Free microblogging webapp that lets users share "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length.
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How to register dead twitter account?
I would like to register a certain twitter account for a project , twitterpage of that account sayes "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" when I try to register is I get the username has already been ...
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How to get a favourite tweet to appear in my Google Buzz feed [closed]
In Twitter you can 'favourite' a tweet. Is it possible to get this to show in my Google Buzz feed, which has been associated with my Twitter account.
I want some way of identifying tweets as being ...
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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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How can I schedule a tweet that includes the coordinates for a specified location?
I would like to take advantage of the location feature of Twitter which allows for specific coordinates to be included in your tweets. I know that the location details for tweets are accessible from ...
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How do I edit my lists on twitter.com?
Clearly I did this before because I have lists showing up when I go to twitter.com, but I can't figure out how to edit them now (i.e. move people / add people / delete people from the lists).
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How to Tweet by Proxy?
I was looking at the Home Depot Twitter Account ( http://twitter.com/homedepot ) and I noticed that its tweets are tagged as follows:
about 2 hours ago via web by sarahsambuca
How can I achieve ...
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How to delete a Twitter saved search that has no real-time results
I saved a search for project75. Since there is no new information (nor will ever be) for this search, I am not able to find the remove option. Is there a way to do this?
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Is it possible to get a RSS feed of a reddit with links to posts with X upvotes?
I created a subreddit that I am connecting to a twitter account via twitterfeed.
Currently I have it pointed to this RSS feed.
I would like to filter this RSS feed with posts that have X upvotes ...
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How to turn off Twitter's Suggestions for you / Who(m) to follow?
I am looking for a method/option to remove the new Twitter's suggestions feature.
Assuming it works in a similar fashion to Facebook ... if I keep hiding users ... will it eventually go away ?
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Twitter Followers
I can't figure out the twitter's followers statistics. I get emails from twitter that somebody has started following me but when I go to my profile, the number is same, that is 210 and sometimes it ...
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How to “Retweet” on Facebook?
I can re-tweet on Twitter. I heard Facebook has similar features. How can I do this ?
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Does a Twitter Meta site exist?
Is there a meta site (or something equivalent) for Twitter?
For example: http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/
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How can I determine the length of time an item is trending on Twitter?
Basically I am watching the worldwide trending list and I would like to know how can I figure out the length of time Inception has been trending ?
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Removing/Blocking access to my Twitter Profile from a 3rd Party
I am trying to clean my Google hits and I notice that alot of them are Twitter services. Is there a way to block these services from making profiles for me on their site ?
So far I am starting to ...
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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 ...
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Getting the 140 Twitter character limit to reset itself after url shorten
The example original tweet
Getting Started with Phidgets and ActionScript 3 http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/07/26/getting-started-with-phidgets-and-actionscript/
0 Characters left.
The ...
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What can a web app do with my Twitter account if I use Twitter to login to that service?
When I use a Twitter account to login to another website, what does that authorize that website to do with my Twitter account?
Does it enable them to send tweets from my account, or send direct ...
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EmailId of twitter user
My main objective to send direct message to a Twitter user. However I realized that I cannot do that until that user follows me.
So is there any way to get the email id of that Twitter user so that ...
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How do I add a retweet button to my wordpress blog?
I have a free version of the wordpress blog, and I've tried adding a retweet button while editing the post in HTML, but it doesn't seem to appear. Any tips?
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Are there any good web apps for Twitter for Businesses?
I'm looking for the best Twitter-based web app that can be used by a fairly high-profile business.
I'd prefer to use a web app rather than a client app because it may need to be managed from various ...
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How can I get all Twitter @reply messages sent to me from people I follow via SMS?
I usually keep SMS for most messages off, but would like to get @reply messages so I don't miss out on any conversation opportunities. Twitter is blocked on the PCs at work, so I will often notice an ...
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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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Twitter Application That Maintains History?
Are there any client applications for Twitter (PC, phone, etc.) that keep a locally backed up record of one's tweets? Twitter could really be useful as an ongoing activity log, but there's a risk of ...
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Which is the most reliable and secure application for tweeting by mail?
I know it is a weird way of tweeting but I want to tweet by e-mail. There are some web applications doing this. But I am looking for the most credible and secure one. What are your recommandations?
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How can I set up a second twitter feed?
I wanted to start a separate twitter feed on a specific topic (with a different user name) that is separate from the primary one I use.
When I tried to create the second account it wouldn't let me ...
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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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Is there a way to show how many people are following me on Twitter and a standard “Follow me on Twitter” buton?
Currently I'm using a custom (rather ugly) image:
Is there something more standardized?
Can I show how many people follow me on Twitter, just like the Like button shows how many people like my ...
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I want to move from Identi.ca to Twitter. Is there a web app to map identities between the two?
I've been using Identi.ca but too many of my contacts won't use it and I want to move to Twitter instead. Is there an app that can go through my list of subscriptions/subscribers and match those to ...
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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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Deleting a status tweet accidentally published on Twitter
I accidentally posted to Twitter what was supposed to be a direct message. Now, people are replying to me and asking me about that tweet.
Can I delete it?
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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 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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Web applications for recommending Twitter users to follow
Are there sites or applications that recommend who you should follow on Twitter based on, for example on the content of your tweets, on the people who are following you who are not spam users, your ...
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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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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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Recommend sites to help build Twitter backgrounds?
What are some recommended sites to help build Twitter backgrounds?
This background would be used as a custom theme for a user's twitter page.
Note: Looking for web-app/service, not an app to ...
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Is there a website which extracts all links posted by twitter friends and provides a Atom/RSS feed?
I'm searching a Website/Service which monitors all people I follow and extracts the links posted by them.
Ideally it unshortens Shortlinks and provides an Atom or RSS feed for the entries.
(redirect ...
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Application to view, sort, etc. Twitter followers?
I hate paging through my Twitter followers on Twitter's web site. It's cumbersome and unintuitive.
Are there any external applications that allow me to sort my Twitter followers and view them in ...
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Getting replies to a tweet by another person
What's the fastest way to get all the replies to a particular tweet from another person? (besides searching for his username, which is not effective if the tweet is not his latest)
Can this be done ...
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Voice recognition app
Is there a voice recognition app that, allows me to interact with various web apps and modify certain actions and link them to command word?
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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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Twitter Search API
How come when I do a search threw the twitterAPI, the results are so delayed, as supposed to how it is on the search.twitter.com?
I am writing a little joke script that responds to people in real ...
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How do I search through tweets of people I'm following?
Facebook has a feature that allows you to search through status messages that your friends have posted, but Twitter doesn’t currently have that feature. Are there alternative web applications that ...
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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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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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I need a tool to automatically do a Google Translate operation on all tweets in my Twitter feed
I've been using TweetDeck to translate foreign language tweets, but TweetDeck requires two clicks per tweet to call Google Translate and translate the tweet. Do any Twitter clients, web based or ...
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How can I make my tweets private?
I want my tweets on Twitter to remain private and not be visible to anyone except those I designate as being able to view.
How do I accomplish this?
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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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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" ...
