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PBWiki is hosting an interesting project for Twitter called the Twitter Pack Project which groups twitter users into “packs” based on interests, locations, companies, events and more. The idea is to help Twitter users find other Twitter users who share the same interests as they do. One thing Twitter lacks is finding people in any meaningful way other than people you already know or by randomly clicking on friends of friends, which isn’t bad, but not the easiest way to find people who might be into the same stuff you are. Twitter Pack looks like a solid effort of making it possible to connect with others with similar interests.

via Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Pack Project

MoodBlast is a cool little menu bar app that lets you “blast” your “mood”, or, just a quick blurb, update, link, whatever, to most of the popular social and microblogging platforms including facebook, skype, ichat, jaiku, twitter, and more.

I like the idea of being able to send my updates to all my favorite places and having a light weight app to do that with is even better. Most of the apps that try this tend to try to do to much. This one is perfect for quickly “blasting” an update.

Check out MoodBlast

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, MoodBlast

Lists are popular but it seems this week Twitter Lists are all the rage. LifeHack Writes: 5 Ways To Use Twitter For Good, plus one bonus use. This list focuses on the ways twitter connects people.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Help, Twitter Tips

Darren just posted 35 Twitter tips from 35 Twitter Users. Darren put out a call for tips and got 35 pretty solid tips. I don’t agree with all of them, but it’s a good read non the less.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Help, Twitter Tips

Darren from Problogger.net writes 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers. Darren lists 9 benefits he’s seen from using twitter, including using it as a Research Tool, Branding, and Promoting Content. I use Twitter in many of the same ways as Darren, though he’s way more popular than me so when he asks a question he’ll get 20 responses and I’ll get 1-ish. ;) I’m working on it!

As always, Darren ads insight to Twitter from the Bloggers perspective and obviously these 9 benefits and work for anyone writing or publishing content online. If you haven’t read it already, get going! 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers

via Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tips

Maki over at Dosh Dosh writes 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners. The tips are a bit down the page after some observations about Twitter, which are also pretty good. I use Twitter pretty frequently, obviously, and I’ve use it for almost all 17 ways Maki outlines in this post. Here’s a short snippet from the article:

I started using it actively and gradually developed an avid interest. I think Twitter is a manageable process that can be adopted for all types of lifestyles, busy or inactive. You’ll just need to integrate it within your normal workflow. It’s addictive but once you understand how to use it, it’ll be a very effective tool indeed.

Having read a great deal of other articles on Twitter, I decided a do a quick summary of all the ways you can use Twitter for both your professional or personal life. Some of these methods go beyond the use of Twitter as a lifestreaming device

Maki goes on to then list the 17 ways to use Twitter, including getting feedback, directing traffic, using it as a to do list, setting up meetings and several more. Make sure to read the full article.

I’ve grown to use twitter in my blogging. Several stories have broke their before they even hit the major blogs and networking with other bloggers has been fun and entertaining at times. Any interesting ways you’ve used Twitter?

via lifehacker

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tips

Duncan left this tip today:

We are also developing some cool twitter features at viygo.com.

e.g http://www.viygo.com/twitter shows the current public timeline.

or

http://www.viygo.com/twitter/goldman shows a goldman’s most recent posts.

You can also embed these timelines on your own site or web page e.g.

http://duncanmeech.googlepages.com/twitterembeddedtimelines

Duncan’s tools are a great mashup, and I love the granular level at which you can view the Twitter timeline, including your own. It’s pretty slick.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, Mashup, Timeline

MyTwitter allows users to display their Twitter status updates (tweets) on their Wordpress blog and update their status through the Options page. It includes customization options including number of tweets to display and formatting options. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.

I like this plugin for Wordpress that displays tweets on your blog more than some of the others because it allows you to select how many recent tweets to show. I had to hack a previous plugin to do that on my personal site. I’ll have to give this plugin a go. I’m curious if it auto-hyperlinks urls and @username links. That would be a nice feature if not.

Check out MyTwitter for yourself.

via

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Wordpress, Plugins, MyTwitter

Got a cool tip today:

Hi Guys, we just rolled out a new Twitter Stack flash widget. Check it out.

The Twitter Stack is a cool way to display twitter messages in a 3D Space on MySpace, Facebook, or any other website. The widget is built using the ActionScript 3.0 Stack component. The experience of using the widget is like traveling through time! Anyhow, check it out and let us know what you think. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to post it all over the internet!

Advanced Flash Components offers a variety of cool flash widgets that are worth having a look at.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Widget

Starling is at the core of what we do at Twitter; it moves small messages around to daemons that work on jobs like processing updates, delivering messages, archiving user accounts, and so forth. An asynchronous messaging solution is becoming a necessity for big web applications, and Starling fits the particular needs we have at Twitter. It’s fast, it’s stable, it speaks the memcache protocol so it doesn’t need a new client library, and it’s disk-backed for persistence. When other parts of the Twitter site go down, Starling stays up. It’s a champ, and we love it.

Until now, Starling has lived a sheltered life in the Twitter code base. We’re happy to announce that Starling is now open source and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and improve. We’re eager to see patches and to start a proper open source community around Starling.

Twitter has released part of the code that makes what they do possible. This is well beyond just giving people access to your API. I’ve speculated that Twitter would make a great platform model and maybe this is a step in that direction, or maybe by releasing this the open source community can build on and expand it’s features and everyone wins Whatever the case, this is an interesting move.

Via dev.twitter.com

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Code, Twitter Source, Starling