Business Day posted an article last week on a rising trend in social media: squatters.  Seems that the latest Twitter trend is for squatters to snatch up trademark Twitter IDs.  Nicole Kidman, Coca Cola, and Nike have all had their names snatched up by others.  (You can read the full Squatters Creating Twittering Confusion article.)

Celebrities and major corporations aren’t the only victims.  Some Internet Marketers who were late adopting Twitter had their names scooped up. @biz and @ev spoke about the trend on The View last week and outlined some of the verification strategies they will be putting in place to help prevent Twitter ID theft.

But what can you do in the meantime?

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I’ve been thinking about things that Twitter might add to the service. Since you “talk” to Twitter by sending a message by text, web or desktop application… Anything that can be triggered by a keyword or command could be added.

There are actually very few commands for Twitter. The server picks up uses “DM” and “@” to sort messages. “follow” at the start of a tweet add the user. Search catalogs the words and counts their occurance

Other apps read the stream an do cool things.. the operating system remains wide open for expansion.

I’m reminded of the old text based system online. Compuserve, AOL, etc would inturpret commands such as “go news” or “go email” and change their behavior.

Great Apps You Can’t Use That Will Improve Twitter

@ev announced on on the Twitter Blog that Twitter has hired Rael Dornfest and acquired his company Values of n

Rael Dornfest is a famously talented engineer, author, and entrepreneur. Before founding Values of n, Rael served as Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media and is known for his pioneering work on RSS as well being the series editor of O’Reilly’s celebrated Hacks books. I met him personally a number of years ago and have always thought he was one of the smartest guys I know.

A short while ago it became clear to Rael that while the innovative personal productivity and information management applications his startup had created were useful products with a loyal following, Values of n was not going to meet its huge expectations as a standalone business.

Rael is @rael on Twitter. He is the author of several books and proflicic programer.

Two of his applications may be just the technology that Twitter needs to invent the next step in the Twitter revolution:

SANDY: ” your new assistant. I’ll remember the details so you can focus on what’s important.”

• Kick off your morning knowing what’s on for the day.
• Keep your day moving forward with reminders right when you need them.
• Books to read, people to call, your cousin’s birthday — I’ll remember it all.
• Stay organized with everyone in your life — effortlessly.

All of this is done from your email IN box or by text message. Sound familiar?

STIKKIT: “little yellow notes that think”

Stikkit makes organizing your daily details as simple as jotting down a note or firing off email. Stikkit’s “little yellow notes that think” talk to the productivity applications you already use, as well as to friends, coworkers and family, giving you a universal remote for your life.

Both these sites will shut down on Dec 8th. @Rael wrote this post to explain

What Would You Add To Twitter?

It’s pretty obvious (even stated) that Twitter will be adding some of the technology from IwantSandy and Stikkit to Twitter.

Add a comment on this post now. Let’s make this open ended and postiive. What feature would you add to Twitter first?

I’ll review and comment on what I think might happen on tonight’s TwitCast. Join us at http://TwitCastRadio.com at 10pm Eastern or 7pm Pacific

I want sandy, twitter future, twitter revolution

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