twitter

mentionmap is a notable tool that attempts to organize the endless seeming string of twitter micro-messages. read the full post here.

“the tool allows you to visualize your twitter network in real-time, showing which people are interacting the most, and thus alerting you to topics and conversations generating heat among the people you’re interested in hearing from. the tool crunches all the people and hashtags being mentioned the most in your network. when one person mentions another, a line connects them; when multiple users are engaging in a cross-conversation, the results appear as a cluster. hovering over the lines brings up detailed information about the subject. the thicker the line, the more frequent the number of cross mentions.”

link: mentionmap

• as an example check out projektwerk_int visualized twitter network on mentionmap

“twitter lists” is a new twitter feature that allows you to group the tweets of certain users into categories. there is also an option to view and subscribe to the twitter lists of other users… check out: 10 ways you can use twitter lists on mashable.

data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data – in this fascinating example twitter is being used to visualize social movements. it shows 24 hours of “good morning” tweets, from around the world. green tweets are early morning, local time; orange occurs somewhere around 9am; red tweets are late morning; and black represents tweets that are “out of time,” meaning that they don’t correspond with actual morning hours…

watch the world wake up, on twitter

• twitter is a great personal branding tool
• it’s easy to start using twitter
• twitter is your personal “information bank”
• the fastest way to make your content go viral
• twitter is great to find or outsource work

…click here for the full article.

“long since anointed by the media (over the past year) as the NBT (next big thing), twitter has a bunch of local customs that people new to it need to learn…”

10 twitter etiquette rules

…thanks to jajah.

“twitter’s about to get a fascinating new tool in its social communications toolbox courtesy of jajah: phone calling. it’s a VOIP solution that will work for anyone with a twitter account. does this signal a future as an extensive communications tool for the lifecasting app?…”

…read the news on fast company.

I just found this great video from the David Lettermann show. It is a very funny conversation on Twitter between David Letterman and Kevin Spacey

projektwerk coops with the new microblogging searchengine jobtweet.de.

jobtweet.de is the first real-time jobsearch engine for the microblogging-service twitter (c). On the basis of semantic filtering-techniques jobtweet.de enables you to search twitter-posts (”tweets”) for job openings.

All projects on projektwerk.de will be published via twitter and other microblogging- plattform such as friendfeed and identi.ca.

We would like to offer another channel to our users to inform themselves on the latest projects.

“twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. but where’s the user manual for twitter?” here it is…

“bad passwords can make for big headaches. just ask the twitter employees whose use of weak passwords for personal accounts apparently led to a huge and embarrassing security breach for their company…”