1. Social Media
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2. Terrific Ten: Twitter
Seesmic Desktop
http://desktop.seesmic.com/
Get live updates from your friends on Twitter and
Facebook. Easily and quickly share links, pictures and video with your friends.
Group your social contacts into lists like family, co-workers, and best friends.
Supports multiple accounts. (Likely to replace Twhirl.)
TweetDeck
http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
TweetDeck connects your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more,
allowing you to manage all your Twitter accounts easily, with no need to
switch between accounts. Sync your TweetDeck columns to your iPhone and
across all your computers and use TweetDeck wherever you are. See what
your friends are talking about in a glance with local trends.
Twitpaper - Twitter Themes, Backgrounds, and Layouts
http://twitpaper.com/
Twitpaper is a decorative way to show off your personality to friends, family,
fans, and all that follow on Twitter. Twitpaper offers great Twitter themes,
Twitter backgrounds, and Twitter layouts.
TweetPhoto - Phtosharing Made Simple
http://www.tweetphoto.com/index.php
A competitor to TwitPic, the integrated photo sharing service on Twitter,
TweetPhoto is a free service combining a convenient and easy-to-use photo
sharing experience with helpful tools that are feature rich and user friendly.
Unlike the very popular TwitPic, this service incorporates a revenue program.
FileTwt - Share Files on Twitter
http://www.filetwt.com/
A Twitter application which allows Twitter users to upload a file and tweet
about it automatically to their Twitter account for free. FileTwt also allow
users to send file links as direct messages for sharing private files.
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3. Twitstr - Twitter Groups for Your Web Site
http://plasticmind.com/twitster
Twitster is a downloadable PHP application that lets you display on your own
Web site tweets from everyone you follow in Twitter. Twitster can also filter
those tweets by a #hashtag, thus giving you the ability to create a Twitter-
based group or community on your own site.
TBUZZ - Talk about any Webpage with Twitter Community
http://tbuzz.arc90.com/
TBUZZ bookmarklet is an easy way to talk about the Web pages you visit on
Twitter. TBUZZ makes it easy to tweet the page you're visiting or keep track
of the buzz around it.
Amplify - What You're Reading Right Now
http://amplify.com/
Amplify lets you show people exactly what you're reading and what you have
to say about it. Instantly share clips from articles, blog posts, or any other
reading material with your friends via Twitter.
TwitterFox
http://twitterfox.net/
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' tweets on
Twitter. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you
when your friends update their tweets. It also has a small text input field to
update your tweets.
bit.ly – Shorten, share, and track your links
http://bit.ly/
Bit.ly is a URL shortener (highly recommended tools for Twitter) which tracks
click-throughs for the specific links you share. Bit.ly also has the power to
track links in the aggregate; e.g., multiple Bit.ly URLs created by separate
users, but all leading back to the same URL, can be tracked and reported as
aggregated click-throughs. Bit.ly also tracks clicks over time, so you can see
when people are clicking your links most.
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