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Tweet in Klingon

Tweet in Klingon

It is a good day to Twitter: Tweet in Klingon is a Star Trek Online viral tool that translates your weakling Federation-speak into 140 characters of guttural, bat’leth-wielding doom.

Art: Twitter Avatars

Art: Twitter Avatars

Adam Koford’s Twitter Avatars are limited as Twitter’s only 140 character limit, but the results are anything but: he’s done everything from Wolverine and Yoda to Chewie and Link.

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Tweeting Kegerator

Tweeting Kegerator

We’ve seen Twitter for power usage and watering plants, but the Tweeting Kegerator is easily the most useful: it monitors beer temp, handle pulls and brew levels; follow it on Twitter.

Twitter Zombies T-shirt

Twitter Zombies T-shirt
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#braainnnnnsss has always been a trending topic for Twitter Zombies, which isn’t too surprising: staying under 140 characters is pretty easy when you have a one word vocabulary.

Parent FB/Twitter Stalking

Parent FB/Twitter Stalking

The Onion tackles the growing problem of parents stalking their kids through Twitter and Facebook; if you’ve ever needed a reason to ignore a friend request from mom, this is it.

S*** My Dad Says

S*** My Dad Says

We’ve never featured a Twitter account before, but S*** My Dad Says is brimming with so much foul-mouthed wit from 28-year old Justin’s 73-year old dad it’s too much to pass up.

Twitter/FB Mouse Pads

Twitter/FB Mouse Pads
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Short of wearing status update pants, these Twitter and Facebook Mouse Pads show your social networking geekery like none other; they’re accurate down to the tweet speech bubble.

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Funny: Tweetlejuice

Funny: Tweetlejuice

CollegeHumor’s Tweetlejuice is so full of epic win we don’t know where to start; it does a spot on impersonation of Beetlejuice, pokes fun at social networks, and throws in the fail whale.

Social Media Pillows

Social Media Pillows
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As if our lives aren’t already consumed by tweets and status updates, these Social Media Pillows let you pimp out your pad with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and MySpace icons.

Art: Facebook vs. Twitter

Art: Facebook vs. Twitter

SKWAK’s epilepsy-inducing artwork dropped into our inbox today with his Eat Yourself tee, but we also spied this epic Facebook vs. Twitter poster; let’s hope it gets printed soon!

App: TweetCraft

App: TweetCraft

One more reason for World of Warcraft players to never logout, TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client that’ll let you queue tweets based on priority and send screenshots via TwitPic.

Loud Tweets Badge

Loud Tweets Badge

As if sounding like a self-indulgent boob wasn’t enough, this Loud Tweets Badge by Aram Bartholl lets you look like one too: it’s a 21×7 pixel LED which scrolls your Twitter feed.

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Twitter Pulse Box

Twitter Pulse Box

We’ve seen Twitter hooked up to plants and to your electrical wiring, but this Twitter Pulse Box takes the cake for sheer morbidity: it measures your heartbeat–or the lack thereof.

Transformers 2 x Twitter

Transformers 2 x Twitter

The acting for Transformers 2: Revenge of the Twitter Icons is corny and the plot even moreso, but then again, we could say the same for Michael Bay’s new movie. Thanks, Tenshi!

The Story (so far) of Twitter

The Story (so far) of Twitter

The Story (so far) of Twitter is an infographic for mainstream media types seeking insight on the micro-blogging phenomenon; it stretches from Unix’s Talk in the 80s to the Twipocalypse.

Twitterverse v0.9

Twitterverse v0.9

Twitterers @BrianSolis and @Jess3 wrangle a nebular glob of Twitter-related apps into a galactic map with Twitterverse V0.9; they’re grouped by purpose into spiral arms.

Free: Spymaster

Free: Spymaster

It’s in private beta, but we’re chomping at the bit to try Spymaster: it’s a Twitter-based social game where you’ll purchase weapons on the black market and assassinate for hire.

DIY: Tweet-A-Watt

DIY: Tweet-A-Watt

Finally, a twitter tool with real “utility”: Adafruit Industries’ Tweet-a-Watt tweets your power usage using a Kill-A-Watt monitor and a wireless transmitter; build your own or buy a kit.

Video: Just Landed

Video: Just Landed

Born out of a swine flu discussion, Jer Thorp’s Just Landed is another Twitter mashup, but this time using “just landed/arrived in” tweets and the user’s hometown to track their movements.

Website: Stweet.com

Website: Stweet.com

It has some stability issues, but we like how Stweet.com mashes up Twitter and Google Maps; it uses street views to lend even more of a voyeuristic quality to live tweets.

Twitter in Real Life

Twitter in Real Life

Dan Gurewitch of College Humor shows that Twitter in Real Life makes you sound like an obnoxious, self-centered douchebag; ironically, it’s a perfect fit for our inattentive ADD generation.

Video: Flutter

Video: Flutter

Produced by Slate Magazine, Flutter is such an effective parody of Twitter we wouldn’t be surprised if it got venture capital; it introduces “nano-blogging,” which uses only 26 characters.

Botanicalls

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If babies and U.S. presidents twitter, why not houseplants? Botanicalls is a DIY Arduino-powered kit with a moisture sensor that tweets via Wi-Fi everytime you forget to water.

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