Business on Twitter

OK, I’m all for starting them young, but in the womb?

http://mashable.com/2008/12/14/baby-twitter/

Excerpt:

Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He created a waistband for his wife which sends a Tweet everytime the baby kicks, naming the project “Kickbee”.

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MORE TWITTIN’ SECRETS…

in the series of 100 Twitter Tips, visit:

• ===> Twittin Secrets #1-18 (part 1 at Google Base)
• ===> Twittin Secrets #19-36 (part 2 at Squidoo)
• ===> Twittin Secrets #37-55 (here at Google Knol)
• ===> Twittin Secret #56 (at PRweb)
• ===> Twittin Secret #56 (iPhone Mobile Version)
• ===> Twittin Secret #57
• ===> Twittin Secrets Tip #58-72 (live at Xanga)
• ===> Twittin Secrets #73-83 (coming)
• ===> Twittin Secrets #84-92 (live at HubPages)
• ===> Twittin Secrets #3-100+ (coming)
• ===> Twitter dhollings (Twittin’ Secrets Author)

The Twitter news is coming in fast and furiously - here’s our round up of the past few hours:

• Shamus echos my own sentiments on those twitter spammers - just exactly HOW do they get so many followers? I know some people will have accounts set to auto follow, but even so….

• Tweet2Win is a service that basically seems to want you to promote it for the chance to win prizes. On first glance it looks predominantly American, and I’m not sure I understand the point of it, but as loads of you have sent me the link I thought I should check it out!

Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:

To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere

Like this - tell people about 299 Steps to Website Heaven being FREE for one day by clicking this Twitter link

With a rapidly growing userbase, Twitter has had it’s share of stability problems, and some users are gettign annoyed by the Twitter ‘fail whale’ (the logo that is shown when twitter is having problems).

Not sure f the problems are at your end or twitter’s?

Is Twitter Down offers a simple solution - simply access their site and they’ll tell you in one word whether it is or not.

Geeky? Yes, but funny. What’s REALLY geeky is if you buy the t-shirt they’re selling (which I haven’t bought, oh no…)

Ten Ways to Make Your Twitter Life Better

The business world has already awakened to the power of Twitter as a promotional tool. This micro-blogging service has amazing potential to instantly provide customers with exclusive information, gain feedback and producing lightning fast market research.

Whether it’s for business or personal use, it’s fantastic to benefit from the best in Twitter technology. Here are my Top 10 ways for making your Twitter life easier.

1: TwitterFox is a useful little add-on for users of the Firefox browser. It appears as a tiny icon that instantly updates you on the Twitter status of friends. You can also use it to notify friends of your own current status.