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18 Points

It was an ugly day for social networking Thursday when as-of-yet-unknown hackers targeted Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal with massive DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, bringing down the Twitter and LiveJournal services for hours and severely slowing Facebook.

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124 Points

In the Twitter forge , we are almost at 120 listings of different Twitter hacks, apps, plugs, services, mashups and related items to Twitter. If there is anything we have missed or omitted please let us know and we will get it listed here. We aim to be the best resource on Twitter and Twitter apps on the net.

Also we thought that we would take this opportunity to ask the community how we can make Twittown a better community resource. If you have any suggestions please post them in the comments below or fill out the contact form.

Thanks for your input and happy...

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90 Points

From Lifehacker.com :

"Firefox with Greasemonkey: Greasemonkey userscript Google Reader + Twitter allows for two-click sharing of GReader articles with Twitter. Google Reader + Twitter adds a "Share with Twitter" button to the Google Reader footer that displays a popup where you can customize the title, tag, URL, and note before submitting the article to Twitter. "

See article here..

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120 Points

Here is a bit of fun with a video of the working mock up. These guys over at Daily DIY did some interesting hacking to get the tweets and the users picture to display on a small LCD screen. They used a Ruby script to connect with the Twitter API..

Full article and video here

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26 Points

It has been a fast and furious past weeks with Twitter and we have seen developers and companies around the world frantically coding and sending apps out to market. Twitter apps are flying out of the woodwork it seems. We have over 50 listed already and think that it will keep growing once people start catching on to the value of being involved in the microblogging sensation.

We are going to be ready for the rush and plan to provide and facilitate a community to support and encourage your fellow twitters, developers, companies alike.

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