Ping.fm API - can be used to post to social sites including twitter.

"Friends" vs "Followers" - an explanation of the "official" terminology for friend relationships on Twitter.

Quoted: A component is a trusted piece of an XMPP server that can send and receive arbitrary stanzas. Components speak a different protocol to communicate with the server. Because the name of a component is a domain (example: arbiter.chesspark.com), a component can pretend to be many users. Any stanza addressed to user@component.server.com will be delivered to component.server.com no matter what the value is of ‘user’.

XMPP based micro-blogging site - more open/scalable than Twitter.

Damon's Twitter Statistics site. Really cool visualizations about how you're using twitter - see how many tweets you send at different times of the day, where they are coming from, etc.

I thought I was hip - but I was the 1,000,000th person to sign up for twitter.

Great idea by GetSatisfaction. They do searches across twitter, looking for mentions of a company. They then offer to "convert" those to GetSatisfaction conversations.

Unfortunately, "Faves" is commonly used word that doesn't usually refer to Faves.com - so there is a lot of noise in this Twitter stream.

Really good post on the importance of feedback from a user's "audience" that their user-generated content is actually being viewed and appreciated.

refaving Mohit

Very cool art by the Fail Whale artist. Reminds me of art made from cut-out paper.