Twitter Tuesday - Windows gets a good Twitter app!

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Twitter Tuesday! We're back again, after a holiday weekend (in the US and the UK, anyway) and we've got some great apps and news for you. Last week was insanely busy for Twitter, but this calmer week gives us a chance to focus on applications and services.

Here's what's in store for this Twitter Tuesday: a great new Windows Twitter client (finally!), a Twitter dating site (groan!) and Twitter's director of search leaving the company (huh?!). We'll also talk about the fallout from Twitter's ban on third-party ad services last week.

Okay, let's do this!

First up, which companies will be affected by that third-party ad ban? ReadWriteWeb has an in-depth look at the situation, but here's the brief version: NOBODY is affected. Every Twitter ad network, from Ad.ly to Magpie to Sponsored Tweets, has come out and said it will be business as usual for them. Twitter's new TOS implies that these services may have to go through Twitter's own Promoted Tweets and split the revenue with Twitter in the future, but for now, these ad companies are at least pretending not to be worried.

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