I'm doing more experiments with Twitter (all via Delphi programs), which I find more and more interesting. First, I've restarted using my TweetOfTheDay application (a free download) for posting to the DelphiTweetDay account, which has 203 followers (that is, people receiving the status updates in their own Twitter home pages).
I'm experimenting with a "financial service" account were I post the dialy EUR to USD rate exchange. I guess it would make sense to have a full collection of financial data, posted to different accounts on Twitter, as this is the only way followers can pick what they are interested in, and not the full set. EUR to USD has 9 followers so far. Not sure if I'll keep working on this, until I find a way to promote it (at no cost, of course).
I started a nonsensetweets account that was blocked for too much twittering. Now I've got a second one, nonsensetweets2, to which I'm trying to post at the highest rate allowed by the system, a steady flow of one post every ten minutes telling what time it is. Made 3,687 posts so far. Most of its 48 followers did so to build traffic, using explicit sexual images, and most of them seem to be banned accounts. I'm wondering why these suspended accounts are not removed (or at least their pictures)...
Of course, I have my personal Twitter account, http://twitter.com/marcocantu, to which I post directly from the web and my phone and also (automatically) every time I blog. My main account has 284 followers, which is still much lower than the 1,170 average readers on my blog feed (according to Feedburner).
My personal Twitter status is surfaced also to Facebook (using the Twitter integration application) and to Plaxo (using its Facebook integration). So I post to my blog, some server side code I wrote sends the title and link to Twitter, Facebook picks it from Twitter, and Plaxo picks it from Facebook. As you can see, I'm trying to maximize my efforts. By the way, I registered my Facebook account as www.facebook.com/marcocantu. On Facebook I have 466 friends (of course, I don't know most of them!).
Well, this is a summary of my online activity these days, and if I'm blogging less, I'm certainly engaged in a more multi-faced online presence. But to get back to the original topic of this post, if you have interesting ideas for Twitter integration, need a helping hand to write the code of a Twitter-enabled program, or anything like that... feeel free to ask.