TrafficTweet – realtime traffic reports via Twitter
TrafficTweet accumulates traffic updates from fellow Twitterers Use TrafficTweet to view the latest traffic accidents, lane closures, and other alerts on an interactive map. Zoom in and out around the map to get a closer look.

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TrendsMap is a slick application allowing you to see trends in realtime come and go on a map that you control. You can do the normal zoom in and out to see trends in specific areas. You can only view in so many times, basically to a nice city type view. There is a world view, region, and city view with a simple click. Otherwise you can navigate...
In the span of one up-and-down week, Twitter lost one of their most influential teen Twitterers in Miley Cyrus , and then almost immediately found new life in the tween market with the launch of the Twilight Twitter account . It may sound silly, but these 140 character pop culture dramas do matter to Twitter, because their US traffic is flat ,...
Hitwise has published over the last days three posts with interesting information on traffic to the Twitter website. They analysed traffic to twitter.com in three countries : UK, USA and Australia. Let’s start with the UK .
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As we move closer and closer to The Twitter Conference in Los Angeles, we’re going to start digging in to the content from our Mountain View event. First on the list is our opening keynote, given by Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, Inc: The Business Value of Twitter.
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Alex Payne Keynote from 140tc Mountain View: The Business...
TweetChat is a unique approach to hashtag searches and conversations. After using oAuth to log in, you search for or select a hashtag to view the current tweets around. This puts you into a channel with only information about that hashtag showing up. This is important to pull yourself out of the river of Twitter and into a nice bubbling brook...
Facebook’s on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed , one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world’s largest social network to boost their social technology, specifically realtime streams, conversations, social media...
Compete has released on its blog some figures concerning Twitter usage in the US.
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Will provide an update when we have more information.
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I ran across Lu.ly quite by accident from a posting on what seemed to be a French blog that was linked. What I found was a browser extension that places an action bar to view the stream and even tweet. You can also shorten URL’s using the Lu.ly domain name and get Facebook updates. Basically a more limited client but acts like a...
Ben & Jerry’s has never been one to follow the status quo when it comes to their ice cream flavors or their social media marketing tactics. Last month we flipped over their upside down status updates , but their latest move is making an even bigger social statement. The Vermont ice cream maker updated their Twitter account [ @cherrygarcia...
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