Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.
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How can I follow someone on Twitter without them knowing?
Is it possible to follow someone on Twitter without them knowing?
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How can I backup all of my tweets?
Is there a way to download a backup of all of my own tweets, in case Twitter ever goes down for good?
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How did this guy hack Twitter's 140-character limit?
Today I was surprised to see that a guy has hacked Twitter's 140-character limit. The message consists of 930 characters. How could this be possible?
The direct link to this tweet is here. For ...
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How do I connect Google+ with Twitter?
I want my Google+ account to be automatically updated when I post a tweet on Twitter.
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What does 'MT' mean in Twitter?
I keep seeing 'MT' used in much the same way that 'RT' is frequently used.
What is the difference? Should I be using 'MT'?
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Why do some people start their tweets with a dot?
Nowadays in my Twitter feed I have started seeing Tweets with a preceding . (dot) in them. I don't know why they do so. Here is such an example.
Why are they wasting their one character for .? ...
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How do I search within someone's tweets?
I remember Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) had posted a tweet about a new website, but I can't seem to find the link.
Is there any way I can search within someone's tweets to find that link?
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How can I throttle an over talkative person I'm following on Twitter without unfollowing?
In my stream of people I'm following usually one person tweets way more often than everyone else. How can I restrict the feed to show just a representative sample, or a maximum number of tweets per ...
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Is there a twitter-like app that can be installed for a corporate intranet?
I think that the twitter model of communication would work very well for disseminating information and informal discussion in the corporate world. Is there a twitter-like web-app that can be installed ...
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Is there a hack to force Twitter not to convert words like ASP.NET to links?
Currently, Twitter converts anything that has dot inside it into a link, e.g. ASP.NET becomes http://ASP.NET, Any.DO becomes http://Any.DO etc. I currently make a space if I want the word to stay the ...
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How do you find a Twitter RSS feed?
Given a Twitter username, where do you find the RSS feed for that user?
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Alternatives to Twitter
I am looking for alternatives to Twitter. In particular, the annoyances I am looking to fix are:
Twitter does conversations really poorly. The replies aren't grouped with the messages they are ...
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How to make a self referential (recursive) tweet on Twitter?
One of the tweets by Notch (MineCraft creator) was as follows:
I love recursion, as seen here: https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/103165179721814016
I am using the long url format instead of ...
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Be notified of @-messages on Twitter
On Twitter, how can I receive an automatic notification through email if somebody writes an @-message to me?
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Download all the tweets from a Twitter user
I thought this was a method with which I could use to list all the tweets from a Twitter user:
curl -s --user-agent 'Mozilla' --insecure ...
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How can I see a discussion with both sides in Twitter? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tracking conversations in twitter
When I open somebody's tweets page, I often see his responses to his friends' posts, but without those posts themselves. Is there a way ...
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How can I delete my Twitter account?
I've decided I don't want to use Twitter any more - how can I delete my account?
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Is there any way to claim an abandoned Twitter name?
I've been in the process of trying to switch over my username on various online services to a common name. I've been fortunate to get most of the ones I want (GMail, Facebook) but one that has eluded ...
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Is it possible to make a link for a specific Twitter post?
I want to share a specific Twitter post to my friend. For that I need to make a link for that post. How can I do that?
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How do I find out all the users who retweeted a tweet of mine?
The "Your tweets retweeted" page on Twitter shows which of your tweets have been retweeted, but usually it says something like "retweeted by @madeuptwitteraccount and others" is there any way to find ...
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Import from Twitter to Google Plus
I know that you can import from Facebook to Yahoo, and from Yahoo to Google+, but is there any way yet of importing followers and following to Google+ from Twitter?
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How to avoid Twitter's URL shortening
I want to post an URL in Twitter, but I don't want it to be shortened - the domain is a 3 letter word so it doesn't even make sense to shorten it. However, when I am writing the tweet in the website I ...
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How can I turn off Retweets from persons I am following?
I like (most of) the people I follow. But some of them just Retweet a bunch of noise. Is there an option in Twitter to turn off these Retweets ? I already can I see the top Retweets in the sidebar so ...
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First tweet of a user
I'd like to see the first tweet of a twitter user. Is this possible without clicking "more" a hundred times?
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Click statistics with Twitter's t.co URL shortener?
Now that Twitter automatically shortens urls with its t.co service, 3rd party services like bit.ly / j.mp have become somewhat superfluous (for Twitter use).
However, bit.ly provides nice click ...
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How is it possible to have bio longer than 160 chars in Twitter [closed]
Take a look at @syldatk20 on Twitter (The profile has since been suspended so visiting the page will return a 404 error).
This guy's Bio is really, really long. He bypassed Twitter's character limit, ...
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Is there a way to follow the posts of individual Twitter users in Google Reader?
I want to have feeds for people that I follow on Twitter right in my Google Reader interface, but none of the ways that I've tried to subscribe seem to work.
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How to search Twitter for tweets citing a blog post, correcting for URL shorteners?
Say I want to find all tweets that link to a particular blog post, such as this one, and considering that most tweets would actually use URL shorteners, is there a way to find those tweets, taking ...
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When changing a Twitter handle, does Twitter auto-redirect new tweets?
We've recently changed our company name (more a variation of official name, but has the same effect). We want to change out Twitter handle to reflect this, the new handle is available and we can ...
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How to see how many Twitter followers someone else has gained or lost over time?
I'd like to see if certain Twitter users are growing their followings or losing followers. Is there any application out there that can give me access to this information, preferably in graph form? ...
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Send updates from Google Plus to Twitter / Facebook
Is there any way to post Google+ status updates to Twitter / Facebook?
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How do I see who Retweeted my tweets?
Twitter now has an 'activity' tab where the 'retweets' tab used to be. How can I find out which of my tweets have been retweeted, and by whom?
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Why do people keep using the old RT? [closed]
What are some reasons why people would prefer to retweet a message using the old style (RT @someone: Blah blah blah) instead of the new style where it just "forwards" the message to your followers? I ...
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How to hide a spammy mention on Twitter?
On the Twitter > @Mentions tab, is it possible to hide a spammy mention there?
I got some unnecessary mentions from unknown Twitter users (I'm suspicious it's not even a person), its tweet is ...
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Sending a direct or private message in Twitter
I've heard of direct messages in Twitter but I don't know if that's the same as using @username or is something else.
What is the difference (in case they are different) and/or how could I send a ...
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Is there a Wordpress plugin that will tweet when a scheduled post is posted?
I know there are tons of Twitter/Wordpress plugins out there, but so far I have not been able to get one to do what I need.
I have lots of scheduled posts. When a scheduled post goes like, I would ...
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What are the ramifications of deleting a tweet?
Say I want to make a correction to a tweet, if there's a typo or something. If I delete the old tweet, what happens when people have already seen it and/or replied to it?
Will most Twitter clients ...
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How to find the exact time a tweet was tweeted
So on the Twitter website, underneath the post there's a timestamp, but it's not very specific - it will just say something like Jul 10, or 11 hours ago or something like that. Is there any way to ...
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Advanced Twitter search tricks? [closed]
Searching Twitter can be arduous. What are some tricks to searching Twitter? Are there additional options outside of the ones listed on Twitter's advanced search page?
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How can I control who follows me on Twitter?
I tend to get a bunch of emails every week that say:
JaneDoe (JaneDoe343) is now following
your tweets on Twitter.is now
following you.
A little information about JaneDoe:
0 followers
1 ...
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Is there a way to get email notifications when someone Tweets?
I would like to know if there is any way in which I can get email notifications when only "specific" people tweet on Twitter.
Further, would it be possible to filter these alerts based on some ...
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Twitter: Easy way to unfollow users not also following me?
On Twitter, is there an easy way to unfollow users not also following me – or at least get a list of such users I'm following where there isn't reciprocation?
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Maximum limit of Retweets on Twitter
Say if I retweeted everything in my Twitter stream, is there a limit per day that I would reach?
If so, should I untweet some of these posts to stay under the limit?
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How to read twitter updates from Google Reader?
For a long time now I've wished that I could view my twitter updates in google reader along with all the other blogs and such that I subscribe to. However despite my efforts I haven't been able to ...
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Do I always see all the tweets of people I'm following on Twitter?
Just a idle curiosity here, but I've wondered if at certain times I'm not seeing all the tweets by the people I follow.
A couple of things have led me to this conclusion:
At the moment I'm on ...
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How to enable Twitter's new UI?
New Twitter UI was launched recently. Some can use it already, others can't. By the way, I realized an interesting fact. When I visit twitter.com from favstar.fm, I can always see the new UI. But on ...
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How to have a “saved search” in Twitter only return english results?
Twitter supports saving a specific search. However, it just seems to be the basic string search as opposed their advanced search on search.twitter.com. The advanced search allows you to select a ...
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How to find tweets from a specific date
I am following someone who has a lot of tweets. I want to look at their tweets from three months ago. On their twitter web page, if I scroll down, it keeps showing their older tweets, but using this ...
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See tweets in CoTweet that have been retweeted (new-style)?
Is there a way to see my tweets that have been retweeted by others? I can see the ones that count as mentions if they are retweeted using the old-style. I am not seeing ones done by the new-style ...
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How to view and download old Twitter Direct Messages
I'm looking to view and archive all my old DMs in Twitter, since I would like to revive conversations that took place 1 year ago.
Acording to Twitter they don't delete old messages, they simply ...
