Archive for January, 2009

If you’ve been using Twitter for a while you’re probably aware of the fact that there are quite a few Twitter applications out there that aim to make Twitter more functional and easier to use. If you use a mobile phone, there are many good Twitter apps for iPhones, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile based devices [...]

I recently wrote a guest post for ProBlogger’s (Darren Rowse) new website, Twitip.com, that covers everything you need to know about creating anything from a simple tiled background to a photographic background to a fully custom background. I think it’s incredibly tacky for someone to write a guest blog post and then post the same [...]

One of the nice things about Twitter is the fact that we’re forced to use no more than 140 characters to make our point. The more I tweet the better I get at being succinct — though I’ve never been particularly verbose anyway — but I’m sure for some of you it’s a real challenge, [...]

How many times have you found yourself wishing you could tweet about something on Twitter but can’t because you’re driving or just don’t feel like texting a 140 character message from your cell phone? No problem, just phone it in.
Recently a few services that allow you to post directly to Twitter by talking your tweet [...]

Now that the identity of the hacker that caused some havoc on Twitter a couple of days ago is known and he’s admitted how easy it was for him to infiltrate the system, we can only hope that Twitter is working hard on beefing up security so this doesn’t happen again. This time it was [...]

The last couple days there has been a lot of buzz on Twitter caused by a phishing scam that many fell for, compromising their accounts and allowing the scammers to post bogus DMs using those accounts. However, yesterday something happened that I find much more disturbing.
Over the weekend 33 Twitter accounts were hacked including those [...]

There are a lot of things Twitter needs to do to make the interface more user friendly and until they do, many of us will be using third-party applications like TweetDeck or Twhirl. One of the most glaring drawbacks to posting or reading tweets directly from Twitter proper is the fact that the tweets don’t [...]

I Tweet Myself

In: Twitter

3 Jan 2009

Hot new music video by iJustine courtesy of Zappos TV.

We all love polls and that’s why there are so many of them. There are even organizations that were created specifically for the purpose of conducting polls.
A new website just launched that allows Twitter users to conduct and respond to polls and post them directly to Twitter and Facebook. The name of the site is [...]

This is the First

In: Twitter

2 Jan 2009

Every blog that has every been started had to have a first post and this is mine.


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