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About The New Change To Twitter Search

Shoq — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:57:13 +0000

UPDATE1: If this article is accurate, then Twitter is now claiming that their new search—which prompted the post below—was just an "experiment." (Conducted live with 100 million users? Hmmm)

If true, then all of this drama was about nothing at all. As I said initially, for all we know, it's a bug. When
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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 -

What are #Gametags

Shoq — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:20:40 +0000

Overview

Gametag — is a term that I created to describe the use of #hashtaqs in contests or simple word games played on Twitter, and other social networks that support such tags.

Sometimes I, my friend @lizzWinstead, or some other Twitter addict will create a tag and put it out there and see if others will

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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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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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#FF Hashtag

Shoq — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:09:01 +0000

What is the #FF Hashtag?

It's just a much shorter version of the familiar #followFriday hashtag seen far too often on Twitter (and now other social networks, as well). And as I will explain below, it's also a tag that denotes a ritual behavior that has serious issues and could really benefit from a

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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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The new Twitter retweets: be afraid.

Shoq — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:30 +0000

The new Twitter retweet system has been unleashed, and it's a classic example of taking something that worked, and breaking it. Rather than simplify something most regular Twitter users understood and used rather creatively, they have now created a hybrid pastiche of behaviors where retweets will mean different things to different people, depending on how

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Shortening Your Twitter Name

Shoq — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:19:56 +0000

Social networks are here to stay, and so is your Twitter name. While it’s too early to say how social media is going to evolve, I am betting that Twitter names will become most people’s key public identity for many years to come, if not forever. That’s one reason I try to use “Shoq” wherever

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About MT Signal

Shoq — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:42:12 +0000

What is the MT signal?

It's a new gesturing signal, suggested to me, and then enlarged by me to mean that some Twitter update is a "Modified Tweet." It is meant to expand and compliment the more traditional Retweet (or RT) gesture, which is probably the most familiar symbol

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