TweetDon’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 [...]

TweetEdit: 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 [...]

TweetI 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 [...]

TweetIf 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 [...]

TweetImagine my surprise this morning when I first saw my Twitter page and noticed the #1 trending topic was “Start Making $60-100″ which obviously isn’t the name of a new movie or the latest news about Miley Cyrus. No, it’s obviously spam and as you can see from the results page, Twitter figured that out [...]

TweetI’ve always suspected that one day Al Gore would pop up and claim that he invented Twitter and ask for another Nobel Peace Prize, but it turns out that it was actually another Nobel winner who invented Twitter. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it was actually Albert Einstein who came up with the idea nearly 100 [...]

TweetTwitter Friendly Links is an excellent WordPress plugin that creates tiny URLs for your blog posts that contain your own domain name for branding. For example, the permalink URL for this post is http://www.hughbriss.com/custom-twitter-friendly-short-links-for-wordpress-blogs but with the Twitter Friendly Links plugin the URL is shortened to http://hughbriss.com/460. That’s way better for branding than http://bit.ly/ihbbm. After [...]

TweetI see this happen quite often so I hope I can help at least a few people by clarifying this. Recently, Twitter changed the option we once had to see all @ replies even if they were sent to someone we weren’t following. Now, if you send a tweet that you want all of your [...]

TweetI’m excited about the new retweet option Twitter is finally getting around to adding to their website, although I do have a few questions. Hopefully in a couple weeks, when the option becomes available, it will turn out that my concerns were unfounded. Up until now if you wanted to retweet something someone else said [...]

TweetTwitter has been down for close to an hour now and when I say down I don’t mean Fail Whale “oops we’re having a problem be back in a minute” down, I mean down as in even the API apps like TweetDeck aren’t working. Yesterday it was reported that a lawsuit had been filed against [...]