Most of us already know about Twitterfeed, the client that sends your favorite RSS feeds to Twitter. Some of you may already know about Tweetburner, the website that tracks popular links posted to Twitter as well.

What you may not know is there is a setting in Twitterfeed to where you can have all of your URL's shortened and used with Tweetburner. With this you can see how many clicks the link you submitted has recieved.

This is simple to set up when your setting up a new feed. In the drop box that state "Shorten your link through:" just choose Tweetburner and your done. You can also see this in the picture above.

Hello everyone!

Last night I got to thinking about how many Tweetup's take place in the Twitter community. Now, many of our Twitter friends and followers are miles away from us and we may or may not actually get to meet them and break out of our 140 character discussion.

This is where the Online Tweet-UP is going to try and fill that gap. I am introducing Online Tweet-Up over at Talkshoe. You can find the show page here. Online Tweet-UP is a place where you and your Twitter friends will be able to call in and discuss things going on around Twitter or anything else you would like to chat about. I will do my best to get everyoine I can involved in the call ins. If you would like to recieve a personal invite or considered for instant unmuting email me tw3nty3ight@gmail.com.  If your not comfortable with calling in, break out a discussion in the live chat.

OTU I think will be a great chance for you to hang out and enjoy your Twitter friends as well as meet new ones. Keep in mind that this is in the very early stages as I just came up with this idea. If we get a lot of people interested this could be a every other week ordeal or gathering so to speak. I am also planning to have afew special guests as well. Hopefully they can make it on such a short notice. Also note that you will have to register an account over at Talkshoe

Remember this is meant to be fun! The more the merrier so spread the word!!! See you there!

Thanks to all of you that make the Twitter community so awesome!

tw3nty3ight (Billy Fairchild)

Thanks to Jim Kukral over at Twitter Backs I now have a schnazzy looking Twitter background.

What I did what just download his template and then customized it to my liking in Photoshop. You can see mine here.

If your like me and are a iPod touch owner you are probably a little upset about having to pay $10 just to get access to applications. Well, be upset no longer. You can now update the firmware for free yourself.

Step One: Download the firmware here.

Step Two: Open iTunes, plug in your iPod.

Step Three: At the iPod sync page hold Command then click check for update.

Step Four: Enjoy your new apps!

I have been hearing of so many people on Twitter complain about their new 3G iPhone. This has made me appreciate my 3G Blackberry even more.

Here are some iPhone complaints I pulled from Twitter. Keep in mind these were within a 20 minute time span before I wrote this post.




"isn't particularly thrilled that installing updates to iPhone apps messes up one's icon layout"

"Pissed off at having to restore my iphone back to factory settings because 2.0 has bricked the mail app"

"My iPhone is an iBrick and stuck on the boot screen...it is also my alarm clock and didn't go off!!!"

"Anyone else having problems with apps on the iPhone?"

"My iPhone refuses to come back after a hard reset. And so I try... again, and again, and again.... still no luck"

"irritated that the iPhone apps that worked after I installed them yesterday are not working today after last night's sync."

"At Norcross Mall Apple Store restoring my iPhone after it totally puked on me in the car"