I swear that Twitter will go down in the Internet history books as one of the most talked about companies out of the whole Web 2.0 era. One has to wonder though if it will even be making money by the time Web 3.0 rolls around. That is if we end up calling it Web 3.0 at all because if Scoble has his way it’ll be called something more like 2010 Web.

This of course is Robert’s idea of how we should be approaching the web, which Chris Brogan would like to see Robert expand into a book, and in his post explaining it took a swipe at Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. However Kara took some time and provided us with an excellent point by point smackdown of Scooby-Don’t.

What did that have to do with Twitter? Nothing but I just wanted to pass along something that gave me a good chuckle today. Now on to our regular scheduled Twitter nausea.

Want Your Service Integrated With TweetDeck? It’ll Cost You A Cool $50,000 via TechCrunch – Once more we see how companies being built on top of Twitter are finding ways to make money; but $50,000 to have TweetDeck include your service inside of their Twitter client is a bit much.

Harvard Twitter Study Uncovers Big Gender Gap Compared With Other Social Networks via SiliconValleyWatcher – gee a gender gap – who woulda thought. Is this even important?

Google Trends shows drops in Twitter news coverage, search volume via VentureBeat – Google Trends might be noticing a drop of some sort but from where the rest of us are sitting it sure doesn’t seem so.

TweetStats Down More than 24 Hours As Twitter Attacks Cache Issues via Louis Gray – ya it makes so much sense to try and build a business, or invest a major development effort, on top of Twitter, a business that is as about as flaky as a hooker on crack.

The “Turnabout is Fair Play” Strategy for Twitter Auto DMs via I’m Not Actually a Geek – turnabout is fair play is right. chalk one up for Hutch’s idea and I vote we adopted this as the preferred method to get back at these DM’ing dickwads.

Mind mapping isn’t the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of Twitter. Maybe mind numbing but definitely not mind mapping. I wonder what would happen if Spock did the old Vulcan mind meld thingie with Twitter? Not that any thoughts like this stopped Steve Rubel from posting that really nifty looking chart like thingie from his recent mind mapping experience with explaining Twitter to a roomful of people. Just think people paid good money to see that at one of those Twitter conferences – so be respectful, k.

Latest Twitter Bug Hides the Use of Third Party Clients via Louis Gray – so Twitter crashes and when it comes back and everyone puts away their Xanax we discover that Twitter is no-longer displaying the 3rd party client ego tags. Yup everyone is posting from the web just the way Twitter likes it.

Twitter search engine Topsy launches with $15M via VentureBeat – Let me get this straight. A company builds a better search engine for Twitter but if Twitter isn’t running that company is basically tits up until Twitter comes back up … and they got $15 mil? Damn.

Study: Young adults haven’t warmed up to Twitter via cnet – So all those high mobile kids with cash in their pockets aren’t big users of Twitter … hmm. And this is the prime group that companies are falling over themselves getting onto Twitter to reach? Oh dear.

The Next Big Feature Of Xbox Live: Twitter! via TechCrunch – Great now we’ll be inundated with snarky assed people showing off high scores.

Ah time for the glorious weekend. Yes folks for many of us it is Friday night and with visions of sleeping in tomorrow we elect to spend all night refreshing Twitter and Friendfeed pages because not even real-time is fast enough. That’s okay though because we allow ourselves to crack open that beer, bottle of wine or flask of scotch we’ve been saving. Unfortunately if we aren’t careful there could be photographic evidence waiting for you on Friendfeed or Twitter for when you wake up of just how much fun your night really was.

The Twitter Avatar Roast: 10 Types of Profile Images. via tremendous news – absolutely hilarious look at the different avatar types we fall under.

If Apple Bought Twitter via TheNextWeb.com – thanks for the laugh guys

So Much For Twitter’s Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News via TechCrunch – nice post that shows the absolute uselessness of hashtags now on Twitter. They #havebecomenothingbutajokewastingourtime. Thanks Twittersphere for ruining what was actually a pretty good idea.

Twitter’s Suggested Users are Less ReTweetable via DanZarrella – more than you ever wanted to know about the power of the retweet and with the pre-requisite charts to enforce the point .. over and over and over again.

Twitter misses a trick as Facebook cleans up in MTV deal via TheNextWeb.com – jeez I swear Twitter could fall over a deal to make gobs of money and still fuck it up. In this case Facebook was right in there for the sloppy seconds but at least they’re getting paid – unlike Twitter.

Was "Britain’s Got Talent" (#bgt) Hollie Steele result a Fix tonight – Twitter thinks so…. via Broadstuff – Twitter might not be getting paid to spread itself around but it is sure proving to be the medium to make newspapers and tabloids look old and slow.

#Spymaster: Tips for the Twitter Game via rizzn.com – Oh Mark, Mark, Mark … I thought better of you that for you to go and do this <sigh>. I like the idea of the game however anyone who thinks this won’t become the next big bitch point on Twitter is silly. Case in point:
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter via Joe Stump
Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time via TechCrunch
Spy Vs. Spy: The Spymaster Backlash Begins And Twitter Needs To Fix it via TechCrunch
Games: Another reason why Twitter needs filters via VentureBeat
Thanks Mark……

Well hasn’t this just been an exciting day. Stuff getting announced left, right and center. Google stealing Microsoft’s attempt at starting up some thunder by announcing the next generation web was coming our way courtesy of Google Wave. This left Microsoft with nothing much more than cherry pie, bing cherry pie at that, all over their faces.

Tweetbucks Brings Affiliate Fees To Twitter Users. Is That A Good Thing? via TechCrunch – oh goodie, yet another way for spammy pricks to irritate our asses because you know that anyone with any sense wouldn’t punish their Twitter followers with this kind of crap.

Follow dead people on twitter: Tweeji via Hacker News – my first reaction to this was one of a general WTF? but the more I looked the more fun it could be to follow some of the ones listed. If nothing else it could add some humor to your Twitter stream.

FairSpin looks for media bias on Twitter via VentureBeat – ya, just what we needed – a way to visualize politcal bias on Twitter. You’d have to be half blind and on a liberal dose of Xanax not to be able to tell just by reading the damn messages. I don’t think visualizing them will make the pills go down any easier.

Hugh Laurie doesn’t “get” Twitter via The Blog Herald – so the good doctor doesn’t get Twitter. Don’t worry Hugh most of your less talented actors don’t have a clue how it works either and they have millions of followers.

Real Life Twitter via Steve Clayton – couldn’t resist throwing this one into the mix if for no other reason that to keep you all on your toes

Songtwit: Twitpic for Music via TheNextWeb – Hey what do you know, something that might actually be useful to do with Twitter. Way to go Zee let’s hope they get the delay problem sorted out somehow.

A Historical Look at Search Functionality on Twitter and a Bonus: What’s Next via CenterNetworks – great post from Allen Stern. Now knock it off bud you’re making me have to up my snarkiness game with this post and that just won’t do.