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If you have ever wanted to unfollow lots of people who are not following you all in one go, or follow users based on a keyword then this site may be the solution.

I rely on Twitter to generate traffic to quite a number of my web interests. Managing Twitter accounts even with the best clients can be a time consuming process. For a while I have been looking for a good tool to manage certain aspects of Twittering and I have been pleased with what http://www.gotwitr.com has to offer.

This is an amazing site where you can either browse a map of the World and view live updates of Trending Twitter topics or you can visit one of many world cities to view a live feed and list of trending topics in that locality. A very well implemented and extremely useful site

As you browse songs in iTunes on the iTunes Store you can click on the arrow besides the buy button and this reveals Share on Twitter & Share on Facebook Links

If you provide the url parameter utm_source in your link from Twitter, Google Analytics will attribute the inward link to traffic source "twitter" e.g.

http://www.pauldjohnson.co.uk/node/34?utm_source=twitter

Now that is a bit of a mouthful so pass it through a url shortening service like bit.ly

http://bit.ly/A76V5

Add this link to your post and you have tracking for Twitter, simple.

Tweetie is a superb iPhone application. The same tool is soon to be released as a desktop application. There is a movie on the developers website explaining the functionality.

The notion of road rage is well documented, most drivers have suffered this kind of abuse. This poor behaviour towards others behind the cloak of semi-anonymity seems to becoming more widespread on the web in the form of angry posts, unpleasant comments and abusive use of social networks.