Twitter has improved its photo features along with launching a new option of search.

Tweeting is now a common addiction and we all keep waiting is twitter can come up with some new features as surprise element for this year. Hitting the caps of .great popularity was not a hitch for twitter. And a social media platform, so popular, will also raise the hopes among users to see new apps. To give us a surprise, Twitter has updated its iPad and iPhone applications last Thursday. It has now introduced features that improve photo linking, following friends through address books and auto-link shortening.

Those who are using iPhones are fortunate to get an additional feature as Twitter has offered a fresh feature for iphones. A new feature named Quick Bar in iPhones will give you a mean to quickly browse through your favored topics and save time simultaneously.

Twitter has now placed a camera button in its new tweet toolbar. This button offers facilities like adding photos from the library, taking a new snap shot by using in-built iPhone camera. Users have the option of switching between the rear and front-facing camera (in case of iPhone 4 users) and preview the photos before selecting for attachment. Once the selection completes Twitter will upload the photographs into the image host that you have selected. Finally, Twitter will send the photo as a link along with your tweet. In Twitter.com and other mobile apps of Twitter, media will appear in a row.

Quick Bar feature is an exciting approach in seeing trending topics. The main timeline will show a notification bar to the users that display current trendy topics. Once you swipe to from left to right you can travel along the cycle through the topic list. Presently Twitter streams are stuffed with complaints and though such a feature is exciting, it will be pleasing if the feature is made optional.

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‘Twitter lists’ for CIOs and CTOs

Twitter lists are great to keep a tab on a big or small group of small and what they are talking about. A List is ideally on a similar subject of discussion making it the one stop for all the latest information on that topic. Make your own list or follow someone else’s list. It is the new way of keeping updated on the information you desire.

In the ocean full of technology based lists there are few gems which are worth following. Here’s our pick of the top choices of the technology lists that is sure to keep the CIOs and the CTOs interested.

Most-Influential-in-Tech: This essential list brings together more than two hundred of the influential and respected tech executives. Robert Scoble a enthusiast and video blogger put together this list after interviewing more than three thousand geeks through the years. These are the people at the core of the tech revolution.

Technology: This is a SuperList from Tlists, the real time media company. It brings together the tweeters who are among the most listed for their technology insights. It is ideal for people wanting to stay updated on the new trends and news.

Tech-Company-Executives: This is an expansive list of over four hundred C level execs. These high profile executives belong to both big and small companies. This list is well curated again by Robert Scoble.

CIO: An I.T professional by the name of Jason Sparrow compiled this huge list of more than four hundred twitter sources which includes the likes of CIO Talkradio, CIO.com and CIOs from around the world.

CIO-CTO-Directors-Techies: A lot of effort and time must have gone into creating this huge about five hundred member long list. The I.T director at the Babson College, Andy Lymburner created the list which comprises of technology experts from varied industry backgrounds. The conversation revolves around security, data, cloud computing and technology.

Superb ways to use twitter lists for your business

Many organizations have been quick in implementing twitter lists and using it as an advantage. Other than self promotion which many news organizations are using twitter for, a lot of things can be done with the lists. If you do know a creative way in which the lists can be used, do share your comments.

Businesses can create a staff directory online using the twitter lists. For example a website can have a list for its writers. This list can be followed by readers and those who like the blog posts. The traffic from twitter is significant and by using twitter lists the potential can be maximized. It can also help the staff of the business to be easily accessed by the twitter group. This can help in expanding their followers and increasing the traffic to the website.

Specialist information

It can be difficult to figure out whom to follow and whom not to follow. It is like finding the right signal among the noise.

Twitter lists can be used to track down and group together smart tweeples and good sources. At Rikhav Infotech our writers and optimizers track down like minded individuals and sources. The writers using such lists can track sources, connect with readers and find new story ideas. The stream of tweets on specific subjects helps in connecting with twitterers.

Twitter streams on your website

A clever way to get information from twittersphere is streaming the tweets from the lists onto a blog or a website. For example if one has a network of travel websites, the twitter lists can be embedded on the websites using List API. Such lists can include other travel writers or tweets regarding the travel posts on the blog network.

Twitter lists help people find information easily by grouping it together in a list. It can help avoid spammers and gain specialist information. A list of athletes participating in the event or a list of politicians running for the election can be useful. They help organize and filter the noise in the twittersphere.

Twittips: getting those addresses in shape

Another good thing about twitter is that the tweets have a character limit of 140. Thanks to that we don’t have to read full page write ups on how people are feeling and what they are doing. The 140 character limit also made it difficult to have complete URLs (web addresses) in the tweet message.

To counter this many services are available online to take your long URLS and convert them to a short one. And usually the length of the URL is under twenty characters. And this gives a lot of space for the user to comfortably describe what the address is all about.

Among the varied list of services we use two of them which are the best. The websites are bit.ly and the tinyurl. On either of the websites all you need to do is paste your complete web address in the provided box and click on the button to shorten it. You will be given a shorter web address which you can use wherever you want in your tweet message or in your email.

Example of shortening a URL is the link http://bit.ly/bf7Tf5 which refers to one of our popular posts at journeyidea.com. There are over a hundred and thirty URL shortening websites to help you tweet better.