Twitter can be a great way to gain feedback from customers, clients and consumers of your product or service, as many brands like Comcast are well aware. But if you’re looking fr a more direct and dedicated way to leverage the Twitter community for brand feedback purposes, a new tool called TwitFeedback is looking to make it drop-dead simple for you to do so.

Managed through a widget, visitors to your website can say in 140 characters what they think of your product or service. If the concept of garnering feedback directly from your site sounds familiar because of a certain side tab that became popular, you’ll be happy to know that TwiFeedback uses a similar tab that appears on your website. Non intrusive but inviting nonetheless, clicking on this tab will open up the TwiFeedback widget.
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Super Rewards started as a project for monetizing Facebook applications, and the company is expanding outwards to now include Twitter. The virtual goods and currency platform that works for online games and social networks has created a way to generate revenue for games that have been designed to work exclusively with Twitter, including 140 Mafia.

So how does it work? Users earn points redeemable within the game by recruiting new users via Twitter. It’s yet another exchange-based system that has proven successful, to certain degrees, on Facebook. In exchange for a user participating in certain offers and actions, they earn points and other benefits to be used in the game or social network. As Twitter continues to prove useful as a distribution platform, taking advantage of its cross-device access and usability, there are other “platforms” that are cropping up in order to build on that spreading reach.
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Twitpocalypse. It’s the Y2k of the web 2.0 generation, and was originally supposed to occur tomorrow. Twitter has since forced up te Twitpocalypse to 2 pm Pacific today in order to deal with the bug and have all hands on deck. The Twitpocalypse issue comes from a bug in Twitter’s system that may crash third-party Twitter applications when their tweet identifier numbers hit 2,147,483,647. This is the signed integer limit for Twitter apps, and many are close to reaching this number, as the tweet identifier numbers will start turning negative, thus crashing Twitter apps.
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Can you build a community around a Facebook Public Profile, and will that help in your own blogging endeavors? Wibiya has created a service that is banking on the ability to do so, which has become an easier task given the continued updates to Fcebook’s platform, namely Facebook Connect.

Leveraging an existing fan base/community from Facebook in order to drive traffic and build up your own blog is a concept we support here at Social Times and AllFacebook, as it goes along with the marketing ideas put forth in some of our articles. But recent updates to Wibiya mean that the process of utilizing Facebook for your own purposes could be made that much easier.
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Many have tried to start a company that puts your Twitter status updates on a tee shirt, but the end results have been largely dismal. It’s a tricky concept to pin down in a revenue-generating model when you’re merely a third party service.

But Threadless may have figured something out. In partnership with Twitter, Threadless the company that made t-shirts social, launches Twitter Tees today. And the best thing about this new project is that it keeps the community around Twitter and Threadless intact.
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Leora Israel currently performs business development for Speaklike.com. Follow her @leoraisrael.
Social Media has created a whole new set of interactive dilemmas. This morning when I went to DM (direct message) someone with whom I thought I was in a mutual follow relationship with on Twitter, I got the sad reality check that they don’t follow me back! You can only send a private message to someone via Twitter if they are following you.

Social media has made socializing a bit more complex with new rules of engagement. With the new complexities comes new questions:
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Twitter has been on fire for the past few months and it doesn’t appear to be cooling anytime soon. According to the latest Compete.com statistics, Twitter has surpassed 14 million users, up over 76.8 percent since last month when we wrote that they had surpassed 8 million users. Is it nipping at the heels of Facebook? Not at all! Facebook also had a huge month and surpassed 90 million U.S. users according to Compete.com.
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Trade Monster is an online brokerage site that is looking to grow and empower its users, with Twitter integration.

Now traders on the site can tweet their actions, such as stock they’re buying or selling. For instance, when you’re about to buy or sell a particular stock, you have the option of tweeting that action. There’s a window that appears with a pre-populated tweet telling of your action, and you can modify or add to this message as you see fit.

The Twitter integration is also applied to forums and other areas of the site, enabling you to tweet general questions, thoughts and opinions to Twitter users.
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OneRiot, the company looking to index the web in real time, has added a new Twitter search. At first glance, the new Twitter search on OneRiot doesn’t really look a whole lot different from Twitter’s own search. Type in a keyword and you’ll see all the related tweets and associated twitterers. Along the right-hand side of the page you’ll see the trend search terms, and at the top of the page you’ll be prompted to refresh the page in order to see how many more related tweets have come in since starting your search.

What makes the OneRiot Twitter search different is the fact that OneRiot is indexing weblinks that are being shared via tweets. It’s an interesting perspective for web search, specific to Twitter and socially driven. For each link shared on Twitter, OneRiot will note the user who initially found it, how many tweets have shared it, and when it was last shared through Twitter.
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Compete just released this month’s statistics and unsurprisingly, Twitter had a big month, growing around 33 percent over the past month, just within the United States. Recently I’ve been estimating the site at around 10 million global users and it’s clear that with the massive press coverage, the company is growing at a quick rate. Twitter has been all the buzz within the social media space over the past couple months following an unsuccessful acquisition by Facebook.
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