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Advertising Age teamed up with social-media trend-analytics service What the Trend to create the weekly Top 10 Most Tweeted Brands list. How does it work? From the Notes section at the bottom of the AdAge.com post: We broadly define "brands" to include major marketers (e.g., Apple) and branded products (e.g., iPad), as well as celebrity and entertainment brands (e.g., Lady Gaga , American Idol ). Ad Age works with WTT to consolidate multiple threads of brand chatter (e.g., Apple, iPad, iTampon, Apple Tablet) into one position on the chart when it's clear that related Twitter conversations are basically all about the same topic, even if they use different keywords. This week's top 10: 1: Oscars (including Sandra Bullock , Kathryn Bigelow , The Hurt Locker , Avatar , James Cameron , Academy Awards, Kathy Ireland , Red Carpet, Precious , Crazy Heart , Tyler Perry , Best Picture, Jeff Bridges , District 9 , Molly Ringwald , Zac Efron , SJP, Be...

I use it too! The fast-growing citizen-journalism sector just got a new toy to play with, as TechCrunch described new iPhone app TwitCasting Live , which splits the iPhone screen in half, allowing users to record and broadcast video on the top half, while at the same time accessing their Twitter accounts or the Web on the bottom half. According to TechCrunch, TwitCasting Live users can tweet out a URL for their broadcasts, and their followers can click the links and watch (although without audio on other iPhones). The sessions can be archived on the TwitCasting site , as well. By David Cohen on Mar 05, 2010 05:54 PM

By David Cohen The team behind Twitter-application directory Twitdom turned its attention to Google Buzz with BuzzAware , a directory for add-ons, apps, and plug-ins for the recently launched service, Mashable reported. Twitdom lists more than 1,500 apps, while only 18 are currently included on BuzzAware, according to Mashable.

Web Based Twitter Clients and CMS Even with a desktop client like one of the above working in teams is difficult. Web based tools offer even more features for teams and companies HootSuite , a web based Twitter CMS for companies coTweet ( Twitter CRM? ) – coTweet has been hailed as a Twitter CRM app but it’s basically a Twitter CMS with very basic CRM features Twaitter allows team accounts, scheduled tweets, RSS integration etc. Tweetvisor is a horribly cluttered but very powerful Twitter interface or web based Twitter client CRM/Social CRM/TRM (Twitter Relationship Management) In case you are serious about business you most probably use some kind of CRM tools for customer relationship management. Both CRM software makers and new kids on the block attempt to harness Twitter conversations to get more leads and organize a better customer service. CRM solutions supporting Twitter are still rare though. At least one, Axopt already disappeared. CureCRM – Twitter and Email bases CRM...