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Twitter message server This application lets any interested party (content provider) reserve some keywords and add automatic responses to tweets (and/or Direct Messages) with these keywords. This article in our blog explains the main idea behind 411 for Twitter mashup. You can see above publicly available user-generated services (bots, data servers). To receive the current content of the above-mentioned services, do the following: 1. Twitter Lists for Journalism and PR Twitter is in the process of rolling out a new feature called , which will enable all users to create private or public lists of Twitter users as they see fit. I’ve been playing with this feature for a couple of days now and am looking forward to publishing a few lists that I hope will be helpful for @journalistics followers. In the meantime, I thought it would be helpful to give you the quick scoop on what this feature is all about, and how I think it will be useful for journalists and public relations professionals.

Social Media Marketing + Brandmanagement "Must-Have": FriendFeed, a cross-network activity aggregator built by ex-Googlers and more fun to use than the phrase "cross-network activity aggregator" might imply, launched a powerful new search tool today. Want to discover particularly interesting conversations or people in your networks? Want to pick out just the noisiest conversations online about your brand? Want to find some really crazy stuff that's only discoverable through FriendFeed? The investigative possibilities that FriendFeed now offers are quite impressive, if you can bring just a little creativity to your search query construction. Here are our favorite examples of some of the searches we've already found quite valuable.

Twitter Better: 20 Ways to Filter Your Tweets -Most Twitter users probably follow under a thousand other people, but that's enough to make it hard to keep track of the real-time stream. I actually started having trouble keeping up when I hit about 50 follows — and depending on how prolific the people you're following are, you could be dealing with a hard-to-parse Twitter stream even following just a handful of people. But while people like social media fanatic Robert Scoble, who follows over 100,000 people, appear to have the superhuman ability to stay on top of things, the rest of us need help filtering the Twitter stream.

OMG! Shut up about Twitter already - Technotica Micro-famous art blogger Paddy Johnson recently hepped her readers to a social networking application that actually makes Twitter seem relevant and interesting — at least to me. It's Cursebird, a "real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter," and it is awesome. Not only does it relay (or "retweet" as the kids say) profane Twitter posts, the Cursebird home page features the top five bad words currently ranking on the social network along with percentage points, the cursing stats of random foul-fingered tweeters, and a search feature to check just how nasty your Twitter pals can be. Beyond this and a couple of other independently developed Twitter apps that cater to my outer juvenile, I don’t much care for Twitter. Also, I’m really sick of hearing about it.

Twitter Unfollower Tracker Free to Join For users with up to 25k friends/followers, Who Unfollowed Me provides a limited functionality 'Lite' version. There is a paid 'Pro' version that has more features and can accommodate users with up to 75k friends/followers. The 10 Most Creative Uses for Twitter Think Twitter is just for wasting time chatting to friends and strangers? Think again. There are all sorts of creative uses for Twitter out there, and we’ve assembled ten of our favorites below. From writing fiction to quitting smoking, Twitter is being used for more than just idle conversation.

Good Wine and Books We’re just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a business. For Twitter to be at its peak in utility, people who would have never had access to the world’s information need to be able to not only receive it but engage with it, too. Room to Read, a San Francisco based non-profit, will help us make that happen by bringing libraries and literacy to the world’s poorest regions. Together we’ll be making some awesome wine over the course of a year to benefit @roomtoread, and with each case sold they’ll be able to supply about 60 local language children’s books to educate the 300 million kids around the world who can’t read. You can follow us throughout this initiative and even participate in barrel tastings and other activities along the way thanks to the folks at Crushpad.

springpad notebook Get inspired. Get organized. Get more done. Get Started Get Started Get the App Get the App 10 Ways to Keep Your Precious Followers on Twitter How much do you value your Twitter followers? If the answer is "a lot", then here are some general guidelines that you should consider following if you'd like that latest follower to continue following you for the long run. 1. Be Consistent with your Tweets People oftentimes follow a fellow Twitter user for a specific reason. Before you begin tweeting, establish a reason as to why you're tweeting and what kind of people you want following your tweets.

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