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 can I recover my Twitter account password without my old phone?
My phone was lost. I remember my email and my number but I can't receive my notification code because I lost my phone two years ago.
How can I receive my account password?
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Receive Twitter notifications when someone I follow tweets?
I am new to Twitter. I want to receive a notification (via email, or desktop) every time someone that I follow tweets. But I do not have a phone (yet), so I can't use that for notifications.
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Share a URL on Twitter with thumbnail
I know that adding <meta property="og:image" content="<URL-HERE>" /> to an HTML page makes it generate a thumbnail image when sharing the URL on Facebook:
How to have the same with ...
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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.
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Is it possible to limit the number of visible posts per follower per day on Twitter?
While using Twitter (web version) everyone wants to get as much important information as possible. Sometimes some followers are posting many posts per day, but you would like to see also others posts. ...
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How do I insert any Twitter user profile link while composing a tweet?
How do I insert any Twitter user profile link while composing a tweet?
It's almost like mentioning someone, but it shows a Twitter user's avatar & name just like in this tweet: https://twitter....
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How to find a specific tweet in its context?
Via a direct link I found this tweet dated 14 Dec 2010. Now I wanted to see the tweets this user sent just before and after this specific message so I made an advanced search:
https://twitter.com/...
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Media such as videos / GIF's do not run on Twitter in IE
Whenever I view a tweet on Twitter that contains a GIF or a video, I get the following "error":
This does not happen when I view the same tweets when I use Google Chrome to access Twitter.
Is there ...
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Who sees Twitter messages starting with @?
When I do a tweet starting by @AnotherUser like this:
@AnotherUser Hello I would like to tell you that ...
will the tweet appear in the timeline of my followers?
If so, it would be annoying because ...
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How to track or watch specific posts on Twitter?
I found an interesting post on Twitter (in this format twitter.com/<user>/status/<number>). This post has hundreds of replies but I am interested only with comments to this post.
How to ...
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How to add personal phone number to multiple Twitter accounts?
I have a personal twitter account, with my personal phone number attached to it. I want to create a twitter app (bot). I created a new twitter account for this bot then went here to register the app. ...
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My Twitter page looks glitched
I haven't been able to see any Twitter images for about two years now; even in news articles the images just show a blank white box with a 'not allowed' icon (black circle with a line drawn diagonally ...
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Why does Twitter keep saying I follow zero users, when I don't?
I have a Twitter account that follows roughly a hundred users. For some time now it will happen that the number of people I follow is displayed as zero. Usually, it will revert back to the true number ...
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How can I post to Twitter without loading my timeline?
I've recently stopped visiting Twitter during my lunch break at work due to the risk of inappropriate content appearing on my timeline while at work.
I'm looking for a direct URL to the "Compose a ...
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Search Twitter for tweets without links, media, or interactions?
I'm looking for a way to purge a few of my Twitter accounts without deleting all of their tweets. I want to be able to find every tweet that isn't linking to someone or doesn't have any interactions (...
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How do I turn off 'like' notifications on Twitter?
On Twitter - I don't want notifications whenever someone likes my tweet, or likes tweets that I'm mentioned in.
However, I do want to be notified when someone replies to my tweets.
I want these ...
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How to find Twitter users who follow a certain set of other people?
All I can find is really old stuff and paid for marketing tools. Could someone please help me?
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How do I hide my favorited tweets?
I recently discovered that Twitter will sometimes show tweets I've favorited to my followers. Personally, I would like to keep my favorited tweets private.
How can I prevent my favorited tweets from ...
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IFTTT Twitter to Twitter applet not posting "@" symbol
I want to make a retweet with IFTTT like it was done in the old days (since it's the only way you can retweet with IFTTT) by reposting the tweet and adding
RT: @user in the message. But in the new ...
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Is there any way to make an automatic post with image to a Facebook group you aren't admin of?
Note: I already know this question: Is there a way to automatically post to a Facebook group?
The answer there is right (I've been using it for a long time) for groups you are admin of. But what I ...
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Deactivate likes from people I follow in Twitter
I have a question about the likes in Twitter. In my home page I can see the tweets from everyone I follow, but sometimes a tweet from someone I do not follow appears, because someone liked it. Is ...
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What's going on with Twitter following limit per day?
Something strange is happening to different accounts I manage. Some accounts have the regular following limit of 1000 follows per day. But others let me follow up to 3000 follows per day sometimes. I ...
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How to turn off live video on the right on Twitter?
Twitter keeps on showing me "Live video" on the right column, usually with some sports or esports.
Right now I keep seeing "Wimbledon live". Even when I click on "Hide", on reload, I see it again.
I ...
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Are Twitter threads ordered the same for everyone?
I've noticed that on some celebrity Twitter threads, the tone of the replies will vary from time to time - but it's quite common that the top replies will all have a similar theme.
My question is - ...
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Can I check when someone followed me on Twitter?
I recently came across a user who follows me on Twitter.
I don't ever remember getting a notification when they started following me. I'm not even sure how long they've been following my profile.
Is ...
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Show only tweets in TweetDeck (exclude replies)
When I add some user as column to the TweetDeck I see both tweets and replies ("Replying to ..."). How to add a user and see only his tweets without/exclude replies?
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How can I view retweets of my tweet by verified accounts?
I've got a tweet out in the wild that had thousands of retweets in a short amount of time. I want to know how to search through the tweet's retweets to find the ones made by verified accounts. Is ...
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How can I disable or change the language of Twitter Moments?
Is there any way to tell twitter to disable Twitter Moments, or change it to a non-English language?
I've tried, under https://twitter.com/settings/account , to change my country to Japan, but I'm ...
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Filter Twitter timeline by min_retweets
Twitter has these useful filters min_retweets: and min_faves.
Is there a way to use them within my timeline?
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How to get rid of duplicate tweets on Twitter?
I keep seeing the same tweet over and over again... it's really annoying... making the service basically unusable. I'm following financial news like Bloomberg and WSJ... and I see the same tweet from ...
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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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Does Twitter let you preview links before posting on web?
I'm having a discussion in my company regarding some Twitter posting related issues. One thing emerged: my colleagues claim that Twitter at some point was able to show a link preview before posting on ...
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Search Twitter for string that ends with a hyphen
I'm trying to search Twitter and TweetDeck for tweets containing the string mw17-, but both web apps only show results without the hyphen (i.e. mw17).
I've tried wrapping my query in quotes "mw17-" ...
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My Twitter replies now showing on my Tweets page
My Twitter replies are now showing on my "Tweets" Page. Before, my replies to my followers showed under "Tweets & Replies" only. Something changed, but I do not like it. Do you know what changed ...
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Tweet to usernames from a Google Sheet with Zapier
I have collected a list of Twitter usernames and automatically created a .csv (Google Sheet). I created a zap to take the usernames and create individual messages. However even if I insert the @symbol,...
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Automatic Facebook post from Twitter list
Is it possible to automatically post other peoples' posts on my Facebook? If so how do I do it?
I am trying to create a page which takes information from Twitter and posts it automatically.
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Photos in Twitter Archive [duplicate]
I regularly grab an archive of my tweets from Twitter because I'm a little paranoid that I'll be kicked off the platform at some point. However, the regular archive does not include images I have ...
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Find the most active Twitter friends
I want to find out which of my Twitter followed users are most active, or rather most chatty/loud/frequent posters, so that I can reduce the noise in my home feed.
I usually just open my feed, see ...
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Disable enter to send on Twitter
From Twitter Support:
Sending a Direct Message on https://twitter.com is fast and fluid. Press enter to send a message; shift + enter to start a new line.
Is it possible to disable the enter to ...
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Twitter Red/Blue Confusion
On Twitter I notice with some people the tweet button and their names are blue but with other people these things are red, why is this?
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Why do my Tweets not appear on my followers timelines?
Why do my Tweets not appear on my followers' timelines - I just wrote a plain sentence (without any @ mentions or hashtags) and tweeted it. Should it not appear on my followers timelines?
I need to ...
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How Do You Make a Tweet Personal Only To the One You Reply to? [duplicate]
When you do a personal reply tweet on another's twitter, it automatically shows up on your own twitter page. What happens if you delete the one on your own page that you don't want out to the world ...
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Twitter "message to" & "tweet to" tabs under profile pic
New to twitter, I see many people's profile pages with "message to" & "tweet to" under their profile pic. I do not see anything in settings or edit profile where I can add these tabs or buttons? ...
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I want to be alerted when one of a set of URLs appears on Twitter
There are a set of articles at various bits of the internet that I either wrote or that are linking to something I wrote.
I'll like either be able to get an alert when one of these appears on ...
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Finding a Twitter account's retweets of another specific Twitter account
I'm looking for a way to search instances of a Twitter user "retweeting" another, specific, Twitter user.
Twitter has this advanced search:
https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
that has an "...
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Twitter Highlights URL?
Is there a URL for Twitter Highlights so I can view them on web e.g. highlights.twitter.com?
Having issues getting iOS push notifications, hoping for a workaround.
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Tweet me for an invite: does this mean direct messaging in Twitter
I was instructed to tweet an admin for an invite:
there is an iot stack exchange, iot.stackexchange.com, currently in
private beta (tweet me @XXXX for an invite), where this would be
on-topic. ...
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Not Getting Twitter Highlights/Recommendations [closed]
I have two Twitter accounts. Account #2 "recommends" tweets via in-app/push notifications and sends "highlights" push notifications but my Primary account only sends recommendation notifications (no ...
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How to delete all Twitter follow requests?
I have a friend who received 1500 fake follow requests on Twitter. This was likely competition or someone trying to get him banned. How can he deny all follow requests?
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Twitter Notifications tell me about accounts I follow liking photos from accounts I don't follow
My twitter notification feed is full of notifications about other people's photos. How do I turn this off?
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