Remember the good old days, back when you first started tweeting?  Twitter was new or you were new to twitter and the twitterverse stretched before you ripe with opportunity. Since then you’ve acquired followers, probably lots of them, some you tweet with regularly and others who appear simply to be along for the ride. Wouldn’t [...]

We’ve all wondered from time to time why a particular topic trends on Twitter. Some of the them seemingly come out of nowhere and rise to the top of the shared Twitter consciousness. Well, we are pleased to say the mystery is solved thanks to a most helpful site that went under our radar until now.

Rails Rumble is a programming competition where teams of up to four developers get 48 hours to produce an innovative internet application using Ruby on Rails. Among the many applications developed in this year’s competition that began 8/22 and ended 8/23 was a large selection of interesting new Twitter apps. Some are slick and sophisticated and some are definitely in need of further development, but all of them are shiny and new.

The Twitter homepage has gone through a major redesign, and we really like the result. In the previous version, the main call to action was to register or just sign in. Now, the very powerful twitter search tool is front and center, with the current trending topics listed so you can easily find [...]

The interface is so easy to use that we were up-to-speed in no time. As an alternative to a desktop app, TweetVisor is every bit as useful as Seesmic and TweetDeck.