We Love Twitter

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Why do we love Twitter?

It's amazing how quickly my attitude toward Twitter changed from thinking it was a pointless waste of time, to it becoming the number one reason why I use my mobile device. I use Twitter to follow local news, see what my friends and family are doing, see what's going on around town, keep up with my favorite celebrity geeks, get weather reports, update my followers when I post to my blogs, etc.

If you use Twitter, please share your reasons, if not, then maybe it's time for you to get your own account and tell us about it.

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Cool Twitter Apps 

Seesmic Desktop
This is a fantastic Twitter desktop application that's particularly useful for people with a large number of Twitter friends. You can create multiple userlists to follow subsets of the people that you follow, and you can also monitor multiple Twitter accounts simultaneously.
Tweetdeck
This is a really fantastic desktop application for people who have just one Twitter account and many friends. You can organize your friends into groups and it also integrates with Facebook. The interface is really slick. I'd use this if I didn't manage multiple Twitter accounts.
Tweetie
This is my favorite Twitter app for the iPhone and iTouch. I wasn't addicted to Twitter until my friend, Janet, recommended Tweetie. Supports multiple Twitter accounts and runs beautifully.
Twhirl
Twhirl is an awesome desktop app that lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts, cross post updates via ping.fm, and offers many other advantages to just using the twitter.com website. This is a great desktop application for people with multiple accounts.
Twitter on Facebook
A handy app that lets you update your Twitter status from Facebook and/or automatically update your Facebook status when you post to your Twitter account.
Twitter Gadget
Twitter Gadget is a nifty little tool that allows you to add Twitter to your Gmail account. It's handy if you find yourself using multiple computers because it's available whenever you login to your Gmail account.
Twitterfeed
An excellent app to automate your tweets. You can control how often Twitterfeed posts tweets from your RSS feeds to your Twitter updates.
TwitterFox
TwitterFox is a fantastic Firefox extension for Twitter. This extension handles multiple accounts very well, too. I've been using it for several weeks and would definitely recommend this.

Twitter Reads 

Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Twitter For Dummies

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

twitter means business: how microblogging can help or hurt your company

Amazon Price: $17.95 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

The Twitter Book

Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 12/15/2009) Buy Now

Twitter User Lists 

Twitter User Directories and Recommendations

Mr. Tweet
Mr. Tweet helps recommend people to follow and also allows people to give personal recommendations of their favorite Twitter friends.
Twibes
Easily recommend the people on Twitter that are the most interesting, entertaining, undiscovered, or inspirational to you.
We Follow
This is a very useful directory of Twitter users. You can add yourself to up to three keyword directories to describe yourself and search through the site to find specific types of users.

What do you think about Twitter? 

Talk to us and share your thoughts and suggestions for using Twitter.

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    Suzie-Shine Suzie-Shine Jul 2, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
    I don't know what I think of Twitter as yet. Only joined yesterday as I hoped it might help with promoting my Squidoo lenses. I'm not convinced as yet that it will. Perhaps, as with you, my opinion may well alter.
    Suzie

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