From Rob Cottingham - see the full post here
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Another pointless but funny measure of your Tweets.
They say:
Twitemperature is a gauge telling you whether you’re hot or cold on today’s topics of concern.
Twitemperature ignores meaningless points of measure like number of followers and number of people you are following, and instead focuses on what you’re actually saying, now. We poll your last several hundred tweets and score what you’re saying against what everyone else is saying in current hot conversations on Twitter and elsewhere.
Read more here
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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”.
Read more here –>
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A great article by Shannon Whitley:
Extract:
Although I can easily think of several individuals I’d like to place on this list, I figured it would be too mean to actually call them out by name (and possibly result in a libel suit). So the list below contains ten archetypes that I’ve noticed on Twitter. I’m sure there are many others, so feel free to add your own in the comments section.
1) The Pimp - The pimp is always looking for avenues of self-promotion. If almost every tweet is a reference to a blog post and even conversations end in links to posts, you’re following The Pimp.
Shaquille O’Neal had a problem. An Internet impostor using his name was sending messages to unsuspecting Shaq fans. So O’Neal did what any sensible, 7-foot-1, muscle-bound mammoth would do. He started tweeting.
Read more at - The Real O’Neal Puts His Cyber Foot Down
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Apparently mine (NikkiPilkington) is worth $507 - to whom, I wonder? 
According to TweetValue - I have a long way to go to match Chris Brogan, who is worth over $8000.
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Alex Iskold tells us 5 things to do on Twitter when we’re bored, and then explains what’s so good about them all.
- Calculate your Twitter score
- Typecast yourself and your friends
- Play ego wars
- Use Twitter to meet new people
- Push the limits of Twitter and your brain
To see the original article, and to find out more about these 5 things click here
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Get a Twittermail email address by entering your Twitter username and password, send emails to your twitter address and they post automatically to Twitter!
Get your Twittermail address here
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The Twitter Grade measures the relative power of a Twitter user. It is calculated as a percentile score. Our grade of 88 means that we score higher than 88 percent of the other user profiles that have been graded.
Your grade is calculated using a combination of factors including:
* The number of followers you have
* The power of this network of followers
* The pace of your updates
* The completeness of your profile
* …a few others.
What’s your Twitter grade? Tweet us and let us know - http://www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington
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Loving this cartoon today from Rob Cottingham of Noise to Signal:
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