5. Terrific Twitter Tools

You are now up and running with Twitter; if you work your account from clients like TweetDeck or Twhirl, you develop and stay in touch with your network 140 characters at a time. After a free exchange of tweets, you might discover what the appeal of this service is. Part blog, part chat application, part resource exchange—Twitter and its third-party clients change online communication with each tweet.

But who says Twitter has to stop with just clever tweets, cool avatars, and fascinating followers?

Along with the clients mentioned in Chapter 4, “Working Beyond the Website,” online services crop up everywhere, catering to the Twitter crowd with a variety of online tools to go above and beyond what the desktop clients ...

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