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Internet research Nancy Baym discusses the supposed death of blogs thanks to Twitter. Her justifications for using Twitter a good, particularly point 5.

"We love Twitter. We hate when it's down. If you're addicted to Twitter as well, tweet your heart out through Twiddict and avoid life-changing withdrawal symptoms during Twitter downtime. We'll make sure your tweets end up where they belong."

Twitter has started doing Testing of Local Trends (i-e Location-based Trending Topics) with some limited number (1 percent) of Twitter Accounts.

A good collection of essential Twitter accounts.

Twitter feeds for News and Technology

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.

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.

"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."

Streamie is a full realtime Twitter client that runs in your web browser. New tweets will appear in your timeline immediately when someone posts them to Twitter.

This is a google app to let you put twitter on your igoogle page.

Google Gadget folks -- here is a cool new google gadget for twitter that I'm putting in my sidebar as a gadget on my Windows XP desktop.

If your not using this tool, your missing the boat. Since reversing the company's strategy away from short video clips and more toward the world of status updates, Loic Le Meur and the Seesmic team have forged ahead in working to deliver a strong alternative to TweetDeck, letting Twitter and Facebook users update their status, view friends' updates and manage their social networking accounts from their desktop - complete with multiple account support, multiple columns, and all the standard features you would expect, from profile viewing to direct messages and search. Yesterday, at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event, Loic demonstrated not just a new version of Seesmic Desktop, but also a Web version that operates completely in the browser. And guess what? It's good - easily the best Web interface I've seen for Twitter yet.

A Twitter focused workshop that will teach you "Winning Twitter Strategies from Tim O'Reilly & Experts"

TVNZ acknowledges existence of a Twestival (Twitter driven charitable event) hosted last night at the three main centres of New Zealand. (c/o SY)

3 applications for new twitter who change social web : hoverme , qwerly and lazyscope

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

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

More stats on Twitter performance and demographics as at June 2009. This social media analytics company examined 11.5 million Twitter accounts.