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The great thing about Twitter is the use of third party applications with Twitter. The Twitter web interface really isn’t the most convenient way to tweet for us all (however there has been a great redesign). In this blog post I will outline my favourite Twitter web apps, these are great not only for tweeting but for finding information and fun from ours, our friends and the Twitterverses tweets.

TweetStats:

TweetStats is one of the best statistical tools for Twitter out there. It lists many stats about the way, you tweet, when you tweet and even what you tweet. TweetStats gives you statistics on how many times you tweet a month, aggregate daily tweets, aggregate hourly tweets, interface used and so on.

Another awesome feature is the TweetCloud. Basically like a tag cloud, but words that appear most often in your tweets. Best of all you can look up the stats of any Twitter user you know. The only downfall is if you want to refresh your stats, you can only do that every 8 hours and you have to retype in your username, except for that it really is an exceptional service.

Twitterfeed:

If you run a blog then Twitter is a great tool to direct traffic to your posts. As we all know its a huge pain to remember to tweet our blog posts. With Twitterfeed the hard work is done for you.

Twitterfeed can automatically check your blogs RSS feed from 30 minutes intervals and you can specify how many blog posts it lists. You can also change the opening text such as “New Blog Post:” for your kind of blog.

TweetWheel:

Twitter can also be about building a community of like minded people. However its a pain looking through your friends followers and so on to see who follows who. TweetWheel really simplifies this problem, by creating a unique wheel you can really see who know who on your Twitter profile and who you should maybe stop following.

One problem with TweetWheel is if you have a slow internet connection and follow lots of people and your friends follow lot of people it can take an age to load the page.

TwitPic:

The old saying goes “a picture can paint a thousand words”, a tweet can only say 160 characters. This is where TwitPic comes to play. TwitPic gives you the ability to share photos with your Twitter friends easilly.

You don’t even need a unique login, TwitPic utilises the Twitter API so the only login you have to give is your Twitter login. Photos are a breeze to upload and share.

Twitscoop:

Twitscoop is quite a cool service which can be a source of some fun. Twitscoop shows in the form of a “tweet cloud”, telling you trending topics in real time. For example A search can often show up word such as “2am”, “3am” etc as people realize that the are up late.

Twitscoop describes there process as:

Through an automated algorithm, twitscoop crawls hundreds of tweets every minute and extracts the words which are mentionned more often than usual. The result is displayed in a Tag Cloud, using the following rule: the hotter, the bigger (no joke here).

Quite a unique service that should definately be checked out.

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National Party’s leader John Key has been labeled clueless by the search engine Google.

If you go onto google.co.nz then seaches “clueless” under “pages from New Zealand” then press enter or “I’m Feeling Lucky” You will see John Key’s website as the first result.

Not once is the word clueless mentioned on John Key’s website. This technique is known as “Google Bombing”. Where an undesirable word has been linked with a person. George Bush has also been “Google Bombed” with the word “Miserable Failure”.

Auckland computer programmer Rochelle Rees emailed friends a year ago asking them to link “clueless” with John Key’s website. “But at the same time the word describes John Key’s performance”.

There is not much John Key can do to stop this though. Google said that it would not alter bombing as it wants to keep the integrity of its search engine.

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Okay, so youre probably wondering what is Twitter? (or not) Twitter is an exciting new invention soon to change the way we interact. On my right top pane you will see constant status updates. They change very often. I can update my feed via my blog, the web, mobile phone, Facebook status, desktop gadgets, iPhone etc. These updates are called Tweets. You can also subscribe via the Twitter website to your friends, families or co-workers feeds all with a few simple clicks, after all its the simple things that count.

Twitter will change the way you think about Social Networking, be sure to check it out at twitter.com!

For those of you who didn’t understand me here is a short video clip called Twitter: In Plain English.