Right now Twitter is hot. It’s trending and everyone has an opinion, even me. So here are a couple of other opinions (tips) on Twitter for Businesses.

Free Twitter Ideas that Will Engage Customers and Build Loyalty. One message: “Think tactical, get tactical.” Main message: Engage people, it’s about being social.

10 examples of creative Twitter uses. You can certainly learn from these examples.

Even Sprint is mentioning Twitter in its new ad campaign.

One of the better presentations I have seen on social media

Ken Hyder blogs about 14 Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users, including the following:

• Follow Cost
• hashtags
• tweet stats
• Tweetake (for backup)
• Twitpic
• Grader

Then Daily SEO Blog has 10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers, like:

• Who’s following me?
• Mr Tweet- who’s interesting?
• Mr Cleanr

In more Twitter / Social Media news, CIO.com has article about how SalesForce.com has embraced both Twitter and Facebook. Add in a healthy API with Broadsoft for Voice Applications and a hook to Google Apps and you can see why SalesForce.com has become the first billion dollar SAAS company.