Business on Twitter

A quick round up of morning Twitter news

Matthom got so fed up waiting for Twitter to create an archive facility that he created his own - you can read more about it on his blog. He says:

Rather than updating Twitter directly, I will update via a custom app which copies each update into a local database, as well as updating on Twitter. To my followers, nothing changes. My updates still come across in real-time as they are sent.

He still hasn’t figured out how to get his old Tweets back, but we have no doubt he’s working on it!

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!