The Tweet Congress
The number of applications around Twitter keep exploding by the day.
A website called Tweet Congress has been launched with the motto:
We the Tweeple of the United States, in order to form a more perfect government, establish communication, and promote transparency do hereby Tweet the Congress of the United States of America.
The website provides users with [...]
The Shorty Awards: Tweet your favourite Tweeters!
The Shorty Awards aims at identifying the best “short content” producers in various categories. Basically, identifying the best 140 character or less content producers on Twitter.
There are various categories like business, tech, humour, wierd, finance, personal, sports, etc.
To nominate someone, tweet @shortyawards with a @nominee and a #category, and why you think they should win. [...]
Twitter Mobile Interface
I’ve seen many Twitter users using various applications to access Twitter on their mobile phones.
Did you know Twitter itself has a mobile version available at http://m.twitter.com/
It has a very basic interface but its quite functional for mobile use!
Real time Twitter search using TweetGrid
TweetGrid is a simple tool that gives you the ability to watch multiple, keyword-based, live updating Twitter searches from one page.
Its quite simple to use and very useful. You can just key in the keyword for breaking news and see it update in near real time on your screen.
Here is a short video tutorial on [...]
Sharing photos on Twitter with TwitPic
Twitter allows you to share 140 characters at a time, but there is no way to upload photos using Twitter.
TwitPic is a great complementary service that one can you to fill this void. TwitPic was started in early 2008 by @noaheverett and has gain a lot of popularity as the de-facto photo sharing service on [...]
Latest Updates on Mumbai Terrorist Attack
Twitter is turning out to be a great tool to get the latest breaking news. Much faster than media sites. TechCrunch has an article on this today.
If you’re looking for the latest news on the Mumbai Terrorist Attack, just click: Mumbai Terrorist Attack Breaking News.
Image via Flickr.
Free eBook: The Art and Science of CSS
The Art and Science of CSS is a book on CSS full of useful examples. The book is published by O’Rielly Media.
This book costs about $40 on Amazon, but you can have a PDF eBook version for free by just following @sitepointdotcom on Twitter.
The file is about 24MB in size (ZIP).
TwitterFox: A Firefox extension for Twitter
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.
This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.
If you like to be notified immediately of any updates on Twitter, [...]
Twuffer: Scheduling your tweets!
Twuffer allows you to compose a list of future Twitter tweets, and schedule their release.
Twitter application names keep getting more and more interesting. Twitter has introduced so much new jargon, I think someone can publish a Twitter Dictionary. Twuffer is another one you can add to that list!
Here is what the Twuffer website claims you [...]
Add funky characters to your Tweets
Do you want to spice up your Twitter conversations with some funky characters, and don’t know how others do it? Read on to learn one technique…
Twitter accepts UTF-8 characters as input text. What this basically means is that you have more than just the regular English language available to you. You can tweet in just [...]
