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Jesse at Socialtoo discusses implications of Twitter's recent announcement to cap access to the API for whitelist services. Comments are illuminating.

@dabr is a mobile web interface to Twitter's API. It has been described as m.twitter.com on steroids, and tries to provide as much mobile functionality as possible.

How to siphon off those great quotes -- just tag your tweets #tweeght #thought or #quote or reply to @tweeght -- so great!

How do you track what links are being clicked on on Twitter? Today Hendry Lee (follow him at @hendrylee) shares some tips on how to do it. Much of Twitter is

how to add symbols to your tweet

Twitbin is a browser add-on or extension that allows you to use twitter from anywhere on the web. Communicate directly with all your friends without having to leave the site you are on.

Twitbin is a browser add-on or extension that allows you to use twitter from anywhere on the web. Communicate directly with all your friends without having to leave the site you are on.

Send a message to Twitter about ocal traffic conditions, and use the service to find out what others are reporting.

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." (...)

Works on top of Twitter to let you twitter with pictures or videos and also send files to your Twitter friends.

This video brings home the point that most people are oblivious to the social networking tools I use. In this video, NYU journalism student Alana Taylor took it to the streets asking students and other passersby whether they use Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.

How to change a batch of tagged links to another tag from mguhlin

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.

Tool for updating all of your social networks at once. I know you can set up twiiter to update facebook and linkedin, and your blog to tweet your posts, this just brings an extra level

So, I guess some people are OK with twittering their labor and delivery - however, as the Mom of a 9 lb pounder, 10 lb 3 oz, and 8 lb 12 oz babies - I didn't have time nor inclination to tweet these private moments. To each his own.

Known only by her Twitter name, Oxfordgirl has emerged as a crucial link between the protesters and the outside world. "Before they started blocking mobile phones I was almost co-ordinating people's individual movements - 'Go to such and such street,' or 'Don't go there, the Basij [militia] are waiting,' " she said. "It was very strange to be sitting in Oxford and co-ordinating things like that."

Over the last month or so I have been running a little bit of an experiment. Basically, after hearing from some others that there is money to be made with Hubpages, I decided to give it a go. Before I start getting into detail, I should explain the basics. Hubpages is a website that basically all

Allows you to see statistics on your followers and determine if you want to continue following them.

With Windows 7, many users have been scrambling to compare the OS to Apple's leading product, OS X Snow Leopard. But wait - what about Google Chrome OS?

Google Wave Gives New Life to Pointless

"peerpong taps the power of twitter to help you ask people in the know." Similar to aardvark but using twitter exclusively for the questions and answers, allowing the possibility of viral distribution.