Overview

Twikini offers a powerful and efficient way to use Twitter on your phone. It conveniently updates your favorite feeds in the background, and leverages the camera, GPS, media, touch screen, keyboard, graphics and storage capabilities of your device.

Twikini is currently in public beta - you're welcome to download and use it for free.

Our goal is to make Twikini the best designed Twitter app for Windows devices in the world.

Main Features

• FAST! Unlike other Twitter apps for Windows® Mobile, Twikini is written entirely in native C++ code for maximum performance and the fastest load time possible.

• Simple, uncluttered, and customizable user interface. Choose from a variety of themes for the best reading experience. (Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2, Screenshot 3)

• Post tweets using a full screen editor. Optionally, set your location (either manually or using GPS) along with your status updates. (Screenshot)

• Twitpic integration to post photos with your status updates. Select existing photos or click new ones from your device's camera.

• Read status updates just like browsing a web page. Quickly reply, retweet, favorite, or email other people's tweets. (Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2)

• Windows Media Player integration. Automatically tweet the song and artist you're listening to.

• Single download that is compatible with all Windows® Mobile devices - both touch and non-touch.

• And lots more...

Get it here http://www.trinketsoftware.com/twikini/

I have started use twitter more as a outlet recently of things that frustrate me on a daily bases and low and behold I got a answer…I was commenting how silver light wasn’t just embedding it self in to Windows live writer via copy and paste like You tube and low and behold  and @JustinAngel  on twitter tweeted back that All i needed to do was @gemery To paste HTML into Windows Live writer in Edit view: Press Ctrl+Shift+V and select "HTML". It'll paste it in as HTML…Its not exactly what i had in mind but a great work around. Thanks JustinAngel…Who ever  you are.. I am going to use this as out let much more…

There are some much better programs for this like http://twollow.com/, but if you are are programmer that uses powershelll then you might really enjoy this.

I don't believe in the whole auto follow thing, but hey it works for some people....

All you have to do is copy and paste the below script at a PowerShell prompt – change the Username and Password first! When it runs it populates two arrays $notfriended and $notfollowed (just type the names at the prompt to list their contents).

There’s an example at the end (commented out) of how to iterate over the $notfriended list to add the people who are following you but you’re not yet following.

There is a rate limit on the Twitter API. If you have *a lot* of friends / followers, you may hit it. The call to Get-TwitterLimitStatus gives you a short summary of your current limit status.

Usual rules apply, no warranties, limited testing, limited error handling, use at your own risk, yadda, yadda, yadda…\

Come see his post at

http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2009/02/18/twitter-script-who-s-following-you-or-not-following-you.aspx

If your coming to Mix Make sure you check Adams blog post this

http://adamkinney.com/blog/415/default.aspx

Scott Guthrie, VP of all things .NET and one of Microsoft's most prolific technical bloggers (he actually writes all of the entries on his blog which is quite a feat given his schedule and time constraints as a corporate Vice President). Many of you have seen his keynotes over the years, which are always among the most popular and highest rated by conference attendees. It's no surprise that he will again headline at MIX this year.

Adam Kinney has put together a great resource of the Microsoft product teams and groups that have Twitter accounts. This is especially helpful since it’s sometimes hard to tell which Twitter accounts are legitimate and which are held by squatters. If you’ve been curious about which Twitter accounts are the real deal, you can now rest assured that the official Microsoft Twitter accounts listed below are OK to follow:

• @MSWindows – Announcing Windows 7
• @WindowsLive – Official Twitter account of Microsoft Windows Live
• @liveframework – liveframework
• @livemesh – Sync, share, and access the information you care about—wherever you happen to be.
• @SharePoint – The official tweetstream of the SharePoint product group - managed by @LLiu
• @bizspark – Microsoft BizSpark - Software, Support, Visibility
• @zunemarketplace – Zune Marketplace is a store for the way you love music, with brand-new releases every week and a huge selection of music in every style imaginable
• @wmdev – Windows Mobile
• @microsofttag – Microsoft Tag
• @ch9 – listen to the cockpit, help us fly the plane
• @ch10 – Channel 10 is Microsoft's online community for the technology enthusiast
• @ch8 – Microsoft's community for students
• @mixonline – Come check us out at www.visitmix.com
• @MIX09 – The Next Web Now, pre-empted by @MIX07, @MIX08 and @PDC08
• @SiteNamedDesire – Want a copy of A Website Named Desire? This li'l birdie will tell you how. Wait for the tweets.
• @MicrsftTech4All – News from Microsoft Accessibility team, which strives for technology to be usable by everyone & complements our physical & cognitive abilities.
• @MSDN – Updates from the MSDN site team.
• @adCenterBlog – News, Tips, Tricks & Best Practices From The Guys At Microsoft adCenter

Twitter is a great app to keep people in touch. Silly me thought that most people read your RSS from a blog. Then the other day a person who i think highly of told me that he doesn't believe in RSS and only reads blog posts people bring to attention mostly though twitter. Well silly me was manually posting my blog update via twitter manually. Today while having lunch with a friend he told me he would set his alarm for when his posts were going out and then manually posting to twitter as well until he found twitter feed. Let me tell you what a life savor. Twitter feed takes in your RSS and posts to your twitter profile when new posts arrive it also has a slew of great options to choose from, and choices that allow you to schedule your tweets. My is set to update ping.fm a status update aggregate. I was actually considering right a plug-in for my blog on this.. What a great app.

What to see a social graph of your friends and who is replying to you? With Twitter Friends you can do just that.

A nice graphic representation of the who is replying and linking. It also gives some interesting rankings about other fun twitter facts.

If you do feel like logging in, you can see who in your network is inactive, and who's online - presumably based on the time of their latest tweet. This can be handy if you're looking to prune back an overgrown network. Mostly, though, Twitterfriends is a fun way to find out about and evaluate how you're using Twitter.

Tweebay is a Free way to buy and sell your stuff using the power of Twitter.   Tweebay allows you to buy and sell stuff easily and takes away the complexity of the process. Selling is easy, you have 240 characters to describe your item and can upload one photo so you need to make it count. So thats it, Have fun...

Reading through my feeds this morning I caught a great post from Mashable about twitter phone apps. Thought I would help the windows mobile twitter lovers out there.

ceTwit - Windows Mobile client for Twitter written in c# and .net framework.

GPSTwit - Adds location tracking to Twitter on Windows Mobile devices (iPhone too)

PocketTwit - Free client (donations accepted) that works with Twitter and Identi.ca accounts.

Twitter2Go - Very basic Twitter app with limited features.

TwitToday - Small app for Windows Mobile devices with standard Twitter features.

Twitter Answers - The Twitter version of Yahoo answers. Ask and answer questions with this application.

Quakk - Open source Twitter client, which means not as quick and easy to install and update.

I have way to much work to do today but I had to share this especially since it reminds me of Santa.…

Corey Menscher  built a Java application receives the sensor values and analyzes them. he then extended the model for his pregnant wife so that when a kick event is detected, a Twitter message is posted via the Twitter API.

Here is what corry has to say

As a baby grows inside the womb, pregnant mothers are constantly and acutely aware of its presence mostly through its movements. With the Kickbee, I intend to extend a baby's minute contact with the world beyond the mother's body by sensing these movements and transmitting them to digital networks.

There's something special about pregnant women's bellies that make so many want to touch them. The presence of a child inside the womb is mysterious because we only have visual clues to its presence. Yet we know that if we press our hand and wait patiently, we may be greeted with a physical manifestation of its existence by feeling the baby's subtle (and not so subtle) movements inside.

As an expectant father, I am once-removed from the physical knowledge my wife has of our baby and its development. With the Kickbee, I wanted to create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby's movements. It can also aid in tracking the frequency of fetal movements, which is an important way to monitor the health of the developing child.

The Kickbee is a wearable device made of a stretchable band and embedded electronics and sensors. Piezo sensors are attached directly to the band, and transmit small but detectable voltages when triggered by movement underneath. An Arduino Mini microcontroller transmits the signals to an accompanying Java application wirelessly via Bluetooth. (a SparkFun BlueSMIRF v2 module that communicates serially with a Macbook Pro)

When a kick event is detected, a Twitter message is posted via the Twitter API. I chose to use Twitter because it is easy to initiate an SMS message to any mobile phone when a kick is detected. It also acts as a data log that can be accessed programmatically for visualization or archiving.

I think the next step would be to put the reverse on a man that actually punches him in the stomach when the baby kicks or better yet his bladder. It brings up a interesting point of using twitter as a service bust/que for in coming messages..

I originally posted a single search but as i tweeted i mean re:tweeted with this several others so i guess ill start a search for tweet post and update it with new ones.

http://www.tweetscan.com/

http://twitter.summize.com/

A mashup website that scans tweets for profanity words and posts them on twittertale.com...Be careful what you tweet...

I really like mashup sites that take one service and bring it totally new flare. Here is one I found that mashes up twitter with sending your friend a drink. Its pretty sweet.