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The Internet continues to amaze me even after I have been online for almost 15 years, it just never gets old.  It is amazing to see how new companies and people in general find new ways to implement new ideas in using the Internet.  I mean it seems like just yesterday when we first started using the Internet for telephone… Now companies are offering Broadband telephone service in almost every state.

I love to keep up with technology and all of the new gadgets that are coming out on a daily basis, not to mention all of the services and companies that are implementing the Internet into what they have to offer to the public.  There are tons of Helpful Internet Applications that require only an email and username and password.  If you are like me, you have a special email address that you use to signup for all Internet related items.  It tends to keep my spam down on my personal email account.

One of these Helpful Internet applications that I would like to speak of is Twitter.  Twitter is a Free web 2.0 social networking application that keeps you in contact with the people that you want to be in contact with.  I have also found that it is a great marketing tool also, used in the correct way.  You can consider Twitter a micro blogging platform in a way.  Twitter allows you to post messages (called tweets), up to 140 characters in length.  So it is no long discussions, just short blurbs to your friends list.  If you look to the right of this page you will see a Blue square with a white bird in it.  This is my Twitter page and once you sign up you can add me to your friends list by clicking on the blue square on the right, and then clicking follow on my profile page.  Then you will get all of my tweets.

Twitter allows you to receive updates via the Twitter website, text messages to your cell phone, through a RSS feed, or through email with 3rd party add-ons such as Twitterriffic or Facebook.   I think that Twitter is a great service and is one that I am most impressed with as of late.  You can expand your Twitter abilities with some awesome 3rd part add-ons, that will take your Twitter experience to all new levels.

Japan was just added to the Twitter network recently, but Twitter has been a hugely popular service despite not having the ability to send tweets in their native alphabet.  Now that the Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji ability has been added, Japanese is the second most used language on Twitter next to English.

I highly suggest that you try out Twitter, and add me to your follow list to stay connected.  I have included a list of Helpful Internet Applications that will enhance Twitter and that you might find interesting.  Take Care all!

Some good desktop Twitter clients, so you can get your Tweets right to your Desktop without visiting the Twitter page are: Twhirl.  This is the one I use.  There is also TweetDeck.

If you have an Apple I-Phone check out Twittelator.

A twitter user ranking service, this will tell you who the most popular Twitter users are.  Twitterholic.

Tweetwheel will give you a visualization of your Followers.

Twitterfeed will allow you to input RSS feeds to your Twitter account.

If you want to put a Time Stamp on your Tweets then Tweetlater is good.

I personally like Twitpic when you want to post pictures to Twitter.

To send Tweets to Groups then Grouptweet is a good service.

To find new people to follow on Twitter try out Twubble.

Track your Twitter conversations using Tweet2Tweet.

Want to know what the current trends are on Twitter? Check out Twitscoop.. Great Marketing tool.

Twittercal lets you add items to your Google calendar using Twitter.

Tag and organize your tweets using Hashtags.

Twitter updaters Ping.fm.

Tweetburner allows you to track which links people are clicking on in your Tweets.  Another great marketing tool.

There are many many more great Twitter add-ons.  If you have some that you like please post them in the comments section.  If you are not a member of Twitter yet.. What are you waiting for??  Get on the bus or be left behind.  Especially if you do any marketing online, Twitter is an indispensable tool.

See you on Twitter!

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   Angel says:

   March 18, 2009 at 4:22 am

   With the growth and development of technology, the world is actually getting smaller and smaller. Nothing seems too far to reach. All thanks to the power of internet and its applications. There are infinite numbers of internet applications and tools available and I think twitter has already become the talk of the town.
   Thanks for giving relevant information about twitter.
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   cash advance software says:

   April 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm

   I am downloadin the tweet deck right now. I hope it is more solid than the twitter website!
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   Isaac Ladwig says:

   January 31, 2010 at 10:25 pm

   Awesome blog post, thanks for keeping me busy!
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   Charles Hamel says:

   February 1, 2010 at 8:52 pm

   Always willing to serve.