Check out a great Slideshare by Paul Gillin , for using Twitter in a business environment.

This presentation features plenty of examples and best practices from successful members of the Twitter community.

Every single day, number of people signing to Twitter. Some business wants to create, discover and share ideas with their targeted audience. Using Twitter it becomes possible for business owner to reach the audience in a effective way and grow the business.

Here is a small efforts to explain twitter power visually..

Twitter is a great communication tool as it has carved out a significant niche for itself in the micro updates space.The number of Twitter users is growing tremendously.

Below mentioned are some of the top and Great collection of Twitter resources.

• EveryThing Twitter : Here you will find abundant Great tools, apps, and services built around Twitter.

• Twitip : Twitip is a wonderful resource where you can learn more about twitter and how to use it more effectively.It will cover Twitter Tips of all varieties including Writing for Twitter, Branding, Growing a Following,Corporate Tweeting and a lot more.

• Twitter Facts : This blog is related to Facts and opinions on Twitter and the Twitosphere

• Twitter Tips : Twitter Tips Blog is a popular blog publishing Twitter tips and other related information for new and old Twitter users.Discover How You Can Use Twitter to Its Full Potential. Here you can write a guest post about any Twitter tips you want to share with fellow Twitter users.

• Twittown : Twittown is about the Apps and Widgets Community and Forums.The TwitTown website brings together developers, users and fans of the Twitter communication platform. It allows community members to chat in the forums, read news on the blogs and also provides a repository for Twitter tools services and applications that are relevant to the community.

• Twittermaven : Everything that you ever wanted to know about Twitter.This blog seeks to answer questions, point out tips, identify cool tools and talk about Twitter.

• Tweetabix : Tweetabix is about people who Twitter. Tweetabix interviews Twitter users as to how they use Twitter be it for fun, community or business.

• Twitdom : Twitdom is a database of Twitter Applications maintained by Twitter users like you.With thousands of applications available, it is but natural to come up with a database of these applications to ensure that Twitter users can conveniently find the right application for their needs.

• Twtapps: They build simple and useful business applications to help you to engage with your customers and to promote your business through social media.

• Twitsmag: Twitsmag is an inspirational digital magazine. Created especially for Twitter users to help them unleash and utilize the real power of the popular micro-blogging site. Created especially for Twitter users to help them unleash and utilize the real power of the popular micro-blogging site.

• Twi5 : Twi5 applications and tools directory strives to be the one stop place for users searching for twitter apps.Everyday new applications are being developed using the twitter API. They strive to get all cool twitter applications under one roof.

• Twitterstop : Twitterstop is a new online resource for anything and everything Twitter, as well as related tech news, world news, culture, and design information.

• Twittercism : Twittercism is your source for Twitter tips, tricks, tweaks, tools and tutorials, as well as news, articles, opinion pieces.

• Twitterfools : Helping you and your business get the most out of twitter. Their goal is to help you weed through a cluttered twitterverse so you can leverage this amazing tool to further your personal or professional goals. Abundant Twitter Tips, Twitter Tools, and reviews by enthusiastic TwitterFools.

These are some of the top Twitter Resources that are very much useful and if you find something new,please let us know so that we can expand our list.

Here is a nice Presentation on how journalists can use Twitter for reporting and connecting with communities by Jeremy Rue.

Twitter has announced that they have partnered with mobile provider Telstra to provide SMS Twitter support in Australia.

As always, receiving notifications is free, with standard text message rates applying for sending tweets via SMS. It’s the same pricing as sending and receiving text messages from friends. Give it a try by sending “START” to 0198089488.

Once you have your phone associated with your Twitter account ,try following @Telstra by sending “FOLLOW Telstra” to 0198089488. Or follow one of these popular accounts via SMS by sending “FOLLOW” and the username.

@australian (News from The Australian newspaper)
@delta_goodrem (Musician)
@kyleandjackieo (Australia’s #1 radio show)
@DanniiMinogue (Team Minogue judge for The X Factor)
@KevinRuddPM (Prime Minister)

This adds Australia to the list of official countries supporting tweets via SMS: United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

More countries and carriers are coming soon.

Twitter apps are about to get a lot more exciting. All our favorite Twitter tools, from iPhone apps to Web apps and beyond, have so far been limited by the fact that developers only have access to a specific set of data, not the full “firehose” of tweets being created.

Twitter announced at LeWeb conference in Paris that the firehose will be made available to all developers in “early 2010″.This would give ordinary coders the same access to data that Google and Bing have, and create a platform for even greater innovation. Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver said the firehose would be monetized via revenue sharing with partners, although did not provide details.

More Details at TechCrunch and Mashable Blog

Paris, France (CNN) — Twitter creator Jack Dorsey Wednesday gave the first public demonstration of his hotly-anticipated latest venture — a device to allow credit card payments by cell phone — and revealed it would be given away for free.

Details of “Square” — a card reader which plugs into the headphone socket of most mobile devices — have been circulating on the Internet since it was announced earlier this month, but little has been known about how it works or who it was aimed at.

Square, a tiny cube about an inch in length, contains a magnetic strip reader that allows users to swipe and read credit cards, then deduct payment on or offline through a downloaded application that communicates with card issuers in the same way as retailer devices.

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Forget about Twitter being a mere messaging platform. The truth couldn’t be more removed from that, what with the endless array of apps that expand on Twitter’s inherent capabilities.

Tvider is a service that will let you tweet out videos along with audio and pictures.

Watch out a powerful video by Prashant Parekh,CEO on how you can share your emotions using Tvider,an application where you can have all the multimedia experience at one place.

Here is an excellent Presentation on Social Media Trends for business by Neville Hobson at Dell B2B Social Media Huddle.

Here is an extract of a great blog post from the Mashable Blog on “How twitter is changing the face of social media”.

The most radical shift to media in recent years is that we now have a central real-time hub that serves to enhance every other content platform on the web.

Twitter provide the hub, the means of connecting all of one’s online activity to create a real-time, people-run and directed broadcasting network which is powerfully and significantly changing the nature of media.

1.Shared Media :
New media is increasingly becoming shared media. Though one person initially creates a tweet or links to a story, whatever you broadcast on your network, I can also broadcast too. On Twitter, it is called retweeting. This is a huge shift in media.

2. Power of the crowd:
In the new media landscape, the task of defining what is the news that matters to people lies less with a few major media outlets, and much more with the millions of small outlets like you and I who each choose what to talk about. Increasingly, lots of littles, are becoming more powerful than a handful of bigs.

3. Multiple Streams:
In this new era, no one means of content rules. Text, pictures, videos,audio all can be shared via Twitter. Sure, you post videos and photos elsewhere and link to them, but Twitter provides the hub to broadcast that media to consumers.

4. Personal: Connections to people, not just content
Media is also becoming more personal. More and more people expect their broadcasting networks to be people with personalities, not simply sources of news.Broadcasting is more a personal act than ever, as users seek to have connections not just to content but to people.

5. Interactive: Responding, Not Just Consuming
People seek not only to consume media from broadcasting networks, but to also respond to the newsmakers, and Twitter, perhaps more than anywhere else, allows this. Our age is one of interactive broadcasting networks.

Twitter acts as a central place where people can post or link to any and all content of their choosing, from a short thought to a blog post or video they created, to an article they have read.