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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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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, Codes and Terms

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

I have created or heavily promoted several tags and codes that are in everyday use on Twitter, so I get asked a lot. "what does this or that mean?" I've listed the common ones below to save me some time and keystrokes in the future. If I've left out anything obvious that I use often,

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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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About the #FF Hashtag

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

This post has been updated.

Update: See latest Google Hit Counts: #Followfriday vs. #FF Click here to jump.

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

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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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