Twitter Feed allows you to post any rss feed, including blog posts, to your Twitter account (the first 140 characters only, of course). It even puts in a tiny url for you. Very useful. I use it to post from polizeros and from my Google Reader Shared items.
Tweet Scan is another real-time Twitter search engine. You can get updates from it via email and rss too.
Highly useful! (And yes, I heard about this on Twitter.)
With GroupTweet, you can “send private Twitter messages to specific groups of friends,” a highly useful feature.
Just got a new cell phone, an AT&T LG, which handles text and email much better than my old Motorola V557.
Have discovered that Flickr and YouTube will take uploads from a cell phone, allowing uploads of photos and videos from the cell to the website. Nice. (BTW, Flickr now accepts videos up to 90 seconds.)
Unlimited texting and internet is $35 a month, not a bad price. This will probably be a transitional phone until I either get an iPhone or a Crackberry. :->
At first I thought, why do I need this? Then I did. Someone called and we sent up an appointment, but I wasn’t near a computer to record the appointment in Google Calendar. Now, using Twitter and Twittercal, I can do it on my cell phone.
Setting it up is easy/ On Twitter, follow GCal. Then go to Twittercal and enter your Twitter name and Google email address. To add an event to the calendar, send a direct message to GCal, like “d gcal tomorrow 12:30pm lunch with John.” That’s it!
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch had no Comcast service. After many hours of it being down, he twittered about it.
And then I lost my cool, tearing into Comcast on Twitter. Jeff Jarvis and others picked up the story and blogged about it.
And this brings me to the point of this post. Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help.
He said he monitors Twitter and blogs to get an understanding of what people are saying about Comcast, and so he saw the discussion break out around my messages.
Sure, Arrington is a tech heavy and maybe others of us would not have gotten such as fast response. But still, Comcast was smart, and took a potentially damaging incident and turned it into good PR. All because they Twitter.
Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.
It checks all the people you follow and who they follow, ranking new names by the numbers of people following them. Then you can choose to follow them, if you want. Nice.
Just got a new cell, the ATT LG. It handles being online way better than the old one, a Motorola V557. So now, with the unlimited texting option, I’m using it to follow Twitter, which is fast becoming one of my favorite net tools. Things often pop up on Twitter before they appear on blogs and websites. Right now, it’s mostly early adopter geeks, but could easily go at least semi-mainstream.
Using TwitterFeed, I can pipe blog posts from my main blog, Politics in the Zeros as well as Google Reader Shared Items to Twitter (first 120 characters only)
I’m polizeros on Twitter.
I’m having fun with Twitter, it’s the first social networking tool that I genuinely like and that isn’t kludgy.
I use Twhirl as my client and now feed posts from my main blog, Politics in the Zeros, to Twitter with Twitterfeed. Wheee.
