Professional management tools for Twitter: HootSuite and CoTweet
What's happening in meetings I've been in here is likely similar to what's happening in other corporations: People are gathering to figure out how to use, exploit, or simply not get their companies embarrassed on Twitter. But no matter what we agree to in these rooms (which, in my experience, isn't much), one thing is sure: You can't manage a major corporate Twitter presence on Twitter.com itself. Nor, for that matter, can you in one of the popular client apps like Tweetdeck or the current Seesmic Desktop.
Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst
There are plenty of Twitter tools out there designed to help you understand Twitter metrics. These tools come in handy for measuring change in tweet fluctuations, charting follower count numbers, finding out hashtag frequency, and quantifying Twitter activity. Most of us, however, will find ourselves wanting to know more about the tweets themselves, and to really understand the context and content of a tweet. It's easy to take a look at a single tweet and dissect its content, but how do you go about doing so on a grand scale?
Columns: Grime / Dubstep
Here's a round-up of some of the most striking tracks in UK bass music this month: Krept: "Paranormal Activity" If you go to the YouTube video for "Paranormal Activity" in the UK, Google's ad targeting service gives you an overlaid ad for Dizzee Rascal's new photography exhibition; although Microsoft is indeed curating Dizzee's visual art, there's a far stronger correlation between Krept's music and 2003-era Dizzee. Dark, twisted, paranoid, and highly strung-- much of it is reminiscent of the early grime star, even down to the way Krept spits the line, "police want to stop me." While quite a bit of the emerging road rap genre unquestioningly regurgitates U.S. rap from a South London standpoint, "Paranormal Activity" suggests Krept, one half of Krept and Konan, has wider artistic vision and is one to watch.
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter
Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Follow him on Twitter @DanSchawbel. Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users and is projected to grow to 18.1 million users by 2010.
What Do Your Twitter Followers Think? Conduct a twtpoll And Find Out.
One of the simplest ways to use Twitter is to conduct instant polls among your followers. But compiling all the replies is an ad-hoc and messy process. Enter twtpoll, a simple polling app that lets you ask multiple choice questions and provides a shortened URL that you can Tweet. All you do is enter your Twitter user name (no password), create the poll, and then hit the “Twitter” option and it creates a Tweet populated with the question and the link to the poll. (You can also ask via Facebook if you are signed in).
Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:Handle intentsStart activitiesMake phone callsSend text messagesScan bar codesPoll location and sensor dataUse text-to-speech (TTS)And moreScripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well. Scripts can be edited directly on the phone. The script manager displays available scripts. Scripts can be launched interactively or as background services.
Rising: Nguzunguzu
Nguzunguzu: "Spittin 'n Rhythm" There's a good chance you've heard the work of Los Angeles producers Daniel Pineda and Asma Maroof, aka Nguzunguzu, even if you don't know it. They handled mixing duties on M.I.A.'
25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts
It may seem like an impossible task to keep up with all the Twitter apps that have come to market as of late. Even though you have plenty of directories to help with the process, we noticed that it's still difficult to ascertain which apps support multiple accounts. As more and more people are using Twitter for personal and professional reasons, the demand for a Twitter client to match those multifaceted needs is rising. Here are several options to help you tweet now or later from different accounts on your desktop, via the Web, and while on the run.
