As I was exploring Twitter outreach for my project, Scrawlers, I learned there is a significant population of folks writing haiku on Twitter. It makes sense; haiku is about the only legitimate art form that fits properly into a tweet. Six word stories are a fun diversion, but I grow tired of them rather quickly.

Ever find yourself annoyed by frequent talk of elections, memes and kitty-cats on Twitter? I have created a user script to apply to your Twitter Fluid instance or Firefox Greasemonkey install to enable regex whitelists and blacklists for filtering out tweets in your Twitter stream.

Mashable recently published a list of celebrities using Twitter. Before you go out and start following your favorite Stargate Atlantis star, it’s best you take a look at his follow cost.

Sometimes you run into a Twitterer who you feel pressured to follow. All of your (Twitter) friends are following her. She apparently has a lot to say. But how much?

Now you can find out the answer to that question. Luke Francl and I have built follow cost to help you gauge the pain your next follow will inflict on you. Luke provides more details at the Rail Spikes blog.