Tiny bytes of tech
Tweetwall is an interesting new service that lets you create a stream of tweets based on hashtags, usernames, and keywords. It’s cool because right now you can only create a real-time list of tweets on Twitter by perform a search on one keyword. Here you can add several keywords, several usernames, and multiple hashtags and Tweetwall will combine all those into one single stream, or “tweetwall”. You can then share it with anyone.
Want to see which brands/companies are mentioned on Twitter the most? TweetBrands in an interesting site that lists out the top 50 brands mentioned today on Twitter. It also includes a link so that you can read through the actual tweets. Good for brand managers!
Earlier last week, I wrote a post called How to create a list in Twitter. Lists are a new way to organize people who tweet about a similar topic into one group.
Listorious is a new way to find great Twitter lists created by other people that you can follow! Want to follow a bunch of New York Times writers? Follow Staff! Want to follow people who only posts links to cool stuff on the web? Follow Linkers. Fun stuff!
There are a lot of programs out there that you can use to remotely control your PC, but how about via Twitter? Using a program called TweetMyPC, you can not only shutdown and restart your PC by sending a Twitter tweet, you can also download files to your computer, lock your computer, get your IP address, and even get a screenshot of your desktop! Pretty neat!
Twitter Lists is a new feature just rolled out that allows you to create groups of people and view just the tweets from the people on that list. You can create a new list on Twitter by logging into your account and clicking on New List in the right sidebar.
Give your list a name, choose whether you want it to be public (other people can follow the list) or private, and click Create List.
Now simply go to the profile pages of the people you want to add to the list and you’ll see a new button called Lists. Just check the box next to the list you want to add them too.
Now to view tweets from people on the list only, go to your profile page and click on the list name in the right sidebar. Done!
There are a ton of sites out there that help you search Twitter for popular links or find the most popular topics currently on twitter. Microsoft has joined the search Twitter game with Bing Twitter. Using Bing Twitter, you can quickly see the hottest topics on Twitter and also the links being shared for each hot topic.
When you click on a topic, you get a real-time view of all tweets with that tag plus any user tweets about each link. Cool!
If you use Twitter to tell your followers about an event that is going on, you might want to consider using schmaps. schmaps basically adds a link to your tweet that loads up a page with a map of the event location, a way for followers to comment, a way for followers to RSVP and the ability to customize the background using your Twitter background. Pretty neat.
