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Most Twitter users probably follow under a thousand other people, but that’s enough to make it hard to keep track of the real-time stream. I actually started having trouble keeping up when I hit about 50 follows — and depending on how prolific the people you’re following are, you could be dealing with a hard-to-parse Twitter () stream even following just a handful of people. But while people like social media fanatic Robert Scoble, who follows over 100,000 people, appear to have the superhuman ability to stay on top of things, the rest of us need help filtering the Twitter stream. more

In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter () released its new “lists” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality, and themes. more

Check out this site currently in beta and seems to work for many folks. It is very useful to backup your twitter activity.

Twitter Backup | TweetBackup.

The Supr plugin for WordPress enables users to easily post links to Twitter and Facebook. It supports the features below.

* Easily post to Twitter and Facebook when you publish your blog directly in WordPress
* Customize your post or one click post with your blog title
* Host short URLs on your own domain
* Search engine friendly short URLs (301 redirect)
* Drive more traffic with the self-hosted StumbleUpon toolbar

Just starting out on Twitter? Looking for some Twitter Tips to get you started?

Twitter is bound to have a load of new users today as it is being featured on Oprah – so I thought it might be a good day to share some tips for the beginner Twitter user who is just getting going with the medium.

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It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice – and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton’s Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I’ve learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it. more