Following my recent post, Twitter – the basics, here’s a follow up with details of some applications you can use to make posting to twitter and organising your tweets easier. iPhone/iPod Touch applications TwitterFon This is the application I’ve been using on my iPod Touch. Download it from the iTunes store. It’s easy to set up and has a clean and simple interface. It highlights new tweets in your timeline and new @replies. Twitterific This was the first application I used when I got my new iPod but I had trouble getting it to show just the tweets from the [...]
March, 2009:
Facebook updates
Yesterday Facebook announced a couple of major changes. Most notable are a new design for Pages and a real-time News Feed. I am quite excited about the changes to the News Feed. Basically, instead of your News Feed updating every 10-15 minutes, it will update automatically. I’m hoping that this will stop updates from weeks ago randomly appearing on my feed (a problem which seems to be happening more and more frequently for me). You can watch a video of the announcements at AllFacebook
Twitter – the basics
A year or two ago it was Facebook that had everyone talking, these days it’s Twitter. So what is it and what’s in it for you? Twitter is a micro-blogging service which allows users (tweeters) to send updates (tweets) and read other users updates (tweeter’s tweets). Getting started The first thing you need to do is create an account. To do this you’ll need to come up with a username and password. Your username will form part of the URL for your Twitter feed and will be one way that people can find you on the site – you can [...]
