Twittonary

The Twitter Dictionary aka Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter related words. You can search the entire Twitter Dictionary or by single word using their letter of the alphabet in the list below:

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Twutorials

Twutorials are video tutorials in 140 seconds or less. For example:

Twitpwn

Twitpwn is a website that is focused on logging all past and current vulnerabilities in Twitter. At Twitpwn, they write about the potential for distributing malware via Twitter and keep you posted on those that have does so.

Free Twitter E-Book

Geekpreneur has a free 48-page e-book called A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter. You can download it from here.

FuelFrog

FuelFrog helps you track your gas mileage via Twitter. To use FuelFrog, you have to register for an account on their site and enter in your username on the settings page. Then, when you’re ready, sent tweets to @fuelfrog in the following format: (miles, price, gallons–MPG).

Example: @fuelfrog 342 3.239 10.293

Twitter API Stuff

Twitter released some new API updates, one which now lets you update the Location field in a Twitter user’s profile using the Twitter API. This update is in the official API Documentation. For example, the following curl command will update your location (where USER and PASSWORD are your Twitter username and password):

curl -u USER:PASSWORD -d location="Berkeley, CA"
http://twitter.com/account/update_location.json

(via Programmable Web)

Twitter API Slideshow

Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design presented this slideshow about the Twitter API:

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Twitter Quotient

The web site at Twitter Quotient will retrieve your Twitter stats - number of friends, number of updates - and then calculate your Twitter profile in three areas: a babble index (how must you post), a popularity index (how many people follow you/favorite you), and a Usefulness index (not sure where this comes from, but, for example, Scoble’s is "1 useful update for every 2,653.1 friends."

Twitter Portugal

The web site Twitter Portugal is a Twitter-related site for Portuguese Twitterers that makes use of the Twitter API to display a leaderboard of top Twitterers, most active Twitterers, the top sources from which the tweets arrive (e.g. the web, Twhirl, etc.), and more. The site recently began embedding the “Twitter Noise” ratio, Dave Winer’s “Spewage” ratio, mvalente’s influence scale, and Louis Gray’s noise ratio into their user profiles.

Twictionary

Trying to learn all the Twitter lingo? Twictionary can help. The site, a PBWiki, keeps track of the "English language as used on Twitter." Sample words include "tweeps," "tweetup," and "twat."