No doubt, beside Facebook, Twitter is the most used social networking on the net. These days, you can find 3 of 5 people have Twitter accounts. Especially you can connect Twitter to Facebook and can be a source to drive traffic to blog, therefore it’s not surprising if this service become more and more popular.

Because of its huge popularity makes the service to be a target from outsider attacks. We have heard reports of its users lost their accounts because their passwords stolen. If that’s happen all the data of yours will be gone for good.

Or technical problem within Twitter’s side that effect to your data, albeit as far as I know this never happened.

If you think your entire Twitter data is important, then you should think to back them up, to avoid the said unwanted conditions I mentioned above. You can use a free service online, namely Tweetstream to do the job.

Tweetstream will make you able to easily backup your Twitter data, including tweets, contacts, lists, followers, followees.

And there are two plans available: Free account you get 3 accounts to backup, a weekly synching plus 500 mb space to store your data. But if you hit on premium account you will get daily synching, unlimited accounts, 5 GB of storage (tweets and photos) and more.

Your backup data within Tweetstream can be downloaded into your computer. And this service does not require you to fill your Twitter account when signing up, so don’t worry.

If you interested you can visit: Tweetstream.

For soccer fans and at the same time Twitter mania folks, you can follow the biggest event on earth for soccer sport which is World Cup 2010 via Twitter and I will share on what you must do to do so. And here they are:

1. Hashtags and Searches

Hashtag is Tweeter users use to monitor topic of their like and catching the real time updates about certain event, so you can use this method to find the latest or any related information about the World Cup 2010 in Twitter, for example currently #worldcup is the most used tag, and followed by #wc2010 and #2010worldcup!

2. Follow FIFA On Twitter Or Any News Headline

The following is the list of FIFA official Twitter and other News Twitter feed you can follow to catch up World Cup related info:

• 2010 FIFA World Cup
• SA2010 World Cup
• FIFAWorldCupTM
• TheFA.com
• US Soccer
• CNN World Cup
• Telegraph World Cup
• NY Times Goal
• AP World Cup
• BBC World Cup
• Sports Illustrated Soccer
• The Sun World Cup
• Four Four Two
• Fox Soccer News
• World Cup Scores
• World Cup 2010

That would be all and see you again!

Now Tweetie 2 is no more, it has been replaced with (or renamed or re-branded with) Twitter for iPhone. Tweetie 2 has been ratified to be Twitter official app for iPhone after the company behind Tweetie 2, Atebits, was bought by Twitter.

And the old Tweetie 2 was removed 2 days ago from App Store, and replaced with the new version Twitter 3, but according to TechCrunch, the app has not been ready to download as it’s in the listing process, but some users from outside America have been able to download the app! This image was taken from the App store if someone try to download the app:

The reason as to why Twitter chose Tweetie to be their own official app is because the app was considered to be the best Twitter iPhone app. So Twitter decided to pick it and own it! For Blackberry and Android, Twitter will make the official apps from scratch! So are you able to download the app?

See you in the next Blog Tech posts!

There is a good, free and simple use free service named Dlvr.it to help you connect your blog feeds to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the very simple way. When you open the homepage will be instantly asked to add your own feed url, but firstly, you have to register yourself by filling email and password and doesn’t take email verification

And there is also a comprehensive start report related to posts and clicks and clicks which occurred for past 24 hours, 7 days and month. One more thing you can also add your Google analytics, of course, to have better stat report result. And there is an option for you whether to post direct links or shortened URL.

In addition Dlvr.It also provide LinkedIn, Tumblr, Identica and Ping if you have accounts on those sites then you can also add them and Dlvr.it will be automatically post your feed updates there!

Dlvr.It is a good service and it helps bloggers like us to post our blog updates to those social networking sites automatically as Dlvr.It’s slogan says: “You publish. We deliver” and they mean it! Dlvr.it also provides API for web application developer!

If you want to try Dlvr.It visit here and post your blog feed to 6 social networking instantly!

Sure you have already known Twitter, or at least ever heard about it, as the news say with Twitter you can connect with friends or if you are running a business you can reach wider audience. And if your Smartphone is Blackberry, here are 3 Twitter Applications for Blackberry you can use to update your status, replay to tweets and so on.

OpenBreak – familiar with TwitterBerry? it was its previous name, with OpenBreak you can post picture you have taken using Blackberry camera to Twitter using yfrog or Twitpic. It also recognizes #hashtags posted on the tweets

Tiny Twitter – has same services like OpenBreak, Blackberry users used it as alternative of OpenBreak. Because gives almost same functionality as OpenBreak and navigate interface. It uses Blackberry data plan for sending messages not using up expensive SMS messages.

Seesmic – this app allows you to track Twitter lists and saved searches within your Blackberry. It will alert you if there is new direct message sent to you or @replies using notification icons

UberTwitter – one of my favorite Twitter apps, because for its impressive functionality such as sending Video embedded in my tweet, can update my location based on the cell tower automatically from information inside blackberry, ability to find out who is tweeting me and Integrated ability to upload pictures

Viigo – the Twitter app that you want to be without! This app focuses more on giving its users news, local information and other useful content.

If you are using iPhone yesterday I posted about 5 Best Twitter Apps For iPhone And iPod Touch

Twitter will automatically detect your mobile phone browser as the mobile-optimized version, but what if Twitter does not recognize your current smartphone? There is a way to solve that by typing m.twitter.com to get you access to Twitter via your Smartphone and update your 140 characters status!

However there are various Twitter mobile apps to do the job, and offer a lot better experience rather than Twitter’s mobile site above, you can also use built-in camera function because the apps integrate with iPhone functions

With the Twitter Apps for iPhone you can update your Twitter status, and these are the 5 Twitter Mobile Applications for iPhone and iPod Touch:

1. Tweetdeck – Not just an application for Twitter but it can be used too to manage Facebook and multiple

2. Tweetie – it is not a free app, you need to spend $3 but it’s worth it! And it become a well known Twitter app for iPhone with an impressive UI. Tweetie has offline mode to read old tweets, follow new people, responding to tweets etc.

3. Twittelator – this app has amusing feature which is recording and tweeting your audio or video clips of your iPhone. Tweeting the song’s name that your are listening on iPhone of yours, it’s free and available on the iTunes store for basic version

4. Echofon – there are free version and paid version ($5) in the paid there is push notification feature that will alert you if someone send you a direct message or mentioning your or your twitter name on their tweets.

5. Twitter 360 – with Twitter 360 you are able to visualize of your friends profile located in your nearby environment, that’s because the contribution of the unique Augmented Reality functionality using the iPhone camera. And it is for iPhone 3GS

Hope you will find the 5 Twitter Application above useful and see you in the next post

For Twitter users it’s time for you to be more cautious when it comes clicking link from your friends, because they could be someone else or malware, and the link that entices you to click could lead you to malicious Web site that tries to infect your PC and the messages that contain link could be fraudulent messages.

It’s reported by NYTimes.com that currently Twitter is doing a lot of hard workS to get rid this malicious activities, one of which is suspending user accounts whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software, this malware called Koobface, if you’re a regular member of Facebook and Myspace you would probably have heard about it, because previously Koobface targeted the 2 social networking and many reports being filed of its outbreak.

So far Koobface has been managed to infected hundred accounts according Ryan Flores, Twitter advanced threats researcher. It first appearance was started by sending 3 shortened URL that lead to malware, and now it’s sending more and more malicious link, so be ware!

If increasing Twitter followers has been in your blogging strategy to increase fame and/or to enhance income from advertising or just want to show off to your readers, uSocial.net can be a good start, if you have never heard before, uSocial.net is advertising service that gives people a hand to generate more traffic, it’s widely known as major player to assist people to get more votes in social bookmarks like Digg and Stumbleupon.

Now uSocial.net extends its service to bring you more Twitter followers, with only $87 you will get a brand new thousand Twitter followers to your existing account or any account you like in 7 days guaranteed. If a thousand followers are too little for you, you can invest more bucks to get more followers, for more than 5,000 new Twitter followers and you’ll even get a discount, but there’s time limited for discount. And the biggest amount Twitter followers offered by uSocial.net is 100,000 in 365 days with $3,479.

But the question is are those followers are “real human” or just spammers?

Well some people still in doubt on Twitter’s ability in generating huge traffic to a blog let’s say since the resounding popularity of Facebook many bloggers change their attentions toward getting traffic from Facebook, and ignoring the potential chances to have similar traffic that they can get from Twitter and Shoemoney has proven to us that Twitter is something, Now Twitter becomes his 3rd source of traffic as you can see in the picture:

If you haven’t sure on Twitter why not start to give it a chances go give an extra attention to optimize your Twitter, and enjoy the result in the next few months or less.

Did you know spammers could easily find your email address just by using “Find People” feature of Twitter? By that features spammers are able to find hundreds or thousands emails that they could easily harvest all to bombard you with junk emails?

Here’s what you’ll find for result of such a query might look something like this:

As you can see for a simple search such gmail.com or hotmail.com or yahoo.com in Twitter search can give you large numbers of email address, that’s certainly could exploited by any irresponsible folks.