Are you always posting links to interesting stuff on your Twitter account? If so, you might be interested in a site called Packrati.us. It basically follows your Twitter feed and automatically saves any link posted to your Delicious account. Could be useful for some people out there.
Did you know that there is a way to integrate all your favorite sites into Gmail? For example, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, MySpace, Del.icio.us, and more. Check out this article for adding sidebar widgets to Gmail.
Want to explore Twitter in a completely new way? If you like art, you’ll like True Colours of Twitter. It’s a neat little online app that generates interactive art pieces based on the characteristics of a tweet, such as length, username, etc.
Want to know who was the first person to follow you on Twitter? If so, check out a nifty little site called FirstFollower. So if you have thousands and thousands of followers, it might be worth thanking that first one!
Want to create a background for your Twitter account? Just about everyone is doing that these days, so may as well join them! Twitlay is a service that lets you create your own Twitter backgrounds using your own pictures for free or have them design one for $50.
Reply, direct and follow your friends in a very cool Silverlight application.
If your Twitter account is hacked or if you feel that something fishy is going on with your Twitter account it would be worth considering the Twitter Connections that you have authorized. Sometimes out of excitement we might authorize some applications to use our Twitter account in their favor using OAuth (the methodology that asks you to allow third-party applications to access your Twitter account). Most of the time the issues with your Twitter accounts would be because of authorizing bad applications to act on behalf of your real account.
To remove unnecessary Twitter Connections just visit your Twitter account and then click on the Settings link at the top. Click on the Connections tab and you’ll be able to see the list of connections that you have. Click on the Revoke Access link to remove the connection from your Twitter account. Do this once in a while to keep your Twitter account in good standing.
Twitter Lists are pretty cool. It helps you collectively keep an eye on a bunch of related Twitter users based on topic, profession, expertise…you name it. If you think that updates from a related Twitter List would add value to your website visitors you can now add Twitter List Widget to your website and have the updates from those lists automatically updated on your website. It is very simple to install and it only takes a few simple steps to customize.
See how easy it is to add a Twitter List Widget to your website.
I guess it makes sense though, since you can easily fit "have you rebooted?" or "it’s time to reinstall" into Twitter’s 140 character limit. When it comes to Windows Tech Support people, do they really suggest anything else? =)
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This is for all you Twitter geeks out there. Want to remote control PC using tweets? It turns out you can do it, using TweetMyPC. This little tool will help you do the following: Shutdown/Restart your PC, make screenshots, download files to your system, get files from your PC, and many other things.
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