Just when you think you’ve tried every Twitter app out there, a few more appear on the scene. For Mac users that might have either grown tired of, or are looking for alternatives to, Tweetie, Twitterrific, Kiwi or Socialite, never fear, there are indeed other native Mac OS X options out there! While…

Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks . You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook . In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter released its new “ lists ” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality…

Last month when popular Twitter client Seesmic launched an Android version , one of the few omissions we noted was support for Twitter search and trending topics. In a new 1.1 version update for Android users , Seesmic now includes Twitter search and trending capabilities as well as support for Twitter Lists. In the…

Tweetie 2.1, the latest version of the popular iPhone Twitter client, went live in the app store today. As we mentioned in our preview earlier this week , new features include support for Twitter Lists, the new Twitter retweets feature and geolocation. The new version is free to existing Tweetie 2 users. As…

Advertisers are frustrated. You’re all having direct conversations with friends on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and the rest while totally bypassing the mass mediums they understand. Rather than consuming content all day on TV, in newspapers and on the radio, you’re engaging, one-to-one, with individuals you trust. They …

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Weber Shandwick recently released the results of their study on the Twitter accounts and behavior of Fortune 100 companies. They found that a majority of Fortune 100 companies are not …

Last week at the Professional Developer’s Conference, Microsoft showed off the first developer beta of Silverlight 4 , which includes support for Google’s Chrome browser. It turns out that Chrome isn’t the only competitor’s product with Silverlight in its future though. Betanews interviewed a Microsoft manager who revealed — and showed…

When Twitter Lists were first rolled out to everyone, some people questioned how the feature would effect the long tradition of #followfriday , a weekly event on which Twitter users recommend different tweeps they enjoy for various reasons. Though Twitter Lists are changing the way some people participate in #FollowFriday, they have have actually not lowered…

Black Friday is upon us and retailers online and off have brought out the big guns for the busiest shopping day of the year. While most of the doorbusters are long gone, you can still catch some terrific bargains online. We scoured ads, online deal sites, and our Twitter accounts (hey, if we…

One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person-to-person. This happened for two reasons: 1. because Twitter is a one-to-many communications platform and 2. because it allows for content to be easily repeated. In fact, …