Twitter by Mark Weaver (via maniacalrage). Just beautiful.

Twitter Avatars Flickr set by Adam Koford.

Luke Wroblewski explains how real relationships drive contribution—and how follower count alone does not promote interaction.

Chris Messina details a new microsyntax for Twitter, using a slash delimiter to denote metadata (like via, cc, and by). The concept is well described and looks fantastic, but I wonder if widespread adoption is possible—especially considering popular clients like Tweetie employ a different format by default.

Rock star mac/iPhone developer Atebits has finally released information on the forthcoming Tweetie 2 for both iPhone and Mac. Tweetie 2 contains a ton of new features, including full data persistence and offline mode, drafts manager, contact integration, MapKit integration, a completely revamped draft screen, native integration for a ton of external services, the ability to post video and add multiple attachments to a tweet, improved gesture shortcuts, and much more. Whew.

Tweetie 1 is already far and away my favorite Twitter client for both platforms — needless to say, I’ll be downloading both of these updates as soon as they’re available.

Update: Screenshots available on Mashable, TechCrunch, and iPTIB.

Wow, one thousand — seriously, thanks everyone. Congrats to Sean Oldham who was my thousandth Tumblr follower, and picked himself up a set of Field Notes journals. I’m currently working out the same deal with my thousandth Twitter follower and will tweet the deets as they come.

Thanks again, and here’s to the next thousand.

Pockets is visual voicemail for Twitter. Looks like a fairly simple concept extremely well executed.