Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
By Stephen Bray
It’s half past six on a cold morning in Birmingham U.K. Professor Scott Lucas from the Department of American Studies at Birmingham University is already listening to the sonar like ping of Tweetdeck.
Lucas is, in addition to being a busy department head, and the author of a number of books and articles on U.S. Foreign Policy. He is also the Editor in Chief of ‘EA Worldview’, a blog that is regarded as seriously as any printed political journal.
A quick shout out to Killer Startups, who have given us links to yet another 5 Twitter apps:
TwitMessenger
TwitMessenger is another Twitter application that offers quite an interesting service. With this solution you will have the chance to schedule your tweets. In this way you will be allowed to program them so they come out whenever you want, no matter the hour, day, month, or year.
To read more about TwitMessenger click here
ChessTweets
I’ve been a fan of Killer Startups for a while – the premise is that they add 15+ startup sites a day and allow users to vote on them. Unfortunately not as many people as could be are voting, and it seems that there are lots of (ahem) Killer Startups missing out on publicity, so if you could take the time to pop over and have a nose around, I’m sure it would be appreciated!
As this is a blog about Twitter, I’m only going to feature recent Twitter related posts on there, but there are others that are well worth a look too!
@NikkiPilkington" href="http://twittercounter.com/?username=NikkiPilkington">@NikkiPilkington" width="88" height="26" /> Funky little service that allows you to monitor the growth (or not!) of ‘followers’ of your Tweets.
The more followers you have, the more people will see your messages, and the higher the likelihood of them being ‘re-tweeted’ and passed around.
In addition, if you really want to show off, you can add an icon to your blog or website that shows how many followers you have – probably not advisable if the number is less than ten 
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.
I'm happy to use Increase Sociability.