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The Smartest And Most Influential Twitter Feeds: Freshest Tweets Ever

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic (by 5 people)   Your rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic

Fresh uses for Twitter

Think Twitter is just an amusing time-waster? More and more folks are coming up with incredibly smart and relevant new uses for this simple Web 2.0 tool.

This page is for you to:

  • vote for your own favorite links about new and smart uses of Twitter, and to
  • discover the world's most influential and important Twitter feeds that you should be following.

All the links are in "plexos," which means you can vote on 'em and add your own suggestions.

Do you have a must read Twitter feed? Add it! (And include a line about why we should follow you.)

Five non-obvious ways to use Twitter 

(If you have more, write them in the guestbook & I'll add them here!)

These are some of the ways I'm playing with Twitter to do something other than let everyone know when I'm out of toilet paper. I'd love to hear about yours, too.
  • Twitter sharpens my copywriting skills--getting a point across in 200 characters tends to strip a lot of needless junk out of one's writing.
  • Twitter helps me stay in front of my customers and readers.
  • Sometimes even reading my RSS feeds just takes too much time and energy, but I can always spare a glance at Twitter.
  • I always know where Hugh McLeod is flying next week.
  • I find new stuff to blog about and follow up on. It's a little waterfall of new ideas delivered fresh to my computer every second.

Beyond "what are you doing" 

Vote for your own favorite "how to Twitter" links, or add one here!

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http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/twitter-guide/

Great comprehensive guide to optimized Twittering!2 points

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http://www.twitter.com

Go to the source!1 point

News and Politics 

Be informed about news and politics and stuff! (Initial list courtesy of Caroline Middlebrook's terrifoc Guide to Twitter.)

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http://twitter.com/nyt

New York Times0 points

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Twitter / bbcnews

BBC News0 points

Twitter power users 

These guys have it figured out. Follow them and maybe one day you, too, can be a master of the tweet universe. (Initial list courtesy of Chris Garrett's Who is using Twitter and how? post at chrisg.com.

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Twitter / doctorow

Cory Doctorow, boy genius1 point

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Twitter / chrispirillo

Chris Pirillo0 points

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Twitter / tamar

Tamar0 points

Marketing and communication 

We use the Web to talk to each other, which means we can use it to sell stuff. Some big marketing brains to follow.

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http://twitter.com/communicatrix

The very smart communicatrix1 point

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http://twitter.com/cmiddlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook1 point

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Jeremiah Owyang

Web Strategist1 point

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Twitter / SethGodin

The legendary Seth0 points

Entertaining time-wasters 

I didn't say you had to give up wasting time on Twitter, just that you could do other stuff too. (Again, the initial list from Caroline Middlebrook's great Twitter guide.)

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Twitter / BoingBoing

BoingBoing1 point

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Twitter / fark

Fark0 points

So what are you doing? 

Ask me questions, leave suggestions, tell me all about a novel new use of Twitter!

Lensmaster

spirituality wrote...

Great lens. I'll be blogging about it tomorrow at: twitter at squidtop

ReplyPosted August 17, 2008