Daily Dose of social media: The most extraordinary tweets

TwitZap: Never Refresh Twitter Again — TwitZap is a lot like Twitter.com, except it automatically refreshes. It’s sort of like a combo between the Twitter.com interface and a API app like TweetDeck. TwitZap is worth checking out, especially for people using Twitter at work. Many of you are not allowed to install applications like TweetDeck, ,and TwitZap may be a nice Web-based compromise.

The other main feature is the ability to send tweets even when Twitter is down. No longer will you have to worry about Twitter eating your tweets or not being able to accept them. TwitZap will accept tweets whenever, regardless of Twitter up-time status and then upload the tweets once Twitter is running again.

TwitZap also promises to send tweets lightning fast.

10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates –Twitter has become an incredibly powerful life tool. All kinds of news — from the personal to the worldly — is broken on Twitter. Most major world events — especially natural disasters — are broken first on Twitter. Here are some of the most extraordinary updates you’ll see on Twitter:

• Marriage proposals
• Tweets from Mars
• Status updates for charity
• People tweeting right as they are arrested in foreign countries
• Breaking big news first
• Job offers
• Preventing tragedy
• Celebrity interviews

If you still doubt the power of Twitter (or your boss and coworkers do) check out this list. Twitter is the real deal. Even if Twitter itself is not around in five years, the idea of a global messaging service like Twitter will be around for years to come. And that idea has forever changed the world.

Twitter and other microblogging services like it just make sense for journalism.