• Brightkite is flying high: If you haven’t yet given Brightkite a try, you’re missing quite a party. Users.. http://tinyurl.com/6ldahy #
• Twitter: Still not working, but explaining why on Twitter Status blog - VentureBeat: Twitter: Still not w.. http://tinyurl.com/4w7zgn #
• Harrison Ford on Seesmic: I love Seesmic which is best described as video twitter - though people have a .. http://tinyurl.com/6f4mc9 #
• twitter updates for 2008-05-28: Riley just had his first ice cream cone and The Kid is incredible. Like k.. http://tinyurl.com/57fftt #
• Twitter for 2008-05-28 [slightly behind]: realizing what a small world it really is. everyone knows every.. http://tinyurl.com/6rh5mn #
• I Haven’t Gone Away, You Know: You may have noticed that I appear to have fallen off the earth and be neg.. http://tinyurl.com/5p5ygg #
• Twitter Updates for 2008-05-28: Go Lakers! # Powered by Twitter Tools. I know, I know… I’m just a tease.. http://tinyurl.com/6keolf #
• Twitter Uses Tumblr For Status Blog - Mashable: Twitter Uses Tumblr For Status BlogMashable, CA&nbsp.. http://tinyurl.com/56c5v9 #
• 15 Million Reasons Why Twitter Sucks… - SitePoint: 15 Million Reasons Why Twitter Sucks…SitePoint, A.. http://tinyurl.com/58tclp #
• Twitter Switches To Tumblr For Service Updates: I never understood how Twitter could use its own platform.. http://tinyurl.com/5oxp3b #
• Twitter Talk: Twitter Talk Site Feeds, VoIP, voipsupply.com No Comments » My friend and colleague, Nicole.. http://tinyurl.com/6c8y72 #
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• Getting Down To The Heart Of The Matter: Twitter Performance: Al3x says: [from Twitter Technology Blog] T.. http://tinyurl.com/6l2rxc #
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• Apple Predicts Phone Signal Strength: Apple Predicts Phone Signal Strength May 29th, 2008 An interesting .. http://tinyurl.com/5z8ayq #
• 15 Million Reasons Why Twitter Sucks…: 15 Million Reasons Why Twitter Sucks… by Shayne Tilley May 29th, 2.. http://tinyurl.com/6rms98 #
• What’s Your Twitter Strategy? http://tinyurl.com/6xnvcs #
• Should corporations invest in Twitter Presence http://tinyurl.com/6djx3r #
• The Fall of Twitter (and the rise of tumblr)? http://tinyurl.com/6dmb4c #
• Twitter has caught me: I fought and fought, I objected…and I gave in. To. Twitter. But I realized this is.. http://tinyurl.com/5t437k #
• Robert Scoble and his productivity problem: By Mark O’Neill It’s not often that I read anything by Robert.. http://tinyurl.com/6kt2sf #
• How Many Friends is Too Many?: Offline, I have a network of under 50 people that I interact on a regular .. http://tinyurl.com/62rp53 #
• OMG: Earthquake in Reykjavik, Iceland: After trying to get some things done and staying away from Twitter.. http://tinyurl.com/5gha6e #
• SCOTUS is not a dirty word: or is it? Tim Eby used it on Twitter: timjeby @MoInColumbusOH - Thanks… have .. http://tinyurl.com/5r4eoq #
• Twitter Following Etiquette http://tinyurl.com/5ben96 #
• Mashable Rocks: Show Us Your Twitter Love http://tinyurl.com/5eeaur #

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• Twitter, the new breaking news warning system http://tinyurl.com/6o7uto #
• TWITTER AND JOURNALISM - Poynter.org: TWITTER AND JOURNALISMPoynter.org, FL - 46 minutes agoThe.. http://tinyurl.com/3enbra #

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• Blaine Cook Joins Today’s Gillmor Gang http://tiny.cc/dUZbV, the former chief architect of Twitter discusses the challenges facing twitter #
• http://tinyurl.com/6nwcxv Information on the Twitter Boycott on May 21 #
• more on the Twit-Out http://tiny.cc/aE0Pg #

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• For those of you tearing your hair out during the Twitter outage here is the explanation http://tiny.cc/EPI82 #
• The Top Ten Rants on Twitter http://tiny.cc/dc61v, a list of the top things people scream and cry about on the Twitter platform #
• From business week, Why Twitter Matters http://tiny.cc/VMVLn #

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• Did Twitter Really ‘Outshine’ the Mainstream Press? http://tiny.cc/mz6ab Read Write Web with their viewpoint on the earthquake coverage #

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Social news sites have been utilized by SEOs as a means of link bait since their inception.



Since it began in 2004, Digg has been the site of choice for many marketers.



As of late the ability for social news sites to deliver the same type of link bait benefit has been waining. In fact, The main flaw with the link bait and traffic provided by Digg is that it is not sustainable. It is also time consuming to build up the credibility and network needed to achieve the desired results.



Twitter had stepped onto this scene, and has given marketers a platform to deliver link bait in real time to publishers and searchers alike. Although the tweet is not stagnant, like a Digg story, it does not mean that it will not foster traffic and links beyond its origin. The retweet has offered the Twitterverse a way to spread ideas well beyond their point of origin.



The reality is that Twitter can be utilized repeatedly to build traffic and links if it is done in a transparent fashion. The same cannot be said of many social news sites.



A great example of the power of traffic and link bait provided by Twitter can be seen in the efforts of Zappos.com and @zappos, the company’s CEO Tony Hsieh. His innovative and transparent use of Twitter have allowed him to capitalize on the traffic and links provided by the site.



It only stands to reason that as the popularity and influence of Twitter grows so to will its ability to gain traffic and links for marketers that can utilize the platform in new and unique ways.

• CNET reports on how to monitor your value on Twitter.http://tiny.cc/uwUDE #
• StrawPoll: Some more information on the Twitter Polling app, and how it can be utilized http://tiny.cc/ro8oN #
• Should Smaller Businesses Twitter? Some Say Yes http://tiny.cc/pSIz9 post by Naomi Grossman about the small business applications of Twitter #
• The Twitter Threading Problem http://tiny.cc/dd4d3. More discussion about the@reply system and how a threaded solution might make more sense #

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• This is the new home of the Twitiac! #
• New way to poll via Twitter http://tinyurl.com/3tzdsd #
• Blaine Cook explains why Twitter cannot scale http://tiny.cc/IhoIg, the issue seems to be more about architecture than language. #
• New Twitter Alerts comic by David Berkowitz http://tinyurl.com/6ogqdj pretty dead on #
• Professor Michael Scott shows the uses of Twitter to the legal profession and some legal groups on twitter http://singularitylaw.com/?p=63 #
• Twitter blog: "How @replies work on Twitter (and how they might)" http://tiny.cc/ld4Lt, they want your Twitiac insight as well #
• Borderless conversations - a Twitter Dynamic? http://bowlofcheese.com/?p=1072, a post about how information is used and shared on Twitter. #

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A story about the power of Twitter in the hands of citizen journalists can be found on the BBC web site this morning.



The article looks into the role of Robert Scoble in reporting about the Earthquake in China, which struck this weekend. The tech blogger was reporting real time adding links to various on-line news outlets.



Scoble stated that he was receiving reports on the quake before the United Stated Geological Survey began its reports.



As the BBC rightly evaluates the situation, this could be the moment that Twitter breaks through as a platform designed for faster news coverage. Its real time nature, and built in concept of idea spreading known as “re-tweeting” make it the perfect tool for the citizen journalist.

This is the new home of the Twitiac!