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Twitter Changes

Problems with new Twitter features

September 2, 2010

Twitter regularly introduces new features, or feature updates that are badly broken. Why is that? Some recent examples: Twitter’s OAuth implementation: a study in bad decisions? This morning, developer Ryan Paul detailed how Twitter “seriously botched its OAuth implementation and demonstrated, yet again, that it lacks the engineering competence that is needed to reliably operate its service.” [...]

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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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Just five months after the 10 billionth tweet, the 20 billionth arrives

July 31, 2010

It took for Twitter four years to reach its first 10 billion tweets The 20 billionth tweet came 10 times faster than the first ten billion. After tweeting it, the user tweeted (translation from IDG News Service): “It looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I’m getting replies from people all over the world. It’s [...]

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Why @Twitter_Tips has become @TweetSmarter

June 24, 2010

UPDATE 1: Wow!!! Your outpouring of love through tweets, DMs, emails and comments has been deeply touching *wipes tear from eye* Thanks to everyone for being so supportive! (The change has had a few stressful twists and turns, but everything important has gone smoothly.) UPDATE 2: OMG, even more messages than we realized! We partially misconfigured [...]

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Twitter’s new link shortener give you LESS characters—but more security

June 9, 2010

Why you actually now have fewer characters: The real big news is that since Twitter will be running existing links through their new t.co shortener, links that are under 20 characters will actually be lengthened! So using the URL shortening service that returns the shortest URL won’t help you gain any characters anymore. Twitter is standardizing. Unfortunately, this [...]

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