For many people, myself included, logging into the Twitter website on a regular basis can be quite boring and frustrating. Far better to have your Twitter feed on your desktop like an instant message (IM) tool so you can see the latest tweets as they come in and still get on with your work when...

While Twitter is gaining in popularity all the time, it is a rather different beast to a blog, and neither really replaces the other. Twitter, as a micro-blogging service, is ideal for letting your contacts know about useful links, new blog posts and general life streaming comments. In contrast,...

A key aspect to success when losing weight - or indeed trying to make any major change in your life - is accountability. Couple this with making is as easy as possible to be accountable and Twitter becomes a perfect tool to help you lose weight. Essentially, what you need to do is to set up...

As a technology, Twitter only allows you to upload text of up to 140 characters. But many of us would understantably like to be able to upload photos that we have taken to Twitter as a quick and easy way to show them to friends. The easiest way to do this is using the free service at Twitpic. For...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, Twitter suffered an outage that meant many Twitter users lost much of the data from their accounts. Followers and tweets all vanished with a puff of smoke. And bearing in mind our ever increasing reliable on Twitter, this could really cause a lot of anguish. So...

Twitter can be viewed as millions of publically-viewable conversations about pretty much any topic under the sun. And because these are actual human discussions, occuring in real time, that we can evesdrop on, it creates an amazing opportunity for those in the know. Rather than searching the...

One of the reasons that Twitter has become so popular is that it is so useful from a networking perspective. For this reason it tends to still be more popular in business and tech circles than, say, Facebook but there are still plenty of people simply using it for fun. The thing is though that...

If you are Twittering for business, rather than friends, one of the keys to success is getting as many people as possible following you who are interested in the product or service you are offering. But generating Twitter folloers can be a real challenge. Sure, there are the old classics but...

Twitter is one of the newest things on the web, a social networking tool that operates as both a standalone program as well as enabling further functionality to other social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace. If you have ever received a “tweet”, then you know what Twitter is all...

Having recently given a talk on the demise of the dot.com era and the current economic situation, a question arose: “Can a company with no product, no money, and no purpose survive the recession?” In this case, the person was asking about Twitter, but the same question was asked about many...