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Twitter Data Portraits from alex dragulescu on Vimeo.

When twitter hit the scene I was very intrigued. I heard a lot of skepticism on the street but the idea of a pure and simple text based application will always be near and dear to my heart. The economy of a 140 character post is genius and lends itself to poetics. We're now in the age of micro - blogging, customer service, life observation, political reporting, activism, comedy, philosophy, weather reports, it goes on and on. Follow and be followed. Through the window of a page of collective steams there's a wonderful sense of now.

Twitter Tools

TwitThis
TinyURL has been around a long time and proved invaluable in wrangling unruly easily broken link that string on for miles. Thanks to TwitterThis, the marriage between TinyURL and Twitter, it's now easier than ever to post URLs to your twitter stream.

The FAVRD Lens on Twitter
FAVRD lists interesting things that show up on Twitter, based on the number of times an item has been declared a ‘favorite’.

TweetDeck
Organize and manage twitter feeds. TweetDeck, "aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces. Tweet Deck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets."

The We Feel Fine of Twitter
Twistori Enjoy!

Add an i-phone and a sprinkle of GPS
You get Twinkle

Connect your IM with Twitter
Excla.im is a nice app by developer and master of web presence, Harper Reed.

Voice to Twit
Jott transcribes voice messages into twitters.