From the monthly archives:

January 2012

A Place To Get Help

January 29, 2012

Having a problem with Twitter? Leave a comment below (and send us a tweet telling us you have left a comment) and we’ll read and respond! If we’ve asked you to provide details here, you MUST do that (and stop tweeting us). We can’t help you without more details first. BUT: We won’t respond if [...]

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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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