Twitter will reportedly soon get its own external sharing tool that will help both users and publishers share content on the popular social publishing platform.
Based on internal company documents, blog Mashable on Wednesday unearthed details on the “Tweet Button” program, which centers on an embeddable sharing button. When put on third-party sites, it will allow users to share whatever content they’re looking at, while it keeps track of how many times that particular URL has been retweeted by other Twitter users.
Sound familiar? If you look at the top of this post, you’ll see that such a feature has existed for the past year and a half thanks to Tweetmeme. Beyond offering up these buttons to publishers, Tweetmeme also has a Digg-like front page of the most popular content from the sites that use it. Last month the company also launched a pro version of its service for large publishers that want to re-brand the look and feel of the dialog that comes up when you click on these buttons, as well as offering up support for integrating multiple analytics tracking tools.
Twitter’s initial offering looks to be less expansive, though that could just be the beginning of something much larger. Tweetmeme charges up to $5,000 a year for publishers to use the paid versions of its service, so something competitive from Twitter later on down the line could make for an additional revenue stream.
Mashable thinks the service could be here as early as Thursday. In the meantime, the embed code for the new Tweet Button does not work on all Twitter user accounts.
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Twitter
Twitter announced it was planning to add location data to tweets back in August. Now the geolocation functionality is complete and you can give permission for Twitter to take down your movements.
Giving location information to Twitter is an opt-in process. To enable Twitter’s function to add geographic information to your tweets, you simply have to hop over to the Account section at Twitter.com.
Scroll down and you’ll find the location section of the Twitter settings. There’s a checkbox to enable geotagging and big friendly button that will allow you to delete all your historical location data, just in case your being tracked by assassins or you know, just relish your privacy.
Twitter’s also tweaked its privacy policy to include the new geotagging feature. It also reiterates to users that items posted to Twitter are public unless they make their Twitter stream private.
Twitter’s geolocation features do not actually work on Twitter.com yet however but will rolled out as part of third party applications like Tweetdeck over the next few weeks.
The addition of geolocation information to tweets should also mean that Twitter is able to create more effective local lists of trending topics.
October 2, 2009
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Social bookmarking, Twitter Events, Twitter News, Twitter Organize, Twitter People, Twitter Share, Twitter Tags, Twitter follow me, Twitter groups, Twitter search
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Twitter
Thanks to a new tool, organizing and navigating the Twitter accounts that you follow is about to get a lot easier. According to a blog post from Twitter, a limited number of users in the coming days will be able to sort their friends into lists (much like Facebook’s ‘Lists’ feature). Until now, users seeking more control over their followers had to use cumbersome solutions from third-party apps like TweetDeck (we love the app, but ‘groups’ management is still clunky). Too bad third party programs got the right idea before Twitter itself implemented group.
Twitter’s ‘Lists’ project lead Nick Kallen described the new feature’s usefulness: “For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.” If you choose to make your lists public, other users can browse them or even subscribe to them, making it easier to discover new and interesting users.
After the initial testing period, this feature should become available to everyone in the Twitter-verse. The Telegraph reports that the feature will also be made available to third-party developers, which means your favorite iPhone or BlackBerry Twitter app may support the features soon.
Article Source: Switched.com
Features:
Instant Messaging
- One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat Accounts.
- Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
- Rename contacts with an alias so you don’t have to remember buddy names like ‘giantsfan123′.
- If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
- Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
- The InfoBox lets you check everyone’s status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
- Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
- Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
- Log conversation history and find the information you need our search-enabled log viewer.
- And so much more.
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Email
- Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
- Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
- The email InfoBox gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
- Perform actions such as “Mark as Read” or “Report Spam” right from the email InfoBox.
- Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.
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Social Networking
- Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.
- Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
- The social network InfoBox gives you a real time NewsFeed of what your friends are up to. Everything from new photos, to status updates, to upcoming birthdays is just a click away.
- Set your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn status right from Digsby.
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Personalize
- Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
- Change the way your conversations look with themes – everything from simple AIM-style windows to 3D conversation bubbles.
- Complete control over the layout of buddies on the buddy list. Change everything from buddy icon size to whether or not to show a snippet of their away message.
- Sort your buddy list how ever you want! You can organize buddies manually, by status, by service, by name or by log size to place those you communicate with most at the top. You can even choose a secondary sorting method.
- Customizable notification system lets you choose what events you want to be alerted about and how.
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Other
- Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.
- You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
- Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager.
Screenshots:
Digsby
Digsby
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EventBox
All in One
Do you use many social services? Annoyed that you have to run 6 different applications? Enter the new revolutionary social app, EventBox. All your services in one place, integrated.
Interface
Using Leopard’s groundbreaking CoreAnimation technology, we fully utilize your graphics card’s potential to provide a stunning interface.
The Cosmic Machine
Everything is fluid, flexible and intuitive.
Photo Viewer
Ever wanted to look at those gorgeous photos?
You don’t have to leave EventBox to view them how the photographer intended to.
HUD
When you are busy doing your work, you don’t want anything to disrupt your focus. But you still want to read that message which just came in. This is where the HUD window comes in handy.
Future
Expect a lot more from EventBox in the coming months. More features, more services, better integration and a lot more. In particular, we are working on RSS syncing and support for del.icio.us, Last.fm and Orkut. Be prepared to be surprised.
Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted other sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
The malware, Koobface, is designed to spread itself by checking to see if person is logged into a social network. It will then post fraudulent messages on the person’s Twitter account trying to entice friends to click the link, which then leads to a malicious Web site that tries to infect the PC.
The popular microblogging service has had a strong impact as a new communication platform, such as providing on-the-ground insight from participants in the recent protests over the presidential election in Iran. But it is also being targeted by fraudsters and hackers, who using it as a way to infect people’s PCs with malicious software.
Twitter is the latest site to be targeted by a Koobface variant, said Rik Ferguson, senior security advisor for Trend Micro. Other sites have included Bebo, Hi5, Friendster and LiveJournal, according to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team.
“Koobface has a long, inglorious history and has been relatively successful at infecting machines,” Ferguson said.
At least a couple hundred accounts have been infected by Koobface’s latest efforts, according to Ryan Flores, an advanced threats researcher, writing on Trend’s blog. When it made its first appearance a couple of weeks ago on Twitter, Koobface was just sending out three shortened URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) leading to malware. Flores wrote that Koobface is sending out more bad links this time around. (Full story here…)
ping.fm
Time is money .. RIGHT? So why spend more time on updating your status on all the social networking (facebook, twitter, Hi5, Yahoo, Friendster, My Space, Flickr etc..) you’re registered under when you can do that all in one update?
All you have to do is Ping it! How ? Why ? Here are the answers.
Ping.fm is a new free service that updates your status on all social networks in a matter of seconds.
Right now, Ping.fm is accepting text, images and soon videos.
Visit Ping.fm and sign up for free. After registering with ping you will have to manage your social networks ( more than 40 networks ). Finally, follow the steps to the end and get the best results you are looking for !
From now on you wake up in the morning, you check your PING and the rest is done 
twittercal.com
TwitterCal is a new twitter application. It is a free service that includes Google calendars and twitter!
To sign up for this application follow the steps:
- Register for a twitter account in case you don’t have an account yet.
- Add gcal as your friend. gcal is a bot that send messages to your Google Calendar.
- Request authorization to access your Google calendar ( twitter user name and your Gmail address)
- Add any event by sending a direct message to gcal. Example: d gcal meeting with Dan on Friday, 27th of June at 3:30 pm
Don’t forget to follow twiitercal on twitter.Join more than 10,000 users on this app.
twiggit.org
Do you want to show your friends what activities and articles you do on digg? Check out Twiggit, a service that provides you with the chance to demonstrate everything you digg on your twitter status update.All you have to do is sign in with your twitter user name.
