You should probably have heard of Twitterholic, a site which is known for ranking the top 1000 according to the number of followers. I was visiting the site just a few hours ago and noticed that there was a section which listed the rank of Twitter users according to their join dates, in other words… this was a list which ranked users according to how early they joined Twitter.

Interesting to see how the early users were the ones who snapped up most of the common first names as profile names. Anyway, just some interesting trivia I thought I’ll share. See the full list here. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find a link to view users up to the 1000th rank.

Twitter Mosiac is a mashup that allows you to create a collage of all your Twitter friends or followers… and then put them on a cup, t shirt, card, bag, mousepad with a click of a button. Yes, physical products you can actually touch. But it’s not free: You’ll have to pay for the actual finished product. For example, a mug costs $12.95.

If you’re not into that, you can grab the mosiac for your Twitter friends and put it on your blog as well. Just beware that if you have a lot of friends of followers, your collage will be pretty huge.

Cartoon from David Horsey. Are we becoming too connected? Why do we need to always know what’s going on? It’s like an addiction once you get started.

As you should probably know by now, Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to reach 1 million Twitter followers. But he didn’t just do it with the web. Lamar, the third largest billboard company in the US donated 1,133 digital billboards advertising Kutcher’s Twitter profile. This amounts to 34 million impressions.

Some say it’s just a PR stunt to promote Twitter, CNN and even Oprah. I was never under the illusion that it was anything else but that. Come on, Kutcher is a celebrity. The whole deal about the race being an exercise in social media triumph over old media is not entirely accurate.

Comscore stats show that Twitter traffic has increased by 131% to reach 9.3 million US visitors. But what is more interesting is research which shows that Twitter users are 2 or 3 times more likely to visit top online news sites like Yahoo News, CNN and MSNBC than the average person.

For example, while 17 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience visited CNN.com in March, more than double that percentage (38 percent) of Twitter.com visitors did so. So these data firmly establish that there’s a strong relationship between Twitter users and news consumption.

Fast140 is a really simple online game which tests how fast you can type and compares you to other Twitter users who played it. All you have to do is to type out a random tweet displayed on the screen as fast as you can.

It’s pretty addictive actually and this game is spreading rather quickly within the Twitter community because it automatically sends out a tweet when the user plays his/her first game. Great way to make it go viral.

Evernote is a pretty cool that allows you to save information of just about anything and have it be easily searchable through a web interface.

They’ve recently released a cool feature which integrates Evernote with Twitter, allowing to archive and save any tweets or retweets you want by simply adding @myEN anyway in your tweet.

Great news if you’ve always wanted to save your tweets easily and make them searchable and accessible anytime (instead of just favoriting it on Twitter). Read more about it at this link.

Ever wondered how some bloggers manage to do Twitter polls and neatly place all the replies they receive on their blog? Some used screenshots but some of them were probably using Twickie, a free tool that allows you to export and archive Twitter response threads.

It’s a fast way to put all the replies of your followers in convenient spot on your blog post. See the image above for an example.

Find it difficult to use Twitter at work because you’re afraid you’ll be discovered by your superiors or co-workers? SpreadTweet is something you’ll want to check out. This Adobe AIR Twitter client looks like Excel: nobody will suspect that you’re firing a tweet to your friend or favorite celeb while juggling your deadlines.

A study from the University of Southern California has suggested that social networking sites like Twitter could numb your sense of morality, causing you to be indifferent to human suffering.

New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain’s “moral compass” to process and could harm young people’s emotional development.

Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.