Twitpay.me allows you to send cash to your twitter friends.

To send them money, you just send a tweet in twitpay-speak

eg: @happyches twitpay $1 for great service

Or from their website:

• You can send a payment in any increment between $0.01 and $50.00.
• It’s a “promise” of cash.
• Twitpay monitors Twitters’ public timeline for these messages, and tracks who owes who cash.
• Once you’ve promised the moola, you can fund your Twitpay account via Paypal and they will process it for you.
• The receiver can check to see if someone has paid them by going to: http://twitpay.me/theirtwittername.

TwitPay intends to earn their money from small fees attached to the transactions.

• Twitpay charges 3% + $0.30 in a cash out fee to recover charges from PayPal™ when you fund your account.
• And also makes 5 cents for every transaction over 99c.

Read more about it on the TwitPay.me website..

New site Tweetag allows you to browse through Twitters public tweets by keyword/tags.

Their homepage shows the top 40 topics that people are chatting about, and like a normal tag-cloud, the size of each tag is relative.

By selecting certain tags, you can also define the scope of your search and discover new topics related to them.
You can add tags to the selection by clicking on them. A click on a tag in the "selected tags" bar removes it from the selection.

You can access the tags by typing it in the searchbox, or by appending it to their url:

Eg.

• http://tweetag.com/wordpress/
• http://tweetag.com/plugins/
• http://tweetag.com/iphone/

Visit: Tweetag.com

Twitter–the messaging service that lets you send instant, short updates to people around the world–is fast becoming a mainstream communication tool.In this webcast, Sarah Milstein shows how to use Twitter and other micro-messaging services at work. She covers the the benefits and challenges of this exciting new medium, along with best practices and potential pitfalls you can avoid.

My new addiction.. Tweetworks.. kind of like a "forum" for tweets ..

• You login with your Twitter details.. it automatically grabs your current Twitter avatar..
• You join "groups" of interests you have.. and tweet away..
• You can tweet privately to the group or publicly to your timeline

It’s a fantastic way of keeping up with conversation - even tweets that are days old that are of your interest.

I think it’s the best thing to ever come out of Twitter so far lol, and can see great potential in this sites or upcoming sites that copy it.

• You can create your own groups and even have private groups.
• Great way to find people to follow of the same interests

If I have one critism about it so far, it’s that browsing for groups is done in a "next, next, next by alphabet" navigation.. there should be an quicker way to search for groups as we are all being "time-killed" right now which is another reason we love to tweet :)

Join today by signing in with your twitter username and password at http://tweetworks.com

Here are the groups I’ve joined so far:

• AdvancedSEO
• AllThingsWordPress
• Bloggers
• DevelopingTwitter
• drupal
• Drupal-with-DrupalHead
• Marketing20
• Mashable
• Podcasting
• ProMarketers
• PRTweeters
• SEO
• SocialMedia
• SocialNetworkingAddicts
• Tweetworks140
• TweetYourInspiration
• Twitter
• Twitteritas
• TwitterRevolution
• TwitterUses4Biz
• VideoBloggers

Tweet Later has a new feature..

Twitter used to have an option to get an instant message or SMS when someone tweeted about a keyword you cared about.. they missed that feature so much that they have now built it into the TweetLater site.

• Monitor your Twitter stream for keyphrases
• Receive an email with the tweets that contain that keyword
• Monitor your company, your name, your blog, celebrities, disasters, topics of your choosing.

As per my earlier posts about TweetLater, this site also provides the option to:

• Automatically follow anyone that follows you
• Send them a greeting via a Direct Message or @reply
• Automatically schedule future tweets

Visit TweetLater.com for more details

The free Twinkle app on the iPhone has a new update that allows you to switch between normal mode and "twittervision" mode (world map with people’s tweets) just by switching the angle of your iPhone on the side.

This video from Dailybuzz talks reviews some of the ways people are using Twitter, from finding love, to Finding a Job, to making up songs, to selling twitter accounts on eBay and getting you out of Jail.

This video shows how a fantastic small business is using Twitter to enhance his business. From Ed Dale (http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com)

LOL this video is funny as! :)

Penny xx