If you want to know how “hot” or “cold” on Twitter, you can head to Twitemperature and find out so. Twitempeature is a special start-up that measures the “temperature” of your interaction in the microblogging community and taking into consideration of what tweets you post rather than the number of followers or updates you’ve.

To find out your “temperature”, simply punch in your Twitter username into the form and click “Tell me if I’m hot!”. Your “temperature” will then be shown with a photo grabbed from Flickr and a statement accompanied. Since this app doesn’t requires you to enter your Twitter credentials, you can search how hot are your friends are and compare the results.

Twitemperature is created by two interesting people – C.K. and Ryan.

Think about this! According to a survey completed in September 2009, there are 1.73 billion internet users worldwide and 234 million websites. From these colossal numbers, we find that Facebook has passed the 400 million user mark (generating 6 million pageviews per minute), Twitter hits 50 million Tweets per day and over one billion videos are viewed on YouTube every day (source). How does this affect Bloggers?

By definition, a blog is an educational or informative web log, and there is a major crossover between Blogging and Social Networking which should be exploited to the full to maximize your presence whether you are blogging to spread information, generate revenue or both. People join a social network site to be noticed and to find out what is going on. In another amazing study, it was shown that 75% on Americans get their news online, receive it from a social networking site direct or via email and 52% forward that news on through networking sites (source).

So how is it best to promote your blog through a social network site? First avoid the big guns unless you are truly confident and prepared to work many hours to build up your contacts list. MySpace is already crawling with spam, so your presence needs to stand out from the crowd. Facebook’s success is due to the fact that it has appealed to the lowest possible common denominator, and therefore you may find your potential audience not the ideal market for the product or message you are trying to promote (still a great place to chat to your friends though).

It is probably better to focus your attention on a professional network such as LinkedIn and also a network such as Virb, which allows you to put your pictures, videos and blogs all in one place, with syndication of your blog with just a couple of clicks in your easy to use control panel.

Above all else, maintain meaningful, context-rich text and a professional profile.

If you play with this Web app and was lucky to stumble across a similar face – that is either your friend or neighbor living near you, follow him or her on Twitter and they will be surprised to see you on the social platform.

The downside of this app is that it doesn’t provides very accurate stats. As a frequent Twitter user, you should have known that when users sign up, it doesn’t requires them to provide their location and some even leave the option blank. Therefore, there are actually many of them who are not included in the database.

After selecting a template, you’ll be directed to the editor which you can then upload your own image or logo either from the web or computer. The image adjustment feature enables users to alter the image size, rotation, a drag-and-drop image positioning, etc. Other key features includes adding your own text in two layout options, change text colors, change text sizes and change text position. When you’re satisfied with your work, PrettyTweet will send the image to your email and from there you can upload it to your profile.

The downside of PrettyTweet is that it only offers default Twitter backgrounds which doesn’t seems special to me at all (even though Kevin Rose uses it). However, I believe that Chad Wyatt and his team will try to expand the list by adding more new and amazing ones. Of course it would be great if PrettyTweet were to partner with TwitterGallery (a website that provides really cool themes) to help Twitterers to design their custom Twitter background. Most likely it would be a success and the number of people joining Twitter is increasing significantly everyday!