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Twups is a twitter aggregator, pulling the most popular twitter topics into one place, so you can keep up to date on what is going on in the world, via twitter. We also make it super easy to reply directly to a tweet, or even retweet something you find on Twups directly from your Twitter account. All topics can be found via category or alphabetically, you can also do a quick search. You can also suggest topics via our

Tweagle is a sleek Twitter client combining the best of Twitter and Foursquare. With Tweagle, users can listen to the voice of the city and easily share their location via Foursquare, checking in and tweeting at the same time.

Google and Twitter are now becoming connected via Google Friend Connect.

Thanks @dougsymington via @sleslie

Saw this via a @kjarrett tweet.

call your contacts on twitter

Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you'd have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter. After signing in with your Twitter name and password you select how the call will be carried, either via browser, SIP ID or number/Mobile Phone. You then plug in your friend's Twitter name and generate a "Phweet" which is a unique shortURL for sharing the call with one or more people.

A Phweet is a shortURL that makes it easy to conduct voice conversations and conference calls between Twitter friends. You don't need to create a new account to use Phweet. Simply sign in with your Twitter username and password. thanks to Beth Kanter

The Multimap twitter bot helps you to access the same maps, directions and local information that you find on multimap.com by simply sending direct messages via twitter. You can send a message to fetch local information such as the closest ATM, tourist attraction, park, cinema, theatre or even find entries on wikipedia about what is nearby.

via factoryjoe: Find out who follows whom on Twitter

Show your Twitter friends on a map that can be easily added to your blog's sidebar. There's more information at http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/social-networking/twitter-followers-map.html via @cnansen

How to get and set reminders using twitter.

How to get and set reminders on twitter using the user "timer."

"Because social-networking tools are forums for personalized, socially focused conversations, the communities that spring from these tools are person/people-centered. As Porter explained, this person/people-centeredness results in the value of participation being opaque for anyone who is not participating. To address this problem, we made sure that students who chose not to participate (because the value of participation is opaque for them) had access to our tweets by incorporating an RSS feed-like Twitter widget in our LMS. (See Figure 5.) Many widgets like these can be found online, although we should note that this particular widget has limitations. As seen in the example in Figure 5, the widget only displays Joni's posts, not the back-and-forth exchanges between her and members of her network. Students might incorrectly assume that the interaction is one-sided and less than dynamic. Besides keeping students apprised of the resources we shared via Twitter, however, this widget allowed them to vicariously discover Twitter's value. Some students later chose to join us in Twitter because they had a better understanding of what they were getting into because its value was less opaque. Ultimately, we found that Twitter helped us achieve our student-engagement objective, but we also quickly discovered that students' Twitter participation led to other notable instructional outcomes."

Tweet Blender is tag-aware and has support for multiple authors, lists, hashtags, and keywords all blended together. The plugin can show tweets from just one user or a list of users (as all other Twitter plugins do); however, it can also show tweets for a topic which you can define via Twitter hashtag or keyword. But there is more! It can also show tweets for multiple authors AND multiple lists AND multiple keywords AND multiple hashtags all blended together into a single stream.

Twitter users of TweetDeck, check this out. Facebook Connect and Seesmic Desktop is a dream application for the frequent status updater, group lover, and social media meme tracker. Has multiple columns that can be rearranged via drag and drop, customizable groups, Twitpic functions, etc.

Script that sends a twitter update when people view your webpage. If you have a very busy site, this might be a lot! Suggested to use a separate twitter account for this data.

via Kathleen Ferenz