Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.

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Why is my tweet not appearing, and when might it appear?

I signed up to Twitter and tweeted somebody. It has now been 47min since the tweet and I've been checking the profile of the person I've tweeted, but the tweet has not appeared. What is happening?
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How can I track down t.co links?

When you enter a URL into a tweet, Twitter uses their own in house URL shortener on the t.co domain to turn it into something smaller and track usage. My site has recently been Tweeted by somebody ...
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Tweet an image via webintents (or similar)

I'd like a button on my site that, when clicked, opens the 'new tweet' form for the current twitter user, pre-populated with specific text and an attached image. This would seem like a job for ...
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Twitter hash timeline in RSS

I know to RSS a user feed, it's https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss But what if instead I want to pull a hash?...what's the RSS URL?
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Tweet to Google Plus? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I connect Google+ with Twitter? Is it possible to post a tweet so it also appears on Google+? Similar integrations exist between Twitter and Facebook, and ...
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How to manage who I'm following on Twitter

Currently I'm following almost 2k users on Twitter, I wish to review my followings and remove some of them, but it's very time consuming to check all of those one by one! Basically I need to unfollow ...
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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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Twitter retweets vs. replies

What's the difference between a retweet and reply? A retweet looks just like a reply with a quote of what was replied to. Is there anything else different.
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How do I download a complete list of followers for a Twitter account?

There's an existing Twitter account with 500,000 followers. How do I download a complete list of followers for a Twitter account of that size?
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Is there a web app that tweets notes at you? [closed]

I'm looking for a web app that will let me create a list of notes/quotes that I want to be reminded of every now and then - not all at once, mind you, just a few out of the list a day. I wasn't able ...
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How can I post tweet or status to particular person home time line using twitter api? [closed]

How can I post tweet to particular person home time line in twitter. How can I do this in twitter api call?
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How do I send a tweet to someone specific?

As an example, on the Science Friday radio show and podcast, the host says every week "tweet your questions and comments to us." The same phrase is used on the show's website at ...
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Mass-Listing Twitter Users

I am looking for a method to mass-list all Twitter Employees to a public list of my own. It sounds like it should be within their TOS here is what I got from their Policies: Spam: You may not use ...
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Post to Twitter by email?

Does Twitter offer a feature like "tweet by email"? (I'd like to send an email instead of a text message from my phone to tweet)
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How can I find out if X follow Y on Twitter?

What web application can I use to find if a user is following another one, on Twitter? Update: I found http://twitter-follow.appspot.com/ to be the one that suits my taste. Warning: We've had flags ...
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Tôi thích các câu hỏi có thể được trả lời , không chỉ thảo luận [closed]

Tại sao tôi không thể mở tài khoản facebook của tôi bằng mã xác nhận mà facebook gửi cho tôi?
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how do I find out all the users who favorite a particular tweet of mine? How can I find in twitter api call?

I need to see who favorite my tweet. I need twitter api call to know who favorite my tweet and the person details.
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how do I send a private tweet? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Sending a direct or private message in Twitter how do I sent a private tweet? I see this screen but don't see where to click to do it The down arrow for my profile ...
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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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Changing username (the one with the at sign) on Twitter

How can I change my @ name on Twitter? I don't care about losing followers as I don't have any. I can see how to change my "name", but my @ name isn't changing when I do that.
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A Twitter posting service which doesn't require direct Twitter password and supports t.co

I have a Twitter account where I have a contractor posting tweets, and I don't want to give the actual Twitter password. I can set up Hootsuite or Buffer so the contractor can post tweets without ...
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Is there a pause/play “auto-fetch” option for Twitter?

I enjoy checking out Twitter when I have a minute or two to "catch up" on what is going on outside my home/office but I hate that I have to manually load new tweets. e.g. click on the "3 new tweets" ...
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Tweets from people I don't follow, why? [closed]

I'm seeing tweets on my Twitter home page from a bunch of people I don't follow. And no they aren't retweets. Why is that? It's highly annoying.
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Can't delete my tweets!

I want to delete a few tweets in Twitter, but the problem is Twitter doesn't let me. When I click on "Delete" under my tweet, it disappears for a second and then comes back. I thought this could be a ...
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Create a private Twitter group similar to a Yammer-like environment [closed]

I want to create a private group in Twitter that will allow members to interact in a Yammer-like setting for internal conversation. How can this be done, if it's at all possible?
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Twitter friends' timeline as a feed?

Is it possible to get my twitter timeline (i.e. the tweets posted by my friends) as an RSS or atom feed? I've heard that you could've used https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss in the ...
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Any way to get Twitter notifications for local accidents on my smartphone?

Well, title does say it all, but I'll give a background to whom might interest. This one day I was going the subway and a whole line stopped because of some literally freak accident. Everyone in ...
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Monitor keywords from my Twitter contacts

I know it is possible to subscribe to keywords searches by saving them within Twitter's app as a saved search. There doesn't seem to be a way to get notified by email of these searches nor scope the ...
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Create a Twitter profile icon that changes daily like a countdown

How can I set up my Twitter avatar icon to show a countdown image? I mean, the Twitter icon is generally static, but it could be fun if it changed daily, like counting down automatically. I can't ...
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How do I diagnose (New)TweetDeck refusing to display specific updates in the Home column?

I'm trying to figure out why TweetDeck's Home column consistently fails to show me the updates of a single account I follow from one of mine. Various notes: Yes, I'm sure. The problem account is the ...
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How to receive a regular email listing all Twitter mentions of a specific word or keyword?

Searching Twitter for mentions of a word or multiple words can be a chore. Is there something that can be set up in Twitter that will email me a digest of search terms? Or do I have to look for some ...
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How can I find out who actually set up a Twitter Account that fraudulently used my daughter's email address?

I've notified Twitter, but they are not getting the message. The indirect, malicious rumors that are being spread are getting extreme and she doesn't want to go back to school tomorrow. Does anyone ...
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I want to unfollow a blog, I succeed but something else happened

Like what I wrote above, I succeed to unfollow a blog, but then when I saw the following list of the blog, my Twitter account appeared on it, and it still has. So my question is, how to unfollow a ...
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How to track down the recent unfollowers on Twitter

Sometimes when I log in to Twitter, I realize that some users have stopped following me (there seems to be a decrease in the number of the followers). Is there a way to track down who those users are? ...
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Does @MarsCuriosity have geolocation?

I can't seem to get geolocation information for the Twitter account @MarsCuriosity . Am I doing something wrong, or does Twitter lack geolocation support for locations outside of Earth?
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I suddenly can't see the tweets older than today

Last night everything was normal on Twitter. Today, when I logged on to Twitter, I could only see a few tweets and no more. I waited a few hours and retried only to realize that older tweets are not ...
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Twitter View Conversation

How do I get the "View Conversation" option to my tweets. I've seen https://twitter.com/DBZNappa and https://twitter.com/#!/StealthMountain/favorites do so with the @reply function, but my tweets only ...
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How do the “buy followers” services work?

Recently, the number of "follower sellers" has increased dramatically. They offer Twitter users to increase their number of followers in exchange for money. I didn't know about those services earlier, ...
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Keyboard navigation support on Twitter

Does Twitter have support for keyboard navigation? I've managed to guess j and k for going up and down tweets, but I don't know any others. Are there keys for actions like refreshing tweets (not F5), ...
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Disable twitter's keyboard shortcut

For the simple reason sometimes I want to search the timeline using Command + F and when I try it some shortcut will be activated and I'll be moved away from the timeline after having loaded many ...
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Find the total exposure of a tweet

Let's say I (100 followers) tweet X. Users A (500 followers), B (300 followers, including 100 that overlap with A) and C (1000 followers, of which 800 are unique) retweet it. Is there a service that ...
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Reply to tweets don't appear in the tweet box

When I reply to someone's tweet, my replies don't show up when I open the tweet, along with other users' replies. Why?
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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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Automatically build a website from a Twitter stream [closed]

Is there any tool where I could point it to a Twitter stream and it would automatically generate a new website from it?
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Is there any way to preview the URL of a t.co link on Twitter?

They've basically taken over the URL shortening game, but without offering the features the other shorteners do. For instance, http://is.gd allows you to set a setting which will show you the link ...
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How do I publicly Tweet a reply to another person?

It's best described by an example: Twitter @A tweets: "I am a rabbit" Twitter @B replies: "@A how sad it is" The goal is to make the Tweet from @B to public so every follower of @B would see even ...
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Filter Twitter by application used

Is it possible to filter Twitter search results by the application used to post the tweet? For example, if I only wanted to see results from users using TweetDeck, or some other API...
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Tracking conversations in twitter

I am not a hardcore Twitter user but this sounds like a stupid question. In Twitter there seem to be no way to track where conversations start. I can only see that @replyto, leading me to the user ...
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Twitter lists do not show the latest Tweets [closed]

I've created some lists in Twitter, and added a few "feeds". But when I click on a list there are really old tweets, or only Tweets from the half of the people who I'm following. Sometimes there ...
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In Twitter, how can I search the hash tags related to a particular region?

In Twitter, how can I search the hash tags related to a particular region? Like #trends in New York.

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