Everyone are going bananas over Twitter and the marketing potential with micro blogging. People who are into it are totally sold. People who are not doesn’t understand jack shit.

The thing with Twitter is that you’ve gotta get yourself in there, start listening to the twitter and slowly adapt to a strange new culture. Once you’ve done that you can start using it for more intelligent things.

My personal top tip about Twitter is; think really carefully what you want to achieve with it. For me Twitter is not about twittering every 2 minutes but instead listening to people that i respect. Personally I’ve decided it’s my business platform, not personal funfair. At least so far. It’s not unthinkable that I might end up having different account in the future.

This morning I got a tip from OnlineBestCollages. They have gathered a list of 100 Twitter tools. The list is divided into the following categories: Twitter Analysis, Information Gathering, Network Building & Management, Twitter Management, Sharing Tools, Organization & Productivity, Life Tools, Business & Finance, Health and of course Blogging.

I’m aware that they’ve created this list in order to drive traffic to their site, but hey, that’s a tip in itself. This is marketing of tomorrow. Give and you shall recieve. I’m giving back cause it’s a great resource.

Go on and rate yourselves up in Twitter!

As I’m sitting listening to people on stage talking about viral communication a great post flips by in my RSS reader. The post talks about 18 rules that the best web developers follow. The list is a great compilation of what’s important. Still I’d like to ad two rules. 

Hey, before you read – feel free to comment and ad your own ones. Let’s write a new bible on web development.

19. Implement atomization where ever possible.
Make sure that whenever you post things on your website, make sure it spreads out through RSS feeds, ping mashups, post information to the cloud and onto social networks. And also make use of potential ways to snap content from the web that is related to your business. Yahoo Pipes or Tarpipe can make the difference for you.

20. Don’t underestimate copy. 
Involve a copywriter early in the process. Copy can make the difference between a site that delivers on target or not.

Here’s the original list. And make sure you head over to the original post as they have elaborated on each and every bullet.

1. Don’t push information on your visitors.
2. Poor advertising is evil.
3. Be a source of information.
4. Develop your own style.
5. Obey the standards.
6. Be clear.
7. Use Internet Explorer as a baseline.
8. Content is king.
9. Web-crawlers and SEO should be an afterthought.
10. Share content naturally, don’t spam.
11. Answer your e-mails immediately.
12. Engage in Social Media.
13. Make connections, and nurture relationships.
14. Take advantage of the “worldwide” web.
15. Build sites for “users”, not the site “owner”.
16. Always keep learning.
17. Find inspirational resources for creativity.
18. Beautify the Web.