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Twitter, explained
Another slice of Common Craft genius.
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Thanks to Paul for the link – via Twitter, of course!
TwitterNotes
TwitterNotes lets you post yourself notes using Twitter, just by prefixing the note with a ‘+’.
Dead easy, and great from a mobile phone. There is even a mechanism for making private notes, and tagging them using the hashtags convention.
Find a Tweet
I wondered what would happen if I included every public Twitter profile in a customised Google search. The result was a pretty cool way of finding what people are saying on Twitter on a certain topic.
You can have a go yourself at Find a Tweet.
One drawback is that it relies on the Google cache, so isn’t up to the minute accurate. But if you are looking for something you know someone said a little while back, you should be able to track it down.
World of Twitter
One of the great things about Twitter is the community that comes with it. Not just the community in terms of the people you follow, and who follow you, but also the network of people working to make Twitter more useful, or just more interesting.
Much of this is because of the API Twitter has released, making it dead easy for hackers to build stuff around the service. There is also a community run wiki gathering resources together, as well as a Google Group mailing list.
So what are some of the projects that are built around Twitter? Try these for size:
- TwitDir – a Twitter directory
- Twittervision – see tweets on a map as they are posted
- Twitterverse – monitoring the Twitter zeitgeist
- Twitterholic – find out who the top tweeter is right now!
- Twittermap – publish your location on a Google Map via Twitter
- Twittergram – post short audio files via Twitter
Have you got any favourites?