What are the geekiest uses of Twitter? Appfrica’s compiled a round up of ’strange things tweeting’ that includes a House, a Space Shuttle, a plant and even an unborn child…

Plants. Botanicall’s DIY kit allows anyone to allow their plant to talk to them using Twitter.

sample tweet: Ease off, buddy. You over-watered me.

A Fetus. [...]

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It’s been another busy week. Appfrica launched [...]

Who says Twitter isn’t a place for productive conversation. I recently had an interesting exchange on the micro-blogging service with Theresa, a web developer in Benin…
The conversation started when @maneno wrote: “The pitfalls of Africa’s aid addiction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7740652.stm”
@theresac then wrote: “@maneno Read same article. Interesting, but feel it’s an oversimplification. Aid + [...]

There’s many things users would like to see improve with Twitter. Improved support for International mobile devices, reliability, a better UI, the list goes on. One thing we can deduce from the hundreds of applications that have been built by third parties using the website’s API, is that there are many people with great [...]

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The new communication is social. Tools like Twitter and Facebook represent a big portion of the way people are beginning to do business with one another. In Africa, it’s not so much important that you do these things because you’re ‘trendy’ or ‘in-the-know’, rather we need to make the world aware [...]

The following Twitter users are people that I know, have met at conferences or simply find interesting…all doing work in areas related to social ventures. Here’s what I think of them and why I think you should follow them too!

Name - Nathaniel Whitmore
Location - Evanston, IL
Twitter - @nlw
Why You Should Follow - [...]

Ahmed Maher and his activist group the April 6 Youth are using social media applications like Facebook and Twitter to coordinate efforts protesting Egypt’s monarchist, totalitarian government…

This list rounds-up several web applications that claim to serve a ‘world-wide’ audience but who’ve fallen short on delivering to people outside of the U.S. and Europe, in most cases not for the lack of trying. It’s purely observational and not meant to be too critical. These are all services I use everyday, [...]

The other day Erik Herman did a great job of pointing out the the implications of Twitter’s failure to scale worldwide. Well, it looks like Google felt the same way because they’ve picked what most people might view as Twitter’s biggest moment of weakness (lord knows it’s had a lot of them) to relaunch [...]

Follow WaterForPeople on Twitter
Yesterday I sat in on a discussion that lead to a NGO called WaterForPeople adopting Twitter as a tool for reporting progress on projects in Uganda. The whole discussion was about how the technology behind micro-messaging services like Twitter, Jaiku and Laconi.ca, could be used as communications tool in developing countries [...]