Twitter Lover

With regard to the need for backup twitter, My previous article already mentioned, and now to log in twitter page directly is more and more difficult in china, and even turning the great fire wall. The use of the client is prone to throw to push the phenomenon, so, the backup becomes even more important.



Backup twitter with RSS Reader is the most simple and effective way, and directly to the twitter address (if http://twitter.com/wangyueblog) thrown into the reader, you can push himself issued a non-leak the preservation of down, of course, if you are so chatter, then your reader is not reading it will be considerable.

However, this method can only subscribe to push issued, if you want to push the Friends of @ reply and retweet for all subscriptions, you can subscribe to search results approach. In the twitter search up your own user name, and then address can subscribe by reader.

If pushed very difficult, you can refer to this address http://search.twitter.com/search?q = wangyueblog (will wangyueblog into your own twitter user name).

Mentioned above, using subscribe to search results the way to back up twitter, In fact, this method also can have more uses.

The most widely used is the access to information, twitter voluminous information on each time to search is not only cumbersome but also over the mountains. Why not be the information you need to search results directly to do with the RSS reader Subscribe?

For example, I need to get twitter on about "WordPress theme" in the article, then the search results http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wordpress+theme can subscribe by reader.

And so on, Google's search results can also subscribe by reader.

Warning: Do not do too much, too many subscribe to search results could cause readers flooded with spam messages.

update: If your reader supports user name and password, you can http:// [username]: [password] @ twitter.com / statuses / replies / [username]. rss format subscription twitter @ reply.
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DO you think this china boy looks like Shin Chan?Yes,91.1%
match!This interesting picture comes from twinsornot.In this area,you can add yours' or your friends' photos and then vote to another.



TwinsOrNot was built so anybody can make humorous observations regarding the physical likeness between themselves, their friends, famous people, cartoon characters, politicians and even objects. Simply upload your two separate images to TwinsOrNot.com and let the community decide! Discuss who looks like and who doesn't using our comments page.

Are they Twins?
Users are welcomed to vote on other people's uploaded images. Votes will be counted and a match percentage will indicate how many people agree with your observation.
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If you use Twitter, you must know how valuable sometimes the links we're sharing, and how hard it is to find them later on (especially because of Twitter search limitations). With Tweecious this scenario is bygone! Tweecious is a Firefox addon that scans your tweets and automatically saves them into your Delicious account. The best part, you don't have to do nothing. Just download the plugin, and make sure you logged into both Twitter & Delicious. After the download, go to this page and click enabled. Tweecious can also retroactively scan 100 of your latest tweets, and save the links you've submitted in them (you can choose to save the links in public or private mode).

In addition, you'll be able to see the related tweets in the description of the URLs, in your delicious:
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TweetThisText is brought to you by the crew at Happy Stapler. We like to find opportunities and build solutions. TweetThisText is another of those solutions.
We're on twitter most of the time. We noticed that we'd really like to be able to quote text from webpages without having to shorten a link and say something like "It's in the second para fr the bottom third sentence in."

We code and we design. We saw all the pieces and decided to bring them all together, staple them if you will, and make a new thing from the parts. It makes us happy to do this stuff.
If you already made your bookmarklet, highlight the text below and click your new bookmark to give it a test run.
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More revenue for Twitter on the way: The company confirms -- for the first time we've seen, at least -- age-old theories that they'll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using Twitter.

In exchange for a fee, companies could get "more features" on Twitter, the WSJ reports. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tells the WSJ that the company recently hired a product manager to help develop those accounts, but doesn't specify what the extra features will be or when the accounts will launch.

This makes perfect sense. There's a lot of stuff companies would pay Twitter for, such as a way to verify the company rep's legitimacy; to more analytics and information about who is reading their Twitter page; to better tracking features to see what people are saying about their company.

What would you pay for an account like this? We could see a lot of companies paying $10 or $20 a month for the service, even for simple tools. But we could also see many companies -- Comcast, JetBlue, Starbucks, etc. -- paying more than one hundred dollars per month for really good, insightful tools.
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Twitter is a popular micro-blog website, has been in a free stage before, while the website itself does not advertisement, which makes
Twitter has become the biggest profit problem. Twitter has reported that before the introduction of charges will be versions of "Pro" account, but Twitter
Did not confirm that today the Wall Street Journal reported that, Twitter has confirmed that version of the upcoming major account charges.

TechCrunch UK quoted before, according to Marketing magazine, Twitter's Biz Stone, co-founder of the open
Intention to stand for some through Twitter to engage in commercial activities or profit-making user fees, for the general user will continue to provide interest-free
Service charges.


Biz Stone, said many companies have found Twitter account and start to use Twitter to communicate with clients, Twitter at play
My access platform in the region apart from these enterprises would then be able to collect charges as appropriate.


Today there are very many companies opened a Twitter account, and many companies have abandoned the way to switch to MSN customer service provided by Twitter
Customer Service.


One of the most prominent examples among Dell. It is reported that Dell alone at the end of last year's Christmas holiday shopping period, we use
Twitter won the one million U.S. dollars of income, it can say that the results are striking. Although it is impossible to access and traditional revenue figures and references
Theory, but also confirms the value of Twitter with the commercial.
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Twitter was built to help thousands of people answer a very simple question: "What are you doing ?"
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).


You can input a twitter username or keywords in the search box to track a conversation, topic or conference. The results will auto-refresh every 20 seconds.

You can also add a a twitscoop widget to your blog easily.
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Twitter, that ubiquitous little collection of emotional grunts and other 140 character ramblings, is turning 3 years old today at 1:02 PM California time. Founding CEO Jack Dorsey Twittered earlier today linking back to one of the first Twitter messages, which read “inviting coworkers.”

The news about Twitter didn’t break until July 2006, when it was called twttr . I love reading our first post on the service, which I described as “a sort of “group send” SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends.” I gave it a thumbs up for “for innovation and good execution on a simple but viral idea” but questioned why Odeo, a podcasting company, was wasting time on side projects. The comments to that post are pretty entertaining as well. See what my friend Om Malik had to say about them that day as well.

Fast forward to today and you have a startup that survived serious scaling issues and is getting serious mainstream attention. Facebook is obsessed with the young company, as are many others. Happy Birthday, Twttr.
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Epenis is a very interesting twitter tools ,the difference between other twitter tools is,Epenis is testing your twitter e-Penis' length.

Only need to enter your twitter username, epenis will in accordance with your follower quantity, tweet and retweet quantity to calculate the quantity of you epenis length, the following are the length of my twitter.



You can test your friend's twitter epenis length easyily.
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Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a Twitter client specially designed for Gmail.

Feature List

OAuth authentication, your Twitter account password is not required.

• Supports multiple Twitter accounts
  
• Mark all as read(like Google Reader)
  
• Gmail look and feel
  
• TODO:
  
• Share tweets with friends
  
• Locality tweets
  

I have introduced a Twitter Style Blogger Template,today is a twitter style wordpress theme.

Twitter Theme, also known as Always Twitting another name AT4US, a WordPress 2.7 Supporting the Twitter Like subject. Settings page in the subject of a number of easy operation, you can make your Blog and your Twitter Very similar pages. Characteristics: Custom comment author's default Gravatar image (required wp-admin/options-discussion.php enabled) shortcut management (Blog Front Desk) automatically to the background color to distinguish Blog Author Comments and general comments Show comments (Comments) and Trackbacks / Pingbacks.

Supported functionality about WordPress 2.7：

• Comment threading
  
• Comments Paging
  
• Sticky Posts
  

Supported Plugins：

• WP 2.3 Related Posts 
  
• WP-PageNavi 
  
• WP-PostViews 
  
• Clean Archives Reloaded 
  
• Get Recent Comments 
  
• Subscribe To Comments 
  

 Twitter Theme download：

 http://code.google.com/p/dupola/downloads/list

We’re all waiting to see the business model Twitter will roll out and, putting 2 and 2 together, it looks like sidebar ads will be the first to arrive.

Sneaking into the sidebar of Twitter’s homepage are what appear to be small text ads like this:

Right now the "ads" point back to various Twitter pages, but I suspect the micro-blogging service is softening us up for the launch of targeted advertising.

Have you seen the ads? What are you thoughts on Twitter adding text ads to your homepage?

May be, I said maybe, you want to give you Pay up at twitter friends, then you through paypal or credit card required to Implementation。

However,twitpay the emergence of changed everything.



twitpay you are a let up in the twitter paid directly to the Friend of the instrument.

All you need is a Twitter account. Update your status on Twitter to pay somebody. If you fill in the text boxes above and click on Tweet we'll show you how it's done.

Twitpay payments are handled by Amazon Payments, so your money only goes where you want it to.
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Have a blog? How about add a twitter button on your blog,so that your blog reader can follow your treeting easily.

Twitterbuttons is your free Source for Twitter.Follow me on twitter via button below.

Do you want to get an elaborate and beautiful twitter background,Maybe it's got a photo and some contact information on the side, or maybe it just frames the main text field in some creative way. When you want to make your own, though, how do you work around the layout and get the spacing right? That's where Free Twitter Designer comes in.


Now you can personalize your Twitter background like never before. The tool below will help you create Twitter backgrounds that have the same look and feel as those done by professional graphic designers. It's easy to use, and best of all, it's Free! Give it a try!

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Twitter is a very good tool to communicate, it is convenient to use a variety of ways and to communicate with their friends, but also have trouble using Twitter is that Follow your people too much, you do not know Should Follow Back, because of Twitter itself does not provide bulk Followers management functions, and thus to first determine whether it is worth people Follow the Follow Back very troublesome. Today the introduction Tweetsum can solve this trouble, Tweetsum slogan is "Digest your followers", that is to digest your Folowers. Use Tweetsum, at a page you can put my Followers above and Following, convenient to carry out or Unfollow etc. Follow Back.

Use Tweetsum need to use the Twitter user name and password, for the landing after the above interface, the left one as recently Follow your users are between a user Follow yourself, Follow the right side are the people you do not want to, you can put the first column and the second column do not like people go into the third column. All of the Twitter user's information next to a percentile, which is calculated Tweetsum a Twitter user's DBI (Douche Bag Index), the higher the score, the more people that make this person (annoying), personal understanding of the users are more active :)

Twitter user name click the question mark to view this user's basic information, Follow quantity and quantity, etc. Follow. You can from these basic information to determine whether people recognize this, such as whether or not Follow Back.
Video Introduction:
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I have introduced 12 Free Twitter Bird Iconsbefore，but this time I would like to introduce is free fat twitters icon.


Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch). Both icons come in five sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64 and 32x32. And again, they are totally free.

Download icon pack (350 KB)
via
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Twe2 is Free Twitter SMS alerts in Europe and beyond. We don't charge you to receive an SMS, Twe2 is Totally Free.

Twe2 can:
Twe2 is absolutely FREE.
get your Direct Messages by SMS.
get your @Replies by SMS.
get search and interesting stuff via SMS.

Currently its support for the European region, but you can also try for your place.
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Groups is important for twitter users, For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on.

Twitter does not provide any group feature, but there are many different ways Twitter members can create virtual groups.




TweetWorks-a great third party service to creat twitter group.Tweetworks is based on the simple premise that people like to talk about stuff with other people. And it is the stuff (ideas, questions, politics, sports, arts and so on) that brings people together and around which they form community.

TwitTangle-twitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. It allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you.

GroupTweet-GroupTweet allows Malcolm and the gang to send messages via Twitter that are instantly broadcasted privately to only the team members.

TwitTag -Twitag is a #tag finder for Twitter. twitag's goal is to facilitate and organize the most recent content tagged by users.

Filttr-A new service that provides the ability to establish groups according to filters (hence its name) that you apply to your own Twitter stream. You create your groups by simply clicking each name you want to add to that group.

TweetDeck-TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

twhirl-twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Have another method to tell us about? Let us know more in the comments.

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And you thought the days of raising money without a business model were over.
Twitter has landed a reported $35 million in additional venture funding, despite the fact it still lacks a business model. The funding values the company at $250 million, according to news reports.

On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.



n September 2008, a group of Twitterers based in London UK decided to organise an event where the local Twitter community could socialize offline; meet the faces behind the avatars, enjoy some entertainment, have a few drinks and tie this in with a food drive and fundraising effort for a local homeless charity.

In addition to collecting contributions online, Twestival events are using various methods to raise money for charity: water. Some are selling tickets, while others will have free admission and raffle off donated items. Ms. Rose also set up a streaming music site, called Twestival.fm to generate additional donations. Music fans can leave a donation in exchange for listening to songs donated by musicians like the experimental pop chanteuse Imogen Heap, the indie rockers Bloc Party and a Brazilian electro-outfit, Bonde do Role.
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This week, there’s been a flurry of news about Twitter’s business plans. Okay, so Twitter’s business plans have been the subject of news for months.


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However, it's important to note that whatever we come up with, Twitter will remain free to use by everyone—individuals, companies, celebrities, etc. What we're thinking about is adding value in places where we are already seeing traction, not imposing fees on existing services. We are still very early in the idea stage and we don't have anything to share just yet despite a recent surge in speculation. When we do, we'll be sure to let you know.

It is not the first time that twitter goes down.That's another reason why we need to backup for our twitter.



As of 11:19 AM CET, Twitter is down for the count,and it’s back (12:08 AM CET). Nearly an hour without tweeting; go catch up now.


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Perhaps you’ve sent thousands of tweets each month or year，your tweets, retweets and friends' data is very valuable,but twitter does not provide data backup service.Therefore, it is time for using a third-party data backup service.



Well, a cool new service called TweetBackup lets you backup your Twitter account and export it as a HTML file, via RSS, or in plain text.All your posts and a list with your friends will be included in the backup.

Signing up is free, and you don’t need to supply your Twitter password or anything.So, it is safe.The only thing you need to do is follow @tweetbackup on Twitter for the service to work.
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I have introduced Tweetube help us to share videos on twitter easily,but if you want to share photos on Twitter,twitpic is a nice website.




Awkward Introduction from Noah Everett on Vimeo.

You may post pictures via an iPhone or other mobile device by emailing a picture to a twitpic email address you are assigned. The caption of your picture, which you put in the subject of your email, will accompany a link to the picture in your twitter post.

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@reply is a great twitter feature,so that we can easily reply to friends tweets.However, since Twitter doesn’t show up all the replies near the orignal tweets, it's not convenient for user to check. Now, if you are a Wordpress blog owner, you are in luck.A China's well-known blogger named Denis develop a wordpress plugin - Thread Twitter to solve this problem.



Thread Twitter plugin shows twitter posts as a thread.Thread Twitter can fetch 3 kinds of message:

Message you send to Twitter.
The reply from follower.
Your orginal reply, and recursion until no further replies.

Do you know how useful, funny or lousy about your tweets? Let Tweeterate tell you.



Tweeterate is a comfortable twitter frontend, where you can rate the tweets of your friends as useful, funny or lousy. Every useful or funny rating counts for the overall useful/funny charts.

Tweeterat has the following functions:

Rate tweets of your friends useful, funny or lousy
See a toplist of your most annoying friends
See how others rated you
Easily hide annoying friends from your timeline
Easily unfollow friends when "enough is enough"
Get a comfortable twitter frontend (e.g. show original text of replied tweets)

Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest 'tweets' of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.



For popular trends, Twitter is queried from the Twitterfall server, and results are pushed to your browser, rather than your browser doing the queries, or your computer polling our server repeatedly. This means using Twitterfall for popular trends is nicer on Twitter than other services.

You can toggle trends on the left, selecting or deselecting as many as you like by simply clicking on them. The list of trends are updated every few minutes right in the page (if you are looking at a trend that is no longer popular, you will receive a message in the stream).

You can also type in custom search queries yourself, and select or deselect these as much as you like by clicking on them. These custom search queries can also be refined by location by using the Geolocation panel (in beta).

You can also view your timeline, as you would normally see it in Twitter. This allows you to follow all of your friends while still using our service. This can be done by logging in on the left and then selecting "Show my Timeline".

Enjoy it.
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Tweetube give us a easy way to share videos on Twitter.Once you share your favorite videos quickly with short URLs. Tweetube let you track the visits and comments from the people that follow you on Twitter.



TweeTube was started in early 2009, by Marcio Castilho and Alin Irimie, after identifying a need for an easy way to share YouTube videos among your Twitter followers. This has been sponsored by RADSense Software, a Ruby on Rails consulting company based in Tampa, FL. You can find more information about the company at http://www.radsense.com
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Like Twitter？How about a twitter style template for blogger.com.This blogger template,which named as Twitter and design by GoogleBoy,probably you have not seen before. 2 columns xml template and very colorful,for the ones who wants to be unique.Hope you like it.



Twitter Blogger Template Preview and Download Link ;

Download | Live Demo
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What is twitter?Do you konw twitter's history,let Wikipedia tell you.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications such as TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and Twidget, a widget application. Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, and a United Kingdom-based number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email. By September 2008, Twitter had 'well over 5 million visitors.'

Twitter messages may be tagged using hashtags, a word or phrase prefixed with a #, such as #beer.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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How much time do you spend on Twitter?Let tweetwasters tell you.

My twitter has 131 total tweets and assuming they spent an average of 30 seconds per tweet they've spent 3,930 Seconds or 66 Minutes or 1.09 Hours or 0.05 Days using Twitter!

Thanks to those outstanding designers, to bring us so many lovely twitter bird icons. Take a look at the following 12 sets of the lovely Twitter bird icons.
Free Twitter Bird Icons


Via:http://www.productivedreams.com/free-twitter-bird-icon-set/

cute icons, A total of 6, (360 × 360 high-quality transparent PNGs). Could be used in personal and commercial projects for free.
Twitter Birds Icons


http://wefunction.com/2008/07/freebie-twitter-icons-illustration/
by Pasquale D’Silva
3 Twitter birds, PNT format with 345 x 345 pixels, 48 x 48 pixel icon.
Flying Twitter Birds


http://www.flickr.com/photos/fortrel/2034452099/
by Alexandre Lemieux
A simple Twitter bird icon.

http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/twitter-bird-5-63.html
by IconTexto
PNG format images, icon size 256 × 256 px, 128 × 128 px, 64 × 64 px, 48 × 48 px, and 32 × 32 px. Free of charge but non-commercial use.

Feed & Twitter Monster Bird Icon


http://fasticon.com/freeware/index.php/feed_twitter/
By:Dirceu Veiga
A monster bird Twitter icon,sizes from 16 x 16px to 512 x 512px pixels. For free used, if for commercial projects, need to purchase commercial license.
Practika Twitter Bird Icons


http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/23/practika-a-free-icon-set/
by DryIcons
Containing 64 × 64px, 128 × 128px and 256 × 256px, 32 bit transparent PNG.

Free Twitter Buttons


http://siahdesign.com/archives/150
by siahdesign.com
42 Twitter button images, including GIF and PNG picture background transparent format.

High-quality Twitter Bird Icons


http://thedesignsuperhero.com/2008/10/free-psds-give-away-high-resolution-twitter-bird-icons/
by Aravind Ajith
Including PNG and PSD version (256px, 128 px and 64 px). Can use free of charge, but requires the use of the copyright statement.

http://randaclay.com/freebies/free-twitter-graphics/
by Randa Clay
tips from here.

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TwiBadge is a Wordpress plugin,which can add your twitter updates to blog Sidebar .Like the picture below.


TwiBadge in a widget format that resides on your Wordpress blog sidebar. It displays all your Tweets and replies, basically what you see on twitter.com/home. TwiBadge also comes with a follow button that allow any interested visitors to easily add themselves as followers.The plugin currently supports Wordpress 2.7, running on PHP5 only. I sure hope the developer will start catering for the lower versions as not everyone is running 2.7 yet, as far as I know. Looking at how Twitter, the mini-blogging web service has been strongly influencing the social network and blogosphere, any tools and services that can potentially help increase Twitter followers is definitely worth knowing and checking out.

TwiBadge is available for download here.