Twitter is taking flight with some crowds. There are now all kinds of mashups, squatdowns and resources for this great platform. Let’s take a look at a few.

1. What IS Twitter?
2. View your Twitter heartbeat visually (you are sleeping, right?)
3. Crowd Status (organize your twitter peeps into groups)
4. Tempo (tracking time with Twitter - now that’s productive)
5. TwitterSnooze (for that brother or sister you really love, but just need a break from)
6. TwitPic (sharing photos with the help of Google Maps)
7. twistori (love, hate, think, believe, feel wish)
8. twittervision (like TwitPic on roids)
9. (awesome flash visualization of your network)
10. snitter (Adobe AIR desktop app)
11. Color Wars 2008 (nothing like a friendly competition
12. twhirl (another AIR-powered app)
13. “quotably” (your conversations, threaderized)
14. StrawPoll (answering the important questions, like who’s funnier? Dave Chappelle or Dane Cook?)
15. CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (shameless plug)
16. There are lots of news organizations using Twitter
17. Twitteriffic (for Mac OS X)
18. MoodBlast (nifty desktop alerts that fade away - integrates nicely with Twitteriffic)
19. Foamee (don’t you owe me a drink?)
20. HelloTxt (update Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, MySpace, bebo, Jaiku and more in one fell swoop)

I’m sure I’ve left out a ton of stuff, including how Twitter is used to cover breaking news events. If you have something to add, send me a note: @coolgates and I’ll put it up.

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