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Twitastic Twitter Enhancer

admin — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:31:08 +0000

I have written a GreaseMonkey script that enhances the use of Twitter using the web version on Firefox. First version adds:

Automatic link hashtags and grab latest tweets using Twitter API

Upcoming features

Follow directly from stream
Get detailed user info from stream
See if User follows back directly
Integrate third party services

Download the script at UserScripts

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Twitter and WordPress

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:15:06 +0000

How do you integrate Twitter and your WordPress Blog the best way. In this post we have listed a few things you can do easily to leverage the strength of Twitter on your WordPress Blog.

Twitter Username in Comments

One really good plugin for making it more interesting for people commenting on your post is the WP-Twitip-ID Plugin that lets you “easily” integrate a Twitter ID field into your comments form for blog posts. Easy and adds great extra to you and your visitors.

Twitter Tools

Alex King´s plugin Twitter Tools adds the possibility to update Twitter when you create a new blog post and also the possibility to digest your daily, or weekly, tweets and publish to your blog. For developers the plugin also adds hooks, that lets you programatically do magic with the tweet (updating other services maybe).

Tweet This

Tweet this is simple plugin that adds a “Tweet this” link to your blog posts, making it quick and easy for a reader to tweet about your blog post.

Twitter Badge

Official Twitter Badge. Add your tweets as a widget easily to your blog using this official snippet of code available as Flash and HTML widget.

Other tools

There are hundreds of different tools out there, these are just a few we have used and come to like, please feel free to comment or contact us and we will happily update this post.

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Twitter Tools for Mac Users

Mattias — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:36:56 +0000

I use a Mac and I tweet and I am still looking for a good client (I am using Twitterific). In this post I have listed some of the clients that are available to you as a Mac user that would like to do your tweeting from the Desktop. Please feel free to add more clients in the comment field or contact me with tips if you feel I have missed some important clients.

Tweetie

Tweetie is the client I use on Mac. As other clients for Twitter, there are both a free ad-serving version and one paid, $19.95. The client is fantastic, you can use multiple accounts, easily follow conversations and quick get user details.

Twitterific

Twitterific is a client I use myself. The client comes in two flavours, free and paid for, I use the free one and have to live with the ads that run once in your stream every hour. I do not even notice the ads, and wonder why I should upgrade (except for the reason it is a good client).

Tweetr

Tweetr supports file upload (up to 10mb) by third party and is also built on top of Adobe Air.

Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is an application built on Adobe Air currently in Beta. Tweetdeck lets you as a user split all tweets into topics or groups of specific interest, making it easier for you to get an overview of what is happening right now in different niches you are covering.

Thwirl

Thwirl supports several lifestream services such as Twitter, identi.ca, FriendFeed and Seesmic. It also supports cross-posting to Pownce (which is dead) and Jaiku and image posting to Twitpic.

Others

Hopefully we who use Mac will see better clients for Twitter in the future. I am waiting for full Adium support for Twitter and Panic writing a client for managing your lifestreams. Until then, I will try to update this post with clients that Mac users can download if they fancy doing their updates from the desktop instead of using online twitter tools and clients.

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