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The new Twitter retweets: be afraid.

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

Shortening Your Twitter Name

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

About MT Code

What is the MT code?

It’s a new gesturing code for Twitter messages, suggested to me, and then enlarged by me, to mean that some Twitter update was a  “Modified Tweet.” It is meant to expand and complement the more traditional Retweet (RT) gesture, which is probably the most

Shoq’s Tips

This is an index page, pointing to older pages that have not yet been moved to this blog. They will be, as I have time to get around to another project.

Twitter Tips

The #P2 Tag

What Is The #p2 Tag?

#p2 is a "hashtag," or a marker that identifies a text message posted on social media networks such as Twitter.com, Identi.ca, Facebook, and others. Click here for an introduction to hashtags.

The #p2 tag is a multi-organizational effort to standardize on a single clearinghouse "umbrella tag" which will be used