Resources
Books
8 Free eBooks on Twitter – a great collection and review by Ari Herzog @ariherzog
Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online by Warren Whitlock and Deborah Micek (Paperback)
twitter means business: how microblogging can help or hurt your company by Julio Ojeda-Zapata (Paperback)
Twitter: How Short Messages Can Make A Big Difference To Your Business by Joel Comm (Kindle Book)
Twitter in Plain English by Lee & Sachi LeFever (Kindle Edition)
Twitter: Free Social Networking For Business – 100 Success Secrets To Increase Your Profits and Sales Using Twitter Business Strategies by Daniel Clark (Paperback)
Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications with the Twitter API by Kevin Makice (Paperback – Coming on March 15, 2009)
Tools
Desktop Clients
- TweetDeck – an Adobe AIR client (Mac/PC)
- Tweetr (Mac/PC)
- TwitterPost (Mac OSX)
- Twhirl – another Adobe AIR client (Mac/PC)
Mobile Clients
- Fring allows to communicate with members of Skype, MSN, Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM.
- Hahlo – a web-based client
- PocketTweets (iPhone)
- Tweetsville (iPhone & iPod Touch)
- TreoTwit (Palm OS)
- Twibble (Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony Ericsson)
- Twidroid (Android mobiles)
- Twinkle (iPhone)
- TwitterBerry (BlackBerry)
- TwitterFon (iPhone & iPod Touch)
- Twitterlator (iPhone)
- TwitterMail for tweeting by email
- Twitterrific (iPhone & iPod Touch)
Clients for Multiple Accounts
- TwitterFace
- Thwirl (Mac/PC) desktop client
- Tweetie (iPhone & iPod Touch)
- Matt – Multiple Account Twitter Tweeting
Firefox Add-Ons
- TweetBar – Twitter sidebar for Firefox and Flock.
- Twitterbar for tweeting from the Firefox address bar.
- TwitBin – a lightweight sidebar for tweeting.
- TwitterFox provides a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. It also has a small text input field to update your tweets.
- TweetyTunes allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter.
- TwitterScope allows you to follow the rest of the Twitter conversation from a specified user and see all @replies to that user.
Widgets
- BeTwittered – a Google widget for Twitter. Post updates without leaving your Google home page. A full Twitter client with tabbed message views, configurable refresh rate, avatars, fonts, etc.
- Twitter Gadget – another Google widget to update your Twitter status and view your Twitter friends from your Google homepage.
- Twidget – a free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X that allows you to update your Twitter status.
- Twitterflex – another free Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X which allows you to follow friends and update your own status.
Utilities
- Twitter Search searches Twitter conversations for keywords, hashtags, or @ replies to any user.
- Twitterfeed posts your blog RSS feed to twitter.
- Twitturly – a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about on Twitter.
- twInfluence – a service measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers.
- Twitter BlackList a list of known Twitter spammers.
- TwitPic for sharing your photos o Twitter.
- FriendOrFollow Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out!
- Qwitter a notification service when someone stops following you.
- TwitStat – Real time Twitter Analytics
- Twitter Grader – vanity booster or crasher (depending on the grade your profile gets
- Twellow – the directory of Twitter users
- Tweetstats graphs your Twitter usage (tweets per hour, day of the week, month, whom you tweet with, your preferred Twitter client, etc.)
Resources
Getting Started
- Official Twitter Blog
- Video: Twitter in Plain English
- Twitter 101
- From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too
- Twictionary – a dictionary for Twitter
- Twittonary – another Twitter dictionary, focused on Twitter/IM shorthand
- Twitter Fan Wiki
- Using Twitter to supplement a conference
Facts & Figures
- Twitter Company Profile
- The State Of The Twittersphere (HubSpot Edition, Dec 22, 2008)
- Twitter Facts
- GigaTweet – realtime counter of tweets (1,000,000,000+ at the time of writing)
Tips & How Tos
- Twitip “Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More” by @problogger. Excellent resource!
Groups & Communities
- Twitter Groups
- Twitly
- Tweeples
- Twittown
- Twitter for Moms
- Just Tweet It! – the ultimate directory of Twitters users, groups and resources.
Twitter for Education
Twitter for Journalists & Media
- Journalists, Bloggers & Media Outlets on Twitter
- Ultimate guide to Twitter tools and resources for journalists
Twitter for Non-Profits
- Twitter for Nonprofits: Waste of Time or Potentially Useful? by Beth Kanter (@kanter)
- Twitter Primer also by Beth Kanter. Make sure you follow Beth on Twitter if you are associated with any NPO, don’t miss her great insights!
- 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good
- The Complete Guide to Twitter for Small Non-Profits by John Haydon (@johnhaydon)
Big Brands on Twitter
- To Tweet or not to Tweet: Why are so many major brands still not on Twitter? by @thebrandbuilder
- Coping with Corporate Brandjacking on Twitter by @KrisColvin
Good Reads
- Twitter redefining the concept of breaking news
- Twitter Venn, text snowflakes and other entertainments
- The Human Feed: How Twitter & Networks Filter Signal From Noise by @Armano
- There’s Too Many ‘Me, Me, Me’s in ‘Follow Me’ by @acclimedia
- Retweetimization by @DamienBasile
Legalese
- Social Media [inc. Twitter] Accountjacking
- How to Reclaim Registered or Inactive Twitter Accounts
- Beware: Your ‘tweet’ on Twitter could be trouble
Developing Twitter
- Twitter Developer Blog
- Twitter API wiki
- Twitter Development Talk (Google group)
- Screencast: Programming to Twitter API (ReTweeter)
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thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.
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Don’t forget about me- @feedtwit. I send your @ replies to you as a direct message (and therefore as a text message, if you have paired twitter with your phone). In fact, I can send any RSS feed to you as a direct message.
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Thanks for the list, very extensive. Also, check out the Twitter Search Engine at http://www.twittersearchengine.net where you can search for users and tweets easily.
Extremely helpful. Thanks