1. Next Flight
Got bumped? Leaving early? Next Flight tracks scheduled departures from more than 4,200 airports and 1,100 airlines. It sounds overwhelming, but you can filter by carrier. $2.99

2. UrbanSpoon
Urbanspoon is the gold standard in the U.S., London, Melbourne, and Sydney: Shake your phone, watch the dials spin like an old-school slot machine, and up comes the best guide to local restaurants yet. Free

3. HearPlanet
Like having a tour guide in your pocket, HearPlanet tells you what attractions are nearby and then plays the Wikipedia description aloud. $5.99

4. Air Sharing
Don’t waste time (and money) downloading docs abroad. Air Sharing lets you save HTML Web pages, PDFs, text files, you name it, for off-line perusal anytime, anywhere. $4.99

5. Tweetie
Finally, a practical use for Twitter. With Tweetie you can send vacation pics and witty comments from afar faster and more easily than with any other app. $2.99

• Be honest. Have fun. Don’t try to sell anything.

• be funny, informative and catchy: choose two.

• Twitter about stuff that has to do with your blog, but also Twitter stuff that has nothing to do with your blog.

• Share links, share ideas, ask questions, answer questions — anything but “what are you doing?” unless it’s really interesting

• Get active and follow others. Great tool for tossing around ideas.

• Join the conversation, there are too many blog promoters on twitter who just broadcast. Learn @ and start networking

• Write each word like it matters, because it does.

• share trends, things that are new or timely/current. Be personal. Don’t link only to yourself.

• share interesting resources, not just what you ate for lunch. Twitter often, and use it to test potential blog topics.

• No cat anecdotes! (a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident)

• make use of other Twitter tools to make the most of Twitter (and so it doesn’t suck up all your time)

• Efficient is the key to Twitter…. short & sweet. Basically, get right to the point.

• Respect the people you follow. Be interesting. Listen first, tweat second. Don’t waste words.

• The #1 thing to help me has been the use of a desktop client. Without “twhirl” I would’ve given up long ago.

• Frequent Twitter updates demand desktop clients: Snitter, twhirl, and Twitterific all bear mentioning.

• This often goes unsaid, but I would suggest not having twitter/twitterific open while writing. It can become very distracting.

• As far as getting followers goes; I find just being friendly and helpful does wonders. And of course shared interests help to.

• Don’t follow more people than you can handle. If you’ve got too much going on, you miss a lot of the good stuff.

• Keep your Twitter updated and the followers will come. Stay up-to-date and you will reep the benefits.

• stop thinking that twitter is pointless and just try it. It’s all about community – reach out and be a part of it.

• contribute positively to conversations going on inside twitter

• interact and communicate with others – it’s a social media tool, so be social

• Share thoughts more than actions

• Look beyond the obvious (traffic, sales etc.) Add value. Build relationships. Think LONG term.

• Learn what people care about. I got a glowing link from RSS inventor Dave Winer my first week of active twittering.

• Use twitterfeed. Instant feedback from readers is the best part of Twitter. Listen to others; engage them; have a conversation.

• if you are using WordPress use twittertool

• Think before you hit send. 140 characters have the power to help, heal or be miss-understood.

• use an username as short as possible so you can tweet more

• My tip: “Keep it short”

• add good description and link for something that would be too short in a post

• make a good weekly post describing all the twitter for the previous week

• Probably look at blip.fm, Im sure its going to overtake twitter, as its more feature rich.

Tweet O’ Clock which was designed to compute the best time to Tweet an individual friend i.e. the time that they most frequently Tweet themselves. It struck me that it would be fun and perhaps useful to conduct a snapshot experiment to determine the most poular Tweet times for the general Twitter population.

The Most Poular Time of day to Tweet

The most popular time of the day to Tweet was lunch time between 12 and 1 O’Clock ( 30% of total Tweets) 5 out of 6 Tweeters who Tweeted between 12 and 1 O’ Clock were men Other popular times to Tweet were between 3 and 5PM (20% total Tweets) and 9and 11PM (25% total Tweets) · 10% of total Tweets were between 9 and 11 am · Only women Tweeted in the early hours 12AM -5AM (15% total Tweets) Most Popular day of week/time combinations.

There were three most popular day of week/time combinations to Tweet each which accounted for 10% of total Tweets these were: Wednesday 12PM Tuesday 1PM Tuesday 9PM. Can it be concluded that these would be the best times to Tweet for maximum readership in all cases? It is unlikely. Is it possible that those chosen based on other search terms might show different trends? Absolutely. Is it possible, too, that those from different countries might show different Tweeting patterns and trends based on a variant lifestyle?

Tweet timing is a factor which you should consider might impact heavily on your own effectiveness on Twitter, I strongly suggest that you conduct an experiment on a sample of your own Twitter follower…

To start, you can either choose between tweets or profile.

If you’re looking for experts or hobbyists in your niche, then you might want to click ‘profile’. If you’re looking for people who just might have an interest in your niche, then click ‘tweets’.

Then enter your Twitter id, enter your niche’s search terms or keywords, then click ‘SEEK’.

Twitseeker goes to work and finds all of the latest tweets or profiles that include your niche’s search terms in it.

If the niche, for example is cats, then Twitseeker goes to work and returns all of those who either tweeted or put that word in their profile.

This tool is great for finding large numbers of followers in your niche and beginning to communicating with them.

Once found, you’ll then be given the option to follow all those whom you’re not following already. The tool tells you whom in this niche that you’re already following.

After following them, many people see it as etiquette to follow you right back.

View Twitseeker at http://twitseeker.com.

Check out the Monthly visits to these must have Twitter Apps

• Twitpic 1,236,828
• Tweetdeck 285,864
• Digsby 233,472
• Twittercounter 212,200
• Twitterfeed 149,812
• Twitterholic 147,164
• Twhirl 143,333
• Twitturly 88,793
• Twtpoll 74,154
• Retweetist 60,051
• Tweepler 51,304
• Hellotxt 45,754
• Twitdom 45,411
• Tweetscan 44,463
• Tweetburner 41,754
• Tweetvisor 31,621
• Twittervision 30,708
• Twitterfall 29,592
• Monitter 25,433
• Twibs 17,168
• Twistori 16,229
• Twitbin 14,986

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To make your twitter experience all it can be and to use it for the great tool it is, I thought I would include 10 of the must have twitter Home Based Business tools you should be using in your home based business.

1. twhirl has become my twitter client of choice. It is cross platform so you can use it on either a windoze box or on the Mac OS. It has some great features and I would encourage you to go to the link to see what all it can do.
2. twitterfeed is another one of those little extras you can use. Use twitterfeed to send most recent blog post to your twitter account. By using twitterfeed, whenever you do a new post, it will show up in my twitter conversation and you don’t have to do anything. There are plugins you can use with WordPress to accomplish this too.
3. twitpic lest you share photos on twitter. You can post pictures to twitpic from your phone and most of the twitter clients have built-in support for it too.
4. Tweet Scan gives you the ability to follow conversations that might mention keywords you want to watch. Use it to follow your own name and other keywords you want to keep track of. It is one of those tools that should be used by companies to follow what is being said on twitter about them.
5. tweetAhead (under construction)can be used to set tweets to post in the future. You can use this if you are doing a special promotion of a new idea, product or just want to make your appearance. (Under Construction)
6. My Tweeple can be used to make informed decisions when it comes to following people on twitter. You can use it to see who is following you and who you are following. And with a simple click, you can follow, unfollow, or block people all in one place.
7. Quotably is another way to follow the twitter conversations. What I do like about this service is that it puts the conversations in what appears to be threads.
8. tweetlater is one of those twitter tools that actually has a couple of great uses. Use it to send a direct message to all my new followers. Whenever anyone follows me, it is set to send them a message welcoming them. You can also use it to send out tweets in the future too.
9. twitthis is an easy way for you to send twitter messages about your blog post or Web site. You can also use it to post what you are reading to twitter and what you might be listening to or watching on the web. twitthis is a great way to give something back to twitter.
10. is.gd is a service that shortens URLS, which I actually better than tinyURL. Use it with twitter when I just want to add a URL your my tweet. This is also built into twhirl, however I have found is.gd works better in my opinion.

There are tons more twitter tools out there and I know I only scratched the surface. If you are using a twitter tool not on this list that you feel is a must have, leave a comment here so we can all share.