I spoke with the wonderful ladies of Topeka's Association for Women in Communications about Twitter and Facebook in the job hunt, and some favorite power-tools for Twitter junkies. As promised, here are links to some of the best tools I've found for tracking trends and finding folks to follow.

Trends

www.hashtags.org - Track hashtags on Twitter

www.twitscoop.com - View a tag cloud of Twitter topics, complete with timeline graphs.

www.microplaza.com - See top stories on Twitter, filtered by your followers

www.google.com/trends - See trends for search queries

Find Followers

www.crazybob.org/twubble - Find new followers

Twitter Overload

Feed your ADD with the ultimate Twitter desktop tool: TweetDeck

Get Twitter posts in your Google search results: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451