More Twitter Apps, More Coffee and Dirty Harry

If you have not done so already, go check out what Mark Shaw is doing, and check out his free 19-page Twitter for Business E-Book. Then you can follow it along, or you can scroll down a bit on this page and see the first six applications covered. Twitter without 3rd party apps is like a cup without coffee, or sugar. That's my feeling anyway. The more you understand how to use third party applications, the more you will love Twitter. Following on my previous posts, I want to introduce you to a few more applications that are also covered in Mark Shaw's book.

• Tweetake.com - Now, if you followed the video along yesterday on Tweetdeck, you probably note that you don't want to push the "x" on your groups - cause that deletes everything. Everything. I hate it when that happens. But Tweetake.com lets you back things up - your followers, favorites, direct messages, friends, tweets...and everything. Is that cool? That's cool. It gives it to you in one nice neat Excel file that you can save on your hard drive and another storage back up... just in case. Just make sure to put your secondary storage unit someplace away from your computer. You never know when there'll be a flood taking out your fourth story apartment. Okay, that is a little extreme, but you get the idea. If it's really important, it's best to keep it in a secure second location in a different building.
  
  
• Twitbiz.com - Another very easy to use and add your listing Twitter Busines Directory. I just did it in like 15.375 seconds. I will be back to add more to it, but easy-easy, if it was any easier, it would already be done...so go do it. Now.
  
  
• Tweetbuzzer.com - Give this one 15.376 seconds to load and it will start retweeting the top 100 buzzing brand names. Down on the left hand corner, you will see some small text. Try clicking on it, it does something. Otherwise you might be watching the screen for a while. If your favorite brand name is not bee-ing buzzed, then go ahead and submit. I don't know what happens after that...but it never hurts to try. Well. Sometimes it does.
  

Okay, so that's three... Going to get another big coffee. Incidentally, in Europe - it is not a always easy to find places that have big coffee. Their big is like a small cup in the United States. The waitress always looks at me strange when I try ordering a pot. You've been to restaurants where they leave the whole pot - right? Well, they used to leave the whole pot. I don't care what I do here, they won't leave the whole pot. So, I got smart, and now bring my own 64 ounce mug with me and ask them for 8 cups of coffee. Believe it or not, that does work.

Now, if you are going to come over to Europe and plan on staying for a while - two options. A) Bring your own Mr. Coffee with you. or B) Buy one when you get here. I bought three. Also, I know there is another crew getting ready to deploy to Iraq - there's one awesome thing about Iraq during the summer, it gets so hot that you never have to worry about your coffee getting cold. If you set it down at 0800, it will still be hot at 1400. Never let coffee go to waste. Just pick out the flies first.

So... now that I've got my fix again, we're gonna do one more.

MrTweet.com - First, make sure you are following MrTweet with your Twitter account. Next... wait a little while after you sign up. Then... Okay, well - there's what it says it does, but I don't believe anything until after it has happened. Even then, some things defy imagination. So, tomorrow - I'll come back to MrTweet after I've seen Mr Coffee again, and tell you all about what this does and what it is good for.