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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 -

HELP! Call the Twitter Police!

Shoq — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:00:51 +0000

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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Rumors With a View About David Shuster

Shoq — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:21:05 +0000

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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Concept: What if we just move?

Shoq — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:56:26 +0000

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?

Has Social Media Ruined the Internet?

Shoq — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:16 +0000

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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My Common Hash Tags and Codes

Shoq — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:37:22 +0000

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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Why Twitter matters, and why it will endure.

Shoq — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:28:23 +0000

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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About the BL Code

Shoq — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:53:48 +0000

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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When Your Twitter Account Gets Hacked

Shoq — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:48:42 +0000

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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New Retweet Still Disabled, But Few Missing It.

Shoq — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:15 +0000

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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