A few days ago, Sobees released their Friendfeed desktop app (bTittleTattle) and there were many complaints and suggestions for the app. However, everyone was still holding their breath for Alert Thingy, a Friendfeed desktop app with an interface similar to Twhirl. When it previewed on TechCrunch, the most obvious reason for the hold out seemed […]
Read moreUse Twitter In Conjunction With Your RSS Reader
Eric Berlin has an interesting post asking whether Twitter is the new RSS reader. The post provides some great insight as to why Twitter could beat RSS readers, but in reality, it never will and he also happens to point that out from the start. In Berlin’s article he states that: For me, Twitter has […]
Read moreIt’s Not Spam, It’s Marketing On Twitter
There’s been a recent spike in the number of spam on Twitter. However, let me explain that spam on Twitter might not be what you think it is. Spam on Twitter consists of the most random…things…following you on Twitter. They may not necessarily be people and all they do is promote their site. It’s quite […]
Read moreBypass Twitter’s 140 Character Limit With Twitzer
Have you ever wanted to post more than 140 characters on Twitter? I know there have been plenty of times where I wished Twitter had a 160 character limit like my text messages instead of 140! Twitzer is a Firefox extension that will allow you to do just that: post more than 140 characters […]
Read moreWhat Do You Do When Twitter Goes Down?
Everyone procrastinates on Twitter, our darling micro-blogging web service and social network. You have a million things you need to do and instead you’re chatting it up on Twitter. I know; I did it today. So, when I found out that Twitter would be down today at 10 p.m. PDT I wondered what the hell […]
Read moreAttracting A Company’s Customer Support Via Twitter
A lot of web companies have made twitter accounts, opting to also inform users of updates on products and services through the micro-blogging tool rather than spam them with numerous emails that will be deleted the moment they hit the inbox or simply get caught somewhere in spam. In doing so, They’ve opened the doors […]
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