Archive for February, 2009
Twitterfall is an Excellent Keyword-Based Tweet Tracker
February 25, 2009 Twitter Search Engines, Twitter Tools and AppsTwitterfall is quite possibly the best Twitter keyword tracking tool I’ve seen so far. It’s got a simple interface but packs a lot of features. You can change the speed of the tweet stream from 0.5 tweets per second to a dizzy 10 tweets per second. In terms of tracking you can choose the specific [...]
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A Better Twitter Search Experience is Coming
February 18, 2009 Twitter NewsTwitter news of the day. Better search integration to come. Biz at the official Twitter blog talks about testing a new interface which places search and trend features currently found on the Twitter Search page in the top corner of each profile. I’m just wondering… why only now? Many people have been clamoring for an [...]
Read More »Twitter Users Protest Against New Zealand Internet Law
February 17, 2009 Twitter CultureInteresting to see how group behavior on Twitter easily spreads in support of a cause. Recently, many Twitter users are replacing their avatars with black squares to protest the New Zealand government internet proposals. Guardian has more: It turns out that this isn’t the result of a malicious hacker or even a random technical fault. [...]
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Twitter is Not Just About What You’re Doing Now
February 11, 2009 Twitter Tips, Twitter UsersTwitter is a tool to broadcast messages to people you know and people you don’t know. At the heart of it is the central problem of what to tweet. What should you write and what should you say? What do you want to transmit or share that represents who you are? What do you want [...]
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TwitterFriends Helps You Rediscover Your Twitter Network
February 11, 2009 Twitter Analytics, Twitter Tools and AppsTwitter friends is an analytics tool which gives you more information on your Twitter social network. What kind of information? Who messages you the most, who you talk to the most, the average number of daily tweets and even your average tweet length. It also allows you to retrieve an archive of all your conversations [...]
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Friendbar Review: Streaming Your Twitter Friend Updates
February 9, 2009 Twitter Tools and AppsFriendbar is a Firefox toolbar addon that displays a stream of text and photo updates from your Twitter and Facebook friends. After installing it and logging in, you’ll only see your Twitter friend updates but you can reply or retweet them using the toolbar. It also helps to create a tiny URL for the webpage [...]
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Twestival: A Gathering of Twitter Communities for Charity
February 5, 2009 Twitter Culture, Twitter NewsTwestival is a series of community gatherings featuring Twitter users worldwide on the 12th of February 2009. The goal of this is to bring together Twitter users locally for an evening of fun and also to raise money for charity. Basically, what you can do is to check out the city sites listed on their [...]
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3 Ways to Work Within Twitter’s 140 Characters Limit
February 4, 2009 Twitter TipsAs you probably know, Twitter has a limit of 140 characters for each ‘tweet’ and this forced brevity not only reduces the amount of time to make a tweet but encourages users to tweet often in regular intervals. Sometimes you might encounter the problem of having too much to say: at this time, the character [...]
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Dangerous Clickjacking Hack for Twitter Revealed
February 4, 2009 Twitter SecurityDid you know that clicking on an innocent link on a webpage while logged into Twitter allows a malicious cracker to update your Twitter status without you knowing? This links is usually invisible or placed under a commonly used button. This is known as click jacking. An example of clickjacking on Twitter was revealed by [...]
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Twictionary: A Wiki Dictionary for Twitter
February 2, 2009 Twitter CultureJust came across the Twictionary, a dictionary while compiles terms commonly used on Twitter or by Twitter users. It’s great to see the community coming together to collaborate on documentation the urban language of Twitterverse (that’s one of the terms listed).
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