TBUZZ is a the easiest way to talk about and track buzz around Web pages with Twitter. Just drag it into your browser’s toolbar and you’re ready to go.

When visiting any Web page, click on the TBUZZ link and you’ll see who’s talking about the page on Twitter. You can even add your own tweets to the conversation.

TBUZZ is an Arc90 project.  Go to http://tbuzz.arc90.com/ and check it out today.

Let me know what you think of this cool tool!

TBUZZ – An Arc90 Project from Arc90 on Vimeo.

If you have a blog and I hope you do, you will want to take full advantage of these tools.

*Twitter Feed
“Twitter Feed” is a simple module for Twitter. Twitter Feed displays a configurable number of updates or tweets. Therefore, you can control the updates you want to post to your website and decide which tweets you want to post to your blog. This is great because you may not want to post all of the updates. You can filter tweets depending on your choice. If you want to filter hashtags or show only tweets with links in them, you can do that with no problem using Twitter Feed.

*Twitter Badge
“Twitter Badge” refers to the official Javascript codes that display badges of Twitter. It shows what you are posting on Twitter. This can be a good tool for your WordPress blog. It will help your readers to find out that you are posting on Twitter.

*Twimbler
“Twimbler” is a tumble blog that can be combined with Twitter. This tool can help you to create a tumble blog. This blog can be updated through Twitter. So whenever you want to update your blog, you just need to send updates through Twitter and it will be updated. This is a good way to create a blog and, thereby, create traffic sources for your business and websites.

*Tweetwire
“Tweetwire” is another Twitter tool that does something different. It actually reformats Tweets in a newspaper format. As a result, this can be more suitable for people who do work in the newspaper industry or for bloggers who want a specific newspaper-like feel for their Twitter account.

*Tweetback
“Tweetback” is an interesting tool for you to use on Twitter. If you know about pingback in WordPress, then this will be simple to understand. This is like a pingback for Twitter. This service pingbacks to any blog posting with the direct tweet url. It’s a good tool for creating links back to any blog post.

Happy Tweeting! Or Should I say Blogging!

No, I’ll say Tweeting!

You have a choice so, make it a better than terrific day!

Terry

For only being a single website it sure has made a splash. Although it shares some of the same ideas as Facebook or MySpace and Blogger its incredible ease of use coupled with its limit of one hundred and forty character micro posts this user generated website is breaking all kinds of records.  Twitter has also been making a lot of news so if you haven’t been keeping up here is what you have been missing.

Due to Twitter allowing third party users to create applications to complement the websites experience for its user’s big names have gotten on the band wagon.  It may be old news that people have been tweeting from their iphones and Blackberry but things may really start to get out of hand with Twitter if “Twiiter” (that’s with to letter “I’s”) the Wii game console based “Twitter like” application becomes integrated with the actual Twitter web site.  You can see how far they have actually come by visiting the Twiiter web site at http://twiiter.wiioperasdk.com/ .

When we see more people Tweeting from their living room after losing a game of Wii golf we may see more news like the kind we heard in early April when Demi Moore popularity on Twitter was credited saving the life of a suicidal women who tweeted “I’m just wondering if anyone cares that I’m gonna kill myself now” which may have gone unnoticed if it was not for Demi’s reply “Hope you are joking.” Due to Demi’s huge following on Twitter it was noticed and several people looked at the profile of the suicidal woman and finding her address they contacted the authorities in San Jose her home town and police immediately came in and took her to the hospital for evaluation.

With all that outpouring of cyber help it makes one wonder if or when something goes wrong with the space shuttle instead of relying on NASA to solve all of the problem maybe soon the Twitter community will be better equipped unless they are distracted by playing the new game, “Dead Space Extraction” for Wii due to be unleashed on the public this fall.

If you would like to follow what is really going on roughly 375 miles, or 600 kilometers above our heads you’ll want to follow New York astronaut Mike Massimo who will be working on the real Hubble telescope. You can follow Mr. Massimo on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Astro_Mike as he prepares for takeoff. Mike also plans to be tweeting from outer space during his mission periodically.

Let’s hope there are just no Tweets on reentry like the ones that shocked the world from Mike Wilson aka http://Twitter.com/2drinksbehind when his plane made an unscheduled landing on the Hudson river early this year.

Mike arguably became the first person in history to serve as several national news agencies “credible news source” by texting tweets from his cell phone from the crash site before and while rescue attempts were still in progress. Turning Twitter not only something not only something news agencies talk about but also a place people are turning to get News first.

The Twitter background: To snaz or not to snaz that is the question. I really have no definitive answer to that question. But it seems that if you are trying to make a name for yourself anything will help and it can’t hurt to pimp out your Twitter background to see if you can’t stand out from the rest maybe even create a little controversy. If you already are famous as heck, like Demi Moore, I guess you don’t have to do squat to your account to attract huge followings of Twitter faithful who will hang on your every word.

That said I thought I would spot light a few Twitter backgrounds and give you some background on the backgrounds if that makes any sense at all.

Since we mentioned Demi Moore already I will just start with her background. Of course if you are a Gen Xer you remember Demi as the hot starlet with the husky voice from St. Elmos Fire or perhaps her early marriage to Bruce Willis or the too numerous to mention movies she has starred in and now are just starting to believe she is some sort of vampire, because frankly gravity is not doing things to her body that it is to the rest of us. If you are younger than a Gen Xer you just may think she is some pretty young woman you’d like to hangout with. Whatever you think of Demi… her Twitter following has erupted to over half of million while probably her Twitter background is one of the most plain and unpretentious on the site. Her back ground or the lack of it can be seen at http://twitter.com/mrskutcher

Now to cover the other end of the spectrum I think absolute craziest Twitter background title belongs to Mr. Michael Ian Black in which has a depiction of him hiding behind Dr. Pepper cans evidently naked and apparently strangling a unicorn while Demi Moore is looking on.

This background seems to be helping him gain followers because he also has over a quarter of a million followers, even though he is not famous. He does claim to be a famous comedian but his claim to fame is from an obscure show on MTV which no one watched since MTV has stopped playing video and started ripping off Mexican TV game shows. His Twitter background can be seen at http://twitter.com/michaelianblack

To contrast the art work of the Mr. Blacks Twitter background I would like to leave you with the classic black background. The sort of Ralf Lorene style background which no one can comment on or condemn, because it is so simple and classically black. This is the little black dress of Twitter websites and like the dress it is perfect for every occasion. In the Twitter world a classic black background goes with whatever you have to say. The classic black background goes well with political statements, just day to day banter, celebrity gossip even if you don’t have anything to say. Like in the case of The Mime who has not only gained over 8,000 followers without being famous he has also gained all of those followers without ever tweeting a single word. That’s right since becoming a member The Mime has amassed a loyal following thru his classic black background and his uncanny ability to keep us spellbound by his “…” tweets. You can see The Mime on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TheMime

Or if you are a master marketer with magic coming from your finger tips like Jonathan Budd, your back ground can speak volumes about your capabilities…  http://twitter.com/jonathanbudd

So, you can see for yourself how a background can work or not work for you.

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