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Stumbled upon this post by Josh Lowensohn which talks about a new service in town….Adocu
It’s a Twitter clone. There’s no 140 character limit, but spaces are not allowed, you have to fit everything in one word like “whatingodsnameisthis”.
They call it Nanoblogging.
I’m a bit skeptical about this but then I was skeptical about Twitter as well [...]

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I had mentioned in a previous post about how Twitter’s popularity is spawning support systems around it. With the mind-boggling number of Tools out there and more being launched everyday, I decided to list some essential tools which would really help improve your Twitter experience.
Clients
Twhirl - The best, most ultimate PC client out there. An [...]

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Popularity of twitter is spawning support systems around it, latest in the line being short URLs.
We’re all familiar with TinyURL, but with only 140 character to work with there’s a need to shorten it as much as you can. Enter is.gd
BHC3 demonstrates via an example in his blog

Full URL: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/friendfeed-rss-is-a-fantastic-discovery-tool/

82 characters

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6qhk4n

25 characters

is.gd: http://is.gd/7oc

16 characters

So [...]

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When I first came across Twitter, I couldn’t understand it. So I can put 140 characters on a web site to tell the world what I am doing at the moment… Who cares? And why would I want to know what others happen to be doing at the exact moment they decide to share it [...]

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