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CAUTION: Your @TwitterName May Be Posting To Your Facebook Updates

Shoq — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:32:10 +0000

My good buddy Andy, (@dvnix) has alerted me to a potentional security issue for some facebook users. I haven't personally confirmed this, but it seemed important enough to pass on to you. Andy writes:

As of January 1 2012, people who use Selective Twitter to update their Facebook status may be exposing their Twitter IDs. While not
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An Extended Definition Of “Emo Progressive,” And Why It Matters

Shoq — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:27:23 +0000

Update: This term has been recast as “Puritopian.” Emo Progressive was never coined by either Joy Ann Reid or myself. It had already gotten traction before we came together and tried to give it greater definition. We succeeded, perhaps too well. Like others, we were never comfortable with it because it was far too disparaging

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Yo! Twitter & Tweetdeck Need Your Help to Fix A Problem

Shoq — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:59:57 +0000

The Problem

As you may have heard from my whining over the past few days, there is some kind of major fail with Twitter's API that is causing massive freezing and hangs in Tweetdeck Desktop for SOME users.

The problem is NOT just affecting Tweetdeck. Hootsuite has different symptoms (slow posts, etc), but it's all related. Many

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We’re Finally Seeing Red: Show A Twitter Solidarity Tributar

Shoq — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:10:05 +0000

UPDATE/NOTE: Twitter has a very poorly-timed bug. If you're having trouble changing your avatar, see note below.

I so rarely do this, but as I wrote in a post last week, and detailed in my primer on the crisis, what is happening in Wisconsin is too important to not do everything that we

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So What Do The “.@” Characters Mean In Some Twitter Replies

Shoq — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:35:13 +0000

This page will explain, in the simplest possible terms, why many use a period or other character before a @Twittername. While I once wrote a widely circulated explanation, it was rather dense, and I find that at least a third of my stream still doesn't understand the issue. Thus, I felt a simpler explainer

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Twitter’s Built-In Retweet Feature Too Often

Shoq — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:18:47 +0000

It's been well over a year since Twitter implemented its built-in "new" retweet feature, which for many of us, immediately wrecked what had been one of Twitter's best features: the old retweeting style which evolved organically from the user-base, and with no input from Twitter whatever.

Naturally, something that millions of people loved just had

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Please, please help Karen Wiggins… who has helped so many

Shoq — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:45:46 +0000

Dear friends:

As some know, I am alway hesitant to make charitable appeals, because the Internet is rife with cases of scams, phony dramas, or attention whores claiming some fender bender caused them serious trauma and need your dollars to survive (or more likely, buy more Spaghettios for their dinner). Few ever try to confirm these

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On “Twittergate” and any related nonsense I have no interest in.

Shoq — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:50:06 +0000

Apparently, some conservatives are having a tiff with a twitter user named @wingnutwatch. They made some convoluted youtube movie about it called "Twittergate". For reasons I cannot really figure out, two of my tweets are in this video. As best I can tell,my tweets merely mention words and concepts I'm known for, and try to

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Gnarliest Music Video In Years

Shoq — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:27:48 +0000

Audiofeels Does Gnarls Barkley—Acapella

The video itself is homegrown bar video, but that just contributes to the awesome.

Go full screen On these videos.

Thanks to Tweeps: @misc & @abrahampiper for Tweeting this gem.

Twitter Welcome Wagon: Generic User Edition

Shoq — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:16:30 +0000

Welcome to Twitter; it's about time you got here.

This primer has some tips and resources you'll need to get oriented. There are trillions of tutorials available on Twitter, many of them pretty poor. Twitter's own help pages are among the worst of them. But there are some adequate sites and pages, ranging from this - Read More -