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{Social media expert, Steve Smorgon, has 11,800 followers and follows 13,000 other users and that ratio alone identifies him among the professional or business users of Twitter.

 ”I tend to follow people that follow me, mainly because I wasn’t into the routine of sorting when I started but also because it¹s an etiquette thing ­ users expect you to follow them back”

  As an advisor to companies on how to penetrate social media sites, Smorgon is acutely aware of both the manners that he adopts in the networking sphere and the sensitivity that business should show to users.

  The engagement with social media, he says, “it has to be relaxed, it has to be conversational because, remember, you’re pushing yourself into a conversation that’s already going on”

 ”It might be a marketing tool but it’s more for commentary and some businesses don’t get this. The best way for business to approach it is to develop a relationship with people who are talking about them already”

 Smorgon describes Twitter as more of a public space than Facebook and less of a professional space than Linkedin but, he adds, it’s effective as a professional networking vehicle.

  “I’ve discovered borders don’t have boundaries. I’ve expanded my network to social media contacts in the U.S. that I might never have heard and I’ve picked up a few speaking engagements that might not have come my way”,  he says.

Like most longer-term users, Smorgon is getting savvier about his participation. He has different accounts for friends, business and social media and is using a monitoring tool to improve his participation in the Twitterverse.}

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Social micro-payments enabler Tipjoy is releasing an APItoday that allows charities but also companies and individuals to handle relatively small payments from within their applications and spread the word through Twitter. This opens up a lot of opportunities for application developers who might benefit from small transactions, from e-commerce services selling content, subscriptions, etc. to charitable causes and non-profits accepting small donations online to peer-to-peer payments between individuals.

Inserting payments made through Tipjoy into your Twitter stream can be an invaluable way to spread the message about what it is you’re buying or donating to, much like sharing your activities, digital media you like and applications you use can spread virally through social networking sites like Facebook. With the Twitter Payments API, developers now have an easy way to integrate payment handling into third-party Twitter applications and potentially benefit from the network effect for all the people who use their service.

Read full article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/08/micro-blogging-meets-micro-payments-courtesy-of-tipjoys-api/

Whether you want to have a full Twitter client inside of your browser, or just the ability to share parts of a site, a whole Web page or just the URL of the site you are reading, there is a tool for you. Take a look through these 20+ tools and there is sure to be something that appeals to you.

As with all Firefox tool lists, we do recommend you don’t install all of these unless you want your browser to slow down considerably.

Read the original post by Sean P. Aune – http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/twitter-tools-for-firefox/