My name is David Hurley. I come from the UK and work as a free-lance English language instructor and "consultant" for various Japanese clients here in sunny Hiroshima.

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The tiger's cave is Japan... the unknown... the new... the untraversed.

The tiger's cave is the Internet.

As a name for this blog it is inspired by a Japanese proverb:

"Koketsu ni irazunba, koji o ezu."

"If you don't enter the tiger's cave you won't catch the cub.








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Archive for May, 2009

05 7th, 2009

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By: David Hurley

Here is a list of completely free, useful or fun Twitter applications to help you get more out of the Twitter micro-blog social-networking site.

  1. Friendorfollow.com - Find out which of the people you are following is NOT following you back.
  2. Is.gd Another type of free application that is essential when you want to tweet about websites and link out to them is a URL shortening service. The shortest of the URL shortners is http://is.gd.
  3. SocialToo.com - This service who started following you and who stopped following you over the last 24 hours. Just as with Tweetlater, you can prepare an automatic welcome message for your new followers. With Socialtoo you can run Internet questionnaires, and send them out to various social networks as well as Twitter and Facebook.
  4. Retweetist.com - Follow the tweet trends by finding out what news is getting retweeted. Use the resource to retweet news to help spread it (and maybe get noticed by the original Tweeter).
  5. TweetBeep.com - This is a Twitter keyword tracker. Find out who’s been using your favourite keywords on Twitter.
  6. Tweetergetter.com - Gary McCaffery designed this easy-to-set-up Twitter recruiter to get you a large Twitter following on autopilot.
  7. Tweetdeck.com - Download this program to your hard-drive and use it to organize your tweets into different groups. This allows you to deal with all the messages that you get.
  8. TweetLater.com - This app allows you to write your messages and set them to go out at fixed times. As with Tweet beep, you can set up keyword tracking. Tweetlater also lets you auto-follow when someone follows you. You can also set up a welcome message and Tweetlater will automatically post it out to your new followers.
  9. Tweetstats.com - this appealing application sets out to your Twitter posting trends in a series of coloured bar graphs. Check out when you use Twitter the most. If you wish, you can share your report with everybody else by tweeting it!
  10. Twellow.com - The Twitter yellow pages.Register your Twitter page info here.
  11. Twitpic.com - Share your favourite photos on Twitter.
  12. Twitterfeed.com - Automatically tweet your blog posts.
  13. Twittergrader.com - Check the health of your network, how often you update and how complete your profile is. You can then Tweet your grade on Twitter!
  14. TwitterCounter.com - Check how many people are following you, or someone else. You can see how two different Twitter users compare. Twittercounter also predicts how many followers you are likely to have in the future. You can then post the result in a widget on your blog.
  15. Twitthis.com - This is a convenient way to tweet about messages anything that takes your fancy on the Internet. Post a button to your website and maybe some of your website visitors will tweet your articles.
  16. Twollo.com - Set your keywords and this handy application will seek out like-minded people for you to follow!

Yes, I know, there are a whole stack more free Twitter applications for you to play around with, and a whole bunch more coming out all the time. These are just some of my favourites…

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David Hurley runs an online article marketing business from the comfort of his home in Japan. To find out more about how you too could build a successful Internet-based business from home, sign up for David’s free newsletter at Grasp-The-Nettle.com .

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