Neat http://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter-blackbird-pie/ WordPresss has added "Blackbird Pie" so tweets self embed with style.—
  (@footinmouth) November 18, 2010

WordPress.com’s awkwardly named Blackbird Pie feature for twitter is actually really awesome, bringing in sweet styling so you don’t have to take a screenshot and upload it to get a tweet onpage.

• The tweet’s text
• Links in the tweet
• Links to hashtag pages
• Usernames that link to Twitter profiles
• A retweet link
• A border around the tweet showing part of the background image from the Twitter profile

Lets start with my twitter profile @footinmouth:

• Communication Style: 140 character microblogs – Example of a Tweet:
• You can send messages @ specific accounts, like @bloggingmothers or @mwilton13
• You can follow other peoples “twitter streams” of messages.

• Other people can follow your messages in your twitter stream.
• You can send private messages that aren’t shown publicly as well
• You can get a Firefox Extension like Twitterfox so you don’t even need to go to twitter.com

Uses:

1. People who you follow generally follow you back, so you can get the word out about your new posts, online finds etc
2. Follow industry leaders: For SEO I follow @graywolf, @mattcutts, etc and can see what they are twittering about. Instead of reading blog posts a day or two after they’re posted, I get it right away and sometimes participate in their conversations that found their posts.
3. Interaction: You can send your friends articles, communicate smoothly instead of over time with emails.
4. Build relationships: I have found new freinds at twitter, had twitter freinds like @erinmaher, who does a blogging tip blog, write a guest blog about content writing for newbies, and got added to this website Magazine article for tweets about 2009, all through twitter.

I have enjoyed this site, it’s helped me personally, professionally and I completely recommend this for…well…everyone! There are many more reasons, but these are the most fundamental in my opinion: So…What do you say? Join Twitter? Let me know if I missed any important points!

Update: Even Search Engines are getting into it @Yahoorealestate

I was in my twitter stream today, and was very surprised when I saw a twit that caught my eye.

The site is a twitter advertising network that uses twitterers to spread their marketing. The idea is that the application analyzes your twitter stream for relevance, then spread out amongst your tweets, it injects the occasional ad tweet.

Human Bill Boards

Imagine you’re talking to your freind about what you had for lunch today, and all of a sudden he blurts out” Subway EAT FRESH!”.

You can see why this is jarring…it takes away the purity of your opinion because it’s not even a real endoresement…it’s just verbal advertising diarrhea . So, according to their faq, it says that there are two criteria that are used to mete out the advertisements and the reward people receive for selling out, the first is “hotness of the tweet topic” and second the number of followers you have…

GREAT! Lets ENCOURAGE people to create BOTS to follow people and vomit up advertising at us…Congratulations…You’ve just created a whole new method to SPAM on Twitter! HOORAY!

Save your soul, DON’T BE a MAGPIE!