Posting tools
www.twhirl.com
www.digsby.com
Visualizations
Statistics
http://tweeterboard.com/top-100
Tools
Find twitter users you should be following: http://www.crazybob.org/twubble
Attention profile from tweets: http://www.tweetclouds.com/
Twitter in your calendar: http://twistory.net
Pro-twitter
Anti-twitter
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
1) it's a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key addictive element of slot machines.
2) The strong "feeling of connectedness" Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking its having a meaningful social interaction, while another (ancient) part of the brain "knows" something crucial to human survival is missing.
3) Twitter is yet another--potentially more dramatic--contribution to the problems of always-on multi-tasking... you can't be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep thought and/or a flow state.
Too much twitter
Moar twitter
Flow
1. http://solyoung.com/2008/03/24/scobles-secret-to-twitter-i-call-it-flow/
2. http://solyoung.com/2008/03/25/flow-day-2/
3. http://solyoung.com/2008/03/26/flow-day-3-the-volume-is-up/
4. http://solyoung.com/2008/03/27/twitter-flow-day-4-application-ideas-and-metrics/
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