Questions tagged [twitter]
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 280-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
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How do I search within someone's tweets?
I remember Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) had posted a tweet about a new website, but I can't seem to find the link.
Is there any way I can search within someone's tweets to find that link?
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How to view and download old Twitter Direct Messages
I'm looking to view and archive all my old DMs in Twitter, since I would like to revive conversations that took place 1 year ago.
Acording to Twitter they don't delete old messages, they simply ...
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How do I connect Google+ with Twitter?
I want my Google+ account to be automatically updated when I post a tweet on Twitter.
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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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How can I backup all of my tweets?
Is there a way to download a backup of all of my own tweets, in case Twitter ever goes down for good?
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How can I delete all my direct messages at once in Twitter? [closed]
How do I delete all my Twitter direct messages in one go without having to click the delete button for each message?
The Twitter help article About direct messages, as of February 26, 2023 says the ...
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Twitter account still logged in on friend's phone
I just changed my password, but one time I used my friend's mobile phone to access my account using the add account feature. Sometimes she uses my account to write or read something, and she still ...
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How do I search within a Twitter list?
That is, I have created a Twitter list with some 100 members and would like to search for a particular word within all users of the list.
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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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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 find the exact time a tweet was tweeted
So on the Twitter website, underneath the post there's a timestamp, but it's not very specific - it will just say something like Jul 10, or 11 hours ago or something like that. Is there any way to ...
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Is it possible to make a link for a specific Twitter post?
I want to share a specific Twitter post to my friend. For that I need to make a link for that post. How can I do 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 see who Retweeted my tweets?
Twitter now has an 'activity' tab where the 'retweets' tab used to be. How can I find out which of my tweets have been retweeted, and by whom?
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Send updates from Google Plus to Twitter / Facebook
Is there any way to post Google+ status updates to Twitter / Facebook?
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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 you'...
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My tweets are not showing up in other people's mentions
My replies are not showing up in other people's mentions. I tried tweeting several friends, my other accounts but my tweets just won't appear in their mentions? They do appear on my own Twitter page. ...
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How to register dead Twitter account?
I would like to register a certain Twitter account for a project, Twitter page of that account says "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!" when I try to register it, I get the username has already been ...
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Is there a website which extracts all links posted by Twitter friends and provides an Atom/RSS feed? [closed]
I'm searching for 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.
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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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My reply to a tweet doesn't appear below the original tweet when it's expanded
I reply to somebody's tweets, (clicking the reply link below the original tweet), then when this tweet is expanded I see replies from other people who posted before and after me but not mine.
My ...
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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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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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Limit Twitter Search to a particular list [duplicate]
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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Tweets don’t load
Twitter says I have some ~1.000 tweets, but I can’t load/see them, neither on the website, nor through the desktop app—it stays in the “loading” state forever. And they don’t appear in the downloaded ...
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Can a Twitter account have multiple users contributing?
We have a Twitter account for our company but want other staff members to contribute to its feed. Is this possible?
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Why my tweet is not appearing on the timeline of the person I am following?
I have tried tweeting someone I follow couple of times. My tweets appear on my profile but when I look at the other person's timeline, my tweet is not there. I am following him but he is not ...
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I want to know how to make my Tweets private
How can I make my Tweets private so that they can only be viewed by the person I am sending them to?
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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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Find the most liked tweet from an account
Is it possible to find the most liked tweet from a public Twitter account? For example, what is the most liked @StackOverflow tweet?
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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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How can I throttle an over talkative person I'm following on Twitter without unfollowing?
In my stream of people I'm following usually one person tweets way more often than everyone else. How can I restrict the feed to show just a representative sample, or a maximum number of tweets per ...
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Any alternatives for Twitter RSS after native service is shut down? [closed]
Twitter's RSS feeds used to be in the form https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss; then they moved to https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=username. ...
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Be notified of @-messages on Twitter
On Twitter, how can I receive an automatic notification through email if somebody writes an @-message to me?
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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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Get most retweeted tweets of an account
Given a Twitter account, say RealCarrotFacts, how can I order its tweets decreasing by number of retweets?
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Alternatives to Twitter [closed]
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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How to exclude usernames and handles while searching twitter
While searching twitter for rather generic terms, returned search results include bio-names and handles of users. How to filter those fields from search results?
For example: Searching latest tweets ...
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How to find tweets from a specific date
I am following someone who has a lot of tweets. I want to look at their tweets from three months ago. On their twitter web page, if I scroll down, it keeps showing their older tweets, but using this ...
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Import from Twitter to Google Plus
I know that you can import from Facebook to Yahoo, and from Yahoo to Google+, but is there any way yet of importing followers and following to Google+ from Twitter?
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How to hide a spammy mention on Twitter?
On the Twitter > @Mentions tab, is it possible to hide a spammy mention there?
I got some unnecessary mentions from unknown Twitter users (I'm suspicious it's not even a person), its tweet is ...
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Looking for responses to one specific tweet
Is there any way to: given a tweet, view all its replies?
I would prefer to do it from twitter.com, but if there is any other 3rd party service that helps, it's acceptable.
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How can I find out if X follow Y on Twitter? [closed]
What web application can I use to find if a user is following another one, on Twitter?
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What happens when I block someone on Twitter?
What happens when I block someone on Twitter? Do they get notified about the block? Won't they see me in future searches? What's the deal?
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Is there any way to follow a specific hashtag?
I want to follow a hashtag on Twitter. I know that Twitter doesn't allow you to do it directly, and I tried to find special services without any success.
Do you know how I can follow Twitter ...
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Tweet URL-link automatically converts into a clickable image
Under what circumstances do normal URL-links (without image upload) in a Tweet automatically convert into an autoexpanded image/link-combination?
For example: Links to some newspaper articles show as ...
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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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Posting to Facebook from Google+ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Send updates from Google Plus to Twitter / Facebook
How do I post something to Facebook from Google+?
I thought there was some type of plugin or Google Chrome extension for ...
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Is there a way to get an email from Twitter if and only if someone tweets at me?
I see that there's a setting on Twitter's "Settings" page that allows me to receive emails from Twitter "When you have new notifications". The problem is that most of my notifications are for accounts ...
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How to see other users' old tweets?
When I scroll down in an user's timeline, I can only go down so much and the website won't load any more tweets. I tried the search bar and it seems to give tweets from a certain period of time.
I ...
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