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Twitter Welcome Wagon: Generic User Edition

By Shoq, on April 9, 2010, at 10:16 am

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 -

April 9th, 2010 | Category: Social Media, Support, Twitter, Twitter Tips, Twitter Welcome Wagon | View Comments

HELP! Call the Twitter Police!

By Shoq, on April 4, 2010, at 11:00 pm

Typical of conservatives, the minute their values are impacted—the moment THEY are personally impacted—the first thing they do is dive for the cover of victim status, and DEMAND someone (government?) DO SOMETHING!

Pastebin Document by #Tcot Warrior @GregWHoward

Twitter bills itself as “without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is  happening right

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April 4th, 2010 | Category: Censorship, Etiquette, Twitter | View Comments

Rumors With a View About David Shuster

By Shoq, on April 2, 2010, at 8:21 pm

UPDATE1 (4/4/2010):  I have it from a pretty reliable source that David Shuster has NOT been fired (as of this writing, anyway).  And his bio has NOT been removed, as some had claimed. His "blog" may have been removed, but that could have been due to some unrelated issue.  His MSNBC bio page

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April 2nd, 2010 | Category: CNN, David Shuster, MSNBC, Media, Politics, Progressives, Social Media, Twitter | View Comments

Concept: What if we just move?

By Shoq, on January 23, 2010, at 5:56 pm

I’m about to tweet this idea.  I’m interested in anyone’s comments.

Concept: Just 3-5 million infrastructurally-vital liberals, all moved to just 1 or 2 states, driving them hyper-blue. #p2

Concept: What if we just move?

January 23rd, 2010 | Category: Ideas, Liberalism, Politics, Progressives, Shoq Value, Shoq's Tweets, Shoqs Ideas, Social Media, Twitter | View Comments

Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

By Shoq, on January 19, 2010, at 9:26 am

I missed "Why this Decade Sucked," by Ed Edroso, back in December. Wish I hadn't. While it's over the top in spots, by and large, it's spot on,  and reminds me of Norman Solomon's words in the mid 90s, when he quite rightly warned that the Internet would empower the status quo, while

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January 19th, 2010 | Category: Analysis and Impact, Explainers & Primers, Internet, Media, Politics, Social Media, Technology, Twitter | View Comments

My Common Hash Tags and Codes

By Shoq, on January 11, 2010, at 8:37 am

I get asked "what does this or that tag or code mean about 10 times a day." So I figured it was time to set the common ones in print, and save me some keystrokes. If I've left out anything obvious that I use often, please let me know.

Signal Codes

VIA  -  I came upon this

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January 11th, 2010 | Category: #FF Tag, Etiquette, Hash Tags, Shoqs Ideas, Social Media, Support, Twitter, Twitter Tips | View Comments

Why Twitter matters, and why it will endure.

By Shoq, on January 2, 2010, at 9:28 am

In "Why Twitter Will Endure,"  New York Time's education and media czar, David Carr, writes perhaps the best overall description of Twitter and its overall value to civilization, better than anyone I've read in quite awhile. It's still not going to help your grandma understand Twitter, but it may help any of your

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January 2nd, 2010 | Category: Analysis and Impact, Social Media, Technology, Twitter | View Comments

About the BL Code

By Shoq, on December 31, 2009, at 12:53 am

 

What is the BL code?

A proposed Message Code for Twitter and any social network.

The BL code means "broken link." It tells someone that a link they sent out was defective.

Geekly speaking, it should be "resource," but I won't get into why. I think the average Twitter user can remember,

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December 31st, 2009 | Category: Etiquette, Hash Tags, Ideas, Shoq Value, Shoqs Ideas, Support, Twitter, Twitter Tips, Uncategorized | View Comments

When Your Twitter Account Gets Hacked

By Shoq, on November 25, 2009, at 6:48 pm

If your Twitter name is suddenly tweeting spam or sending DM spam, your account has been compromised in some way. 

This is usually due to your having authorized some unscrupulous App vendor, either by entering your password, or simply  "allowing" it to connect to your account via Twitter's oAuth system.

The Fix

  • Change your password immediately.
  • Go to Twitter.com

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    • November 25th, 2009 | Category: Social Media, Support, Twitter, Twitter Tips | View Comments

    New Retweet Still Disabled, But Few Missing It.

    By Shoq, on November 12, 2009, at 4:53 pm

    It's amusing noting how most of the big tech blogs (which get a lot of traffic from Twitter), are deferential in their reviews, merely making passing reference to the intense dislike and confusion.  Read Mashable, Techcrunch, and other big dogs, and it's all sort of "well, some like it, some don't.. la di da." Mashable

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    November 12th, 2009 | Category: Retweets, Social Media | View Comments
     
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