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Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

TBuzz – Fast, Easy Way to Tweet Web Pages

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I think I may have found the easiest, fastest way to send out a tweet about a website/web page you’re visiting: TBuzz, by Arc90.

It’s so easy! Be sure to go to the TBuzz website to actually do it as the image below is just a screen grab.


TBuzz is ridiculously easy to use

WIth a built-in URL shortener, this takes all the work out of tweeting about a great web page. It works for all major browsers, though be sure to watch the video on the front page of the TBuzz website if you’re an Internet Explorer user, as there’s a couple of steps that are required.

Seriously, is this cool & useful or what?

Time Magazine Talkin’ Twitter & Church

Monday, May 4th, 2009

In case you missed it, Twitter has made another huge surge into the public’s consciousness via a new article in Time Magazine about Twitter and Church. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

On Easter Sunday, pastor Todd Hahn prefaced his sermon by saying, “I hope many of you are tweeting this morning about your experience with God.”

“It’s a huge responsibility of a church to leverage whatever’s going on in the broader culture, to connect people to God and to each other,” says Hahn.

If worship is about creating community, Twitter is an undeniably useful tool. The trick is to not let the chatter overshadow the need for quiet reflection that spirituality requires. At Westwinds, people can ask questions about the sermon that the pastors will answer later, or they can tweet in real time and hope another congregant offers insight. Some use Twitter as a note-taking tool. Often, it’s pastor-directed, with McDonald preaching while Voelz taps out, “In what way do you feel the spirit of God moving within you?” Discuss.

Dozens of Free Twitter Icons

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Thanks to JackStcLiveBlog, there’s a nice set of links to dozens and dozens of high quality Twitter icons and “Follow Me” graphics. This is the most complete list I’ve seen!


1. Cute Tweeters Icon Set by Mirjami Manninen

2. Free Twitter Bird Icon Set by Gopal

3. Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon by Aravind Ajith

4. The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration by Liam McKay

5. Nice Glossy Web 2.0 Twitter Icons by Czar

6. FREE Twitter Icons For Your Website/Blog by James McDonald

7. Practika: A Free Icon Set, Smashing Magazine by DryIcons

8. Twitter bird icon by IconTexto

9. Free Twitter Icons – Happy Birds by Russ Adams at webdesign.fm

10. Free PSD’s Give Away: High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons by Aravind Ajith

11. It’s Twitter Time! Free vector icon set by Gopal

12. 6 Free New Social Icons – Digg, Twitter, Stumble, RSS, Delicious & Reddit by DesignReviver

13. Free Vector Icons Set + Twitter Birdy Icon by kailoon

For those stunning Twitter icons set, some of them are available to be use directly while some of them in are in psd file format so that you can edit them using image editor such as Photoshop to make your own design brand.

14. Twitter Icons with Attitude by monkeyworks

15. IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark by IconTexto

16. Round Face Awesome Twitter icons by Adriankenny

17. Follow Me… Twitter Button by IconTexto

18. Free Vector Twitter Icons TWEET, FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER by 404creative

19. FREE Vector Twitter and RSS Icons Photoshop Tutorial! by Jack Tse

20. Web 2.0rigami by Paddy Donnelly

21. Free Twitter Graphics by Randa Clay

22. Twitter Icon by PhireDesign

23. 31 Logos et boutons pour Twitter by vincentabry

24. Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot Photoshop Tutorial by Rype

25. Kweet- A Free Twitter Bird Icon by Cheth

26. Lisa’s twitter bird by Pasquale D’Silva

27. Twitter icon for a fluid app by mfilej

28. 30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons Download by siahdesign

29. Cute Twitter #failwhale wallpapers by Cheth

30. Your Source for Free Twitter Buttons by twitterbuttons

Apple, Inc. Praises Twitter

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Word got back to Apple that the developers of Twitter use Macs for most of their development so Apple did some research and wrote a very nice tribute article about/to Twitter.

It’s a nice, big fluff PR piece but it does at least provide some interesting observations about corporate life at Twitter HQ. More interestingly, Apple, who needs no help with branding or customer loyalty, showed an interesting side in actually wanting to be identified with another company, something you don’t see them do very often.