Chapter 15. Ten Useful Twitter-Based Services
In This Chapter
Staying in touch with the world through Twitter services
Organizing your Twitter life
Keeping up with the folks on Twitter
With events like the Hudson River plane crash, and Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Oprah coming to Twitter, buzz about the service is making Twitter go mainstream fast. Because of that, many businesses, causes, and people are creating Twitter-based presences, and hundreds of innovative Twitter-based services are emerging to support that. Some have separate Web sites, and some you just use directly through Twitter. In no particular order, here are ten that stand out because of their usefulness and overall appeal to Twitter audiences.
BreakingNews
@BreakingNews http://www.bnonews.com
News. This simple feed gives you ongoing breaking news from around the world. Actual humans maintain and update it, not an automatic RSS feed. It has a good track record of beating many of the major news outlets for breaking news — and it has a good track record for accuracy, as well.
StockTwits
@StockTwits http://www.stocktwits.com
Type: Financial. Cofounded by Howard Lindzon, best known for mashing up Wall Street with video podcasting to create the highly successful WallStrip, StockTwits plays off the fact that investors who tweet like to tweet about stocks. StockTwits is essentially a community and social exchange of snippets of conversation about stocks, using Twitter as the conversation medium at its core. You can use StockTwits ...
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