On the tail of my recommendations for desktop twitter clients I thought I’d tell you about my experience with iPhone twitter clients.  I’ve tried half a dozen or so but in this space I think there is a really clear winner.  Unlike the desktop applications (that are all free) the iPhone applications are going to cost a cup of coffee.
Tweetie 2
Website: www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/
Tweetie is by far my favorite iPhone twitter application.  In the past tweetie lived as a version 1 application and broke the mold a little on the iTunes app …

I’ve tried quite a few different twitter clients – and most of the time I talk about Hootsuite as my client of choice.  It made sense to talk about how I got to this point (and to be honest there are still a few things about Hootstuite I don’t like).
Tweetdeck
Platform: Adobe Air ∴ Windows, Mac, Linux
Website: www.tweetdeck.com
Tweetdeck was one of the first twitter clients and I believe led the way for what is now a very crowded market.  It provides a columnar style interface allowing you to create different columns …

Last year Twitter introduced a new feature called ‘Lists’ that I think a few people are still not sure about.  To be honest – using lists on the twitter website is a bit wasted, the real value of lists is when you combine a dedicated twitter client with a mobile twitter client.
Keeping in Sync
For some time most of the dedicated twitter clients for your desktop computer have had the ability to organise tweets into columns.  One column for your main feed, another for your replies and mentions, another for your …

I feel I’ve spent the last 12 years of life, my career, trying to help people do things better.  Helping them make better systems, better experiences, better websites.  And I would expect that there are other people like me doing similar things for similar organisations.
But still I see so many organisations just getting it wrong, and I think I’ve figured out why.  Fundementally these organisations (I’m going to just say ‘people’ from now on) are making flawed business process decisions.  The decisions they are making about what to do on …

I get asked sometime to explain how Google ads work and how you can make money from these ads.  And invariably I end up drawing a picture on a piece of paper, like this.  Enjoy!

I had a friend of mine recently ask me about synchronizing outlook to outlook but on another computer.  I must admit that I originally thought “why is that a problem, I use outlook on 3 or 4 different computers and they’re always in Sync”.  Then I remembered that Outlook works well for me because of exchange.
Exchange makes working with outlook easy because all the core information (emails, calendar, contacts etc) are all stored in one place on the server and then exchange takes care of pushing the right information down …

A quick overview of using twitter hashtags.

I realized this morning that there are a bunch if things I check when making a decision to follow someone on Twitter – here’s what I do.
- Do you have a real avatar? A real picture, not a logo and definetly not the default Twitter avatar.
- Are more people following you than you are following? This is typically a good indication of interesting posts.
- What’s your tweet to friends ratio? If you are following 600 people but have only tweeted 6 updates then I’m not going to follow you.
- Do …

witter is a two way street, you can post as much as you like but it’s only when you start to listen that you become part of the conversation.  In fact I didn’t really ‘get’ twitter for quite some time and it wasn’t until I installed a great tool called tweetdeck that it finally made sense.
The problem with twitter (I think anyway) is the twitter website, it’s just not well designed for having conversations with people.  I use twitter without EVER VISITING THE TWITTER WEBSITE! I use it from my …

You have no doubt started to see links to websites that look quite odd recently, some examples:

http://bit.ly/pZixT
http://tr.im/tYd7

Most recently the use of twitter has started to highlight these URL shortening services due to the fact that twitter only allows 140 characters in posts.  So with 140 characters people needed ways to take a long website address and compress it down into something much much shorter.
The solution was some specific websites set up just for that purpose, and now there are dozens if not hundreds of these services. So instead of …