Because I enjoyed much of using Twitter, I assembled some of the best infographics around this social media network. Some of them are funny, while others can help you in your Twitter bussiness process.

Sit back in your comfortable chair and enjoy this colorful list of Twitter infographics 2011. For a full-size version please click on each image or visit the source author website.

15 Well Designed Twitter Infographics 2011

1. A Visual History of Twitter

Source: Mashable

2. Twitter Facts and Figures

Source: Touchagency

3. Following Twitter

Source: Visual.ly

4. Profile of a Twitter User

Source: Ngonlinenews

5. The History of Advertising on Twitter

Source: Mashable

6. The Who, Why, And How Of Twitter

Source: BuySellAds

7. How Airlines Use Twitter

Source: Eezeer

8. What’s Trending @Twitter

Source: Lab42

9. A Year of Twitter

Source: Flowtown

10. Twitter Statistics

Source: Kissmetrics

11. Who’s Using Twitter

Source: Flowtown

12. The Four Stages of Getting Twitter

Source: Andfaraway

13. America According to Twitter

Source: Inboxq

14. Is Twitter a Waste of Time

Source: Problogger

15. How Twitter Users are Getting Their Questions Answered

Source: Inboxq

Have in mind a great Twitter infographic? Share with us.

But finding a great Twitter bird design that fits with your website can be a rough challenge if you don’t have time to create a personal approach. So I decided to make your life easier and put together some of the best free Twitter bird icons and buttons that will come in handy for everyone. If you want to use the graphic design in a commercial website make sure you read the license agreement.

Inspiring Twitter Bird Icons and Buttons

1. Free to use Twitter icon illustration

2. Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

3. Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot

4. 8 Free Cute & Simple Twitter Bird Vector Graphics

5. 40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics

6. Free Twitter Graphics

7. Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog

8. Free Twitter Eggs

9. “Fluzzy” Twitter Icon Set

10. Free vector icon set

11. Zwitscha Twitter Icon

12. Twitter Bird

13. High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

14. IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark

15. Cute Tweeters Icon Set

16. Free Twordle Bird

17. Twitter Birdy Icon

18. Adiumy Twitter

19. NightOwl Twitter Icons

20. Tweeta Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

21. Exclusive Twitter Birds Set

22. Twitter Icons

23. Twitter Icons

24. 6 Cool Twitter Icons

25. A Little Bird Told Me

Consider this: your Twitter profile page gives the opportunity to showcase and communicate additional information to potential followers, so why not take advantage of this possibility and customize your background now. There are a lot of awesome Twitter backgrounds. I made a selection for your inspiration and here it is the final result.

Have a Twitter account? Share your customized profile page in the comment section below.

50 Great Twitter Backgrounds

1. @Marvel

2. @arinee

3. @smashingmag

4. @chrisspooner

5. @justcreative

6. @anousone

7. @BeJust

8. @AppSapp

9. @gfxmaven

10. @AEnemaOficial

11. @CreativeCrmnls

12. @carsonified

13. @JamesAnn

14. @SohTanaka

15. @dornobdesign

16. @RollingStone

17. @jeff_finley

18. @cheth

19. @Spotify

20. @SPINmagazine

21. @djambazov

22. @migy

23. @verabee

24. @kon3raz

25. @biiigfoot

26. @bkmacdaddy

27. @patternhead

28. @estfeed

29. @dickieadams

30. @digsby

31. @marekuk

32. @acedtect

33. @IndusLogic

34. @Zadi

35. @ericwashburn

36. @sallid

37. @roberge

38. @Chadworth

39. @magnumphotos

40. @InsideBlackBox

41. @MCGSTUDIO

42. @richbugger

43. @rachelspear

44. @digitalivan

45. @immaculateinfat

46. @EFactorMedia

47. @Olybop

48. @Decology

49. @boxee

50. @RobertKathleen

I’ve taken my time, researched the web and I present to you 60 Free Social Media Icon Sets that you are free to download and use the icons you like. Below will find the best free icons from Twitter birds, to hand-drawn icon packs, vintage icons, special year events, 3D or modern look.

Rounded Social Media Icon Sets

1. Free High Quality Icon Set

2. “Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons

Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing.

3. White Button Social Media Icon

4. Extended set of social icons

5. Social Media Circles Icon Set

Included: 1 zip file containing 222 png icons.

6. Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

Each icon is in .png format sized at 128x128px with transparent backgrounds. The pack comes with a .PSD source file so that you can customize your own icons.

7. Page Peel Social Icons – Version 2

8. Simple Circular Social Media Icons Pack

These icons come in really handy when integrating social media sites to your blog.

9. Nurture Social Icon Set

“Nurture” is a Social Icon Pack that was designed for digital creatives who want to add a unique, lively, and green touch to their blogs and other web-projects. The set includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites.

10. 28 Social Media Icon Badges

A fun set of 28 social media icons done in a hand stitched vintage badge style.

11. Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

12. 108 Red Pearl Soc. Media Icons

13. Neon Social Media Buttons

14. 154 clear bubble icons

154 crystal clear bubble Social Networking/ Social Media.

15. 34 Wood Social Media Icons

Square Social Media Icon Sets

16. Free Social Media Icon Set

17. Social Media Icons – Volume 2

18. 1,540 inFocus Simple White Social Media Icons

19. Hand drawn social media icons

Download this icon set for free for bloggers or anyone else.

20. SocialClean- Free Social Network Icons

It’s a set of 12 icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and 128×128 covering various social networks like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, Google Buzz, Linked In, Mixx, MySpace, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter.

21. Vector Social Media Icons

This free set includes 80 icons of the most popular social media networks on the internet. The icons are designed in 32px and 16px vector format.

22. Gorgeous Mini Social Networking Icon Set

23. 24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons: “Handy”

“Handy” is a set of 24 free and exclusive vector icons that can be used on websites, logos and more.

24. Mac style social icons

25. Vintage Icon Set For Bloggers

26. DarkSocial: A Free and High-Quality Social Media Icon Set

27. Free Furry Cushions Social Icons Set

28. 12 Creative Wooden Social Networking Icons

29. Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

Although not suitable for every type of site, these icons will look wonderful on websites that use texture and have an organic approach to their design.

30. Handycons 2 – another free hand drawn icon set

31. Pixel perfect Social Media Icons

81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons free for personal and commercial work. Each icon is hand crafted and available as a large share button, 32 pixel and 16 pixel icon.

32. Free glossy social icons

Glossy social is an icon set which consists of 20 icons for the following services: YouTube, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Flickr, RSS, Feedburner, Skype, Last.fm, Gmail, Linkedin, Yahoo, Facebook, Delicious, mySpace, reddit, Friendfeed, WordPress, Vimeo and a generic “Favorite” icon.

33. Set of social icons no.2

34. 25 Free Social Networking Icons

The set includes 25 amazing web 2.0 style social networking icons with transparent backgrounds.

35. Vector Social Media Icons

36. Free social media icon set

Special Social Media Icon Sets

37. Cheers: A Free “Social” Icon Set

38. Social Trucks Icons

Ten social icons depicting spacious trucks to deliver your tweets, links and status updates across all major social networks. No traffic jam can stop them!

39. Latte Art Social Icons

There’s no best way to invite your readers for a social coffee than to use these beautiful latte art icons on your blog!

40. Free Vector Icons: Panda Social Network Icons

The Panda Social Network Icons is a free package containing 12 sweet panda animals, 128×128 pixels each, that have social network marks on their stomach.

41. Heart v2: Free Social Iconset in Heart Shape

This iconset contains 39 social media icons in three different resolutions (64×64, 32×32 and 16×16).

42. The Leaves Fall: A Social Icon Set For Bloggers

This set contains 11 social icons, designed in an autumn-style. The set includes icons for Twitter, Technorati, RSS, Reddit, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg.

43. Icons Cloud

Social icon set shaped cloud. All most famous social network. 60×60 pixel. png files.

44. Thinking Networks Icon 2

For this release i’ve improved the design of icons with a fresh glossy effect for the icon and some new features for the thinking man.

45. Bulb Social Media Icons

46. Jive Social Media Icons Set

Jive is a set of 10 social media icons which represent various cartoon illustrations dancing.

47. Free Social Media Icons: Tricons

In the pack, you will find 12 triangular wooden icons of popular social media sites.

48. Social Media Bubblicons: Icon Pack

49. Icon Set

50. Social Puzzle Icon Pack

3D Social Media Icon Sets

51. Social Buzz Icon Pack

52. Yammy Social Media Icons Set

53. 3D Social Media Icon Pack

54. Dellifeed: A Free Icon Set

55. High detail social icons

56. Free Vector Social Bookmark Icons

57. Free Icon Pack: Vector 3D Social Icons

The icons we created for you are clean and simple, ready to be used in websites, blogs, web applications, and everything else that you can imagine. There are 10 icons in the set for popular web services like Twitter and Facebook.

58. 20 Amazing 3D social icons

A brand new set that consists of 20 3D icons in PNG format (64×64 & 128x128pixels).

59. Social Media Icons

60. Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

Which one is the best?Or it can provide what I am interested when using Twitter? I sorted a list of various applications created with Adobe AIR.You can find out which of them are cross-platform, only for Mac, iPhone or Linux. I tried to highlight the known ones but I might have missed a few.All in all I hope you like the list.

Cross-platform Apps

1. Ada
Ada is the perfect little Twitter app with a clean, compact design

2. AlertThingy
AlertThingy v3 brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop

3. Birdshot
Too busy to keep up with Twitter? Birdshot is a Twitter client stripped down to the basics: send tweets and tell me when I have new responses

4. Destroy Twitter
DestroyTwitter is a robust but compact Twitter application built on the Adobe AIR platform

5. Fedalizr
Feedalizr is a social media desktop client that keeps track of updates from friendfeed, twitter, facebook, Flickr, Twitpic & Jaiku

6. Mixero
The new generation Twitter client for people who value their time and are tired of information noise

7. MySocial AIR
A Twitter client with FriendFeed integration

8. QKTwit
A Twitter client with FriendFeed integration

10. Posty
Posty is a microblogging application which allows interacting with twitter, jaiku, tumblr, friendfeed and identi.ca right from your desktop

11. ScreenTweet
ScreenTweet allows you to post images to your Twitter account by capturing from your screen, dragging and dropping, pasting from clipboard, or browsing your computer

12. ScreenTweetr
Screentweetr enables you to quickly post screenshots to a twitter image service – enter your twitter login credentials, take a screenshot and click upload

13. Seesmic
A desktop client to manage your lifestream from Facebook & multiple Twitter accounts. Create groups and searches and view them any way you like

14. Sideline
Sideline is an application that allows advanced searching and monitoring of the Twitter public timeline

15. Skimmer
Skimmer is an desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities

16. Snitter
Snitter is “Snook’s Twitter”: an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering

17. Spaz
Spaz is a free, award-winning Twitter client offering notable features such as access to direct messages and replies, CSS theming, and event sounds

18. Spreadtweet
So, you work at a big corporate, huh? And you’re not allowed to use Twitter…Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel?

19. Statuzer
Statuzer is a multi-platform Twitter Client running through Air

20. Telexer
Telexer, the feed reader for serious news addicts: it’s the lightweight, uncluttered way of getting breaking news

21. T-Messenger
T-Messenger is a very intuitive and powerful Twitter client for every-day users that has a very low memory footprint

22. Tweetdeck
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more

23. TweetDoc
The TwitDoc desktop uploader makes it easy to share your documents and pictures on Twitter

24. Tweetnewz
TweetNewz, a news aggregator and desktop ticker with Twitter integration, keeps readers connected to the news and content they love, all while browsing the web

25. Tweetr
Tweetr is a twitter client that allows you to send and receive twitter messages but has cool features including support for taking photos with your webcam, sending file

26. Twhirl
Twhirl is a social software desktop client for services like Twitter, Seesmic, Friendfeed and identi.ca

27. Twibble
Twibble desktop is a multi account twitter client for Mac, Linux, and Windows

28. Twicker
Twicker is the first (and only) Twitter client that focuses on search.

29. Twitter Local
The TwitterLocal AIR Client allows you to watch as many location-based Twitter feeds as you want

30. Twittm
Follow friends and trends, topics of your interest, and tweet like a maniac.Twittm is fast, clean and unobtrusive

31. Twitulater
Twitulater is an Adobe AIR microblogging client that supports Twitter and Koornk and makes life easier

32. WiURL
WiURL is a great application for shortening any link. It is great for social networks like twitter or pownce

Mac and iPhone Apps

33. Birdbrain
Birdbrain takes snapshots of your Twitter account and tracks changes in your friend and follower lists over time

34. Fring
App for twitter, social networks and Instant Messenger (IM) applications. It supports tremendous number of mobile phones types like iPhone, Nokia, Sony Erricson, HTC, Motorola, LG and many other

35. Incoming!
Incoming! is a Twitter search client designed for power users and social media experts. It lets you cut through the noise and find the tweets that matter to you most

36. Tweetie
A very popular twitter client for iPhone and Mac

37. Twitterrific
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website

38. TwittShare
Share pictures, music, video, and other files with friends using Twitter

39. iQuickTwitter
QuickSilver + Twitter + iChat + Growl Hack in one. You have to modify some the code with Script Editor to make it work, however it has gotten some good comments.