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Twitter has get out of jail free capabilities!

A cool way to post to your multiple Twitter accounts without having to log on to each one!

enter your username and TweetWheel will load all your friends and show you how they are connected.

A cool tool to look at who is connected to whom on twitter. A look at connections.

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." (...)

I haven't checked it out yet but I thought that some other twitter freak might be interested

Top ways to Tweet!

Search Twitter with Sideline. It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.

Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest. Sideline is an open source application released under the BSD license. The first beta release is out and the code is hosted on github.

Yahoo has a new Twitter client. Looks like Tweetdeck in some respects.

A very clear guide to teachers new to trying out Twitter.

Explains what today's (8/6/2009) "denial-of-service" is all about, and what it means for security of users in the web 2.0 arena (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

You need to spell favourites as favorites for this to work.

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website. Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.