Let me start off by saying that there are lots of things that I love about Twitter. I love the instant connectivity, how it brings news to me immediately, as the news happens. I love how I can find out about and read a lot of different articles that I would probably have missed had [...]
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Annoying things on twitter
Filed Under: Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: Annoying Things, Commercial Messages, connectivity, Fad, Follower, Followers, Games, Inspirational Quotes, Interface, Love, Mafia Game, Porn Bots, Twitter
Twitter counts fluctuating
In case you’re wondering what’s going on with your Twitter follower and following counts, Twitter is doing some updates and maintenance. According to the official Twitter Blog, they are “cleaning up artifacts in the system” and making sure that your follower and following counts are accurate. They’re also getting rid of spam accounts, so you [...]
Twitter Search on Steroids
OK, so maybe not on steroids, but definitely this is an enhanced twitter search. The other day, I explained what the twitter hash tags are and how to use them to track trending conversations on Twitter. Of course, the downside of trending conversations, is that it’s only a matter of time until some idiot spammer [...]
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Top 9 Social Media Fails of 2009, so far
Thanks to the wonders of Twitter, I came across this article over on ZDnet where the author talks about the top social media fails of 2009. I don’t necessarily agree with everything that she says, but I don’t disagree with everything either. I should mention, that the use of the word “fail” like that comes [...]
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Twitter "#" tags explained
If you’ve spent any time on twitter, you may have noticed people closing tweets with a text like this: #3turnoffwords or #followfriday or #tcc You may wondering, what do those mean? Well, those are called hashtags, and essentially they are topics that people are talking about. In the current version of twitter, the application is [...]
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