ReadWriteWeb
If you are looking for a desktop client for Twitter these days, you will most likely be overwhelmed by the amount of choices, but according to TwitStat, the most popular desktop clients right now are TweetDeck and Twhirl, and TweetDeck is the clear choice of Twitter's most active users. This weekend, however, we came across (Read More)
TechCrunch
Everyone’s always raving about the huge popularity of Twitter given its limited feature set. After all, the service lets people share whatever they’re doing, eating, listening to, reading, etc. in 140 characters, and that’s basically the gist of it. Of course, we’ve learned that it can be extremely powerful for a variety of (Read More)
iPhone Alley - RSS
We're not exactly sure how many musical apps exist in the App Store, but we can be sure there are enough to play just about any song as long as you have enough iPhones. To prove this point, The Mentalists, a four-girl band from London, broke out the iPhones and covered MGMT's "Kids" with tremendous accuracy. Get ready to st (Read More)
VentureBeat
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he’s been trying to buy – Twitter — since last May. But he’s kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused. Then he created another one last month called @finkd, that allows you to follow him publicl (Read More)
Macworld UK News
The iChange ditches car keys in favour of an iPhoneIt can send emails, play video, access the Web and snap pictures, but control a car? Swiss automobile design house Rinspeed will unveil a concept electric car controlled by an iPhone at next week's Geneva Motor Show. (Read More)
sarahintampa
I just stumbled upon a new tool that maps out the re-tweets occurring on Twitter. It’s called. simply, the ReTweet Mapper. (Actually, I didn’t Stumble Upon it, I found it on FriendFeed, of course.)The ReTweet Mapper is a tool created by Dan Zarrella, who calls himself a social and viral marketing scientist. He describes hi (Read More)
: "I just stumbled upon a new tool that maps out the re-tweets occurring on Twitter. It’s called, simply, the ReTweet Mapper. (Actually, I didn’t Stumble Upon it, I found it on FriendFeed, of course.)"
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Today Dennis Goedegebuure from The Next Corner (follow him at @TheNextCorner) makes some predictions about Twitter in 2009.2008 showed an unbelievable growth for Twitter as THE place for microblogging. With competitors like Pownce closing their doors, it seems that Twitter has the stronger cards to become the sole survivor (Read More)
: yes it has too what's interesting is who will buy it Google, MS, Facebook or Vodafone. Still think the combination of Twitter with Friendfeed and SocialMedian fed into my Ecademy profile is truly amazing power.
: @JoshMiller according to MyCompete.com Twitter has 3.4m users, Facebook has 49m and Google 130m. Linkedin has 7.7m users and is no way mainstream. So I guess over 50m users would be my definition.
: The only thing I dislike is that everybody is talking about Twitter and not about the generic possibilities of Microblogging per se. T. is not open, not OpenSource and the sheer momentum is scary.
TechCrunch
Say goodbye to the fun of reading private Twitter messages sent improperly and gathered on DMFail. Sometime today, Twitter says in an email, they’ll change the way private messages are sent so that you can use either [D + username + message] OR [DM + username + message].It’s a subtle feature change, but one that will avoid (Read More)
TechCrunch
One of the big complaints about Twitter is that conversations are hard to follow. Users can write a response to a Twitter message (or anything else), but the easy way to do this is to add an @[username] tag to the Twitter, which refers back to the original Twitter user. But by then that original user has often moved on to o (Read More)
: Interesting points. Thing is, I have a Greasemonkey script that puts threaded replies into Twitter now. Seems to me that if Twitter just adopts it, voila, feature. I'd like to be able to collapse the convos, like I can in search or Friendfeed, but it's a start.
Apple iPhone News Report - iFones.NET
First Look: Will It Blend? for iPhone and iPod touchFiled under: Humor, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch, First LookApparently I’m not the only person who loves to watch the Blendtec “Will It Blend?” videos on YouTube. The company reports that the video series has had over 100 million views so f (Read More)
TechCrunch
If you are the kind of person who can’t help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows direct (private) messages that were sent improperly on Twitter and are therefore public.If you want to send another Twitter user a (Read More)
Delicious/oliverg
In the past year, Twitter has exploded; more and more users are joining and finding new ways to stay connected to the service 24/7. Here are over 35 Twitter resources for your iPhone, G1, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device, smartphone, or basic cell phone.Which apps have you used? Tell us about your favorites and why you lov (Read More)
Venture Chronicles
Loic is making a very good point, one that is becoming increasingly common as more people acquire mobile web access and have instantaneous broadcast capabilities with services like Twitter. There will be more of this but it doesn’t invalidate traditional media, it compliments it. Funny I have just heard the official spokes (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users. Clearly, this is a big win for Socialmedian, which only recently came out of private beta:Sponsor"This is great ne (Read More)
: Sorry to join the celebration late @jasongoldberg, but well done. You have demonstrated well that focusing on the core, moving quickly and keeping cost in check lead to a path of sucess. Job well done, best of luck overseas.