Seesmic is a great social networking app that lets you manage your Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz accounts at one place.

The app is free on the Android market, and for a free app the quality is just great. The user interfance for the application is perfect and it’s fast. Once you open up Seesmic for the first time, you’ll have to add an account to get started. You can add Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and a certain “Salesforce chatter” account.

Once you’re done with adding accounts (I only added the first two), you can start using them right away. From the main accounts page, I accessed Twitter first. It instantly loaded up all of my tweets and the interface is perfect with 4 tabs, timeline (news feed),Replies, Messages and Profile. You can also search the app for tweets on the top right of the screen, tweet or click the refresh button.
The Facebook part of the app is not so great though. Its still fast and you can view your News Feed, Friends, Pages and Wall which all works great but sadly there is no option to view your messages. Other than that, the app has limited functionality, you can’t use chat or view groups either so you’re better off using the default Android app for Facebook.

Overall , Seesmic is a mixed bag for me, the ability to use multiple social networks in one beautiful app is great but the lack of features in the Facebook part is a bit of let down. But still, if you use Twitter, Seesmic is great in that case, and while Facebook on Seesmic may lack some features, its still great for casual use and its definitely faster than the default Facebook application.

It’s no secret the online world is becoming more and more social everyday. Twitter just happens to be one of the biggest online social networks used everyday by millions of people and corporations alike. There’s no dearth of Twitter apps for Android, but these top 5 are the crème of the cop.

5-  Seesmic

Seesmic is one of the most popular and oldest Twitter client on Android. Part of its popularity is due to its full support for Facebook as well.  It also comes with built in Twitlonger integration, conversation view, retweets, lists, multiple twitter accounts support and a host of other features. The app has a pleasant UI and is stable and light on system resources.

4-  UberSocial

Previously named Twidroyd, UberSocial is a popular Twitter client for Android offering some unique features, the biggest of which is Live Preview, which allows you to preview the content of any link, share over Twitter without leaving the application. Other features include ‘pull to refresh’ and ‘tweets near you’ the later of which uses location services to find nearby people. The application also supports themes.

 3- Tweetcaster

Apart from having an extremely elegant looking UI, which supports minor theming, Tweetcaster, is also one of the more ‘intelligent’ Twitter clients on Android. Offering brilliant features such as ‘Zip it’ which allows you to hide annoying twitter trends from your timeline without having to unfollow anyone and ‘SmartLists’ which helps you organize your twitter timeline by grouping people into lists.

2- Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck has the best looking interface amongst all Twitter clients on Android due to its simplicity and use of colors that don’t pop out to strain eyes. It has multiple column support, which you can set to display any custom stream you want for example tweets of any specific user or your mentions and direct messages. It’s also extremely light on resources and the app as a whole feels very light and nimble. It also has built in Facebook support.

 1- Twitter for Android

Twitter for Android is the official twitter client made by Twitter  itself. It’s the only app that will sync with your phonebook contacts. The application recently received a major overhaul that brought killer features such as push notifications which means you receive notifications as they happen rather than setting up a refresh interval. The UI is also very neat and clean with a white theme. It also offers a built in search feature which allows you to search for tweets related to whatever term you want.

Let us know your favourite through the comments section below!

With the development of social networking that exists right now, it provides its own opportunities for you, especially for those who want to exploit the popularity of social networking for your benefit. One of the social networking that offers such as this program is twitter. Working system of this program is known by the term “paid to tweet“, i.e. you will get paid to do an update status, where the contents of your status is promotion of business from the advertiser.

But there are some requirements that you must follow to be able to joint this program, including the number of followers have over 50 people, where more and more followers you have, then it is likely to get ads from the advertiser will be even greater. As for the earning of the value offered also vary. Usually, the value depends on the number of followers. Therefore, if you want to get earnings big enough , then you can try to increase the number of followers.

As for the payout, the minimum account balance must be reach $50. The more often you are checking your accounts, the greater your chances of getting advertising. You are also allowed to have multiple twitter accounts, where this will be very beneficial for you to get more earnings. How do you think? Do you need to joint with this program?

iPad users that use Twitter extensively have something to smile about. This is because Twitter now has a HTML5 version of its website Twitter.com that will act as a makeover for iPad users. Obviously, this makeover comes as Twitter’s popularity is spreading and HTML5 is the technology that everyone is moving towards. This, needless to say, will be an upgraded version of the Twitter app that was made available to iPhone and Android smartphones.

This information has spread across the world since Twitter tweeted on the following on their page

We’ve launched our HTML5 version of twitter.com for iPad. It will be rolling out to device owners over the next week or so

According to reports, this app is entirely based on HTML5 and unlike the tradition one panel view the latest version will be a two panel view. Additionally, it is said to be more touch-friendly, and sensitive to touch gestures. Also, it is said to reflect the new look and feel that Twitter’s website design is moving towards.

This has just been announced and not all have been able to test the app as yet. However, going by Twitters declaration in their tweet over the next weeks more and more users will have access to it, and experts will be able to gauge the feedback from users.

via – Techcrunch

The general rule about social media is that it is only as good as you can use it. So, finally being efficient and effective on social media finally depends on you. Twitter is a social media that has been gaining in popularity with millions of users accessing it. With the kind of population it has it becomes of prime importance to ensure that your voice is heard and you understand the implications of what you put out there for everyone to see. Here are a list of 10 tools that Twitter offers to make your tweets reach the right kind of audience, at the right time, and can provide you with feedback on how you have done.

1.    Tweetdeck : This is like a personal browser to stay in touch with the latest updates and being in touch with your contacts. It can be used to customize tweets with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates. It helps you stay in touch with people and topics of your choice easily.

2.  HootSuite : It is a tool that helps you manage multiple social networks all using one client the HootSuite. It also makes it easy to manage many users over many social network accounts for companies that have more than one contributor. Additionally, it also provides graphs to show individual and group contribution statistics.

3.  Nurph : This is a tool that helps you chat on Twitter. One of the best ways to make a social network work for you is to be on it and have a voice. Nurph. You can tweet to nurph.com YourTwitterName, this can then be used to bring your friends & followers together for a real-time chat.

4. CoTweet : It helps marketing and customer support professionals to manage their social media conversations from a centralized dashboard. This ensures that the communication goes from corporations of any size are all speaking in one language. This is useful for companies of all sizes.

5. Twellow : Twellow is similar to the yellow pages, except that this maintains a directory of public Twitter accounts. It also categorises the accounts and has search features that can help you find the people and categories that are of importance to you.

6. Twoorl : Twoorl is a web application that gives you updates on the impact that your Twitter account in the Twitter world. It provides you information with metrics on usage trends, associated clouds and user comparisons. It is priced at $9.90 a month and has a 20 day free trial available.

7. Twaitter : Twaitter helps you schedule your Twitter messages with easy. It helps you regulate the Twitter messages, manage your calendar, translate your tweets to different languages and update your blogs and RSS feed to your Twitter account.

8. Dlvr.it : This tool provides you the option to unite your blog with your Twitter. If you have written a blog and want to share it with your Twitter followers, this tool makes the transition easy. It provides you the option to syndicate content from social media.

9. ManageFlitter : This tool helps you manage who follows you and see who is not following you back. It also provides information on which of the Twitter accounts are inactive. This ensures that you follow and are followed by people that are serious about tweeting and therefore make you more efficient.

10. The Archivist : This is a service that uses the Twitter Search API. It helps find archived tweets. Using the information that the tool returns you can create an archive, analyze, export or share the Tweet. This is developed by the Microsoft’s MIX Online team and help you gather older information easily and effectively.

Following so much tweeples is such mess when we have over does of updates on public timelines. Recently, I found a new app which help you to manage and analyze your Twitter profile and community. SocialBro is a nice tool which is based on Adobe Air and offers different search criteria together with filters for all your followers.

To use this app, all you have to do is login by using Twitter account and after logging in you find lots of options based on your followers and friends. By using this app, you can easily find who is not following you and also whom you are not following. In other words, we can also say that it offer all details of your account.

Features

• Download whole profile information of followers and friends to a local database and you can also use this information when you are offline.
• Find new followers and friends using different queries like name, location and description
• Filter and re-order search results
• Create Twitter lists using search results
• Easily find who is not following you
• Find new followers for you
• Manage multipe accounts

One of the great thing I like about this app is that, it is available for desktop as well as an Google Chrome extension and it can easily detect spammers, noisy users, influential users, famous users, newbies from amongst your friends and or followers.

SocialBro is in beta phase and you can try it out by signing up an account to get started with this app.

Sign-Up Link for SocialBro

As a blogger and using Twitter, you need to know some useful things like who to follow and who not to follow because Twitter user can spam, complain or simply update any random status. This infographic clearly shows different types of Twitter profiles and ti gives you good advice on different kinds of accounts on Twitter. 

Let us know what kind of Twitter account you have and share your views in comment section with us.

It is extremely interesting for all the micro-blogger to check out Twitter’s Improved “Who to Follow” features that makes easier for them to discover new accounts of interest. In other words, when you do a search for any specific topic, Twitter will list out accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. Further user can opt for advanced search features like tweet from specific people and hastags. It means that you only have to search for a subject rather than knowing the exact name of those that cover the subject.

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We’ve made it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on your interests. When you search for a topic, you can now discover accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. (Previously, you would have seen accounts that have the specific term in their name or username.) Just click on the “people” section of the search results page or search from the “Who to follow” page.

The search list comprises of several topics including technology, travel and funny, so it becomes even more simpler for users to find people of their interest. Not to forget, advanced search capabilities will help people narrow their search when using the service.

How To Be Awesome On Twitter is a nice presentation by @princess_misia where she described about an effective way of using Twitter. If you want to know “How to choose focus on Twitter?”, “How to decorate your profile” or “How to grow followers base” then you should go through this presentation on twitter.

Techmeme provides overview of the most popular stories that are doing the rounds. For a while now Techmeme used blog posts, news articles, and press releases to update their news. The latest addition to its sources has been Twitter.

Gabe Rivera, the founder of Techmeme , wrote

for as long as newsmakers have used Twitter, tweets have broken news stories. And yet for Techmeme, linking directly to tweets was never imperative – after all most newsworthy tweets are blogged within minutes, moreover with helpful context

To emphasis the importance of Tweets in today’s internet days, he added

But still it seemed as if something was missing in passing over tweets: we’d miss the first few minutes of certain developing stories as well as opportunities for including good commentary

After acknowledging the importance of including Twitter he announced that

we’ve begun incorporating tweets on Techmeme. Our first tweet as a main headline is here, and appears below

Following this the Techmeme page displayed its first Tweet headline.

Though this means that Twitter will also be identified as an important source for generating and identifying news, it is important to note that this will not be the only source of information. Techmeme will continue to use all other sources like blogs, news articles, and formal press releases.

Algeria has been under the scanner for a while because of the riots that have spread through the country. The riots broke out last week and is said to be instigated to protest the rise in prices. The protests have been suspected to have gained popularity, using the far reaching access of social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

The government of Algeria has tried to block these social networks for a while to reduce. According to a report in the Next Web

Social Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been decisive tools activists and rioters use to expose governmental atrocities throughout the riots. These tools have also helped show the aggression expressed by Algerian youth towards public and private property

Therefore, the Algerian government went ahead and completely blocked social media in the aim to reduce the coordinating and organizing protests. Additionally, this ensured that the information of the protests were not reported to the rest of the world and were channelized through formal media.

As much as social media may be blocked in Algeria, social media has not blocked Algeria out of its burning issues. Many people outside and within Algeria have voiced their opinions on the crisis and hope that normalcy has been reinstated quickly in the country.

In an interesting, yet predictable turn of events, Australia seems to be affected by emails and social media’s like Facebook, Twitter etc. The increasing popularity and accessibility to people and information caused by social media and emails is forcing to close down post offices across Australia.

The Sunday Herald Sun has reported that it has received a list of 27 post offices nationally that will be closed starting December 31, 2010.

The organization, which employees 34,000 people, has seen a dip in profitability for from $500 million a few years ago to $100 million last year.

In its annual report the company said

If we do not take action now to reform our business model, Australia Post will lose money in the next few years. This is not an option.

Australia Post national media manager, Lanie Harris, said

The 27 outlets identified in July represent 0.6 per cent of our network. Those on the list will be monitored before any final decision is made. Any decision to close a post office is taken as a final resort

The union was informed of the closure during the week and told that the staff will be offered new positions. Employees were also told that the selected outlets to be closed were identified based on their long-term sustainability and future. $150 million has been retained for a redundancy program.

Twitter has announced some of the most important and sought out trends on its site yearinreview in the year 2010. Like in  2009 , in 2010 too Twitter has split all its leading contenders and under different categories and listed out the top 10 topics under each category. For instance, under overall top trends, it has revealed that the Gulf Oil Spill was one of the most sought after topics in the year 2010 with the FIFA world cup and the movie inception being second and third respectively.

The categories that twitter has used to provide top 10 information are as follows:

• Overall Top Trends
• News Events
• People
• Movies
• Television
• Technology
• World Cup
• Sports
• Hashtags

In the Twitterverse, in 2010 a range of topics of conversation have occurred, and this list is one of the most comprehensive list of what was most talked about. Twitter does not reveal the method of how it gains this information. However, it has provided information on what has been popular among users.

Apart from the Gulf Oil Spill, other disasters like the Haiti earthquake also been an important point of discussion. Justin Bieber was popular, while the movie Inception encouraged a lot of conversation.

Overall, Twitter had a lot of conversation, and Twitter has yet again displayed the different topics that made the maximum news.

Twitter is looking back at the year and showing off what it has achieved in 2010, as being a phenomenal year. Twitter has had its worries about growth slowing down initially. Despite that the site claims 100 million people have joined Twitter this year alone.

In its new infographic page , Twitter describes

In 2010, Twitter grew by more than 100 million registered accounts. Here’s a look at some of the people that joined the Twitterverse this year

It also displays some of the celebrity members that are on Twitter. The ‘Twitter tree’, in the infographic page displays a timeline of the year and particularly marks out months where the most high-profile new users joined. The tree includes all sorts of high profiled users including people like Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama, Russel Crow, Cher, and Conan O’Brien.

Twitter has also set up the 2010 Year in Review site. Members and followers hope that this review site will display some of the biggest and the most interesting things that happened on twitter this year.

2010 turned out to be an interesting time for Twitter. It ensured that it increased its space in the internet world, steadily. Additionally, the site also ensured that it expanded to mobile apps and related products. What’s more it also increased its revenue with Promoted Ads.

Indonesian official Andi Arief’s account was hacked by a hacker and used to send fake tsunami warnings. Andi Arief is the Indonesian president’s, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s, disaster management adviser.

Andi Rief had over 8,000 followers on a Twitter account used to post disaster-related updates. This is because Indonesia has over 150 active volcanoes and is frequently struck by earthquakes, floods or tsunamis. With such popularity and followings because of the nature of the account, it also got a lot of attention for cyber crime.

Akuat Supriyanto, a member of Andi’s staff, confirmed the hack on Twitter. He told the press

Today, at dawn, the Twitter account of Andi Arief, the presidential adviser for social and disaster management was hacked. The hacker wrote many incorrect messages. Please inform other friends

This hacking forced Andi to open another account and took part responsibility for the hacking. He added

It is probably because of my own recklessness therefore starting now I am using @AndiAriefNews, please understand’. He also tweeted ‘Because of the trouble I had with my old Twitter account, I am using this account to update information. Thank you

It isn’t clear how Arief’s account was compromised. However, this has surely made people more aware social medias risk and vulnerability.