Category Archives: Twitter

Linkedin to disable Tweets

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Just received from my inbox, the following email… Update about the Tweets application on LinkedIn And I couldn’t agree more.  Automatically sending all your tweets to your Linkedin stream was and is a bad idea.  It’s just noise and you are adding to it.  It’s not going to get rid of all of them –…

The ONE reason I’m keeping my Klout

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If you are not familiar with Klout and the issues being discussed right now let me see if I can boil it down to a simple paragraph. Klout is a for profit company.  They look at a social media user and by use of some analytics, they give that user a numerical score. They go…

Your Twitter Account is sending out bad DMs

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I’ve seen quite a few people lately who have had their twitter account ‘hacked’ and it’s now sending out spam dm messages. Things like you would never say, like “lmao…omg i am laughing so hard at this pic of you u i just found” with a link. If I click on that link it’ll start…

Making a +K difference

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You might have noticed a few tweets in your stream announcing that one person has given a +K to another person.  What’s a +K?  Think of it as a way of giving Props to someone else.  If you have a Klout score anyone can give you a +K on any of the topics Klout seems…

Twitter’s new Follow Button

Saw the news… Twitter has a new Follow Button. Here it is. Follow @MikeMueller Here’s one for an account I just setup: Follow @DaHomeSkillet Whoopty Do?  That’s what I thought too. Mike Mueller Mike builds the custom Apps that create the Tabs that make Custom Facebook Pages special. He builds Discount WordPress Blogs and shoots…

The new Twitter Experience is coming

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It’s rolling out slowly as we speak. When it comes to you, you’ll have the ability to switch back and forth (for now) Here’s the lowdown:  (from http://twitter.com/newtwitter) New design You will now find @mentions, retweets, searches, and lists just above your timeline – creating a single, streamlined view on the left of the screen….

Follow all the Twits from REBarCamp/Orlando

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Did you attend REBarcamp Orlando today?  Just new to twitter?  Good for you! Here’s a quick and easy way to follow everyone who registered for the event with a twitter account. Just go to this list, scroll to the bottom, sign in (with twitter oAuth) and you’ll add each one of those checked boxes to…

Twitter kills TweetMeMe

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Twitter has taken over that familiar green button from TweetMeMe. It’s the one over there on the right, next to the Facebook Share button. You’ll see above the two I now am testing the new Official Twitter Tweet Button. Click on one or the other – both should register the tweet trackback.    You can get your…