Twitter Tuesday - this week's Twitter news, apps and more

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Hey Twitter Tuesday true believers! It's been a big week, with some of the Twitter crew down in Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive. As you may recall, Twitter initially launched at SXSW, and it's been a huge part of the conference ever since. No surprise, then, that Twitter's @Ev chose this event to launch a big new Twitter feature. Read on for that announcement, plus apps and add-ons -- there's even some Tweetie news!

Let's do this thing!

The big news in Twitter this week is the announcement of "@anywhere" during Evan Williams' SXSW keynote. @anywhere means that Twitter won't just be limited to Twitter.com and all of the lovely third-party apps and sites I cover in this column. Nope, Twitter will really be ... anywhere. Twitter usernames will be popping up all over huge sites like Amazon, eBay, MSNBC and Digg. You'll eventually be able to bring @anywhere to your own site, too, with just a little bit of Javascript magic.

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