Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.
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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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Why is Twitter not shortening my URL; which share functionality should I use?
I am currently using the share functionality of Twitter, but for some reason it's not shortening my URL. Why? And how can I fix this?
For example, if you click the link below you will see that my URL ...
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What websites can I use to sort my unlisted followers, into a new twitter list?
Does it exist online already, or do I have to make it myself?
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How can I enable retweet email notifications for all retweets and not just from the users I'm following?
For a few months now, Twitter has had an option to be able to receive email notifications whenever you're retweeted. However, this only seems to work if you're following the user who has retweeted ...
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How to find a PDF document linked to Twitter account with search term “cat”?
I recommended a document to a guy with a word "cat" but I cannot now find it. It is in my twitter timeline. How can I find it?
I have used SnapBird.org but it cannot find this document.
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How to change twitter profile text color?
How can one change the text color for one's profile such as in the popup in twitter? The text being displayed includes a few items like name and web site link.
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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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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 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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Is it still possible to get the Twitter cover on the top?
My profile has changed it's lay-out. There used to be option to have a big wide cover at the top like on the picture below, but now I have "Tweets, Following, Follows, Favorites, Lists" on the ...
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How do I access a list of IP addresses that have been used to access my Twitter account?
My girlfriend discovered that her Twitter password had been changed.
We have changed the password, but is there a way to list the IP addresses that have been used to access the account?
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What's the keyboard shortcuts to open a list in Twitter?
In Twitter, I can use G+L to open my lists, and use J and K to move up/down the lists. But what is the keyboard shortcut to open the highlighted list?
I tried to look up the help message by pressing ...
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Selective Tweets Broken after twitter handle change
Like most of you I've enjoyed the benefits of selective tweets for quite some time now. Recently, I changed my twitter handle to reflect a more professional me. That is, I didn't want to lose my ...
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What's the best way to search for old tweets?
I find twitter search kind of buggy. Is there another way of doing that search?
I don't mean tweets from a user (I use Google for that). I mean tweets from history.
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6answers
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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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4answers
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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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1answer
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Is Twitter sneaking through my Gmail contacts?
For some reason I keep getting emails from Twitter:
twitter_username, we found some people you may know on Twitter
All the suggested people are coming my Gmail contacts. The email registered in ...
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How to get a reply to a Trademark Issue from Twitter Support?
I'd like to have a certain unused Twitter username. The name is one of the trade names of my company. I reported a Trademark Issue via Twitter's form three weeks ago, but nothing has happened since.
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Twitter statistics that shows the client I use the most?
I have used TweetStats excellent statistics since the site launched. However, I find it less and less reliable and it can simply not work for weeks at a time.
I have found replacement apps and ...
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How to see all tweets to a particular user
I am following a certain person on twitter. I then started following another person who is also following him. I noticed that after I did this I could see the tweets that this person was making to ...
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Google “latest” or realtime search of Twitter statuses
Some time ago there was an advanced type of Google search, accessible via left panel (more search tools and time period limiting). The results of latest was almost realtime, and there was an ...
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Not seeing Tweets from people I'm following on my Twitter dashboard [closed]
I don't receive any Tweets from people I'm following. They're not appearing on my dashboard and I know for a fact that I am following them and I can tell they are Tweeting a lot. What could be wrong?
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Searching your old tweets in Twitter
My username is moo9000. But I cannot search my own tweets in twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%40moo9000
Also looks like searching other users has problems:
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If I follow someone on Twitter, but they don't follow me, can they see my tweets?
I follow some people on Twitter, that don't follow me.
Can THEY see my tweets, even if they don't follow me?
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How to automatically send the content to an email address while publishing a new Tweet?
How to automatically send the content to an email address while publishing a new Tweet? I.e. i want to publish a new Tweet just as normally, but at the (near) same time, i'd like the Tweet content to ...
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Why are strings on Twitter starting with $ marked as tags?
As you can see on https://twitter.com/powtac/status/277190821479063552, strings with four letters starting with an $ are marked as a Tag on twitter. But what kind of tags are those $TAGS?
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Why do I see tweets on my timeline from people I'm not following?
I see alot of people on my timeline that I do follow, and then a random person that I have followers in common with has a tweet show up on my timeline. I'm not following them and I don't want to see ...
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6answers
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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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Can I modify the format of the text used to post to Twitter by Typepad?
I dislike the format that Typepad uses when posting to Twitter to alert my followers that I've created a new blog post. Is there a mechanism to change the format?
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3answers
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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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Does someone who is blocked still get notified if I favorite their tweet?
I blocked someone on Twitter but I viewed their profile and accidentally "favorited" one of their tweets but then immediately "unfavorited" it. Do they still get notified that I "favorited" them or ...
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How can I detect the “spaminess” of a Twitter follower?
Are there any applications that can help determine the "spaminess" of a Twitter follower?
For example, looking at whether the user unfollows people who don't follow back, whether most of their Tweets ...
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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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Turn off Twitter retweets in bulk
I know how to turn off seeing a person's retweets one at a time, but is there a way to do this en masse?
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how to get Tweetbox without using deprecated @Anywhere
I want to include a Twitter Tweetbox on my site so users can post a Tweet from my site. I want to see a textarea with a 'Tweet' button, and the textarea should be prepopulated with some suggested ...
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Echofon is now dead for desktop. Is there a similar, minimalistic Twitter client? [closed]
I was a big fan of Echofon, which opened media in a pop-up and fit snugly against the side of my screen. But as of Oct 31, the client can no longer be downloaded for desktop Macs and PCs (I have a ...
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1answer
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how can i connect to twitter api via proxy? [closed]
i am starter and i need to connect twitter api via proxy. and twitt : Hello World?
my web site is dot net. C# . and i want to twit events of my site to twitter via twitter api.
please give me an ...
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What are these funny characters on Twitter?
Recently I've noticed many strange characters appearing on Twitter.
Based on one persons joke tweet I read I think they may be Emoji or something similar.
How can I get these displaying properly in ...
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How can I search within someone's Twitter followers?
I'm trying to find all users that describe themselves as a "professor" within their Twitter profiles, but only if they follow certain accounts.
I've looked at Tweet Reports but I believe this tool ...
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Has the user timeline XML address changed on Twitter?
Twitter used to have a page for displaying the tweets of a user in this address:
https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USERNAME.xml
Has it changed to another address? Or there simply isn't a ...
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2answers
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How can I get all my Twitter related activity in counts?
How can I get all my Twitter related activity in counts? Example: my tweet count is 50; my favorite is 10. I need counts of following: mentions, favorites, retweets, liststatus, hometimeline, direct ...
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Does the Twitter shortener (t.co) give the same code for the same link?
Or in another words: if I have two different links generated when shortening a Twitter message, does it surely mean that they point to two unique addresses?
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Is there a web app or utility which will show all photos linked to a Twitter users tweets?
Is there a web app or utility which will show all photos linked to a Twitter users tweets? Ideally you'd type in a hastag or @user and the result would be all linked photos displayed in a grid. ...
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Twitter displays private message oddly in conversation box when there is a double quote in it
When I send a private message to a friend in twitter, the double quotes causes the message to display oddly:
I send:
foo"bar http://google.com
My friend receives (the message on Wheel icon > ...
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What is the best way to have Twitter integrated as a Jabber contact? [closed]
These days, Jabber bridges for Twitter are working strangely.
I used to use tweet.im, but it tend to be offline most of the day, preventing me from sharing my awesome life with the world.
So is ...
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3answers
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Why do I need to allow Dropbox to integrate with Twitter if all it’s asking me to do is follow?
On this Dropbox web page, it says that I can get some free Dropbox space if I follow Dropbox on Twitter. (Notice this is a separate item from Connect your Twitter Account which is listed above that.)
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Get twitter accounts by location [closed]
I want to make an app where I can show all the members based on their location. I dont want to use one that is already made but I want to make my own. I have searched online but havent found a way to ...
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Twitter data set collection for analysis [closed]
I am working on to gather a dataset for Twitter . Basically i want to store all tweets from current date back to twitter limit ( i guess 14 days).
I would be using this data for analysis.
Found ...
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Non-chatty twitter desired: Is there an alternative? [closed]
Twitter is characterized by
Messages are short and text-only
Feeds can be compiled by following others
This could make it a message service to my liking - which would be a message service that ...
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How can I get the links from my twitter stream in RSS format? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a website which extracts all links posted by twitter friends and provides a Atom/RSS feed?
ReadTwit is closing today, but I can't make work since September ...
