Unhandled Perception

How Twitter’s owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.

Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/…

Twitter today published a variety of impressive stats about its growth on the occasion of its fifth anniversary; for instance, it now has 140 million tweets per day, up from 50 million a year ago, and 460,000 accounts created per day.

Link: http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/…

you can drastically improve your ability to provide useful and timely information to your followers by using a Twitter automation tool. Here are five for you to consider, with varying levels of automation.

I use Twaitter with great success.

Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/…

ChumpDump is THE twitter unfollow game for iPhone and Android.  Gameplay is simple, you have chumps in your friends list, they know it, we know it, you know it.  ChumpDump wants to set you free!  Earn some karma but weeding out the useless tweets in your daily firehose read on twitter.  Odds are you have a few gems as well, those are people to save!  The game rewards you for dumpin the chumps, saving those worthy of your time and most of all telling everyone why you dump and save.

Link: http://www.chumpdump.com/

What we often don’t realize when signing up for all these accounts, though, is how difficult it can be to permanently delete our accounts when we’ve had enough. Some require complicated, multi-step processes that can stretch over the course of days (or weeks). Others take less time, but still require multiple steps by the user.

Below we’ll take a look at the account deletion processes of popular websites and services, and how easy or difficult they make it. Then we’ll discuss why sites make things so complicated, and some things to consider when designing your own deletion policies.

Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

Not the best name but it is a handy little application if you’re looking for the simplest Twitter client available.

Leave comment on what you think.  Would you use this over TweetDeck?

Link: http://renegademinds.com/Products/…