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getPrismatic.com/ finds content for you by looking at what you have shared on Twitter, the publishers you link to, and who your friends are (it will eventually account for Facebook as well). But the content doesn't only come from your Twitter feed - it comes from anywhere on the Internet, using clues in your feed to find things that will interest you.

Easy Twitter Filtering TweetDig is the smarter way to filter Tweets, so you can prioritize what you read. It's time to hide the Twitter 'noise' and de-clutter your timeline.

His UK generated list of most influential non celebrity tweeters includes NPR's Andy Carvin. It is interesting how many personalities cross time zones and national lines to influence us all. Andy is a great tweeter. Sadly, this list doesn't seem to link. Kind of misses the point but worth a read anyway.

The best way to deal with too many tweets. Hide what you don't want to see so you can focus on what matters. And it works directly on Twitter.com.

tweetsee - the easy way to stay informed.  Please click the connect button above and login with your twitter username and password. To use tweetsee we recommend the following browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox 4.

"TiddlyTweets is the work of Fred and Jonathan from Osmosoft. It serves as an example of a client-side mashup, creating a useful application in a web-friendly way, using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're interested, you might like to know how this application is put together. It's really a TiddlyWiki loaded up with plugins. Read on for how to hack this "

Neuroscience has shown that our brains are plastic and that education, gaming and the use of technology can change our brains' connectivity, function and structure. (1, 2) But learning is more than just biology - it is affected by our learning environment and the people with whom and from whom we learn. So how do you take what neuroscience reveals about the plastic, learning brain and combine it with educational research, expertise and common sense? Klevar, in association with Flinders University, are offering you the chance to explore this with Dr Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol, researcher and author of "Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice".

A quick, easy, and free citation generator that converts Tweets into, properly formatted MLA and APA, citations. Paste a link to the Tweet you want to cite in the field below, click 'Go', and you're on your way.

"Whether you want to get your mom started on Twitter or want the scoop on some of Twitter's best desktop apps and how to use Twitter for brand building, these YouTube videos will keep you entertained while educating you about various aspects of the Twitterverse."

BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This web site is a production of Triangle Information Solutions. To use BlastFollow, simply enter a favorite hashtag (for example, "americanidol") in the box below. Then, click the "Get Users!" button. After a few seconds, you will see the number of users who tweeted with that hashtag recently. Then, you need only enter your Twitter name and password and click "Blast!" You will start following all of those users. You can usually see the progress on a user-by-user basis.

This list makes it possibloe to create a group of topic specific tweeps to easily follow.

Auto ReTweet Events, Control Frequency of updates on your Twitter page. You can stop it at any time. Basically it is an event management tool. Text message and Direct messages sent to any users that confirm on guestlist or rsvp prior to event. FREE

BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This web site is a production of Triangle Information Solutions. To use BlastFollow, simply enter a favorite hashtag (for example, "americanidol") in the box below. Then, click the "Get Users!" button. After a few seconds, you will see the number of users who tweeted with that hashtag recently. Then, you need only enter your Twitter name and password and click "Blast!" You will start following all of those users. You can usually see the progress on a user-by-user basis.

I came to know that auto tweeting by cron jobs for our Twitter accounts were not working properly.I have resolved this issue by explicitly calling bit.ly url shortening API request by adding below piece of code.

Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start. The following 10 (+1 bonus!) beginner's guides to Twitter each do a tremendous job at informing without confusing.

In our previous post we have introduced our "Twitter multipost" application. As mentioned in that post, we have created bookmarklet for using this tool very easily.

There's an emerging degree of swarming, coordination, just in time planning, that makes a cohesive group appear to exist out of a series of autonomous individuals. I've personally witnessed people get rides from airports at midnight after the transit stopped, people collectively swarm to try track down a stolen bicycle, venue changes for meetings where nobody misses a beat, random get-togethers facilitated by a real time awareness. There is a kind of real time responsiveness not present with services such as email, the telephone, the classifieds or even newspapers and television mass media.

What's a hashtag? Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your posts. Hashtags can be created by anyone simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #myhashtag.