Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.
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How can I automatically (native) re-tweet everything another Twitter account tweets?
I don’t want to post tweets like “RT @-other-account-: original-tweet”; I want to use the Twitter native retweet function. (The differences include that people can block the retweeted account; that ...
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Tweeting to someone on NCIS without letting other people know my real name
How would I let people from the TV series NCIS know that I enjoy the program, but at the same time not let on to other people on Twitter know who I am or what my real name is?
I want to be able to ...
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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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How do I get newlines in a tweet?
Is there a reliable way to make newlines appear in a tweet?
The twitter website accepts them in the "Compose new tweet" box, but they don't show up in the stream.
The server receives them and stores ...
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Twitter not posting to Facebook page
I'm trying to hook up a Twitter account with a newly created Facebook business page.
Inside my Twitter settings, I have set everything up accordingly, but it is not working. Tweets are simply not ...
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Feed or alert of a specific Twitter keyword from specific Twitter account?
How do I receive an alert or create a feed for when a specific Twitter account tweets a specific keyword(s)?
For example, the author of a software application I use apparently does not have any type ...
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Is there a Twitter topic aggregator that goes beyond trends?
I'm looking for a Twitter service that does not just detect keywords (like the trending topics do), but instead deliver stories that are ranked by their popularity over a period of time.
Example: If ...
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Twitter randomly fails to load in Chrome [closed]
I've been noticing over the last few weeks that when I try to load Twitter through Chrome, it will randomly decide to hang on trying to load the page, showing nothing but a blank white page, like the ...
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Twitter's “Similar to” reveals my friends, despite protected account
I recently switched to a Twitter protected account, so that social engineers can't find my friends.
PROBLEM: I just realized that anybody seeing my protected account's page can click the "Similar to ...
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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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See other Twitter users’ timelines
Is the "See Other Users’ Timelines" feature still available in the "new Twitter"?
In the Mashable write up, "Twitter Lets You See Other Users' Timelines", they show this Twitter feature where you can ...
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Twitter and Echofon spam
I'm using Echofon to keep up with the tweets of people I'm following. But at the moment I get a lot of spam tweets (from people I am NOT following), see this picture:
They all contain the same ...
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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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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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Twitter at underscore (@_)
What does the twitter @_ mean/do? I was under the impression it might be a private message, but I don't know how to search for it to confirm!
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Is there an uncensored, usable Twitter clone?
Twitter are going to push more censorship by selectively removing tweets. Is there a usable alternative that is not censored, and will likely stay this way?
The two major Twitter alternatives I know ...
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Is it possible to track new style RTs to an account I don't have access to?
If I have access to an account, I can use either twitter.com/#!/retweeted_of_mine or give retweetrank.com/retweeted.in/etc (read-only) access to see who has new style RT'ed the account.
Is it ...
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Request IP logs from Twitter
According to the privacy section at Twitter, it seems that the IPs used for access are logged
Log Data may include information
such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages
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How do I take my tweets OFF private?
I don't know why but some of my tweets have a lock beside them and people can't retweet them. My accounts isn't on private and not all of my tweets have a lock icon. So how do I get rid of it?
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Why does the internet think I'm French?
Whenever I visit a new site, mostly social network or 'shop' sites, the page defaults to the French language, despite my IP being English. This also occurs when I'm on different computers, and when my ...
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My laptop cannot connect to twitter.com. Now what? [closed]
When I'm at the office, I can browser to twitter.com and log in. No problem.
When I'm at my wife's computer at home, ditto.
When, however, my laptop is at home (behind the same NAT-ural router), ...
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Why doesn't Twitter's URL shortening always work?
Recently when posting links I've found Twitter has no longer offered to automatically shorten URLs; they used to be shortened to a max of 20 characters just when I pasted them into the tweet box. Now ...
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Is there a service that shows you the favorite tweets of the people you follow?
I'm looking for something like Stellar but already populated with the people I'm following.
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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 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 can I create a task to fetch a page from a link in a tweet?
For example, if the tweet is
The pros and cons of cloud hosting t.co/R1S9rcXW
I want ifttt to create a new note in Evernote with body as the page linked by the URL: t.co/R1S9rcXW, and NOT the ...
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Photo is jammed on Twitter - driving me mad? [closed]
I tried to change my photo on Twitter 24 hours ago, and ever since all I get is a flashing line thing. I've signed in and out about 20 times, rebooted the computer and it's STILL doing it.
I daren't ...
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How to create Twitter vertical count button?
I saw vertical button by Twitter in some pages and tutorials but I couldn't find out how to get the code for it. How can I make it look like the first widget on this image?
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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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Does the Twitter-API support the ability to search your own home timeline?
A few months ago, Erik Michaels-Ober asked for:
Search APIs that can be scoped to a particular user's timeline. For
example, I frequently want to search only the Tweets that appeared
within my ...
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Keyboard shortcuts to add images on the new new Twitter site
The new new Twitter site is awesome.
I'm not sure if they were there before but you can now access a list of keyboard short cuts by simply pressing ?
When I press N it brings up the new Tweet ...
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Twitter Background Image
I want to upload a custom background for my twitter profile, but when ever I select a new image from my computer and click save it just says waiting for twitter shows a blank page
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Does Twitter have search operators like Google?
Twitter has an Advanced Search page but can we also use search operators on Twitter like Google?
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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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Finding terms surrounding a trending hashtag?
I'm looking for a way to find "sub-trends", or words that are trending beneath a larger trend. For instance, say "#foo" is the hashtag for a conference. Searching for "#foo" only gives you a general ...
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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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Post to Twitter, Facebook and Blogs in one App
I'm looking for an Web Application which manages multiple WordPress blogs, my Twitter and my Facebook.
If I want to post something I can choose which Blog(s) to post to, which Facebook Page and ...
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Twitter shortens my already shortened URLs. Will this affect my bitly statistics?
For some time now, I've happily been using bitly with a custom domain to shorten URLs on Twitter, but recently Twitter has decided to start shortening my already shortened URLs.
Will this affect my ...
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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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What's the Twitter error “Your account may not be allowed to perform this action. Please refresh the page and try again.”
A) I get a very bizarre error sometimes, when I'm trying to submit a tweet:
Your account may not be allowed to perform this action. Please refresh the page and try again.
This is very ...
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How do I read a users Tweets starting with the oldest?
I've just started to follow 'RealTimeWWII' but I'd like to read his Tweets to date starting with the first (he has ~850 so far so I think they should still be all there)
I keep clicking 'More' but ...
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What is Twitter.rs ? Is it the same as Twitter.com?
I accidentally came across twitter.rs while googling. Is it the same as twitter.com? What is the purpose of it? What does .rs stand for?
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Automated posting between Twitter and Facebook
If I automate posting from Facebook to Twitter, and from Twitter to Facebook, will I end up in an infinite loop or are the apps intelligent enough to recognise an automated post and not start bouncing ...
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With which twitter app can I forward tweets to Wunderlist, Orchestra or other To-Do-Apps? [closed]
for me, tweets are there to be actionable. Because I most @mention to companies and individuals, asking stuff. I know about cotweet and Assistly, but the problem is I can't use them on my mobile (as ...
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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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Do I lose all rights to a photo when using common Twitter picture sharing services?
There seem to be a glut of image sharing services geared for Twitter or the like, which of them should I stay away from if I care about the picture and which allow me to retain control over the ...
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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 to update Google+ status via Twitter [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I connect Google+ with Twitter?
How do I setup my Google+ status to update from Twitter?
On the web there seems to be information on connecting social networks ...
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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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Is it possible to change Twitter short names between two accounts?
I have one Twitter account that people follow me for some time @mike_and_long_name and now I have managed to get a much shorter @mike_me handle. As a bonus, no one follows the new handle - it's ...
