In: Twitter
22 Feb 2010There are several companies set up specifically to buy and sell ad space on our Twitter accounts. In most cases you sign up and agree to let them feed their pre written ads into your Twitter stream. What they are willing to pay you for that privilege depends on how popular you are and how [...]
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19 Feb 2010Once again I’ve managed to come into possession of some earth shattering information (paparazzi photo) that has yet to be leaked to the press (don’t ask me how) and although it’s possible Tiger Woods is just a huge fan of Twitter, I’m wondering if I’ve got a scoop here and Tiger is about to announce [...]
When you sign up for a Twitter account you need to choose a password and hopefully you picked one that isn’t easy to guess, like your name, or something really dumb like password or 123456, but did you know that Twitter has a list of banned passwords that you’re not allowed to use? Many of [...]
In: Twitter
11 Dec 2009For those of you who don’t know, I own and operate a website called TwitterImage.com. When this whole crazy thing started a short time ago, we (Twitter Image) began by designing backgrounds for Twitter, but as we grew, we added more social networks and now design backgrounds and custom graphics not only for Twitter, but [...]
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4 Dec 2009Have you been wishing you could tweet in Klingon but just aren’t fluent in Klingon? No problem. Cryptic Studios by Friend2Friend has just launched their new app that takes care of the translation for you and also provides the English translation for your friends that aren’t fluent in Klingon either. Why would you want to [...]
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3 Dec 2009Don’t ask me how I got this information because I don’t want to get anyone fired, but in their tradition of creating custom logos for special occasions Google has not only paid Twitter an amazing tribute, but they’ve also seemingly made an announcement no one was expecting. Has Google actually merged with Twitter? My contact [...]
Edit: The new TweetDeck (version 0.32) released on 11/30 has added support for the new Twitter RT format. Let me start out by saying that I’m happy to see Twitter adding more functionality to their own website and I realize that the new retweet function is still in beta. Now that I have that disclaimer [...]
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31 Oct 2009I know, amazing isn’t it? Some nut actually going to crazy extreme measures to stroke his ego, and this time, it’s not Ashton Kutcher. Rules: The rules are quite simple actually. All you have to do is add me (@HughBriss) to one of your Twitter lists to enter. That’s it. Just add me to one [...]
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29 Oct 2009If you have a lot of Twitter followers and they aren’t all actual friends, chances are that you get a fair amount of auto DMs, (direct messages) many of which are nothing but spam. Most of those DMs are sent using one of two services; either Social Oomph or SocialToo. Now before you grab your [...]