I’m still surprised at the number of people I meet that rely on the Twitter website to serve as their main source of updating and keeping track of their Twitter updates. I’ve been a happy user of Twhirl for quite awhile now.

I decided it was time to try another desktop application out to see if anything had drastically improved since the last time I used something other than Twhirl. It appears that nothing much has changed with Seesmic for Windows.
I still think the use of screen space isn’t very efficient. In the image above I have it maximized and can …read more

New technology is providing a wide range of ways for people to make money. Social media is offering a special challenge, though, since it can be difficult to measure revenues and return on investment. This is precisely why three of the major social media companies, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, are offering new tools and features that focus on revenue implications.
The idea is that you can measure — sort of — the financial benefit of some social media networks. And these three social media sites are chomping at the bit to prove themselves worth an investment, since they are expected to …read more

If twitter is good for anything, it’s great for getting people to come together and chat, discuss or support an identified cause. Think about the Iran events or just about any other major trending event topic you’ve seen on the network.

When you decide to promote an event and you want your supporters to be uniquely identified on the twitter social network you can use the Twibbon website to accomplish that goal.
The Twibbon website allows you to upload a simple little graphic that can then be over-layed on your twitter supporters own avatars. Think of the little ribbon magnets you see …read more

Twitter continues to gain momentum and more and more businesses are jumping on board. If you’re a business just getting started, do you trust your twitter presence to live or die by the actions of just one individual. Can’t you get a team involved? Yes!

My brother shares what he thinks about businesses using TweetFunnel to get involved in the twitterverse and in social media.
Many have referred to Twitter as the Wild West of the social media frontier. That label is sure to scare off a few businesses who are curious but leery of setting the staff loose on behalf of …read more

The NBA has a policy that states that players cannot use Twitter during games and 45 minutes before and after the contest. Brandon Jennings, the star rookie point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks, must have missed the memo.
After the Bucks beat the Portland Trail Blazers recently, Jennings (@YUNGBUCK3) said the following:
“Back to 500. Yess!!! “500″ means where doing good. Way to Play Hard Guys.”
For his Tweet, which came less than 45 minutes after the game, Jennings was fined $7,500 by the NBA. Following the fine, Jennings has threatened to delete his Twitter account.
“I’m bout to delete my twitter. Twitter cost …read more

Whether for business, for pleasure, or a little bit of both, it seems everyone is using social networking sites these days. Are you a big fan of Facebook or is Twitter more your thing? Which social networking site is your favorite?

In my professional opinion, NBA players should stay away from Twitter. It doesn’t serve them well. In fact, it doesn’t serve any professional athlete well.
While some athletes may use Twitter to connect with fans and offer up a bit of humor now and again, others use it to complain about their team, their limited playing time, and their gripes with head coaches. Larry Johnson pretty much lost his job with the Kansas City Chiefs because of what he wrote on his Twitter account page.
Here’s a little advice for those “Twittering” athletes: Don’t use Twitter to complain, it’s going to get  …read more

Sometimes when you’re trying to learn a new computer program or specific feature within a computer application, what you need is a step-by-step visual presentation of what’s happening in front of you.

Screenr does that, but takes it one step further and integrates that functionality with twitter. The integration allows you to quickly record a video describing something, and then immediately share it with your followers on twitter.
There are times when you just can’t get your point across in 140 characters. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then video has got to be worth millions right?
Screenr makes sharing …read more

So you got on twitter awhile back and you’ve gained yourself some followers. You tweet fairly regularly and interact with the twitterverse as much as possible. Have you ever really looked back and thought about what you’re saying?

You can use tweet cloud to get an idea of what you’re talking about on a regular basis. You just visit the website, let it authorize your twitter account using the twitter authorization procedures and it will surf through your past tweets and create a tag cloud of the words you’ve used most often.
You can decide how far back you want the …read more

There are plenty of different tools out there to help you get more out of Twitter. From tracking details of your followers. It’s not hard to see what people are talking about on Twitter, but it can be hard to see how people are feeling about what’s being said in the Twitterverse.

Tweetfeel let’s you put in a search term and through the magic of some "insanely complex sentiment analysis" identifies the emotions. Let’s give it a try.
I did a search on "poverty", thinking that would be a good term that people might be talking about these days and have …read more