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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Creating Twitter threads when replying
I'm trying to work out if there is a proper tool on Twitter that allows you to create Twitter "threads" when replying to someone else?
I found out a way to do it when making your own thread ...
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How do I stop seeing my own tweets in my Twitter timeline?
How do I stop seeing my own tweets in my Twitter timeline? It's taking up the space of actual tweets that I want to see.
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Tweetdeck and Tweeten: Streaming of new tweets broken?
For several days now my Tweetdeck and Tweeten have changed their behavior regarding the streaming of new tweets.
So far, new tweets showed up in each column on top and older tweets were pushed down. ...
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Problem with Twitter Mobile linking
I am trying to add my mobile phone number to my Twitter ID, but a dialog box appears with the following message:
But there is no account with my phone number and Twitter itself shows the same:
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How to go on tweets from specific date or year without using third party app
There are two cases;
When I scroll https://twitter.com/home, it goes up to last 3-4 days.
I follow @xyz and scroll all tweets of @xyz, it also goes to last
3-4 days.
In both cases, I want tweets ...
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How to manually open twitter's "more tweets" page?
Once or twice a day, the Twitter app on my phone shows a notification that shows me one highlighted tweet followed by "More Tweets".
How can I get to this list of tweets manually? If I dismiss the ...
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How to add a conversation on the TweetDeck?
Say, I have a huge thread consisting of an original tweet and a multitude of replies. How can I add all of those to a TweetDeck column?
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How do I see which Twitter topics I've followed?
On twitter.com I've asked to follow some topics. Like "Entertainment" or "Sports".
And I randomly clicked some.
But how can I find the followed topics later? Is there a place to manage the list?
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Is it possible to search for Twitter account's retweets of another twitter account?
I know there is a function to search a person's retweets but is there a step further where you can search for another party included in the retweet?
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Twitter's Restriction of Links
I have an old Twitter account in which I used to post links to my blog articles, without engaging, as I didn't know the rules. Then I realized that my tweets which contain a link did not appear in ...
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Why does my Twitter profile keep reverting to the old details?
Thank you for this forum. Twitter is not responding, so I thought I'd ask here. Since last December, when I changed my business name and location, Twitter (and my Google My Business accounts) keep ...
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Sharing Facebook links on Twitter: why no link preview or snippet generated?
I want to share a Facebook page, or in fact any Facebook URL, on
Twitter. (I.e., I want to "Tweet a link to a Facebook page, etc.")
Why is no "link preview" generated?
Why is no "snippet" generated?
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Are there counterpart of Stack Exchange Data Explorer for YouTube, FaceBook and twitter? [closed]
Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) is
an open source tool for running arbitrary queries against public data from the Stack Exchange network. Features include collaborative query editing for all ...
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Public vs private tweets on Twitter
Is it true that if I tweet to @user1 and @user2 then this tweet is public?
But if I go to @user1's profile page and click "Tweet" to the user, then it is a private tweet?
What if I go to @user1's ...
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Is there a way to see my retweets within a date range?
I know that I can see my own tweets within a date range by doing something like this:
from:@username until:2019-01-01 since:2018-01-01
But is there a way I can see other peoples tweets that I have ...
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Keep two Twitter accounts in two separate browser tabs?
I am using Google Chrome. Is it somehow possible to keep two different Twitter accounts in two distinct tabs within the same window?
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Why am I getting notifications about someone I have blocked on Twitter
I get emails from Twitter for notifications, so the other day I notice I got an email about a notification from Twitter about someone I have blocked what they tweeted! Does anyone know why I’m getting ...
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How do I disable broadcast notifications on Twitter?
Twitter recently started sending me purple broadcast notifications when users I follow start livestreaming. I find these to be annoying and would like to turn them off.
How do I turn off broadcast ...
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Can't log into Twitter account
I cannot log into my Twitter account, I moved into a different
Country so my phone number doesn't work, I forgot my username and I didn't use any email to create my account. Now I can't log in.
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Twitter For Websites : Full Profile Header [closed]
On an old website that I built I embedded my entire Twitter Profile Header ( cover / name / avatar / statistics ) into the footer of the page.
I'd like to do the same but I have no idea how I did it ...
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How to search on Twitter but not the user name?
I tried to search for
Shadow Onyx
on Twitter, which is for Pokemon Go, but the user with the name "Shadow Onyx" kept on showing up (I need to sort by "latest"), so to use advanced search, I used
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How can we find friends or import contacts in Twitter (2020)?
At the moment, my Twitter account only has 24 followers. I plan to increase that by finding and inviting my friends/connections in Gmail or other social networks. It is a very common approach in other ...
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Twitter Locked. Alternatives to email appeals
What's the deal with Twitter recently?
I have a personal, @MyRealName account which I haven't used for a long time. When I log in using my real password and I'm prompted to add my phone number that I ...
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Automatically re-tweet everything a certain Twitter account has?
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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An account I know I'm following is not appearing in the "following" page of my profile
I was checking whether or not I followed a particular Twitter account by checking my profile page:
https://twitter.com/[account]/following
as I couldn't remember what their account was actually ...
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How to export and import my block list in the 2019 "New Twitter" UI?
Twitter recently rolled out a redesign of their desktop website interface, and the ability to export and import my block list seems to have been removed. Exporting/importing my block list was useful ...
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Force the *legacy* (old mobile) version of Twitter?
Twitter.com currently has more than one version. There's a new unified desktop/mobile version, and more than one "older" version for "unsupported" browsers.
If I disable Javascript for twitter.com, ...
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How can I reply to a tweet and show that to my followers?
How should I comment on someone else's tweet to make my comment visible to the original tweeter and other users looking at the original tweet replies and my own followers?
I've noticed that if I "...
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Is it possible to get SMS texts for tweets from a specific user that match certain words?
I know that you can send an SMS text from Twitter for all tweets that you get from a specific user. But is it possible to only send texts when a tweet is from a specific user and that also match ...
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How do I turn off Notifications that someone "Liked" my comment or reply on Twitter with the new format?
These are the Notifications options on Twitter now, no option to turn off Likes?
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Getting my Google Contacts contacts into Twitter to find which have Twitter accounts
Now that the "Find Friends" feature seems gone from Twitter, how can I get my Google Contacts contacts into Twitter to find which have Twitter accounts?
The nearest answer on Twitter Help refers to a ...
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Some Twitter GIFs don’t work in PC browsers, do work in mobile browsers
I could really use some help figuring out this very weird issue I have with Twitter GIFs.
Some Twitter animated GIFs (which Twitter converts to MP4s, but I’ll refer to them as GIFs for simplicity’s ...
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How do I tweet a thread of tweets at someone?
If I want to tweet something to someone on Twitter, but what I need to say will take up more than one tweet, how do I tweet it at the person in a way where the tweets will be nicely threaded when the ...
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How to block all followers except followed
I have a lot of followers due to spam. I want to block and unblock them all to make them unfollow me except ones I followed. how to do that? is there any script to do that?
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How to open a single tweet in a separate tab with a single click?
Currently if I want to open a tweet in a separate tab (usually so I can read the replies later), I have to:
Click the tweet
Go to the URL bar in my browser
Copy the URL
Open a new tab
Paste URL and ...
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Twitter log-in issue no phone to receive sms
I no longer have access to the phone number I used for 2 step verification. I do not have a backup code either.
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Can I split the AdGroup budgets down to specific Ads in Twitter Ads?
If I am running a Twitter Ads campaign and have two ads under one AdGroup, is there any way of splitting the budget for the two ads in the AdGroup? Or does Twitter do this automatically.
I know I can ...
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Find Twitter account mostly retweeting and liking
There are multiple platforms that provide information like most mentioned, favourite tweet, most liked tweet, etc.
Is there any way to identify a Twitter account who is retweeting or liking the most ...
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How To Add a Previously Posted Picture to a Brand New Tweet (Twitter)
If you wish to re-post a picture on Facebook you just write a post and attach an image from your photos gallery. On Twitter there doesn't seem to be any way of doing this?
Is it not possible to do a ...
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Help loading all /followers on Twitter
I need a script or app to scroll all the way to the bottom of a verified account's /followers page on Twitter. There are millions of followers which makes automation a necessity. What are the options ...
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Changed Twitter username. Still showing in Twitter searches
If my Twitter handle were @johnsmith, and I were to change it to @johndoe, I'd expect that searches in the Twitter search input for the old username would now show no connection to the new name.
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Is it possible to have Twitter alert me when someone tweets?
I have twitter installed on my iPhone and wanted to know if it was possible to have my phone alert me when a particular user tweets?
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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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Why am I being followed by a political opponent in Twitter? [closed]
Why would an influential political figure follow me in Twitter, when I'm a nobody, and all I've done to date is opposed his party's philosophy? He follows some 100k people, with a similar number of ...
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How do people decide what hashtags to use in Twitter?
Without using paid-for 3rd party tools, I don't see how to insert a hashtag without just guessing! Searching about how to use hashtags just produces shallow, ambiguous pages that are just cheap ...
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Making a community out of people you're following and followers in Twitter? [closed]
I just read an article that explains why I've had one like out of 320 tweets. Engagement rate is extremely low. However, I do have 21 followers! I love the way Twitter helps you find like-minded ...
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View Tweets from a specific country?
I'd like to know who's talking about what within my country at this minute, real time - to get an idea of what topics, so I can join in. How can I do that?
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I frequently tweet on 2 topics. How can I not annoy followers only interested in one?
I am an activist/keyboard warrior. I tweet about two somewhat related topics - certainly related to each other for me, but not necessarily to my followers.
So I don't want to create two accounts for ...
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Is it possible to archive all retweets of a given user?
I'm trying to archive all tweets (including replies), retweets and favorites of a given user.
For archiving all tweets, this wonderful answer works.
For archiving all favorites, scrolling down the ...
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Why is Twitter showing me old Tweets much more often past few days and what can I do with it?
For the last week or so, I am noticing, that about half of my Timeline is older than a day. Very often it is more than two or even more too. I am sure, that this didn't happen before.
However, I ...
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