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Twitter Changes

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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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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Will Twitter Pay People To Tweet, Or Won’t They?

October 18, 2011

Occasionally someone from a large organization tweets me to tell me I have tweeted misinformation. When the Wall Street Journal reported from the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco:  Costolo opened the door to sharing revenue with Twitter users that post interesting content on Twitter, though he said Twitter wouldn’t pay such “content producers” for each tweet [...]

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How to give tweets an “undo” button.

July 1, 2011

Tweets can be deleted via the remove button…but many people wish they could edit them, not just delete and repost. A true “change what you have already posted” feature wouldn’t work, because the Twitter.com retweet link shares exact copies of your tweet. So if there was an edit button, you could change what people retweeted [...]

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When Old Twitter went away

June 18, 2011

  Update: On August 2, 2011, Twitter announced the end of Old Twitter: UPDATE: On June 23—Twitter added this warning: Will turning off the old Twitter.com interface cut down on spammers? Interestingly, some third party services use browsers to access Twitter, instead of through the API. Why? Because they’re doing things Twitter doesn’t want users [...]

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Twitter only pretends to give you more characters sometimes :(

June 16, 2011

UPDATE: I’ve corrected some misinformation in the original post. Thanks to @WebTrawler for pointing it out. I should have known better. Twitter long ago announced they were going to do it this way, but they changed how things displayed, and it fooled me! My apologies. Most tweets with links will be shorter/get more characters Most URLs [...]

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What Twitter’s new “relevance-sorted results” search looks like

June 1, 2011

Twitter search “WILL go farther and farther back” as they have time to develop it! With Twitter’s new image-sharing service (hosted by PhotoBucket) “users will own their own rights to their photos.” Read official announcement of search and photo sharing changes here. The biggest change? You see first only “Top Tweets,” sorted by relevance plus a [...]

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Do you like the #NewTwitter web interface, or do you want to keep old Twitter?

December 16, 2010

Update: Here are some of the differences between new and old Twitter. Controversy? The new and old Twitter web interfaces are extremely different. Even some people who find the changes worthwhile report trouble changing. But more importantly, many users can’t access the New Twitter. Twitter has been working on the problem, but will the new [...]

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Twitter 2010 Infographic–The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

December 14, 2010

(Click to enlarge:) Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application

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Twitter’s many problems often seem avoidable

September 22, 2010

Twitter regularly introduces new features—or feature updates—that are badly broken. Why is that? Why are they always acting first, thinking later? UPDATE: Other people have noticed the same thing: “From top to bottom Twitter has made product mistake after product mistake, fundamental and obvious mistakes that have significantly confused and detracted from the simplicity of [...]

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