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About the "Chronicles of Real Time Web"
[Paris, December 5, 2009] Ideos publishes Chronicles "Real Time Web" that the document entitled "The services, tools and applications Twitter" is the fifth article.
The "Chronicles of the Real Time Web" consist of a set of articles for the general public on the subject of "Real Time Web". The purpose of these articles is to demystify this subject, in order to inform teaching on the foundations of this (r) evolution of the Web, follow the news service "Real Time Web" and to provide all the elements of response to questions:
- What is "Real Time Web"?
- What services "Real Time Web" to use in my private and professional life?
- How to use the service "Real Time Web"?
- What effect the "Real Time Web" can have on me?
The primary source of information of the chronicles of the "Real Time Web" is the site WebOff (initiative of Pierre Guillou , head of the company Ideos ).
List of published articles:
- Article 1 (11/29/09): Understanding Web 1.0
- Article 2 (11/29/09): Understanding Web 2.0
- Article 3 (01/12/09): Understanding the "Real Time Web"
- Article 4 (03/12/09): Understanding and using Twitter
- Article 5 (5/12/09): The services, tools and applications Twitter
- Article 6 (09/12/09): Using Twitter at a conference
Services Twitter
Summary
1) Definition of "Real Time Web"
Services' Web Real Time "in 2009 were the United States a wave so strong that social networks had been before with the iconic Facebook .
» ( discours du président Barack Obama, le 16/11/09 en Chine ). Today is the service Twitter (and soon Google Wave ) that is on everyone's lips including U.S. President Barack Obama said during his trip in China: "So I'ma big supporter of not restricting Internet use, Internet access, Other information technologies like Twitter. "( speech by President Barack Obama, China on 16/11/09 ).
You can find a definition of "Real Time Web" in Article 3 of the "Chronicles of the Real Time Web": Understanding the "Real Time Web" .
2) Twitter: the service is emblematic of "Real Time Web"
Twitter is the service that popularized the services' Web Real Time "and who created this (r) evolution. The service is the ability to send free on the Web short messages of 140 characters ( tweets in English: chirping).
You can learn more about Twitter , know the history of Twitter , learn how to subscribe to Twitter and how to customize his Twitter account , find the glossary Twitter or document with you to other online resources on Twitter in Article 4 the "Chronicles of Real Time Web": Understanding and using Twitter .
3) Why use Twitter?
Without going into the debate "waste of time" versus "revolutionary service", here are 3 potential uses of Twitter:
- Contact: send Twitter messages relaying an article you just post to your blog (use the service TwitterFeed to automate the sending) and increase your chances of being read to create a buzz, get feedback and better to have your article listed on Google.
- Inform: Inform your friends in real time and in general all your followers on what you are about to drive or to think, relaying information which you witness or share an online resource. Conversely, read the news of your "friends" on Twitter (your followings ) in real time.
- Search and sure: with tools like Twitter Search you can search for information in all the tweets sent on Twitter. It is then possible to follow an opinion leader, a thread of information (using a keyword or hashtag ) or to be informed in real time of an event or the existence of a crisis.
But you can also use Twitter to do business, marketing, working with colleagues, your students to interact in class, share photos / sounds / videos ... The list of Twitter services below illustrates some of these possibilities.
4) The galaxy Service Twitter
With its open model, Twitter has fostered the creation of a galaxy of online services. This is certainly the most part the existence of these services makes Twitter a Web service extraordinary.
You will find below a list of services widely used Twitter and categorized. Other lists are available online:
- oneforty (list of over 2000 Twitter applications).
- Twitter tools and services .
- Twitter: 150 tools / services to go further .
- TwittoSphère .
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Directories, directories
- Twellow , TwitDir , Twitts.fr : yellow pages of Twitter.
- Twitter Social Brand Index : Business Directory on Twitter.
- WeFollow : Twitter accounts sorted into categories.
- Mr. Tweet : suggestions of Twitter accounts you should follow.
- Tweepz : Twitter accounts proposals that address a particular topic.
- Utwitbook : Geolocate the Twitter accounts.
- MentionMap : create a map of your community of followers to identify the most relevant.
Research (subjects, places, people ...)
- Twitter Search , Monitter , Twazzup : real time monitoring all tweets sent and containing a keyword.
- DoesFollow , FriendOrFollow : check whether a Twitter account after your account.
- BackTweets : find the tweets (Twitter accounts so the transmitters) that contain a web link pointing to your website.
- OneRiot : Web search engine real-time.
- TweetingPlaces : geotag places (restaurants, museums, universities ...) in France found on Twitter.
Audience, influence
- Twitter Grader : Make the level of influence of your Twitter account ( How Does Twitter Grader Twitter Calculate Rankings? ).
- TwitterAnalyzer : follow in real time or over several days the number of readers of your tweets.
- TweetStats : get the statistics of your Twitter account (the number of tweets sent, schedules, players use Twitter ...).
- TweetEffect : study the consequences of your tweets on the acquisition or loss of followers.
Profile
- Tweeps.info : get a summary sheet of your Twitter account profile (average number of tweets sent per day, most used words in your tweets ...).
- TwitterFriends : Get a picture of your hidden network to optimize it.
- TweetPsych : get a psychological analysis of your Twitter account and a list of accounts with the same profile.
Trends, feelings
- Trendistic : follow in real time or over several days the number of tweets as a keyword or set of words are mentioned.
- TweetFeel : get more than the number of tweets with a keyword, get an estimate of sentiment attached to that keyword.
- Twendz : from TweetFeel, Twendz adds estimates of sentiment attached to words related to the keyword used.
- TweetVolume : compare the rate of presence of different words on Twitter.
Votes, Polls
- PollDaddy , Vizu , TwtPoll : mail surveys on Twitter and view the results (with Vizu you can view your polls on your website).
Other online resources
- 25 Social Media Monitoring Companies You Want to Know About
- TweetBeep : Get email alerts Twitter conversations about you or your brand.
- Journalists on Twitter : Read all tweets made by journalists.
Inform
- TwitterFeed : TwitterFeed can automatically post on his Twitter account all items of a blog (hers or not) by using their RSS feeds.
- Twuffer : program to send your Tweets.
- bit.ly : create short url to put in your tweets.
Company
- Twitter Job Search : search engine to find a job on Twitter.
- Yoolink : Instantly share your discoveries and archive them.
- Yammer : exchange with colleagues from his company.
- CoTweet : Web platform helping businesses communicate and track customers on Twitter.
- Twitter Marketing Services .
- Twitter in the workplace: tools and services .
Photos and images
- Web address: TweetPhoto
- Definition: photo sharing service in real time on the Web
- News: Kodak and TweetPhoto sign a partnership for sharing photos on social networks (17/11/09)
- sur votre compte Twitter (vous pouvez aussi envoyer une photo par courriel, pratique quand la photo est prise avec un téléphone portable). Presentation: TweetPhoto you connect to the login / password to your Twitter account ( OAuth ), you upload a picture and send it to your followers on your Twitter account (you can also send a picture via email, useful when the photo is taken with a mobile phone). A link created by TweetPhoto will appear in your message, which will go see the photo. Also you can add tags to your photo and if it was taken with a camera registering GPS information, it will be geolocated by TweetPhoto (otherwise it will be located after the location information of your Twitter account).
- Other Services ( comparison of the photo sharing service on Twitter ): TwitPic , yfrog , twitxr , DailyBooth , Zannella .
Audio
- TwitterFone , TwitSay : send voice messages to Twitter from your phone.
- Twiturm : share your audio files on Twitter.
Video
- Web address: Twitcam
- Definition: Service Topics by Webcam on Twitter
- Presentation: Twitcam you connect to the login / password to your Twitter account ( OAuth ). Twitcam is a Twitter application that allows you to chat with your Twitter followers by associating the video taken by your webcam (the service is unidirectional: your followers see you and hear you but you not). The video is archived on the site and is shareable Twitcam any website the embed code.
- Other services: 12 seconds , yfrog (video presentation), Tinychat (video chat), TwitVid (video sharing).
Readers Twitter
- Readers most frequently used TweetDeck , Seesmic , Twhirl , Twitbin 2.1.1 , HootSuite .
- Player for mobile phone: Echofon (iPhone), Tweetie (iPhone), Twitterific (iPhone), OpenBeak (BlackBerry).
- Accessible drives: Accessible Twitter , Tweetrad.io (audio tweets).
- Other readers: 19 Twitter Desktop Apps Compared .
Utilities
- GroupTweet : service that lets you send messages on Twitter only to a group (DM: Direct Messages).
- Auto-Follow Friday : service that created the list of people you tweet the most.
- Twerp Scan : a service that allows you to manage your list of followers and followings.
- TwtLong : service that lets you send text messages / photos / videos Twitter more than 140 characters.
- filetwt : share files on Twitter (up to 20 MB).
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