Third party applications are getting more and more creative, helping us use our social media tools in more effective and widespread ways. Twitter lends itself really well to third party apps, since the micro-blogging site is so versatile and relevant to so many other functions on the internet. Just last week, Twitter made its third party security controls stronger, so we can feel better than ever about making use of these third party apps — and here are the 5 best ways to do so. Read more
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[Editor Update: Jim Gilliam pointed out that our title was inaccurate. We deeply regret the mistake and we've updated the title to accurately analyze his interesting idea.]
Jim Gilliam is a self-described “geeky activist building internet tools to shake up a broken political system.” In addition to his websites to this end like govluv.org, he also seems to have a serious love for (obsession with?) Twitter and its potential. And with good reason – Twitter’s unique structure and API should give it an enviable advantage in constructing any number of revenue streams and business alliances.
How do you know you twitter page is best looking? You ask your friend or colleague right? We all know he will tell you that your page is number one – he is your mate, stupid! You may want to get in real Twitter Skin Fight!
Folks over Twitter Skin Fight have a great and entertaining project that can test how cool your page is comparing to others. Sign in and get ready to rumble!
Well, you can check out Top 100 (also divided by country) and if you can find yourself there, scroll for next paragraph.
Don’t panic – you can change your background within minutes but first take a look on these tutorials that can help you to design real killer twitter page.
Well, I hope after tweaking your background you will be back in fight – if not you may want to setup Facebook fan page or something and fight with it! 
It’s been awhile since we’ve done this, in fact the last time was Christmas time of 2008. Surely, there have been many new Twitter-related apps that came out since then. Here are 40+ new Twitter-related apps for all your Tweetering needs. Read more
With the many third-party Twitter applications/plug-ins that are coming out, maybe it’s time to have a Twitter Apps Store. Or at least an online directory of these applications would be more useful. Actually, there are already three that we know of, and the most recent of which to come out is Twitdom – the Twitter Apps Database. The other two are Twitter Apps and Twitter Fan Wiki/Apps. Read more
