Created by Franz Enzenhofer over at the Face Saerch blog, the nifty Google Twitter integration script allows you to get the above results (notice the ‘Twitter’ tab on the nav bar).

What this means is that Twitter search is set up alongside Google: when you’re typing in a keyword using Google’s search engine, you’re automatically searching for the same thing at Twitter as well.

First things first. You need to be using the Firefox browser because this involves using greasemonkey. After you’ve got both Firefox and greasemonkey, you can click to install the script.

As you may have heard, there’s a new Twitter desktop client in town and its name is Tweetie. Formely an iPhone Twitter app, it was released today as Tweetie for Mac. It’s a feature-rich native client, not something built using Adobe AIR (like most other popular Twitter clients).

I’ll link out to some of the in-depth reviews I’ve read about Tweetie for Mac.

Tweetie for Mac: Better Web Worker Soluton?:

TwitterJobSearch is a search engine that attempts to allow job seekers to find jobs through Twitter. Created by WorkDigital, a London-based company, this allows you to do a quick keyword search and specify the location (eg. event planner in Chicago). According to their about page:

Until now, search engines for social media sites merely looked for words. We’re looking at context. We use semantic tools to look at what was said. We then look at what they’ve said before. We then look at who was saying it. If we do this right, we can figure out why they’re saying anything at all.

Have too much time on your hands? Maybe you would want to integrate Twitter with a physical object in your environment. It’s not difficult to do as long as you have the right equipment. That’s what someone did when they decided to set up a Twitter account for an office chair and set it so that it tweets when the sitter farts:

The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.

Let me start by saying that I have nothing against celebrities or people who like celebrities. They’re entertaining (at times) and I think some of them are good people.

The recent avalanche of celebrities into Twitter has generated an incredible amount of mass media attention, which undoubtedly resulted in a huge influx of new users. A lot of them signed up just to follow their favorite celebrities, which is good for Twitter in a way.

We all know that Twitter is now a mainstream phenomenon like Facebook, especially after it was promoted by Oprah yesterday. Twitter was already growing rapidly but Oprah is pretty much the most powerful form of mainstream validation you can get.

Ever wanted to see what people are posting in real-time to Twitpic, the popular image sharing website for Twitter users? Now you can with twipick, a real-time stream of pictures posted to Twitpic.

Not only can you view the latest Twitpic images but you can also do a keyword search for just about anything, although you aren’t likely to get results for obscure terms. The search engine seems to pull results based on keywords used in comments and descriptions on twitpic, which means you might not always get what you’re looking for. But still it offers fairly good results.

Just read a Reuter’s article on how diners and restaurants are using Twitter to promote their menu and brand. Here are some tactics I found interesting from LA restaurants/diners:

Quinn Hatfield, of Hatfield’s restaurant in Beverly Hills, tweets the ins and outs of creating dishes, punctuated with the occasional mouth-watering picture.

Rush Street’s Nick Kaufman likes to reward people who tweet while they are dining at the Culver City eatery with things like free drinks.

“It’s kind of like I’m the man behind the curtain,” said Kaufman, who handles the restaurant’s online marketing. “People realize if they follow us they may get something out of it

There are many ways to use Twitter. You can use the standard web interface or a desktop Twitter client like twhirl or tweetdeck. And then there is another way, web interfaces which add an extra layer of features not found on the default Twitter site.

Tweetree is one of them. You log into Tweetree just like you would at Twitter.com and use Twitter from there. What are the benefits using Tweetree, you might ask?

• Indented Messages. You can get a better context of what’s going on because you see the posts people are replying to.

Untweeps is a free online tool which helps you to remove inactive Twitter friends, people who have not posted tweets recently. There’s the option of unfollowing users who have not updated  30, 60 or 90 days.

All you need to do is to login (via Twitter Oauth) and then the tool will spit out a page listing all the inactive users (see screenshot below).

After which, select which users you want to unfollow and with a click you’ll mass unfollow all the Twitter users selected. While I don’t see it as burden to have inactive users, you might want to clean up your Twitter list and keep only the active users around. Untweeps works for that purpose.

An oldie but goodie from Penny Arcade. Some things are not meant to be on Twitter. You don’t need to tweet about everything you’re doing right now, you know.