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Here’s another one of those inevitable studies that surface every year. When new technologies start to gain market share, it seems the academics study the effects on human intelligence. I think someone should collect all the papers written over the years and see how many times people are complaining  that television, cell phones, radio, gaming, the web, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter are making us stupid.

Link:

Facebook ‘enhances intelligence’ but Twitter ‘diminishes it’, claims psychologist

Here are a few tools that offer a few ’softer’ aspects of Tweets – behavior, sentiment, and opinion.

It’s very cool for applying influence and persuasion concepts to your Twitter usage.

Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst

Here’s a few tools if you are a twitter user:

Using coupons on Twitter: twtQpon

Finding trends: twtQpon

Analyzing search sentiment: Tweetfeel

Finding trends: Twendz

Taking Polls: twtpoll

Distinguish positive/negative feedback: twitratr