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I have just added a poll to my frontpage to see what most people who visit my site think about following people back on twitter.  In my opinion, there are three kinds of people on twitter:

1.  Celebrity - These are the ones who don't follow anyone back and just want people to follow them.  Well, they follow some people - but don't even care who is reading their tweets. EX:

     Here is the next Twitter App Blog!!!  This is a very fun process.  I am trying so many apps now that I am having a hard time remembering all the different names and deciphering my notes!!!  The fun part is that there are new apps everday, so there is always something new to try.  Have fun with these, I sure did!!!

10.  My-First-Follow

This app just shows you the first person that followed you on twitter.  This might be fun for someone who just stumbled upon twitter all by themselves and didn't have someone they knew follow them right away!!!  This is just something different.

9.  Monitter

     I am adding this one because it is very popular recently, although I am having a hard time telling the difference between this and Tweetgrid - other than the look of it.  Monitter lets you monitor twitter for 3 or more keywords and watch the tweets as they come through.

     Here are the next 10 Twitter Apps that are worth trying and a description to go along with each one.  Thank you for all the hits on the last list and because it was so popular, of course I will keep writing them and taking your recommendations along the way.  They will be given 10 at a time still, but this time numbered from 10 to 1, just like a top ten.  The order will of course mean that number 1 is better in some way.  For the purposes of this blog it means that I personally enjoyed the application for my uses, but it doesn't mean that it would necessarily be a better app for you.

     Have fun with the apps and let them help you with your twitter addiction as they have for me!!!

10. TWEETSCAN

     I am declaring that I officially love twitter.  Because of my newly developed passion for this social networking site, I have been playing around with different twitter apps.  I am playing with so many lately, that I have to put my notes somewhere just to remember them.  There are so many that I am going to take them 10 at a time and separate my blogs that way.  They are just going to be in order of how I notated them, not in order of how I like them or how they come up in searches.

     I may write some blogs for newcomers to twitter in the future, so do not take this list as a good reference if you are just getting started on twitter.  Instead, get your twitter account going and once you are familiar, come back here and try new things.  Everyone is different, so one thing may work for someone really well, while another app may just be a waist of time.  Play around like I have and enjoy!!!

1.  The first app to try with twitter is, TweetDeck.  

How can you get the most from a group experience when using social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Youtube, etc.?  The norms of social networking sites are somewhat different from the norms of different social situations.

1.  Become an active group member.  In order to fully appreciate any social networking site, you have to join.  You can't contribute anything without first joining and you wont be able to learn about what each site has to offer without trying it for yourself.  Your experience with one group (or site) will help you when trying out another one.  In these groups, your willingness to seek input from others and to give feedback to others can start a pattern that will allow you to give quality and value to the groups that you are in.  If you start this process with reluctance, then the connections that you make may sense your insecurity and  have trouble connecting to you.

     I thought I would take some time and write about something I know a lot about and have a lot experience doing:

Working with Groups. 

What are the benefits of implementing a corporate social media strategy?

• Improve reputation of your business.
• Improve brand awareness.
• Drive customers/investor awareness of your business.
• Get your message in front of your target audience faster.

Why should my company consider using social media as part of its corporate communications strategy?

• The key technologies that underpin the social media revolution continue their assent. Social media is established everywhere there is an Internet connection and it has to be considered for all advertisers, marketers and content producers as a core part of their communications. Social media has impacted every aspect of the Internet and transformed the role it plays in our lives.

What is social media?

• Online applications, platforms and media that aim to facilitate interaction, collaboration and the sharing of content.
• Social media is not new. From the beginning, the Internet was founded on message boards, chat rooms and peer-to-peer communication. What has changed is the mass involvement that modern social platforms inspire.
• Contributing to the Internet has never been as accessible and less technical. Innovations in web development, computing technology and the proliferation of broadband have come together to drive monumental consumer adoption. This is why the phenomenon of social media is important now - it has the potential to impact all our media consumption therefore shifting the emphasis from professional content producers to the consumer.
• Key Social Platforms - Blogging, Micro Blogging, RSS, Social Networking, Chat Rooms, Message Boards, Podcasts, Video Sharing, Photo Sharing, Widgets.