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- NinjaBull, on 01/30/2009, -3/+12Digg this if you actively use twitter.
(curious to see how many people use it to be honest) - WriterSD, on 01/30/2009, -1/+9TwitterFox is great. TweetStalk sounds kind of creepy.
- lava, on 01/30/2009, -0/+6That's not really what Twitter's for. I subscribe to my friends on twitter because they post links and funny thoughts. It's really for being alerted about interesting stuff.
- camp185, on 01/29/2009, -2/+7I will for sure digg this article. They mentioned my Twitter Toolbar, and used my screenshot first!
- Winkleman, on 01/29/2009, -2/+4I'm not a big fan of twitterfox.... I personally prefer to use Twhirl. But I'm definitely gonna have to check out some of these other tools.
- vypergts, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2Not everybody wants to keep a desktop client running all the time just to update twitter...
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2lots of hype - mostly generated to pump up the technology so the venture capitalists can bailout of this turd
- waydee, on 01/30/2009, -0/+2some web 2.0 nonsense, ignore it.
- inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+3What's this twitter thing everyone keeps talking about and why should I care?
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2GreaseMonkey
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -2/+3Twitter is the premiere toilet for the world's micro-blogging diarrhea
- Biscuitz, on 01/30/2009, -2/+3I'm not really a fan of twitter. I got an account, and got these unknown people following me right away...
On top of that, how does one keep up with Twits if they're following so many people? I decided to follow around 8 people, and I end up having to go back pages just to catch up. So time consuming =/. - felix353, on 01/30/2009, -0/+1I wouldn't so much as say the service is "crap, pointless, and overhyped" but their business model certainly leaves more to be desired.
When the primary service is not making as much money (or any) and yet the numerous APIs are, there is something to said about this. With that said, hats off to developers finding ways to make a profit where the original service failed. - franksands, on 01/30/2009, -0/+1My problem with Twhirl is that it doesn't save what tweets you already read, if you close the application
- melonhedd, on 01/30/2009, -5/+6Twitter sucks.
- KaivenTor, on 01/30/2009, -1/+2I'm a big fan of TwitterFox. It's compact, easy to use, and currently sits next to my gmail checker in FireFox. Useful for sharing links and thoughts if I'm at work or at home.
- bruceleeroy, on 01/31/2009, -0/+1I love pizza AND I love ice cream, so naturally I should combine the two! Brilliant!
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -1/+2Mashable has presented another great twitter tools. With twitter playing such a big role in social media, I think it is just getting important that we get these tools. It makes life so much easier.
- merlin77077, on 01/30/2009, -0/+1http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=twitter
- swgc5, on 01/30/2009, -1/+2Twitterfox is great.
- Mizzike, on 01/30/2009, -1/+2...or if your friends and family are on there, it's a great way to keep in touch. I just found out that my friend in Africa has a wicked flu (so I hopped on IM to wish him well), and a friend in Santa Cruz who doesn't get much sleep lately is going to participate in some type of lab experiment.
Yes, it's true. (Twitter can be useful for more than just "I took a big ***** ***** today and it was brown.) - bblande, on 01/30/2009, -3/+4I cannot believe people care about/like Twitter. I don't care if your peanut butter and jelly sandwich has an inadequate amount of jelly.
- Phocion55, on 01/30/2009, -1/+2Scroll past it?
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+1sounds like more article spam
- felix353, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1Heard of a few of these and almost got a new one. But OSX makes spaces so easy to access, it doesn't take but another second to get over to Tweetdeck. (http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/)
Heard wonderful things about twitterfox but also, as mentioned above, take a look at Shareaholic for all your networking needs. - covertbadger, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1Meh, I'd much rather have a barebones platform that I can build upon. For instance, on every PC I use I have two separate Firefox profiles - one loaded with all the dev extensions like firebug, firecookie, yslow, colorzilla, ie tab tamper data etc, the other has the basics for day-to-day browsing - noscript, adblock, nuke anything, etc. This would be much harder to achieve if I couldn't pick and choose my functionality.
Twitter's problem, on the other hand, is that the underlying service is crap, pointless, and overhyped. Doesn't matter how good the products are if they're built on shoddy foundations. - microjolt, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1Shareaholic is another one for Twitter - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/545 ... - Grand prize winner of Extend Firefox.
- etx313, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1I didn't get twitter when it came out. I still think it's a pretty 'meh' service, but apps and plug ins like this is what makes something like twitter pretty cool. Dugg.
- Snoosy, on 01/30/2009, -1/+1I can scroll past 1, but when there's 5-10 articles about Twitter a day it gets annoying.
- velvetsheen, on 02/10/2009, -0/+0Also check out TwitBrowser at http://twurl.nl/afzf62 - this web based tool allows you to visually browse the Twitter social graph. New features every week.
- neo991lb, on 01/31/2009, -1/+1I find it ironic that the pro-Twitter comments are +3 and the anti-Twitter comments are -1... Shouldn't there be a bigger spread?
PS Twitter is pretty lame. - rusa323, on 01/31/2009, -1/+0great tools!
- zerodepth, on 01/30/2009, -5/+4Twitter sucks.
- anshuman, on 01/30/2009, -6/+5when you need 20 tools to use a service, something totally basic or lots of basic things are missing from original service.
- Playstation20, on 01/30/2009, -3/+1reklam kampanyaları lig tv yayınları
http://sonsuzmuhabbet.blogspot.com/ - anklesnap, on 01/30/2009, -3/+1sounds like some cool twitter tools...
- ike6116, on 01/30/2009, -9/+7Twitter sucks for anyone who isn't a blogger who attends blogger conventions. We know, we know, Twitter was SO AWESOME for those FLASH PARTIES at SXSW but honestly stop trying to force it to catch on.
- Snoosy, on 01/30/2009, -5/+3Is there any way to remove Twitter articles from showing up on Digg? I'm sick of having to bury every one.
Serious question, not just trying to piss off Twitter fanboys. - iammzac, on 01/30/2009, -3/+1Was anyone here in the live @kevinrose stream last night with @garyvee?
"Awesome" new digg features in ~ 3 months, but Kevin didn't want me to say that. - melonhedd, on 01/30/2009, -3/+1It's the same (bad) idea firefox uses. It doesn't come with anything so you have to install 20 other things to make it usable.
- easternpa, on 01/30/2009, -2/+0I live in Philly and travel a lot for work. My sister lives in LA and travels a lot more than I do for work. Our Mom is an active retiree in Florida, who works, does odd jobs, teaches, is a minister, and takes many cruises to interesting new places several times a year. My other sister is trying to start her own web developer business. What's the easiest way to keep up on everyone's happenings without holding weekly family conference calls? Twitter and Brightkite. What if a quake hits LA? My sis can update all of us at once. Same for storm updates from Mom in Florida. Sure we're all on Facebook, too, but that's a very recent development, and no one wants to see Brightkite updates on FB. Plus, I really don't like seeing on my phone everyone else's comments on a post in FB just because I commented on it. Twitter is the best way to just get the headlines, even if the "headlines" come from people. I'm still waiting for public agencies to get on board with Brightkite and publish localized weather warnings or amber alerts. Also, as launch day approaches for each shuttle launch I'm planning to attend, I turn on the SMS forwarding for KSC_Updates, but turn it off the next day or when the mission is over.
Outside of my family, though, I've slowly been moving Twitter follows to Friendfeed Rooms. My Twitter homepage has way too many uninteresting updates by people who either just live in Philly, talk about Philly sports, or work in my field or share my hobby interests. That all needs to move to private FF rooms. I also use the FF module on iGoogle so I can quickly scan tweets that I didn't want to get on my phone.
I have quite a tiered layering thing going on with information feeds, between tweets I only gather in FF rooms, tweets on my Twitter home page, tweets on my cellphone, and finally the Google Reader module in iGoogle with a mixture of news headlines, tweets, and craigslist searches. I either have instant, periodic, or occasional access to everything I want, tiered by level of importance to me.
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