuming typing and spell checking (it is a whole 140 characters, after all)? This app combines two things loved by almost everyone: Twitter and

The new generation Twitter client for people who value their time and are tired of information noise.

So many questions, so little time... Thousands of people are asking questions on Twitter, answer them!

Jennifer Aniston purportedly broke up with John Mayer because he devoted more time to Twitter than her. Really?

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

This is a mesmorizing way to watch the Twitter public feed. All new Tweets are shown in real-time and twitscan captures all of the latest URLs and posts them on the right of the page.

Watch Twitter posts in real-time.

Tips for using twitter in education

[academhack] "I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all. Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive's article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try. At this point I have to say, I am so glad that I did. Although I am still beginning to wrap my head around all of its varied uses-I think for the most part Twitter users themselves are still figuring this out-I have been using it for over six months now and come up with some academic uses." (...)

Real-time presonalized newspaper generated from your twitter account. Does require that you give up credentials.

Aston Kutcher has set another celebrity popularity benchmark on Twitter. This time 2,000,000 followers, which has arrived far quicker than the first million.

Blog post anti-twitter, negatives. Could be a good opportunity to analyze and rebut for students.

This blog is focused on "exploding" old concepts and thinking about economies, organizations, communities, and groups. We will focus on patterns of connectivity and self-organizing behavior in economic and social networks and how these new structures lead to resilience, adaptability, agility, and innovation.

An article by reporter Rachel Sylvester that follows the predictable Twitter-dissing angle (i.e., trivial, food, kids, ...)

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

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.