Twitter introduces an automatic link shortening on Twitter.com to help you make things fast. As you all know, Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters. If someone wants to share a link in a message, the link itself takes most of the available characters, so you need to depend on third-party URL shortening service like bit.ly, TinyURL, etc to shorten the link.
MKTwitter is a handy utility to backup twitter messages on your hard drive. You can download your own tweets or others that you find useful and can be saving them in an access database file.
The application is extremely simple to use. Just run it (no installation required), enter the Twitter username of the person whose tweets you want to back up (no password is needed) and click ‘Get Tweet’ button.
TwInbox is a plugin for Outlook that enables a powerful and full-featured twitter client inside your Outlook (Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010) email client. With TwInbox you can quickly update your Twitter status directly from Outlook, receive your friends update,…
In Twitter there is no option for sending direct messages (also called private tweets) to multiple users at a time. It is somewhat annoying and a time consuming process.
But it is possible now with a Twitter tool called MultiDM. With this tool you can send direct messages (DM) to 12 different users at a time.
Google Buzz is a new social media sharing service (like Facebook and Twitter) built into Gmail that allows updates your status via Gmail inbox or mobile phones.
If you are a Twitter user, here is a new free web service called Tw2buzz that allows you to find from your Twitter contacts that use buzz and connect with them.