From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Would You Help a Twitterer In Need?

August 24, 2010

Please help! The folks relying on us to help answer their Twitter questions need YOU. We are going to be delayed in answering tweets for a few days, so here are some links you can check to find people that you can help: Search #1 – Search #2 – Search #3 (Twitter search sometimes doesn’t [...]

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Twitter: Has the novelty worn off?

August 18, 2010

Twitter has made real-time information commonplace Seeing information stream in real-time isn’t the novelty it used to be. Formerly something of great value, Twitter has made real-time information commonplace. We expect it now. I’ve noticed a large drop in the number of people clicking through to read happening alongside an increase in the number of tweets [...]

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How to fix Twitter problems on your BlackBerry

August 17, 2010

Tip: Connect with @blackberryhelp on Twitter for more help. Websites That Help First, realize that when you need help with your Blackberry Twitter application Twitter itself does not support any Twitter applications for Blackberry. It is Blackberry or helpful websites, forums or users you will need to reach out to for support. Also, there are some common [...]

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How to find your Outlook contacts on Twitter

August 12, 2010

When you’re logged into Twitter’s web interface, you can find your friends on Twitter by their email address from https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_contacts…but only if you have saved their email information in Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or LinkedIn. Twitter doesn’t offer an option to upload and search your Outlook contacts. However, you can easily upload your Outlook contacts to [...]

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All the easiest ways to search old tweets

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. Update: To see the most tweets possible at Twitter.com, read “How to get Twitter.com to show [...]

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Was Twitter’s “Who To Follow” feature a mistake?

August 9, 2010

Twitterers are being very vocal about how much they dislike the new “Who To Follow” feature on the Twitter website. In fact, a hugely popular article by @kitchenmage on how to block the “Who To Follow” feature has gone viral across Twitter. Like it? Loathe it? While I’ve heard from a few users who liked [...]

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Who is @TweetSmarter?

August 7, 2010

First, please realize we don’t work for Twitter—we just like to help. For background on us, below are a few excerpts from the many interviews with us. We started on Twitter in September of 2007. There is also a video of us here. Plus, here’s a post about how we manage the @TweetSmarter account. Klout Stars (About people [...]

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Why you don’t always get credit for your tweets

August 6, 2010

Sometimes we schedule a tweet from a popular website and then later hear from someone disappointed that we didn’t credit them when we tweeted the link. They think that because they tweeted about it before we did—in some cases including our username in their tweet, such as “/cc @TweetSmarter”—that we found the tweet from them. We [...]

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Twitter Downtime Report

August 5, 2010

Pingdom showed a total downtime of 1 hour, 14 minutes for Twitter’s last prolonged incident. Twitter’s last uptime report: “Twitter is fully recovered.” If someone has sent you a link to this page, Twitter may be down overall  now or very recently. How can you tell if Twitter is down? Sometimes it’s just a local problem, [...]

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The simplest guide: Make your Twitter sidebar transparent and invisible

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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