The 100 most popular sites mashing up and remixing Twitter as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us.*
From the MoMB Lab
Not surprised at the top 10, although I thought Twhirl would have been higher.
Should keep Twitter fans busy for a while 
–oOo–
Follow me on Twitter - Nikki Pilkington on Twitter
Twitter is the latest in instant micro-blogging tools that keeps your friends, family, colleagues, strangers or customers updated on your current status.
Following on from our Twitter Glossary Part 1 and Part 2, and Part 3, here’s part 4!
TWITTERHOLIC: An updated Top 100 of the most frequent Twitterers
TWITTERIFIC (1): Use Twitter like an Instant Messaging service on Apple Macs
(2): Acknowledging that someone’s tweet was special
TWITTERING: Sending Tweets or Twitter Messages
TWITTERLINKR: A service that collects the best weblinks posted on Twitter
TWITTERLOCAL: An application that helps you find local Twitterers.
Gaebler Ventures today points out that there are a few venture capitalists using Twitter to find new ventures.
The list he features only includes US VC’s - but how long will it be before UK VC’s are seeing the value and jumping on the Twitter bandwagon?
For them Twitter is ideal as it allows them to look through micro-proposals and see which ones they want to look at more indepth. For businesses loking for capital it is ideal as you need to really focus your business message to get it across in 140 characters!
A fantastic post on PCMech by David Risley recently - Twitter: The user manual you can’t find
Personally I’d give him a link just for this carton:
However, just so I don’t look really shallow, I noticed that he’d written a fantastic post on how to use Twitter.
Headings include:
Like many people that hear of Twitter, at first Andrew thought of it as a waste of time, and wondered what all the fuss was about.
But, give him his due, he signed up and gave it a go, wanting to (in his words) ‘walk the talk’.
His blog today shows that 6 months on, he’s certainly glad he did!
He says:
Great article from David Lee King here about Twitter best practices and how to NOT seem like a complete newbie!
A lot of it is plain common sense, but in easy to read bullet points and with clear explanations.
Rather than rewrite the whole thing, I’ll put his basic bullet points below and you can read the full article on his site. He’s taken the time to write it - he deserves the traffic!
Twitter Best Practices:
1. Have a bio.
2. Extra links in your bio.
3. Spell check your bio text.
For those that say Twitter is a waste of time, has no value and will never be useful, I give you….. Twitterlearn!
They say:
Each of the series are linked to our podcasts and the content being tested in the regular quizzes is based on the content of our podcasts. In most cases the quiz will feature a phrase or series of words to be translated into the foreign language. By clicking on the link published with each ‘tweet’ you will be able to check your answer on the website.
Channel 4 reality TV show Big Brother has started it’s own Twitter feed.
If you want to catch up with the latest BB9 news, you can follow the official Tweets at http://twitter.com/officialbb9
The official notice is here.
Not quite as exciting (I can’t promise topless frolics in the BB hot-tub, or inane utterings in the diary chair) but you can follow me at http://www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington
A great way to see what’s hot and being talked about on Twitter right now.
Currently hot trends seem to be ‘tornado warning sirens’, ‘coldplay’ and ‘jaerd subway’. (Hey, I don’t try to explain it, I just tell you about it!)
In their own words:
Twitscoop was built to help you stay on top of twitter’s hot topics or discussions.
Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter, the bigger (no joke here).
If you do business online, the chances are that somewhere someone is talking about you. It could be good, it could be bad, but it’s important to your business reputation either way that you know what they’re saying and where they’re saying it.
And these days it’s Twitter that could make or break your reputation!
I Twittered about a problem I was having signing up to Twine, and some people respoded to me, letting me know they were having the same problems.
Within 24 hours someone from Twine had emailed me to help resolve my problems.
