Lets get something straight right out of the gate.

I don’t want your direct messages about making money.

Nobody else does either.

Over the past few weeks I have started to track the amount of direct messages I get on Twitter every day. I average between 15 and continue reading…

Over the past 6 months I have had about 12 different Twitter apps for the Iphone and all of them have sucked. A great number of them were proficient at 1 thing,  sending and receiving tweets. That is perfectly fine if all you want to do is send and receive tweets like text messages, but I wanted to try and get more out of the platform. The problem I had was that I have fallen in love with the lists, direct messages, mentions, ect ect that twitter offers and none of the apps I came across could do all of them until I found Twitbird.

Twitbird is way down the list of top grossing or top downloaded apps in the utilities or social networking categories of the app store, but I have yet to understand why. This is literally the end-all twitter application. I now have full use of all of the tools that twitter has to offer: lists, direct messages, mentions, tracking, search, profile, ect ect.

Why do I care? It’s because I have crapped away about 20 hours of time looking for an app that does all of the things that Twitter offers and I am trying to save you the 20 hours of wasted time.

Here is a screen-shot example of the “home” section of the app:

And if you care, here is one of the general Tweet section:

Here are the specs of the app:

SPECIAL FEATURES :
● In-App-Badges to show number of unread tweets
● Landscape mode supported everywhere
● Address Book
● Official Lists supports
● Inline picture preview
● Tweet Music/Now Playing
● Tweet Your Voice
● Tweet Video(3Gs only)
● Save link to readitlater, instapaper or save in twitbird
● Dark Theme and other two themes
● Custom background image
● Geotag supports(turned on in twitter.com required)
● mutual follow status between you and a user
● Advanced nearby tweet searching with map

PUSH NOTIFICATION :
● Inter TwitBird Push comes with the app, it is instant
● Global Push is available as in app purchase, It will push any mentions and direct messages to you in minutes
● Supports Mentions and Direct Messages

OTHER FEATURES
● View your twitter timeline, replies, and direct messages
● Manage your favorite tweets
● Browse your following and followers and lists
● Compose new tweets with rich features
● Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
● Follow and unfollow people or lists
● Twitlonger supports
● Uses secure connection (https)
● Custom searches
● Save your favorite searches
● landscape keyboard
● Conversational Threaded tweets
● Twitter API Proxy
● Rich feature settings
● Trending topics
● View and edit your profile including head image
● Find people
● Email tweets
● Delete tweets from twitter.com
● Picture preview inside message
● Shorten URL
● Upload photo to Twitpic, yFrog, MobyPciture
● Set nearby distance
● Unread/All message filter
● Block/Unblock

Here it is, my overall goal list for 2010.  It’s quick, it’s candid and it’s honest. Literally copied and pasted from the word doc file I keep them in.

1. Average closing 6-8 transactions per month:
   1. Continuously improving efficiency
   2. b. Stay genuinely connected with clients from start to finish
   3. Make no less than $100,000 in income
2. Improve my health by:
   1. Working out at least 3-4 days a week
   2. Completely break poor eating habits
3. Get closer to God by:
   1. Correcting poor habits
   2. Surrounding myself with positive people
   3. Attending Church/study sessions
   4. Taking initiative to study and pray
4. Family:
   1. Make Alison part of the family
   2. Taking the hour and a half to go see my brother in STL
   3. Take the time to actually talk to my parents
5. Become closer to Alison by:
   1. Taking our trip to Mexico
   2. Making time
   3. Finding her a new occupation
6. Properly split personal and work time:
   1. Make a daily schedule and follow it
   2. Write plans and take steps FORWARD each day
7. Buy a house
   1. Make myself a sanctuary where I can relax
   2. Rebuild my home office
8. Build my social network
   1. Introduce myself to at least 2 new people a day
   2. Add 100+ friends/followers a day to social network
9. Buy a new Motorcycle
   1. Keep my eyes open for deals
   2. Stop searching and commit

10.  Get back into Music

1.  Start taking Piano lessons again

2.  Get back into classical vocals

3.  Perform at Ryman Auditorium