Twitter Freaks

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.

Twitglry is a Twitter Directory cum Gallery showcasing the best and latest twitter tools, twitter applications and other twitter related goodies.

http://search.twitter.com/advanced AND http://search.twitter.com/operators.

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

An injunction has been taken out against a Twitter user in the UK for impersonating a right-wing blogger.

Music of many genres, from many regions of the world. Musicians of many sensibilities. A collection that needs sorting, labeling, and finetuning...but has some intoxicating musical discoveries...worth the effort!

Surprisingly good analysis. There are even a few surprises here!

"These little bits of information" are complementary to what journalists do. Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise. He talks about journalists' role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area. But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.