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Time for a Twitter roundup…

Twitter Digest - enter a batch of your favourite Twitter friends and generate a daily digest of all their tweets…check it out on the web or subscribe to the feed…remember you can convert feeds to email, IM, SMS using ZapTxt.

OutTwit - post and receive tweets in Outlook email…now that’s handy.

Twiddeo - got a camera phone, then it’s “See what your doing”
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Twitbacker - get your blog posts into Twitter…you can do this via RSS using Twitterfeed or RSS2Twitter.

TwitterNotes - if you use a (+) in front of your tweet, it will appear in your TwitterNotes account, you can even tag notes using an (*).
For private notes, follow TNotes user, and send direct messages to this account.

I’ve been collecting my Twitter posts at the end of my Twitter Tips and Tricks post and there’s always the Twitter Fan Wiki, and now mashable’s wonderful toolbox.

Twitter have a new command feature called Track, I can’t see anything on the home page, probably because it’s only relevant to IM and SMS.

Basically get keyword updates, whenever the keyword is mentioned you are notified, to set it up send a command:

eg. track Perth

If you are fed up, then set: untrack Perth

Turn all your tracks off by: track off

To see your tracking list send: track (by itself) or stats

If I set track @johnt…I’ll be notified of all replies to me.

As I mentioned a few posts ago I achieve a similar thing as Twitter Tracking by using a Terraminds keyword search feed, I use R-mail to convert it to email…there are other services that will convert to IM and SMS, ZapTxt comes to mind.

As I said this is my own way instead of using Twitter tracking, but the good thing about a search feed is you can re-syndicate to a blog, so you have an archive of all tweets with a keyword…I even posted about re-syndicating all these tweets back into a Twitter account.

Anyway, an archive of tweets with the term eg. Facebook, streamed into a blog, isn’t really a conversation, it’s really just a search result.

If I follow a keyword eg. Facebook, I could @reply to a user who made a tweet about Facebook, then they could @reply to me, and others can join in.

In the end it’s no different to a distributed conversation in the blogosphere.

But to archive this conversation each tweet that is @replying needs to also include the keyword eg. Facebook, this way our archived keyword stream will distill these distributed conversations.

Twitter tracking has it’s place for keyword alerts, but for conversation purposes, like Stowe Boyd posted wouldn’t it be easier if we could use #hashtags, this way conversations about a topic would all be archived in one place…and the tweets would be “about” a topic, not just a keyword in passing.

Question?

Instead of using a Terraminds search feed and converting it to email with R-mail, maybe I could use the Twitter tracking, and have IM auto-forwarded to email.

Is it possible to have an IM auto-forwarded to email?

Let’s hope we get a tracking watchlist section in our user spaces; just like replies, I’d like to see a list of keywords I’m tracking and a stream of the lastest tweets for each.

Related:
Groups : Twitter, Pownce and Jaiku