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Twitter, constant updates.

Always keep information current with a simple web tool!

So what's all this twitter stuff about?

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom-based number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email. Source Wikipedia.



So what does that mean to us? Time savings, top of mind awareness, a great way to promote your press and promo opportunities.

Krissi Diers sent this great article that was in the Wall Street Journal on October 27.

A geek's Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter - Upload a Document to Scribd


Twitter Apps to make your life easier


Windows

  • feedalizr - A free deskptop application that allows you to view, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing online. Tweet, upload pics to Flickr, keep up to date with your friends' Google Reader, Digg, Tumblr, YouTube and Last.fm posts on Friendfeed. Use unique filters to reduce the noise. Duplications are filtered out. -- by MIH SWAT

  • Yakkle! - A free application that integrates together a twitter client, IM client, multi-user voice conferencing, and group desktop sharing services. -- by ZenViva

  • Digsby - A multiprotocol IM client that lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. For IM, it brings all your buddies into one merged contact list with support for AIM, MSN, Facebook Chat, Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber. For email, it offers notifications of new emails with message previews, as well as, the ability to perform actions such as "Mark as Read" and "Delete" right from the notification with support for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, POP, and IMAP. For social networks, it provides a newsfeed of events on the network and the ability to set status with support for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

  • L0K8 - a tiny app that auto-updates your Twitter location when you move from place to place. Written by the founder of PBwiki, David Weekly.

  • sociagami -- sociagami allows you to manage your multiple social network statuses from one beautiful Windows application. sociagami currently supports Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter status.

  • (http://www.twitterlights.com)- The easiest way to highlight web snippets and Twitter them. i-Lighter+Twitter=Twitterlights! and it's free!

  • OutTwit - OutTwit (Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit) Use Twitter from Outlook.

  • TwitBOX - The *BEST* Twitter Windows Client out there.

  • Togi Twitter Client (Update) -- Togi is developed on .NET 2.0 with C# and is a open source software by Oguzhan

  • Twitterlicious -- Twitterlicious is a small app that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss. Best of all, *Twitterlicious is free*!

  • Twitterlights -- Twitterlights is an integrated feature of i-Lighter 2.1 allowing one-click tweeting and content saving with your mouse -- all free!

  • Pwytter - Free open source Twitter client written in Python by PJ Coudert. User Interface in 14 languages.

  • TwittMe! - A new Twitter Windows Client 1.0.4. Updates itself directly without user input, keeping it always as bug free as possible. Will open source it when client it's more feature complete.

  • TeleTwitter - A Windows Twitter application that tries hard to be simple and beautiful, like it's web 2.0 name sake.

  • Twitter Gadget - A Windows Vista Desktop Sidebar Gadget that helps you keep track of all the sweet tweets! Fetches tweets from twitter.com and updates them every 10 seconds.

  • Twitter-Sync (Yahoo Messenger Plugin) - Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more... -- by WackyB.

  • Twitter Desktop - A How-To for making TwitterVision your desktop background, watch live tweets while working.(not an app)

  • TwittIt - A system tray application for easy posting to Twitter by Denis Briel

  • Twitter CLI - Easy to use Command Line Interface allows submitting tweets to Twitter from the Windows CMD Prompt or 'Run' box -- by Jason Fowler.

  • KlipFolio - World's smallest personal dashboard to track Twitter Updates, with instant notifications.

  • TwitterYM - a tiny ruby script that updates your Yahoo Messenger status with your latest Twitter one (requires Windows and Ruby) - by Alex Brie

  • Twadget - A Windows Vista sidebar gadget by Rod Begbie

  • TwApp! for Windows -- by Harper Reed (Requires .NET 2.0)

  • TWTSUB14.zip Twitter Submitter W32 1.4 now available. For Windows 95/98/2k/XP (tested) Submit Twitterings to Twitter.com without using a web browser! Submit Private messages as well! (D username message)Kenneth Udut (simplify3@aol.com)

  • twtview.zip | Twtview 1.4 NEW FEATURES: 'pm' lets you see your private messages, 'u twittername' will show any public users homepage. (Jan 27 07). For Win32. View all public timelines and personal timeline without needing web browser. Can be used at the same time as Twitter Submitter W32 to instantly see your submissions. Kenneth Udut

  • Twitteroo 1.4 for Windows released on 13 March 07 (by RareEdge Design Group) - *new* features include font resizing, transparency, sound notifications, built-in URL shortening. Programmable API!

  • Twidget for Konfabulator/ Yahoo! Widgets Post from your desktop.

  • Twessenger -- a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Sets your personal message to your latest tweet! -- by Kunal Kundaje

  • Visual Twit -- a simple Twitter posting client for Windows -- by Andy

  • triQQr -- Twitter Client for Windows v0.2 with posting, profiles, direct messages and link to homepage of user

  • Chirrup -- a simple Windows client for Japanese

  • Twitterbox -- Twitter client for Windows made with beon widget technology.

  • MadTwitter -- a clon of Twitterrific for Windows which doesn't require .NET -- by Sacha Fuentes

  • Flotzam -- A Mash Up of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs, completely configurable -- by Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin

  • Twit4Live -- A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger

  • Witty -- A Twitter client for Windows Vista and XP powered by the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) by Alan Le

  • QckTwit -- A simple Twitter app that you can activate anytime by Shift+Alt+T and it would pop up presenting a text box to enter your update quickly. As soon as you press Ctrl+Enter, it will send update to Twitter and get out of your way. Separate box for URL. If your message exceeds Twitter's limit then it will automatically break it down in multiple twits and color those extra chars differently. Open source, requires .Net 3.5 -- by Shital Shah

  • JabberTwitterBridge -- Java application to update Twitters, Jabber's status (google talk gtalk) and Google calendar together (for example : In a meeting until 15h12) (Twitter to google talk, google talk to twitter, google calendar to google talk and google calendar to twitter) MrCba

  • Threeter Open source Twitter client that makes updating your status easy as 1-2-3: press the hotkey combination, enter your message, press Enter. Easy and really fast, worth a try :-) by Devv



Mac



Examples

Dallas Summer Musicals Twitter Page
Wharton Center Twitter
Metro Arts Alliance (Venue's aren't the only ones twittering).


The Broadway League         Wharton Center         TPAC         Socialesque