Quotably Helps You Follow The Conversation

Quotably makes it easy to follow the @replies conversations that people are having on Twitter. Give it a try, it's very cool.

Tweetburner

Tweetburner allows you to "keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer." The service shortens URLs and gives you statistics. The Tweetburner Blog has more about upcoming features.

Twitter Your Signature

Use Twitsig.com: "Many forums, Blogs, and other web services allow you to have images as part of your signature. twitsig.com allows you to display your current twitter status as an image."

Twitter Through Skitch

We love Skitch. We really love Skitch! Of course it's a fantastic application: beautiful and easy to use. We open it on a regular basis to highlight and pass anything from UI Mockups to Bug reports around Twitter HQ.

Of course it's only natural we were thrilled to hear they've integrated Twitter support! Read more about Twitter integration in Skitch and using Skitch to Twitter an image. There are so many great applications integrating with Twitter and we're trying to make an effort to share more about them.

Tweviews

Tiny reviews on Twitter: Tweviews. Follow or participate.

Mentions of "SXSW" Last Week

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Lots of people included the string of letters "SXSW" in their Twitter updates during the five days of SXSW Interactive this year—and last year as well. We thought it would be fun to visualize and annotate some of the surges so Jason put together this graph.

Something we were watching very closely this year during the conference was service reliability. The thin brown line across the top of this graph represents the 99.97% uptime Twitter measured during the week.

Office Improvements

We're fortunate in that we have an excellent architect with an office next to ours so we're having lots of improvements done to our space over the next few weeks. The first change was new carpeting and big, custom-built tables. Lots more to do!

Another Reason to Come Work at Twitter

ev: 7th grade
Originally uploaded by sem

You'll be working with sharp-dressing smart folks like this young man. (Evan Williams in 7th grade, ladies and gentleman.)

Visualizing Twitter

FlowingData has rounded up 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe together with pretty pictures and brief descriptions. Here's the list in link form only.

1. Twitter Browser
2. Twitter Social Network Analysis
3. Twitter Vrienden
4. Twitter in Red
5. Twitter Network
6. TwitterVision
7. TwitterVision3d
8. TweetStat
9. TweetVolume
10. TwitStat
11. TwitterMeter
12. 24 o'clocks
13. TweetPad
14. Twitter Fountain
15. Twitter Blocks
16. TwitterPoster
17. TwitterVerse

Found at Waxy.org: Links.

Some Ecards on Twitter

If you've never checked out the often inappropriate humor of the free greeting card site someecards, you should. And now they're on Twitter so you can follow them too.

Twitter in Plain English Video

From the fine folks over at Common Craft. We may have to put this somewhere prominent on the Twitter web site. Thanks guys!

Family Style

Nivin Sewpershad has written a detailed account of how he managed to get his whole family on Twitter.

By having us all connected, a member of the family could ask a question or say what they were doing. If one of us was not at our computer we would receive it on our cell phone, and could reply from there or jump on a computer. After many “Hello you twit” messages from my father, everyone seemed to understand the basic workings.

It took a bit of work convincing everyone initially but once they were all on Twitter they loved it. Good work Nivin!

Mashable Rocks

Pete Cashmore and Co are at SXSW and they're running a fun contest for Mashable fans. Winners receive a Rock Band game complete with accessories plus tons of other schwag. You can enter the contest just by Twittering @mashable rocks. Do it!

SMS Tweaks

Our partners at Ericsson tell us that they've scheduled a maintenance window on March 11th between 00:00 - 03:00 Central European Time during which they expect sms updates to queue for 20-40 minutes.

Here's how that translates if you're twittering like crazy in Austin, Texas: sms updates may be queued up for a maximum of 40 minutes sometime between 5 and 8pm.

Help Wanted Helping Twitterers

Do you know a lot about how Twitter works? Like helping people? Got some spare time? Want to make some money?

We're looking to add one or two people in the very important role of Twitter support staff (part-time). It doesn't matter where you live—you can work from home. You need:

• An enthusiasm for Twitter
  
• Great (and speedy) written English* skills
  
• At least 15 hours a week of focused availability
  
• To be a highly proficient user of the web, Twitter, and software in general (and a quick learner)

* We have a special position available if you can read and write Japanese, but that's not required.

The job consists, basically, of answering emails from people who write in who are having trouble with Twitter and helping them out as quickly as possible.

Pay will be hourly. Inquire for more details.

Send your resume and Twitter username to twitter.supportjobs AT gmail.com.

Twitter Meter

Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline and displays a handy graph so you can see what folks are talking about.