Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.
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Approve or decline Twitter follower requests without protected tweets
Is it possible to approve or decline Twitter follower requests if I don't check "protect my tweets" checkbox in my Twitter's setting?
I currently have 233 follower requests, I just approved 2 people ...
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Can I add a line break in my Twitter bio?
My Twitter bio looks bad because the line is split at unfortunate places.
Can I force a line break at a particular place?
The form at https://twitter.com/settings/profile inserts a carriage returns ...
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Is there a difference between clicking “reply” and writing a new tweet with @somesone?
On Twitter web, when I click the reply button for a tweet, there's @someone inserted in front of the message automatically.
Is there any difference compared to writing a new Tweet and entering ...
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Is there a way to filter tweets?
There is a certain young singer who I do not like but who is very popular on twitter. Is there some way I can block tweets (aka make them invisible) so I don't have to look at his name anymore, and ...
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Update Twitter with Facebook status
What is the best way to update Twitter with my Facebook status?
I've tried using the Facebook status RSS feed with Twitterfeed, but Facebook doesn't seem to have RSS feeds for your own status updates ...
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I want to receive the tweets of everyone I follow as emails. How do I configure that?
I suspect this might require a 3rd party application.
There is no way that I would want SMS notifications to my phone (which is almost what I'm looking for).
And if I could get emails just for ...
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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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Get all twitter messages for an account
Does anyone know of an external service or if this is possible on twitter? I would like to archive a list of all tweets for a specific account. Preferable as a PDF. Thanks!
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Hide my Twitter followers
For privacy reasons, I don't want everyone to be able to see who follows me on Twitter.
How to do?
I am OK with removing all of my followers if it is the only solution, but I hope there are more ...
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How to best minimize the work of maintaining a Twitter and Facebook Wall,
What's the upside and downside to these two options:
Entering data into Facebook Wall having it post to Twitter. (Facebook app)
Entering data into Twitter and having it post to Facebook. (RSS Feed)
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Why do I see replies to users I'm not following in my timeline?
I follow a corporate account that uses that channel to reply to users of their products.
Sometimes they reply to some user I am not following, and I see that tweet in my timeline, there is no space ...
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How can I backup someone else's Twitter account or Facebook page?
How can I backup the tweets of an account that does not belong to me or the posts of a public Facebook page? All backup services I found on the web require authentication of the Twitter account ...
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How do I upload transparent avatar to twitter?
Whenever I try to upload a png with transparent background on twitter , I am getting a white background. I tried to upload different sizes pngs (24x24, 256x256, 512x512),but it didn't help. It appears ...
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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 profiler?
My Twitter is way too busy. I want to know who I can unfollow to reduce the highest amount of messages. The messages are so spread apart it's hard to tell. There are also retweets. Is there an app ...
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Re-activating a deactivated Twitter account
Is it possible to reactivate a Twitter account that has been deactivated or deleted?
I just deactived my little sister's account but would like to someday re-activate it using the same email address ...
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RSS feed for twitter's trending topics
How can I get RSS Feed of Twitter's Trending Topics of India?
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Scheduling a bunch of tweets at regular intervals
I'd like to schedule a big load of tweets so that they go one after the other at regular intervals (say, about 2 hours). I've seen some sites (like twuffer.com) that allow you to schedule tweets, but ...
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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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Twitter — How do I filter everything except tweets by people I'm actually following
I'm coming back to give Twitter another try after a time away.
For now, what I want to do is this: there are a number of people I want to follow, and read their tweets, but I don't want to see ...
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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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How to switch to Old Twitter
When I click on my username, there is the option "Switch to Old Twitter" but when I click on it, this URL opens with the following plain text:
403 Forbidden: The server understood
the request, ...
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When connecting Twitter and Facebook, can posts be filtered?
I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts. I also use Linkedin.
If I want a tweet to appear in my LinkedIn profile, I add the hashtag #in.
Is there a way to do something similar with feeding ...
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Is there any free application that allows me to censor live tweets and show the approved ones live-ish?
Is there any free application that allows me to censor live tweets and show the approved ones live-ish?
Paratweet does what I want but it's not free sadly What are some free solutions?
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Twitter widget for tweeting the post
Where can I find the Twitter widget that TechCurnch uses to show the number of tweets that particular post has got & to give an option to tweet that post with a single click.
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Is there an app with a historical archive of twitter messages for a specific hashtag? [closed]
Is there a web application that lets me watch and search the history of a hashtag on twitter from the last year?
The twitter service only seems to have history of around a month.
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How do I import an iCal feed to Twitter on an as-it-happens basis?
I have an account on Twitter that I use for saying "what I'm doing." Some of my iCal feeds already know what I'm doing and I don't want to have to do double entry and record that event twice.
Is ...
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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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Twitter Location Feature Does not work outside Major Countries using the web interface
I tried updating my status using twitter.com and I cannot get the location feature attached to tweet again. Last month I was in North America and geo-location worked great. Now I have moved for ...
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Is there an application to summarise my twitter timeline
Is there a web application that exists that can scan my timeline for a given period (for example last weekend while I was away) and allow me to intelligently catch-up by showing only the tweets that ...
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Is there any way to follow hashtag?
I want to follow twitter hashtag. I know that twitter doesn't allow to do it. I tried to find special services without any success. Do you know how can I follow twitter hashtag?
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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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Twitter recent images: Where are the thumbnails?
In the past, when I clicked on a Twitter user's "Recent Images", I could see the thumbnails of all their uploaded images in a horizontal or grid view. I cannot see the thumbnails anymore. Where are ...
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Is there an easy way to find out a tweet I re-tweeted?
I vaguely remember there was a "retweets" link somewhere in an older version of the interface, but it's gone now (?).
Is there a simple way to find a tweet I've re-tweeted (that I found when it was ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to forward a mailing list to Twitter?
I have a subscription to a public mailing list, but I would prefer to read the messages in my twitter stream rather than in my inbox.
My idea was to forward the e-mails to a blogging system which ...
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Is the official Twitter search widget subject to the API rate limit?
I have been told by a development partner that we cannot use the normal Twitter search widget - found here - https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search because of the API rate limit. My ...
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Twitter user that tweets all messages containg a hashtag
Hi
I am using echofon for mac and wonder how can I get through growl all new messages based on some hashtag. In the options it does not seem to he possible.
Antoher option would be to get new tweets ...
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Is there a way to subscribe my Twitter and Facebook account to an RSS feed?
Is there a way to subscribe my Twitter, and Facebook account to RSS, so it posts a message whenever a new post is published in the subscription feed of my blog or another external RSS feed?
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Setting the “Thanks for following me” text seen by a new Twitter follower
I want to modify the default text that gets sent out to new Twitter followers.
How can this be done?
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Limit Twitter Search to a particular list
I'd like to specify a Twitter list to search for a specified hash tag.
Searching by a hash tag is easy: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23geocamsu will search all of Twitter for the #geocamsu ...
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twitter greasemonkey script to add a “retweet with comment”?
I as wondering if anyone knows a greasemonkey script which would add a "retweet with comment" to the timelime items. I was looking for something that would have a similar appearance to tweetfilter, ...
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How do I get the number of Twitter search results?
Twitter only shows me a list of Tweets that match my search criteria. I don't know if it is the whole list or if it is just some hard-coded limit of search results (like 1000 for Google). How can I ...
