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TinyURL is down, or rather the url redirection has been. TinURL lets you shorten urls and many Twitter users make use of the service so they can post links and still keep their message under 140 chars. Tweetl is an alternative url shortening service aimed at Twitter users and naturally there is no shortage of alternatives. I own 3 or 4 domains that I plan on offering such services on myself! Need to get them bad boys setup!

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, TinyURL, Tweetl

Interesting Twitter feed to follow: Black Friday from Shopper’s Shop.

I know I’ve mentioned ioubeer but I never linked to it. Check out one of the cooler Twitter Bots Foamee. A bot’s a bot but Simplebits brings it’s design style to it and creates something that’s just fun.

via Nicki

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Bots, Foamee

Just a quick update: I’ve updated the theme here on Twitter Hacks so for those of you who visit the site you might want to refresh. The layout is based on the template I did for my personal blog (Chrispian.com) and will probably need some tweaking here and there.

From the Twitter blog:

Make your feelings known with plusplusbot. You can ++ (pronounced “plusplus”) or — (”minusminus”) anything. Think brownie points (but archived forever). Here’s how it works:

1. Make sure you have a Twitter account
2. Follow plusplusbot
3. If you love something add ++ after it like this:

coffee++ because it keeps me alert

You’ll get a confirmation message with coffee’s current score, and plusplusbot.com will update itself. (To indicate your displeasure, use — after a target name.)

Another cool Twitter bot indeed. Soon they’ll need to update the character limit just so I can ioubeer++ @someone +twnote an on an on ;)

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter PlusPlusBot, Twitter Bots

Here’s another cool twitter-er to follow from the Writer’s Write adn Bloggers Blog folks: Blog Tips. They really know how to work the whole Twitter angle.

Try to say that 3 times fast. Jesse has released a perl script that will let you auto-follow anyone who’s following you on Twitter. Pretty cool little tool. Seems there are more than a few requests to have Twitter automatically do this. Go grab the script.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Tools, Auto Follow, Perl, Net::Twitter

Not that I need a reason, but Spiderbait gives you 10 Reasons You Should Twitter.

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For all of you productivity people out there, like myself, you’ll like this hack.

Renjus posts Creating and receiving event reminders in Google Talk through twitter which is very easy way to setup reminders on the go. Since I have a Sidekick, I like the idea of using SMS and Twitter to update things like to do lists, calendars and reminders so this is right up my ally.

Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, GTalk, Reminders, GTD, Productivity

Just got a tip to a sweet little mashup idea - Tweet Mobile: Ask questions via Twitter and get real humans answer them. Tweet Mobile hooks you into Mosio, the source for the Q&A. Check out Mosio’s Tweet Mobile Q&A page to learn how to use the service (easy, just use Twitter!) or follow them on Twitter, of course.

Thanks Noel, who worked on the project for the tip!