News is coming out of Kyrgyzstan today of a revolt. This is the first successful revolt that used Twitter. Apparently the Kyrgyzstan opposition leader’s Twitter account has been reporting the news to her followers as well as international press (hence a couple English tweets). An NPR reporter has created a Twitter list of people in Kyrgyzstan (translated) who are also talking about the events.

Although Twitter has been used in previous civil unrest- from the Iranian protests to dissent in Georgia (which, rumors say, lead to Russians attempting to shut down Twitter’s service)- this is Twitters first successful revolution.

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Last year I used Google to fill out my basketball brackets. It didn’t do too well. This year I decided to use Twitter to fill out my March Madness brackets.

Disclosure: although I am just getting to this post now, I did the research on Monday- honest.

As a proud Jayhawk, I was glad to see Twitter pick Kansas to win the entire tournament. In fact, it predicted that all the #1 seeds would make it to the Final Four.

In addition to the Final Four, Twitter also chose these teams to be part of the Elite Eight:

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The other week I heard Corey Creed present at SEMCLT about time management and efficiency improvement. It was a great presentation with a lot of practical tips. Before hearing Corey speak, I never thought of my Twitter App as a time-saving tool.

One of the key ideas Corey presented was the difference between “processing” and “working.” Processing is administrative tasks like checking your email and monitoring your social networks. While that is related to work, and can be a lot of work, it isn’t really work. In fact, it can keep you from getting to work while giving you the illusion that you are really working.

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It is easy to get your Twitter mentions by email- use FeedTwit.

Here’s how:

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1. From your Twitter account, tell Twitter you want to get all your direct messages sent to you by email (from Settings > Notices > Direct Text Emails)
2. Visit search.twitter.com, enter “to:your_username” into the search box and retrieve the url for the RSS feed on this search.
3. Visit FeedTwit- which can send RSS feeds to Twitter by direct messages- and sign-up.
4. Give FeedTwit the RSS feed you got from Twitter Search. FeedTwit will send your RSS feed to you as a direct message (which is how FeedTwit is better than Twitterfeed).

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I am glad to provide FeedTwit as a service to you. But did you know FeedTwit is designed to do much more than send your Twitter replies?

Here’s some other things you can do with FeedTwit:

More About: More than Twitter @ Replies- Everything you can do with FeedTwit

• Keep track of your LinkedIn network through your Twitter account
• Keep up with local traffic through your Twitter account
• Follow a blog through your Twitter account (better than TwitterFeed)
• Follow a twitter list through texts/direct messages
• Twitter track a keyword, phrase, or hash tag
• Privately follow people on Twitter using their RSS feed. For instance,
  • follow political figures in an account you use for business

Twitter mentions are coming into the vernacular of Twitter users. Mentions used to be called “replies“- which you see when you Tweet @somebody.

No matter what you call them, when you use Twitter by text messages you run into a big problem when it comes to your mentions- Twitter won’t send you an SMS when someone mentions you!

Sure you could tell Twitter to send you a text every time someone you are following posts an update- but do you really want that many messages?

A better solution is to use a Twitter app like FeedTwit- that can send your Twitter mentions to you by SMS.

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Do you know what’s missing from my twitter experience? Twitter games! I did a search on twitter games and came across a Mashable post describing 6 different games you can play on twitter.

More About: 8 Twitter Games (including, #twit and #ThatsWhatSheSaid)

• The first of the twitter games is Twivia. Like it sounds, this twitter game requires you to answer trivia questions for points.
• The next of the twitter games is Twitbrain. This twitter game is about how fast you can solve a math problem.
• Tweetbomb is the most vicious of twitter games. Every day this twitter game suggests someone for you to tweet without any message. Eventually they become overwhelmed by empty messages from everyone- and they’ve been successfully twitter bombed.

I use the SMS feature for Twitter a lot because I don’t have a data plan on my cell phone. Recently I discovered a list of Twitter text commands that you can send to Twitter by SMS that will allow you to use many of the features of the website.

The most useful Twitter SMS commands include:

More About: Twitter SMS Commands

ON

turns ALL SMS notifications on

OFF

turns ALL SMS notifications off.

STOP or QUIT

stops all SMS messages immediately. CAUTION: when I used this command recently it disconnected the pairing between my cell phone and twitter account. I couldn’t reconnect until I went back to the website. This seems to be a very powerful twitter SMS command.