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Take a look at this post from Influential Marketing Blog highlighting 10 interesting and useful stats about Twitter.   Here are the first five: 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders. These are the percentage of Twitter accounts that have never posted a single tweet. They may either be registered simply to hold a username for later use, or be experimental accounts started up but never used. Nearly 94% of all Twitter accounts have less than 100 followers. In a finding perhaps consistent with the newness of the tool as well as the fact that many people may currently...

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The good folks at Mashable have written a great article breaking down the positives and negatives of Seesmic Desktop and TweetDeck. If you're trying to decide which one to use, this article should help clear that up. I started using Seesmic Desktop yesterday and I could not be happier. Seesmic may well become the dominant Twitter client in the months to come if the early version of Desktop is any indication....

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  Almost every week I discover a new use for Twitter. When I first opened my Twitter account I have to admit, it seemed kind of dumb.   I didn’t know what to “Tweet” about or why the hell I was “tweeting” in the first place.   Then I began to discover what an amazing world Twitter can unlock. LifeHacker has a good post today about the top six ways you should be using Twitter....

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Here's a great Twitter tutorial from CNET:

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  A malicious worm attacked Twitter’s network over the weekend with four separate attacks. The worm was designed to automatically reproduce itself once it’s clicked on....

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