The simplest guide: Make your Twitter sidebar transparent and invisible

by Dave Larson on August 5, 2010

Also popular:  Create an animated background to look cool underneath your new transparent sidebar. How to move your Twitter timeline back to the left. Alternate directions with browser bookmarklet So many people are failing to follow the directions properly about typing in the “javascript:” (don’t forget the colon—”:”—character at the end!) characters by hand, that [...]

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All the easiest ways to search old tweets

by Dave Larson on August 11, 2010

Update: There is no free search product that is 100% reliable. Even just trying to see tweets written to you on a day-to-day basis can be problematic. Also, read about how, in July, 2011, Twitter changed how search works. Twitter’s default search only goes back a week—if that—and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, [...]

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The 12 most confusing things about Tweets, Retweets, Replies and Direct Messages

June 14, 2011

TIP: You may also want to read “Why so many URLs are suddenly unclickable on Twitter.” Want a short URL to remember to share this specific post with new folks? Just tell them to visit bit.ly/BestTwitterTips Because different interfaces create and display Twitter messages in different ways, depending on your interface, you may have an entirely [...]

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Why New Twitter is broken, and how to fix it

August 9, 2011

Note: If you’re seeing URLs that have become unclickable, read “Why so many URLs suddenly became unclickable on Twitter.” But if you’re having other kinds of problems making Twitter.com work properly now, here’s what you can do: A Quick Solution That Usually Works: Clear your browser cache when you’re having problems (see http://bit.ly/FixBrowser —can be [...]

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Why so many URLs are suddenly unclickable on Twitter

August 15, 2011

UPDATE: As of late Tuesday August 16, some apps, notably HootSuite, have begun fixing this problem. You may have begun noticing many Tweets with links that are missing the http:// and that are NOT clickable. This is not strictly due to some Twitter bug, it is because people and applications have not yet adapted to Twitter’s new [...]

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If you want more followers, retweets, clicks and Klout, you’ve GOT to try this!

August 21, 2011

Here’s the tip: Tweet when more people are listening by using a tool that takes care of everything for you. How much can it help? @AskAaronLee and @DanaMStanley gained 11 and 15 points on their Klout score when they started using BufferApp in barely three weeks. BufferApp takes whatever you click to share, and posts it when the most people will be listening. Other [...]

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C’mon Twitter! Quit Leaving Direct Messages Vulnerable To Spam

January 21, 2012

Spam is probably Twitter’s biggest problem.  But as it is now, instead of making it easy to identify the more spammy type of Twitter accounts, Twitter is actually hiding that information from you! Hey, Twitter: Quit Protecting Spammers! Wouldn’t you want to know before following someone if they spammed everyone that follows them with an advertising message? [...]

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Twitter’s New Direction In 2012

January 19, 2012

Twitter has long had one of the greatest assets on the internet: knowing what information is hot right now. But while many companies pay to receive and search Twitter’s stream of tweets for such diverse uses as predicting the stock market and finding flu outbreaks, Twitter itself has never done much with it. That is [...]

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Twitter Suspending New Spammers Faster Than Ever

January 19, 2012

In 2012, changes made to Twitter’s spam account identification algorithm have been catching and suspending some new Twitter spam accounts more rapidly—sometimes much more rapidly—than in 2011.   More users than ever before are reporting that as fast as they can check new accounts that appear to be spam they have already been suspended. This sometimes [...]

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Chart: How Much Would Sites Lose If Offline For a Day?

January 18, 2012

Okay, it’s nice to see Twitter getting closer to making a half million dollars a day, but sheesh…look how much the big sites make: Source: TheNextWeb

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How To Know Instantly Whenever Key Accounts Tweet

January 18, 2012

There can be real benefit in monitoring key accounts to know immediately when they are tweeting: In an emergency situation, receiving updates from key emergency service accounts; If you are reporting on a breaking news situation, receiving updates from key accounts live-tweeting the situation; If you are trying to get the attention of someone, know immediately [...]

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Infographic: How Hootsuite Got 3 Million Users

January 17, 2012
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Should Twitter Go Offline To Protest SOPA? No.

January 17, 2012

There is a scale of how important an communication method is. At the top are emergency services, which can literally save lives. Twitter and phones are both life-saving services when used for emergency services. Because of that, neither should be taken offline for any reason. But Twitter has other important uses in the sharing of [...]

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Infographic: The Four Stages of “Getting” Twitter

January 15, 2012

Infographic courtesy of: El rincón de Lombok Design

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How to get Twitter.com to show you more tweets when you page down

January 9, 2012

Since Twitter regularly increases and decreases the number of tweets you can see on Twitter.com to help limit network traffic, sometimes you’ll only be able to see a very limited number of tweets, sometimes even only one page’s worth. Try this tip to see more: We experimented saving pages of tweet results in some tests [...]

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Apologies for missing your questions!

January 5, 2012

Our apologies—We weren’t ignoring you intentionally! We’ve discovered that we’ve missed a number of questions from folks recently. If you asked a question and didn’t get an answer, feel free to tweet it again or leave a comment below, or wait to see if I can find it and reply.  

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