Twitter has announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened using the service’s t.co URL shortener. Links of any length will be cut down to a tidy number of characters — 19, to be precise — and an ellipsis when the sender clicks the Tweet button. Although each link is assigned a...
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It’s official. Twitter last night finalized a deal to buy TweetDeck, ending weeks of speculation. The two companies announced the acquisition Wednesday in separate blog posts. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. CNN.com reported Tuesday that Twitter was buying the maker of applications for the microblogging site for $40 million in cash and stock....
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Before Twitter was public, it was just an AIM hack on Jack Dorsey’s pager. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey had a background in messenger culture. He had even launched a dispatch software startup called D-Net, back in 1999. He was also captivated by his friends status messages on AOL Instant Messenger. He wanted to combine...
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What is a “retweet”or “retweeting”? Have you ever received an interesting email and forwarded it to your friends? You know, like a funny joke or a breaking news item that you thought would be of interest to your friends so you hit the “forward” button on your email client to pass that message on....
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When I joined twitter i was Petrified about HASH # about FF about followfriday shoutouts and etc. I wondered what is the whole story about. Now I am officaly 4 months old on Twitter, though my Account was Bot from last 1 year. When we tweet anything we can put a HASH (#) to...
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Tweeting is an ART. And it needs dedication and commitment. I came across some wonderful Twitter Applications which I used myself and loved them. I am sharing the same to my readers. 1) Tweepular If you want to know who is following you and who is not, this solution will give you the chance...
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Twitter is HUGE and yes it really is. With more than 600 tweets per second it becomes very difficult to find the information of your taste. To overcome this limitation the Twitter community came up with a novel idea of #hashtags. If you are unaware of #hashtags we have it explained over here. These...
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Tags on Twitter or more popularly known as hashtags or simply #tags are a way of cataloging tweets on Twitter. Just like the wild wild web Twitter too is a micro www in its own where the rate of flow of information is so immense that one can easily freak out. The intelligent...
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Twitterank Ranking or percentile and the confidence is truely opposite. Lol . The percentile means that my account is “better” than a certain percent of of other Twitter users… but, not to worry, the algorithm has only very low confidence in the score. Seems pointless to use it. Twitterholic Even after clicking the...
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There were days when I was happy with my phone and email, conversing with my friends and sharing updates of my blogs very frequntly. Then came this new bird on the block. This birdie promised to deliver your updates to several people, sounded cool, so I got a birdie for me. This little birdie...
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