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Nielsen’s five fastest-growing community sites in the U.S.

(Credit: Nielsen)

A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing “member community destinations” in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, …

As many may know by now, Twitter is experiencing the largest percentage growth out of any social networking medium right now along with a boatload of Twitter applications surging onto the internet.  Twitter is being used for many reasons being marketing, business or just local gatherings of like minded people.  Being a broadcast medium, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explains how Twitter is being implemented right now as well as it’s original intent.

Here at Nets Big Thing, we’ve compiled a list of the top Twitter user tools websites on the internet that will help you make better use of the massive social growth of Twitter!  These twitter tools will no doubt make your twitting life a whole lot easier!

1. Ever wonder who YOU are following you on twitter but don’t follow you back? Or do you ever wonder who is following YOU that you are not following back?  FriendorFollow will help you sort things out and save you tons of time.

Find out who ISN'T following you

2. Do you hate clicking on Twitter links and want a threaded Twitter timeline? Tweetree allows you to see your account in threaded mode which means you’ll be able to follow who replied to what you wrote and on top of that it will parse Youtube videos, Twitpic, flickr and other popular website media without you having to click on an external link.

An easier Twitter

twitter search – twitter search is a simple yet powerful tool for finding out who is tweeting about your interests.  Just type in a word or phrase you want to see and twitter search will show you a list of people who have tweeted.

Twittervision – twittervision is a website that simply displays a visual map of people who are tweeting.  Visual representation of things tend to give the viewer a better grasp of how things are and twittervision attempts to accomplish this.

Want to know the size of your twitter e-penis? you can check this site here

A big difference between Facebook and MySpace has always been how the two companies approach the privacy of user data. At MySpace your profile is public by default and users can choose to make it private (except under 18 users, who default to private). At Facebook, your profile information has always been private and shared with your friends and, optionally your network (your school, company or geographic location).

Starting today, though, users can change their privacy settings to make virtually all of their profile information public. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe it’s Jimmy Fallon’s integration of it into his new TV show, Shaq’s use of it to interact in real-life with fans, or blog’s ability to write about it non-stop, but one way or another, Twitter’s growth just continues to explode. Read the rest of this entry »

So you’re tired of going to all the social networking sites and using all the social networking messengers out there?

Well if you haven’t heard of the free application Digsby you’re missing out on what could save you countless headaches that come with the growth of social networking.  With Digsby you can have one application access to all of your favorite emails such as Gmail, MSN, Yahoo as well as all the social networking message boxes such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.  If that’s not all you’ll also be able to do instant messaging such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and Jabber!

If you’re not too fond of installing anymore software on your computer there is a portable version of Digsby which you don’t need to install, can put on a USB drive, and carry anywhere with you.