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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

featuredusers.com

Featured Users is a Twitter application ad network. If you’re a Twitter user, it’s a great way to get more Twitter followers and support your favorite Twitter apps.

• Support Twitter application developers
• Gain more followers
• Promote your brand or services

To get started simply submit your Twitter username.

How does it work ?

When you purchase impressions, your Twitter profile is displayed on the Twitter apps in the FeaturedUsers.com network. The more impressions you purchase, the more often your profile is displayed.

FeaturedUsers.com shares your sponsorship money with the Twitter app developers in our network. So, you’re not only developing a larger follower base, you’re also supporting Twitter app developers who provide you with useful Twitter tools. Become a Featured User today!

Visit featured users and get the answers you are looking for.

tweetgrid.com

Many different applications are being launched daily and now you are wondering what is tweet-grid? How helpful is it? Should I use it? How? Why? The following will describe tweet Grid and you decide what to do!

TweetGrid is a new search dashboard that allows you to search up to 9 different topics all happening at the same moment. As new tweets are created, they are automatically updated in the grid. No need to refresh the page!

TweetGrid is supported by the following browsers except for internet explorer 6

• Windows
  • Firefox 2 and 3
  • Safari
  • Chrome
  • Internet Explorer 7
• Mac OSX
  • Firefox 2 and 3
  • Safari
• Linux
  • Firefox 2 and 3

While using tweet-grid you can open up to 9 grids with different topics. More over you can check your DM and reply from there. You can favorite and bookmark a tweet too.

A very useful and handy tool that is being  used daily by tons of twitter users. Hope you like it

For more details on how to use, watch the videos here and to check the FAQ click here ..

Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, “If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.”

I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom ’90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood? (Read full story from time.com’s website)

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…)

twittylinks.com

Twitty Links is a web link that helps you tweet a web page that you liked OR tweet your own website and promote your business on twitter . Sign In with your twitter credentials.

You can add the Firefox ad-ons or you can drag the “yellow bird small icon” on the center right of your screen to the toolbar to book market it. If your still not convinced check a live example

yfrog.com

Yfrog is a new fun and cool application that enables you to upload your videos and images on Twitter in few easy steps. Here’s what you do:

• Select your native language (English/Deutsch/ Polski etc.)
• Upload a video or Image Or Paste the URL link that you want for a video or picture
• 100 characters for a message is your limit
• Enter your twitter credentials (user name and password)
• Post It!!

Steve Jenson Tweet

Twitter has captured peoples’ imaginations like nothing else on the web in years. It’s growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer community and gets used in more ways than anyone could have thought possible. It’s a great tool for journalists, for students, for knitters, for marketers and for people in many other walks of life.

What if the people working at Twitter Inc. aren’t using the service the way many of its power users are, though? We’ve examined the posting and following habits of people on the company’s staff and found that Twitter team members don’t follow very many other people, they aren’t following many of the top developers in their own community and they don’t even Tweet very much. This could be cause for concern among power users who depend on the service as it exists now, much less for those hoping it will be developed for even more powerful use cases.

Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, said this week that he hopes the service will someday be just like electricity, something everyone uses but few feel the need to talk about. To follow that analogy, if you were someone who used a heavy duty washer and dryer in your home and found out that the electric company didn’t employ people who regularly used any appliances bigger than a toaster – wouldn’t you be a little concerned about the long term viability of your power supply?

Here are a few data points we’ve picked out, followed by a response we got from Twitter CEO, Evan Williams, when we asked about these issues. Read more…

twubs.com

Twubs are hubs and meta-hashtags that can bring together  Twitpics, RSS Feeds, videos, Photos and much more.

A meta-hashtag is a classification system in which  users can attach a purpose to any given tag. For example, the hashtag #rr refers to restaurants, and #rm-(+movie name) to review movies.It is easy to create a hashtags taking into conisderation that no one can claim the ownership of the hub and that once it’s created the hashtag content can’t be edited.

Twubs is  the best place to find any content of social media. It is fun and easy to use !

If you are creating a group, or looking an event page or even searching for a favorite topic, all you have to do is enter: twubs.com, Sign in, search your favorite topic, get the results attached with a twitpic,you tube video etc.

YES hasgtags made useful!!