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Tweet de France - a Map of Tour de France Twitter Updates

Sarah Perez — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:37:00 GMT

We already told you about the excellent Tour de France map app, courtesy of Bing, which highlights the race’s course, start and stops, feed zones, hill climbs and more in both standard road views, aerial views and even Bird’s Eye view.

Now there comes another Tour de France map, this one showing both the Tour de France course and tour updates via geo-tagged tweets. The new map, hosted here on Livestrong.com (scroll down), highlights Twitter updates by way of blue-colored pushpins which, when clicked, reveal the tweet’s text.

As the race continues, fans will be able to read these geo-tagged tweets, containing reactions and content from spectators, journalists and even some of the Tour de France competitors themselves, like Lance Armstrong of Team Radioshack, whose Twitter account is followed by 2.5 million fans.

The map interface uses the Bing Twitter Map App’s “embed” function for this custom creation dubbed “Tour Talk.” You can check it out here along with lots of other Tour de France news.

(via the Bing team blog)

World Cup Tweets via Bing Maps

Sarah Perez — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:04:00 GMT

Nifty! I just discovered a new mashup courtesy of Steve Clayton which brings you a Bing Maps interface overlaid with tweets from the World Cup. From Microsoft’s FUSE Labs – yep, the same folks behind all the fun projects as of late, including Docs.com, Emporia, Bing Twitter, Twitter Maps, Kodu and Spindex – there now comes GoalMap2010.

There’s nothing too complex about this mashup, it’s just tweets on a map, similar to the popular Twitter “mapplication” for Bing Maps. However, in this case, you can see the tweets for the current World Cup game unfold in real-time on top of a map of the game’s location. Plus, you can see tweets from the two countries playing, on top of their respective homelands. You can even see tweets from your own neighborhood, in order to tap into what those around you are saying.

All of these options exist as four separate, embeddable maps that you can place on your own website or blog.

Goooooaaaaaalll, indeed!

Bing Launches Social Search

Sarah Perez — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:58:00 GMT

In October, Bing received access to the Twitter “firehose” and launched a specialized Twitter search site at bing.com/twitter. Now, a new search portal is launching, Bing Social Search, available at bing.com/social, and it will feature both Twitter posts and publicly available Facebook posts too.

Described as the “first search experience integrating the full Facebook firehose,” the new search engine will retrieve both fan page updates and links plus links from individual Facebook users whose updates are set to “Everyone.”

However, unlike other standalone Facebook search engines, user names and photos from Facebook users will not be displayed, and neither will the text included the status update. In fact, the only thing that will be retrieved is the link itself, in aggregate. It’s a nice way to retrieve the data from Facebook, without violating user privacy.

The Bing homepage is also being tweaked now too to show the “trending topics” based on both the Twitter and Facebook data. When you click on a topic, you’re shown info about why it’s trending, results from social search and then query refiners.

These changes will roll out starting today, June 9th.

MetroTwit Launches with Windows 7 Integration

Sarah Perez — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:40:00 GMT

A new Twitter client application inspired by Microsoft’s Metro design language has now launched. The aptly named MetroTwit is a Windows desktop application that uses .NET 4.0 and WPF 4 to power the app’s gorgeous interface and back-end. Designed by Long Zheng, David Golden and Winston Pang, MetroTwit offers a number of unique features, beyond the usual timeline view and status update box, found in other clients. For example, infinite scrolling, autocomplete for usernames and hashtags, resizable and reorderable columns, flawless high DPI support and others are listed on the project’s homepage as features you’ll “fall in love with.” (Indeed, I have).

Also included is what may be the standout feature for Windows 7 users: taskbar integration. A counter in the taskbar shows you how many unread messages you have.

Another notifications feature also lets you read experts from new tweet updates, replies and more as they cycle through in the notifications.

You can download MetroTwit from here. Note that the app is in beta, so all the usual caveats apply.

Emporia: A New Twitter App from FUSE Labs

Sarah Perez — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:28:00 GMT

Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, the group behind the Facebook-enabled document-sharing service, Docs.com and the social aggregator Spindex, has just launched a new Twitter application called “Project Emporia.”

Unlike Spindex, which is currently in private beta, Emporia is open to anyone, despite it still being in alpha. However, only FUSE Labs employees have access to its “like/dislike” feature, which may be the key selling point for the app.

Emporia isn’t really a Twitter client for managing your own stream, friends, replies and messages, but is more of a specialized search engine that uses “lenses” that let you focus on areas of interest like “technology,” “news,” “sports,” etc.

Pick any one of the lenses and you’re shown two columns, one being a stream view of actual tweets and the other showing the top-ranked web link results. For example, clicking on the “Technology” lens shows the most popular articles from sites like GigaOm, CNET, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and others.

From within each lens, you can also search for specific keywords or terms and see a sidebar featuring popular searches. Those appear to be searches occurring within the app itself, though, not from Twitter.com.

If you choose to sign into the app (via your Windows Live ID), you’ll be able to “like” or “dislike” tweets…that is, when this feature becomes publicly available. For now, it’s limited to FUSE employees only. In the future, these actions will help teach the app’s built-in recommendation engine about your interests. (The engine is a product from Microsoft Research called “Matchbox.”)

To try the app now, head over to projectemporia.com

Seesmic Launches Preview of New Desktop App for Twitter, Facebook

Sarah Perez — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:32:00 GMT

Seesmic has just released a preview version of their Seesmic Desktop Twitter application, Seesmic Desktop 2, the app that runs on Silverlight on both Mac and Windows PC. The most notable thing about this release is the built in support for Seesmic’s new plugin architecture. With the new platform, every tool, feature and service can be integrated into the app as a plugin, which allows for complete user customization of the app.

By default, the app supports multiple Twitter accounts and Facebook, plus it offers support for lesser known services like Google Buzz and Socialwok. You can add in even more plugins, too, like Bit.ly and Bing Maps, for example.

Also new to this version of Seesmic are unique backgrounds provided by Red Bull (and more will arrive later, we’re told). Directory and channels like those supported in Seesmic Look are now available too.

You can download the preview version of Seesmic Desktop here.

New Windows Live Writer Plugin: Twitter Blackbird Pie

Sarah Perez — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:26:00 GMT

Twitter Blackbird Pie, the recently announced official Twitter feature that lets you embed tweets into a web page or blog post, is now available to Windows Live Writer users by way of a new plugin.

With Twitter’s Blackbird Pie website, you can paste in a tweet’s URL to general embed code to place on your site. The new plugin, however, makes this process easier for bloggers using WLW. You just click “Twitter Quote” from the Insert menu and then paste in your URL. It’s pretty much the same process as when using the website itself, but this way, there’s no back and forth between pages as you copy and paste URLs, embed codes and the like. You can do it all from within WLW.

Thanks to Scott Lovegrove for making this plugin – and thanks to Steve Clayton for suggesting he do so!

You can download the plugin from here.

Be Sneaky: Tweet from Outlook at Work

Sarah Perez — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:08:00 GMT

If you’ve ever had a desperate need to share your thoughts on Twitter while at work but are stuck behind a firewall or web filter where Twitter.com is blocked or your web access is tracked, you’ll like this Twitter application I just came across: TweetByMail.

Once you register an account with the service using Twitter authorization, you’re provided with a unique email address you can use to post to Twitter. When you have something you want to share, you simply email it to the private address and it will post to your account.

You can also use the service to receive Twitter updates via email. If you follow a lot of users, then you’ll probably want to choose the digest option, which includes all the updates posted during the time frame you specify.

This isn’t the only Twitter/Outlook type tool we’ve uncovered. Take a look at TwInbox for another option.

Spindex: A New Social Aggregator from FUSE Labs

Sarah Perez — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:07:00 GMT

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a new social aggregator called Spindex, a project built by FUSE Labs, the folks behind the Outlook Social Connector, Bing Twitter Maps and Docs for Facebook.

With Spindex, now available as an early technical preview, your social streams from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and Bing are displayed in one interface, allowing you to easily see the personal trends among your own network of friends. Think of it like a News Feed for all the social services on the web.

Spindex has already been compared to Friendfeed, a company that was recently sold to Facebook. And it’s true – the idea of social aggregator is not new. But Spindex, by the looks of it, has a few interesting features, most notably the “trends” section that appears at the top of your stream.

It also shows you recently shared links, top posters, the most commented on post, and recent news from Bing on the “homepage” of the service.

You can filter you stream by service, search, save searches, reply, favorite, share, “remember” (save), like and retweet items within the stream itself.

Spindex is built on Windows Azure which is what provides its scaling and speed. You’ll need an invite to get in, but you can stay tuned to updates on Facebook and Twitter for more info on that.

(Image credit: Steve Clayton)

Seesmic Lets Devs Create a Customized Twitter Experience

Sarah Perez — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:47:00 GMT

The Silverlight-based Seesmic application, a desktop software app for interacting with the microblogging network known as Twitter, is one of the more innovative clients currently available. The reason? With Seesmic, they’ve launched a plugin platform which allows Twitter developers to customize Seesmic Desktop by writing plugins. In fact, the platform doesn’t even have to rely on Twitter anymore to be successful thanks to its recently launched plugin platform – you could just use it as a Facebook client, for example, since Facebook will be available as a plugin.

Developers can also customize Seesmic entirely from the link shorteners it uses to its skin itself and then launch their version as an independent download.

The entire thing is built on Silverlight technology, too. If you’re interested in developing for the platform, you can get started here: http://platform.seesmic.com.

For other reviews of the platform and why this is so exciting, check out developer Jesse Stay’s post: “The Coolest Thing I Saw at Chirp? It Wasn’t the Twitter Platform” or Robert Scoble’s, The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter’s ecosystem, both of which are great reads.

New Tweetmeme Plugins for Windows Live Writer

Sarah Perez — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:53:00 GMT

Scott Lovegrove, creator of the Tweetmeme plugin for Windows Live Writer, is back with two more Tweetmeme plugins for WLW users, one specifically for Wordpress.com.

First up: the Tweetmeme “follow” plugin. This plugin adds the Tweetmeme follow button to your post. The button comes in three styles: compact, normal and square and displays your Twitter icon plus a “follow” button and follower count, depending on which version you use. With the new plugin, WLW users can choose the button style, size and placement. It only works on blogs that support Javascript.

One blog platform that doesn’t support Javascript is Wordpress.com. For these users, there’s a different WLW plugin that takes advantage of the Wordpress tag option that uses a ‘shortcode’ to place the ReTweet button into a blog post. This plugin lets you configure options like button version, placement, Twitter name, URL shortener and whether or not it should appear in the RSS feed.

Also, anyone using the original TweetMeme plugin should go upgrade to the new version which now supports hashtags.

Twikini: Popular Twitter App Coming to Windows Phone 7

Sarah Perez — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:23:00 GMT

Trinket Software, the makers of the popular Windows Mobile Twitter application, Twikini, have just officially announced that they’re porting their app over to the Windows Phone 7 Series devices. The application is being developed via a partnership between Trinket and Mist Labs, the new company founded by ex-Microsoftie Mel Sampat, formerly a Program Manager on the Windows Phone team.

Like its predecessor, the Twikini app for WP7S lets you read and respond to tweets, replies and direct messages. It will features a portrait mode and landscape mode, too.

The app looks pretty, but some say (check the comments) it too heavily focuses on usernames instead of the tweets themselves. Luckily for those users, there’s already another option available: Seesmic, one of Microsoft’s launch partners, will also offer a Twitter app for Windows Phones which has a more traditional layout.

You can read more about the Seesmic app here and the Twikini app here.

MetroTwit: An Upcoming Twitter App Inspired by Metro UI

Sarah Perez — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:52:00 GMT

Long Zheng, author of the popular blog iStartedSomething.com, has posted a teaser screenshot of an upcoming Twitter client application called MetroTwit. Initially posted alongside the text “looking for super-talented Silverlight developer” the post hints that this will be a Silverlight Twitter client inspired by the Windows Phone 7 Series Metro UI. Now the post has been updated to read “general feedback welcome,” so it looks like Zheng has found a developer.

From the screenshot/mockup, it looks like the Twitter app includes the same font styles as the Metro UI as well as similar-looking buttons that show an icon in a circle. Another neat feature: links appear in blue but @usernames appear in green and hashtags are red.

No word on a launch date for this app but the feedback in the comments section is definitely positive.

OfficeTalk: Microblogging for Business

Sarah Perez — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:40:00 GMT

The Microsoft Office Labs team has just launched a new experimental tool that brings Twitter-like microblogging to the workplace. Called OfficeTalk, this concept test application lets employees post their thoughts, activities and other info which is shared with anyone and everyone in their company.

If it sounds a lot like Yammer, the “private Twitter for companies” app, the that’s because it is. But OfficeTalk isn’t being launched as an honest-to-goodness commercially available application designed to compete with Yammer and the like, it’s meant to be more of a social experimental from which the Office Labs team can learn. There isn’t even a download of the app publicly available – just a slideshow of screenshots.

By analyzing the way OfficeTalk is used at the various companies that have signed up to demo the software internally, the team hopes to learn more about how different businesses and people adopt and use these technologies. (By the way, if your company is interested in testing OfficeTalk, you can reach the Office Labs team here).

However, like the previous concept project TownSquare, elements of which are now in SharePoint 2010, some of the technologies in OfficeTalk may also make it into a commercial product at some point further down the road, too.

Seesmic Shows Off New Silverlight Apps at MIX

Sarah Perez — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:52:00 GMT

At this week’s MIX10 conference, Seesmic showed off their new Silverlight-powered Twitter applications, one a desktop app and the other a mobile app designed for Windows Phone 7 Series devices.

A prototype of the cross-platform desktop client, which is similar to the current "Seesmic for Windows" app was demoed at the conference on Monday. Unlike the native Windows app, the Silverlight version works on both Windows and Mac platforms, allowing you to access multiple Twitter accounts, your Facebook account and LinkedIn.

The company also announced the launch of their Seesmic Desktop Platform (SDP), which will allow developers to build features or integrate their services into Seesmic’s suite of clients. For example, a new Bing mapping control plugin allows you to track geo-location and integrates trackable links at bing.com, notes Seesmic on their company blog.

Seesmic for Windows Phone was announced at the conference, too. Like the desktop client, the mobile app will use Silverlight technology and will fully integrate Bing maps and its geo-location features for plotting tweets on a map.

How to Embed Twitter Maps on Your Site

Sarah Perez — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:37:00 GMT

According to a recent post from the Bing Search Team, the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery has been updated to allow for map embeds. The Twitter Maps app, if you’re unfamiliar, is a “mapplication” (map + app) that lets you see nearby tweets overlaid on top of a Bing Map. After loading the Twitter map on the screen, you can used Search Filters that let you narrow down tweets by location (address, location, or landmark), keywords or phrases, and Twitter usernames. You can also check a box to see tweets with an attached photo only.

Once you have the Twitter map displaying the way you want it, just follow these steps to get the embed code for your website or blog:

Select the map location either fixed (centered on a specific point) or anywhere (moves the map as the Tweets come in).
Specify the dimensions of your map (height and width).
Add search filters. These will be carried into the embed form if you’ve specified them to filter only tweets that meet your search criteria.
Copy/paste HTML into your web page.

Sobees' Windows App Gets a Makeover

Sarah Perez — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:32:00 GMT

Sobees’ desktop Twitter client, a native app built using .NET technology, has just been updated with a fresh design and built-in real-time search, reports TechCrunch. The updated application looks a lot like competitor TweetDeck with its columnar interface, but it offers a few differences.

Llike TweetDeck, Sobees supports Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn in addition to Twitter. However, unlike TweetDeck, Sobees lets you drag and drop columns in order to reorganize them in the client’s layout. You can also preview tweets, translate them, view threaded conversations, and preview Twitpics within the app.

Also new in this version is the addition of real-time search which lets you search OneRiot, Twitter, FriendFeed, and FacteryLabs all at once.

You can get the new client app from the Sobees website here: http://www.sobees.com.

Windows Phone 7 Series Gets Its Own Twibbon

Sarah Perez — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:28:00 GMT

If you’re a regular Twitter user, you’ve probably seen a lot of “twibbons.” These Twitter avatar overlays let you put a small icon, often in the shape of a ribbon, overtop your profile image. These can be used to support a particular cause – for example, something political in nature – but have also become a popular way to express your interest and/or fandom of other subjects, like sports, celebrities, TV or movies, events, promos, games, hardware or software, and more.

The new Windows Phone 7 Series twibbon is designed for those interested in showing their support or desire to own one of the newly announced phones. When you support this cause your avatar will be overlaid with a Windows Phone twibbon picturing a small icon of the phone next to the text “Windows Phone 7 Series.”

Note that Twibbon posts a tweet on your behalf when using the service. In this case it reads: “Support Windows Phone 7 Series, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! - http://twibbon.com/join/Windows-Phone-7-Series.” They also auto-follow you to the @Twibbon account, but you can unfollow if you wish.

You can grab the Windows Phone Twibbon here.

(Hat tip: My Microsoft Life)

Track Olympic Tweets on NBCOlympics.com

Sarah Perez — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:15:00 GMT

On NBCOlympics.com, the official site for Winter Games coverage, there’s a Twitter application called the “Olympic Twitter Tracker.” I recently discovered this thanks to a tweet from Marshall Kirkpatrick, who said it was “pretty cool.” If he thinks so, then I definitely had to check it out. And indeed it is.

Unlike many Twitter trackers, this one doesn’t just stream the tweets in a big, unwieldy flow. It’s not just one window that aggregates everything tagged “Olympics.” Instead, the interface to the application uses images to display the various topics being tweeted about and sizes them proportionally to the number of tweets. Obviously, the sports and other keywords associated with the events occurring now will have larger sections and those past will be smaller. In addition, within each section, other popular keywords appear for even more granular filtering of the Twitter stream. So if you’re interested in snowboarding tweets but only those about “Shaun White,” for example, that’s an option.

When you click into any of these sections, the Twitter stream appears on the left with related keywords on the right. So if you click “Evan Lysacek” you’ll see keywords like “gold,” “men,” “skating,” “wins,” etc. (Yep, as you may have guessed, he won a gold medal.) The Tracker even has a bar at the top that counts down until its next automatic refresh – every minute. That’s better than a live stream since it gives you a chance to actually read what’s in front of you, but it’s still fast enough to keep you up-to-date in near real-time.

Also at the top is a link to “Olympic Tweets” for even more types of tweets. These are sorted by different categories like tweets from the athletes, tweets from the NBCOlympics.com Twitter account, tweets from the Olympics Health Twitter account, and “All.”

The entire Twitter app is part of the larger “Olympic Pulse” – the app that tracks the blogs, tweets, and other news from the Olympics. You can check out the entire Olympic Pulse here.

A Look at Seesmic Look

Larry Larsen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:26:00 GMT

Seesmic recently launched Look, a Twitter client aimed toward tech novices and people who want a very clean, simple Twitter experience. TechCrunch called it A Tablet-Friendly Twitter Client For The Oprah Crowd, that's a good description. The UI of Look allows for a comfortable touch experience and WPF gives Look a polish that really makes it worth having even if only as a second Twitter client.

Seesmic Look organizes groups of Twitter feeds into a "Channel". For a company like TIME, they can have a single landing page with bigger graphics where you can see all of their Twitter accounts like CBS News and GMA. Look also allows you to follow Tweeters without having a Twitter account, which means you can follow without anyone knowing you're following them. Microsoft Sr. Platform Strategy Advisor Daryll McDade stopped by to give us a peek at Look and tell us more about it. You can download Seesmic Look here.

Sobees Launches Real-Time Search Platform

Sarah Perez — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:11:00 GMT

Sobees, the company known for their desktop and web-based social media tools, has just launched a new real-time search platform powered by Silverlight and running on Windows Azure. The new platform lets you search the real-time web including images, news, and videos. It pulls from sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, OneRiot, Bing, YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Flickr, and the New York Times.

Its columnar based interface lets you customize which services are displayed while trending topics appear at the top for one-click access. Also at the top is a search box that lets search across the services for the topic of your choosing.

International users will appreciate the service’s drop-down box that lets you choose from a number of languages. For added fun, you can also share the results of your search on Facebook or Twitter using the buttons provided.

This new search engine is a free, web-based application available now from search.sobees.com.

Seesmic Look is a Beautiful New Twitter App for Windows Users

Sarah Perez — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:10:00 GMT

Seesmic just announced the launch of a new Twitter client called Seesmic Look at an event in NYC this week. This Windows-only desktop application is built using WPF and .NET technologies and is intended to provide a unique, beautiful, and easy-to-understand interface to Twitter for the “consumer” crowd…that is, those who aren’t power users.

Seesmic Look works on Windows XP, Vista and 7 computers including touchscreen computers like the new Windows 7 tablet devices. It can even be controlled by a remote on a computer-connected TV, reports TechCrunch.

The client software offers a number of features, including different visual modes and sections for following trends, interests, and channels. Real-time search lets you track what’s happening now and an Inbox feature lets you view, manage, and respond to your mentions and direct messages.

The Timeline mode offers a more traditional stream of tweets while the unique “Look” mode, which gives the product its name, fades tweets in and out as they float across the screen.

You can also use the software to track trending topics that are hot now or you can review popular trends from the past day or week.

Since non-power users may have trouble knowing what to follow on Twitter (or how to do so!), Look offers an “Interests” section pre-populated with categories like News, Sports, Politics, and Celebrities. In the “Channels” section, select brands get their own dedicated area where they can show off their own themes and tweets. At launch time, Red Bull, the Huffington Post, Kodak, CNN Money and Ford have their own channels.

The application is now available for download from Seesmic’s website here. For more information about the software, check out The Windows Experience Blog’s interview with Seesmic founder, Loic Le Meur.

Yep, That's Bill Gates on Twitter

Sarah Perez — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:00 GMT

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has officially joined Twitter (and following us @ch9). On Tuesday, January 19th, the @BillGates Twitter account saw its initial post which humorously began “Hello World…” a nod to the language commonly used in many tutorials when teaching a programming language. The new account was first noticed by the tech blog The Next Web and Twitter employee @caroline confirmed it was official. The account now displays Twitter’s own seal of authenticity by way of the “Verified Account” emblem displayed at the top right of the BillGates Twitter page.

In addition, Gates has officially rejoined Facebook too. This comes after famously quitting last year due to being inundated with thousands of friend requests. Now instead of a personal account, he has launched a Facebook page where it appears the purpose is to share worthy articles, news regarding his charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and photos from his travels. The new Facebook page is here.

See Haitian Tweets with Bing

Sarah Perez — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:43:00 GMT

Over on The Inquisitr, blogger Steven Hodson noticed how a Wired article was making use of the new Twitter integration feature in Bing Maps beta. At the end of the story about Twitter usage in Haiti, the article linked to a Bing map showing some of the tweets from the area. This was made possible by way of the “mapplications” feature launched in early December which allows Bing Maps users to see real-time updates from the microblogging network placed on a map corresponding to the tweets’ originating location. In this case, you can see the tweets from Haiti as they occur.

Unfortunately, though, few users have activated the geolocation feature in Twitter which makes locating tweets like this possible. The problem appears to be related to the fact that geolocation is switched off by default, requiring Twitter users to enter into their account settings in order to turn it out. Also, many Twitter clients don’t support the feature yet, either. And, as Martin Bryant points out on The Next Web, even those that do require you to manually enable it while also turning the setting on at Twitter.com, a configuration process that many don’t seem to understand. Hopefully Twitter can come up with a way to make this process simpler for users in the future so we can take advantage of all that geolocation makes possible, including this Twitter mapplication in Bing.

Twitter App for Zune Launches

Larry Larsen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:35:00 GMT

It's official, today we've got a Twitter app for Zune that is hitting the marketplace. To commemorate the event the Zune team is having a sweepstakes where they will give out prizes like a free Zune Pass. To enter, simply tweet from your Zune. More details here. The Twitter app can be downloaded directly to your Zune HD or you can get it through the Zune software on PC.