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Use Twitter so much that refreshing the page or waiting for your app to update is just too slow? Try Streamie, a new Twitter web client that taps into Twitter’s real time API to show you new updates instantly. While we wait for new Twitter (which doesn’t feature realtime updating), Streamie might just be our new favourite Twitter web client.

As well as showing realtime Twitter updates, you can get at your @replies, direct messages, retweets and favourites. Streamie also lets you use the official retweet function and fling out old school edited retweets. If you want realtime updates in a desktop app rather than the browser try the Tweetdeck User Stream preview – warning: it will give you a headache.

Out now | £free | Streamie

Google StreetviewGoogle Streetview could soon feature ads mapped onto real world posters, billboards and buildings if Google implements a recently granted patent. Read on to find out how Google plans to remake the real world in its own image…

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Lastminute.com has created a interactive mood map based on tweets to measure the mood of the nation. To reveal how moody they’re feeling Brits just need to tag their messages on Twitter with #goodmood or #badmood, their location and a description of their mood.

Lastminute.com mood mapLastminute.com, who we last heard from when they’d made an Android app, have created a interactive mood map based on tweets to measure the mood of the nation. To reveal how moody they’re feeling Brits just need to tag their messages on Twitter with #goodmood or #badmood, their location and a description of their mood.

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YouTube Realtime is an update to the site that takes a leaf or two out of Twitter‘s book: it offers realtime notifications of what your friends are watching, bringing social networking to the video sharing hub in a big way.

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