The long awaited new TweetDeck 2.0 for iOS is finally here. After my initial comment on TweetDeck iOS’s teaser blog post, I have received multiple email notifications every other day for every published new comments. The tone wasn’t friendly at least to say, most people are complaining about the lack of update of a supposedly “will [...]

The 140 characters limitation on Twitter is what made most tweets short and precise, without blabbering too much. At times however, 140 characters is simply just insufficient to convey a message effectively, and that is why there are services that allow you to tweet longer.

Trunk.ly was just launched less than a week ago, very timely considering the havoc on Delicious thanks to Yahoo. No, it’s not a Delicious clone. Instead, it indexes links that you have shared on your Twitter and Facebook account, and make them searchable. Like Twitter, you can follow someone on Trunk.ly and view their shared [...]

TweetDeck’s CEO claims that Chrome TweetDeck, available in Google’s newly launched Chrome Web Store is “definitely our best version of a desktop TweetDeck so far“. While I have to agree it is quite decent, the Chrome version of TweetDeck is definitely not ready to completely replace its desktop version.

Isfollow.com makes it easier to check relationships (who is following who) on Twitter. To check if someone is following you, there is no need to search for your Twitter handler in their “following” list. Just simply enter both your Twitter handle and your friend’s Twitter handle and Isfollow.com will display the result within seconds.

This would be relatively easy if URL shorteners does not exist. But the fact is not so. Links shared on Twitter are largely short URLs, bit.ly being the top gun, followed by god knows how many other providers that provides similar service. Even Tweetmeme won’t do the trick, you can only track tweets that have [...]