Super twitter fan

Posted on Saturday, 2nd May 2009 by admin

once our Twitter account created, it’s time to find some friends.

Twitter tip 1: Twitter can import contacts from your online email account and will tell you which of your friends are already Twittering and allow you to invite those that haven’t yet gotten in on the fun.

Twitter tip 2: You can send an e-mail invite to individual friends that you want to have join you on Twitter.

Twitter tip 3: You can search by name or by location to find other people you might be interested in following.

steps in detail

- First search for people from your email contacts list that may already be using twitter. Just enter in your email address and choose the service that you use. Enter in your password associated with that email address.

- A list of names and pictures will appear. All these people have Twitter accounts.

- Make sure that the box next to the name is checked if you want to follow them, or unchecked if you don’t.

- “Following” someone is the same idea as adding them as a friend in a social networking site or as a contact in your email.

- When you choose to follow someone, they are given the option to follow you back.

- If you want to invite people in your address book to join, Twitter will allow you to select contacts and send them an automated invitation email message.

- You can also input the email addresses of friends one at a time to invite them into the Twitter fold.

- You can also search by name or location to see which of the people you know are already Twittering and follow them.

- Twitter streams can be set to private and so you’ll have to request permission to follow.

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Posted on Monday, 4th May 2009 by admin

If you love Firefox and Twitter, then these cool firefox extensions will make your twitter experience even better.

Twitter Search - is a FireFox extension that enables you to search content on Twitter web site. This extension even looks into the tweets left by other Twitter users. You can find people on Twitter using this FireFox extension. A Twitter search engine loads into the search engine list on the FireFox web browser.

Power Twitter - adds many features to your Twitter Web interface like you can narrow your search to a specific user on Twitter, Facebook updates, it allows URL expansion, you can do custom settings to Twitter, you can even upload photos, you can include other media sites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps and many more.

StockTwits - allows you to search and follow the stocks you like. It displays tweets related to that stocks you have selected from the Twitter Web site. This is really useful if you are doing online trading and want to know up to date information on the stocks you follow.

Twitter Fox - is the most loved FireFox extension for Twitter. This FireFox extension keeps you updated about your friends on Twitter. If your friends update their tweets, it immediately notifies you about that. Also, you can update your own tweets with the help of text input field present in Twitter Fox. This FireFox extension is known as TwitterNotifier earlier.

TwitterBar - allows you to post tweets from your browser address bar. You can enter up-to 140 characters. After installing this addon to FireFox, a small Twitter icon will appear to the right hand side of the address bar. You can type your tweet in the address bar and click on the Twitter icon to post your tweet. You can see how many characters are left by pointing the icon. Click on the Twitter icon to tweet the URL of the website you are currently viewing.

Twitzer - allows you to post tweets more than 140 characters on to Twitter website. You can directly post your tweet to Twitter using this FireFox add-on. It also has an additional feature, which converts and resolves TinyURL links so that you are sure that you click on the safe links and view the target website.

TwitBin - this is like a Twitter messenger. Using this FireFox extension, you can easily send and receive messages from your friends and Twitter via Twitter right from your browser. This is a very cool FireFox extension and every Twitter user must have this extension.

TwitKit - is Twitter sidebar for FireFox. It has 6- section interface. You can use tabs to separate content on the Twitter page. It enables you to view your timeline and Twitter public timeline. You can also view the latest tweets left by your friends and followers. You can view your friends list replies send to you and also view your account stats using TwitKit.

Song.ly - allows you to share music links with your friends. When you come across a music file link and want to share it with your friends, just right click on the link and select ‘Song.ly: Share this song’ from the context menu. Now your friends will get the link of the music file, which you have shared with them they can listen to the music right from the browser.

TwittyTunes - allows you to post the list of songs that you are currently playing to the Twitter website. You can also post the URL of the websites that you are viewing, videos that you are watching and many more. You can post URL or play-lists just in one click.

source:-http://www.quickonlinetips.com/

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Posted on Tuesday, 26th May 2009 by admin

Adrianos is an Internet Defamation attorney in Los Angeles and authors the California Defamation Law Blog. You can also follow Adrianos on twitter at @adrianos

By Adrianos Facchetti:

Can you imagine life without Twitter?

Stop and think about it for a second.

What would it be like? How about imagining baseball without hotdogs, or making phone calls without your iPhone? It’s difficult, right?

Twitter is important to many of us for many reasons, which makes the thought of losing the privilege to tweet almost unfathomable. But, it’s possible and I’m going to show you some simple ways you can keep it from happening.

The first thing you need to do is read Twitter’s Terms of Service. You can find them at the bottom of your Twitter homepage under “Terms.”

When you click on “Terms” you will find a short list of basic terms and conditions. Read them all and then continue reading this post. You will thank me for this.

Did you read them? If not, that’s OK for now because I’m going to boil them down for you.

Don’t spam

This is probably the quickest and most common way to get kicked off of Twitter. How many times have you received a follow from someone like “@MARKETING_SUPERSTAR” or “@Molly,” who happens to be a scantily clad young “lady” with no followers who’s following 1,947 people? Or how about when you receive four or five tweets in a row from a person? Is that spam? I don’t know the answer to that one. A simple rule to follow is to spread out your tweets and treat Twitter like a face-to-face encounter. Courtesy counts.

Don’t harass or abuse anyone

Courtney Love is learning this one the hard way after she was sued for alleged defamatory tweets last month. Bottom line. Do not use profanity. Do not threaten or attempt to intimidate anyone. A good rule of thumb is to keep away from Twitter after 11:00 p.m. (tired) or after a night of drinks. No drunken tweets.

Don’t impersonate anyone

Don’t impersonate celebrities or anyone else for that matter. It’s usually not funny and celebrities REALLY care about their online reputation. Twitter takes this very seriously.

Don’t abuse Twitter

Don’t hack Twitter or attempt to show your hacker buddies how cool you are by introducing a worm or virus to Twitter.

Don’t break the law

This is meant to be broad. Some of the things you should avoid doing are infringing on another person’s copyright or trademark and defamation of character.

Even if you do none of the above, however, Twitter reserves the right “ . . . to refuse service to anyone for any reason at anytime.” But I think if you simply use common sense you’ll be fine.

Have you wondered what your daily life would be like without Twitter? I’d like to know your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

If you don’t leave a comment, your Twitter account may be suspended. Just kidding, or am I?

 

from :http://www.blogforprofit.com/twitter/why-your-twitter-account-could-be-suspended-at-anytime/

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Posted on Tuesday, 10th November 2009 by admin

How nonexclusive is Microsoft’s deal with Twitter?

So nonexclusive that just hours after Microsoft (MSFT) announced it, rival Google (GOOG) lurched forward to say that it has entered into a similar partnership with the San Francisco-based microblogging service.

The search giant may be second to this party, but it’s not going to be late. But make no mistake–this is very clearly a rush job.

Some proof? Microsoft has code running. Google does not.

Twitter and Google announced the deal in posts to their respective company blogs.

“Our friends down in Mountain View want to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wrote. “A fast growing amount of information is coursing through Twitter very quickly, and we want there to be many ways to access that information. As part of that effort, we’ve partnered with Google to index the entire world of public tweets as fast as possible and present them to their users in an organized and relevant fashion.”

Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search, was similarly enthusiastic about the deal.

“We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months,” Mayer wrote. “That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

Once Google gets around to indexing Twitter’s real-time data.

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Posted on Saturday, 7th November 2009 by admin

Raise your hand if you didn’t do a deal with Twitter at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit at the Westin Hotel in downtown San Francisco.

With Microsoft Bing launching a Twitter search and Marissa Mayer from Google revealing that they too had a deal in the works, it was in partial jest that Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked mySpace CEO Owen Van Natta whether his company had also done a deal with the popular micro-blogging service.

As Battelle himself wrote in the Web 2.0 White paper, “The era of Web 2.0 [is] a race to acquire and control data assets.”

Sources tell Sfweekly.com that Microsoft beat Google in the race to aggregate social data by a couple of hours. And picked up the big prize by pinning down both Facebook and Twitter for their search function. But the most interesting puzzle piece is that according to Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg no money exchanged hands between Facebook and Microsoft perhaps due to a big investment from the latter, whereas both Microsoft and Google paid Twitter for the use of its API.

Twitter Founder Evan Williams yuks it up with Federated Media CEO John Battelle

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This excerpt from the White paper might explain the content smile on Twitter founder Evan Williams’ face during his talk, in which he basically showed who was sitting in the Web 2.0 catbird seat, despite the recent slow-down in the company’s growth.

From the Web 2.0 White paper:

If a company has control over a unique source of data that is required for applications to function, they will be able to extract monopoly rents from the use of that data. In particular, if a database is generated by user contribution, market leaders will see increasing returns as the size and value of their database grows more quickly than that of any new entrants.

Truth be told, Senator Ted Stevens was correct in his estimation of the Internet as a series of tubes, or as Unix geeks are more likely to analogize, pipes of data. Twitter (for the moment) has the biggest pipe in the business, turning it into a fire hose of information, and the “earliest source for many people to learn about what just happened.”

Perhaps the smartest guy in the social networking room, Napster founder and Founder’s Fund managing partner Sean Parker was more than correct in his estimation of the microblogging service’s dominance.

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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd November 2009 by admin

Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.
A new third-party offering from Jajah known as Jajah@call is expected to go into beta Thursday morning that will allow Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users by typing “@call @username”–where “username” is someone’s Twitter ID–into any Twitter client. During the beta period, the company said, the calls will be limited to two minutes, but the company will evaluate that length during beta. However, it sees the two minute period–after which the call will end–as “the verbal equivalent of a tweet.”

According to Jajah, an Internet communications provider with tens of millions of users, the service will allow a user to place a call to any other user, so long as the second person follows the first on Twitter and both have Jajah accounts. The service is free to use and is expected to work on any Twitter-enabled device, from PCs to smart phones.
One important element of the service is that users can keep their phone numbers private, yet be able to have voice chats with just about anyone on Twitter. To be sure, since the calls are initiated by one person, the recipient may well not be online, or may choose to ignore the call if they don’t want to talk.
There are currently several applications that allow users to create voice-to-text Twitter posts–known as tweets–but it does not appear that anyone has yet made it possible to initiate voice communications directly between Twitter users.
Coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that Facebook users will now be able to communicate with each other via voice–using a third-party application from Vivox–it’s clear that there is a strong interest, among service providers, at least, in taking leading social networks beyond strictly text communications. Whether large numbers of users choose to get on board is unknown at this point, of course. And given that neither the Facebook nor the Twitter voice services are being provided by the social networks themselves means that some users will choose not to get involved for fear of privacy, stability or other concerns.

Still, if these third-party services end up being successful, it would be natural to expect that Facebook and Twitter may decide they need to step up and directly embed such technologies into their offerings. And there is a precedent for such a move. After Vivox began offering Second Life users a third-party voice solution, the virtual world’s publisher, Linden Lab, decided it needed to take advantage of the technology. Today, thanks to a formal partnership, Vivox’s voice service is formally integrated into Second Life.
And while it may be some time before such a thing happens with either Facebook or Twitter, or any other major social network, one would have to think that it’s only a matter of time.

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