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Not Twittered out? Try Twittermap
Any Twitter user knows how addicting and mostly pointless it can be. Add a dash of Google Maps mashup, stir, and you have Twittermap. Twittermap gathers the locations of the last messages from the Twitter community feed, and plots them on a Google ...
Twitter down? Twitabit to the rescue!
It's no secret that Twitter goes down on occasion. But what are you gonna do if you just neeeeed to tweet?
The great minds at betaworks pondered that question as well and developed twitabit. A simple website that stores your messages and forwards ...
Twitter and Joyent are no more
Talk about coming out of nowhere. Less than 48 hours after each company posted effusive posts praising the other service on their respective blogs, Joyent, the company that provides the infrastructure for Twitter, has announced on the company's blog ...
Twitter Replies rebranded as "Mentions"
Twitter has made a change to the way users can track when they are mentioned by other Twitterers. The Replies page is no longer, and instead has been replaced by Mentions. To be more accurate, the Replies page has been changed into a Mentions page, ...
Twitter is shutting down autofollow
You may have run across certain Twitter users who follow you back right away, as if they have some sort of autofollow feature turned on. They do, actually, but not for much longer. Autofollowing has never been available to everyone, it was only ...
Politweets: Politics + Twitter = Fun
It's not as if politics and Twitter are new to each other, but it probably hasn't ever looked this nice. Politweets keeps pulse on where the buzz is in politics, specifically this year's election and the candidates involved. As tweets flit back and ...
How's your Twitter Karma?
Some people use Twitter like a broadcast medium. The encourage people to "follow" their updates, but don't follow back, which turns Twitter into a tool for one way communication. Others view Twitter as a tool for dialog, and every time they receive ...
Twitter relaunches people search
For a surprisingly long time, there's been no way to look up Twitter users by name. Twitter used to offer a people search feature, but removed it when the service was experiencing some technical difficulties. Today the microblogging service has ...
Twitter starts rolling out new format for retweets
It hasn't been long since we told you about Twitter's "Project Retweet," the plan to introduce a standard, system-wide format for rebroadcasting other users' Twitter postings. The new retweets seem to have already rolled out for certain power users. ...
Pretweeting - virtual stock market of Twitter trends
How hip are you? Are you on the cutting edge of what's being talked about by those in the know? You know, the "twitterati"? (Sorry, I just gagged a little there.) If you enjoy stock market-based games, and tracking the trending topics on Twitter, you ...
Freezly: use Twitter to get free stuff
There's an absolute treasure trove of free stuff on Twitter, but it can be hard to find the best giveaways. Freezly is a new site that points you right to them, links and all, so you don't have to follow a ton of extra people to hear about the best ...
Favrd - Twitter with none of the "webcock"
Believe us when we say that we know you're sick of hearing about Twitter, but there's a good reason it's one of Download Squad's favorite toys. We often find out about new software on Twitter before it gets blogged anywhere else, and the readers reap ...
Is Twitter Down? Yes or No
Twitter may be addictive, popular with the geek crowd, and possibly even the next Facebook. But the service sure goes down pretty frequently. You'd think Twitter's frequent downtime/outages would present an opportunity for another micro-blogging ...
Twitter tips - tools for your tweets
You are reading this post about Twitter. That's what you would answer to Twitter's simple question, "What are you doing?", which is the entire premise of Twitter's existence. Getting people to answer in 140 characters or less, by IM or logging ...
Should Twitter really count URL characters against you?
URL shorteners, while convenient, are bad for the web. They hide the true destination that they are pointing to, giving bad guys yet another tool in their arsenal, while conditioning web users to blindly trust the links they are clicking on. ...
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
