August 20th, 2009
This is a bit of a shocker. Facebook, who has seemingly been in a race to emulate many of Twitter’s features, just announced that it’s launching the ability for Facebook Page admins to simultaneously update both their Page and Twitter.  Read More →
August 14th, 2009
TweetMyGaming launched in June of this year with the goal of finding out what people are saying about games. A project from the folks at gaming social network gamerDNA (be sure to check out our recent feature on the subject), TweetMyGaming taps into the former’s existing database of game titles to aggregate tweets that mention games. A few recently-added features have turned TweetMyGaming into a sort of Tweetmeme for gaming as well as... 
August 13th, 2009
My Tweetopics is a free service that lets you discover the topics you tweet about based on your #tags and share them.  That about sums up what they have as a description on their homepage.  You log in via oAuth to utilize the service itself. Any topic of your tweet that you include a hashtag will allow you to create a channel on the site as well as provide embed code for your blog.  When you first log in it gives you a URL of your channel... 
August 13th, 2009
TweetBlocker goes after one Twitter spammer at a time by creating a Twitter blacklist.  You are able to immediately check any Twitter username without logging in by entering it into a simple box on the main page.  Top spammers are listed across the bottom.  The page itself is eye catching and done well with graphics of comic crime fighters. you can log in to get a personal spam report and they have a bookmarlet to quickly report spammers... 
August 11th, 2009
QuoteURL is a way to keep tweets grouped together that might not be in a threaded conversation.  Also it grabs them before they might get washed away but the tide of tweets over time. To grab a tweet you must get the individual status URL from the web itself and paste it into the site.  If you wish not to log in, you can grab up to 4 tweets.  If you decide to log in you can get up to 10.  This helps control the API limits that might be encountered... 
August 7th, 2009
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We’re working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were affected by defensive measures—there was some overcompensation on our part as we tune our system to deal with this scale of attack  Read More →
August 6th, 2009
Clickablenow has one catch, everyone needs to run this as a Firefox/IE/Flock  extension to get the benefit from the ability.  Once installed, the backgrounds of Twitter become a playground.  Any image you wish to make a clickable hotspot is possible.  Read More →
August 5th, 2009
Gamers tend to be by nature a sociable group.  Read More →
August 5th, 2009
TwitterFace looked promising when I first hit the page.  It offers the ability to brand your own client page and offer multiple account management across columns would be great for some users.  I viewed the example pages first and was ok with the look and feel.  Read More →
August 4th, 2009
TwitArea is a Firefox 3.0.11 or higher add-on to allow you to share locations quickly and easily.  These places are not necessarily where you are located, but could be you talking about a place in general, like a restaurant. The extension adds a new button to the web Twitter interface to find a place, by address, phone number or name, and then send a tweet containing a link, contact info, location and even votes and comments from other users.... 
August 3rd, 2009
TweetMojo is the latest service to hit the scene that provides Twitter users with the ability to share videos, photos, and documents via the site. While this might not be new to you, Tweetmojo has plans to “be able to broadcast exactly what your doing in real time via a live webcam stream as tweets!”  Sounds like a move into Twitcam ’s space. Tweetmojo also have the ability to expand your tweet, or make it long through the... 
July 27th, 2009
ScreenTweet allows you to take most any video type and send it as a tweet link.  Videos, screenshots, photos and images is what you would expect.  But they also mention YouTube, Hulu and IgniteCast. Before signing in, there is a public feed showing you the most recent postings using the service so you get an idea of what everyone is sharing.  You can retweet any video type you are looking at and they follow the Hulu style letting you dim... 
July 24th, 2009
TwitPay.me hooks Paypal and Twitter together allowing you to send payments to someone by simply sending a tweet.  Scary isn’t it?  Ok so it really doesn’t force the payment immediately, but makes a promise and helps broker the transaction. Sending a transaction via Twitter follows a specific format,  Feel free to sign up and send me a whole bunch of tespayments. @IdoNotes twitpay $5 for great podcasts and EverythingTwitter Twitpay... 
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