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Be careful when naming your Twitter application…July 2

If you’ve built a third-party application for Twitter, you’ll want to think carefully about what you call it, following the company trademarking the term ‘Tweet’.

The official response has been posted on the Twitter blog by Biz Stone, after Robin Wauters highlighted the issue over at Techcrunch. The official announcement is:

‘We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of “going after” the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter. In fact, we encourage the use of the word Tweet. However, if we come across a confusing or damaging project, the recourse to act responsibly to protect both users and our brand i

Win gig tickets via Twitter, including Blur at Hyde ParkJune 30

There are a number of people using Twitter to promote special offers and competitions, so it seemed a bit silly not to mention that Absolute Radio is currently offering a range of tickets throughout the summer via Twitter.

(I’m Digital Marketing Manager at Absolute Radio – which includes managing the Twitter account!)

At the moment, tickets are up for grabs for the Blur re-union gigs in Hyde Park in London on Thursday, July 2nd, so check out @absoluteradio if you fancy entering by Retweeting the specified message.

Mashable misses something in the Posterous vs Tumblr showdownJune 30

I’ve long been a fan of Mashable amongst the top tech blogs, and this comparison of the Tumblr and Posterous services goes some way to explaining why.

They combine news with good in-depth analysis of services to show what exactly you might want to use them for – and in general this article is pretty good.

It does have one major, major, major omission, though, which is so obvious as to appear almost intentional.

When Jennifer Van Grive details the autoposting options Posterous offers, she writers:

‘a single Posterous video post could auto-post to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Vimeoand blog sites, while photo posts could autom

Billie Tweets – the best Twitter application for Michael Jackson fans…June 29

If you want to combine Twitter with a tribute to Michael Jackson, how would you do it?

In the case of the awesome Billie Tweets, you sync a video of the Jackson classic ‘Billie Jean’ with tweets that contain the individual words in the lyrics, as they play together.

BillieTweets syncs Michael Jackson's Bille Jean with individual tweets

It’s the work of coders 9Astronauts, who have also created other notable Twitter-based sites and applications, including 

Horse business comes to microbloggingJune 29

It’s not just Twitter that is spawning television shows in the microblogging world, with the launch of Horsetweet, a microblogging platform for horse lovers, which accompanies U.S. reality TV show ‘Hard Reins to Hold’.

Both the site and the TV show are the work of father and daughter Matt and Loagan Fury, who run Loagan ranches, around which the TV show is based.

Horsetweet itself is on the Shout’Em platform, which allows you to ‘roll your own microblogging community’. Which means you can sign up for the site, or login with your existing Twitter or Windows Live details.