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 save an image from twitter.com on a browser?
Twitter apparently doesn't like the idea of people saving images and other media elements from their feed, because they've made it awfully difficult. Things I've tried
right click hoping for save ...
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Why Twitter Login Verification (2FA) now by SMS only (previously had push notification)?
Why did Twitter Change Login Verification (2 Factor Authentication) to be via sms only vs push notifications as of March 21, 2016?
Twitter Login Verification Article:
If you enrolled in login ...
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How can I turn off retweets from users in Tweetdeck?
I know that I can turn off retweets showing in Twitter itself (here's a guide for it), but even though I turn off retweets from a specific user on Twitter, they still show up in tweetdeck. Does anyone ...
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Twitter developer signup page seems to be broken with a bug - where to report?
Since yesterday I have been trying to sign up on https://dev.twitter.com/resources/signup but strange as it might be, there is a javascript bug and form cannot be submitted.
I have tried Google ...
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Why is Twitter not accepting my short url that does not contain .co?
Why is Twitter not accepting my short url that does not contain .co? the url in question is vote4thame.uk, It works in search engines but doesn't display as a link on Twitter.
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Re-authenticating Twitter to Facebook link without losing posted tweets
I had to change my Facebook and Twitter password. Now my tweets do no longer appear on my Facebook-page.
When opening my Twitter settings, I see two Facebook apps. One is linked, the other is not and ...
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Can I use two different text colors in a tweet?
Is it possible to use two different text colors in a tweet? How?
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How do I stop Twitter displaying URL contents? [duplicate]
If I tweet something containing wording that looks like (and is) a URL, but not intended to be interpreted as one, Twitter appends content from that URL to my tweet. I want to use the words ASP.NET ...
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Twitter Bio intersection character - how to insert?
I have a tagline I use on my webpage and email signature: People Plants Place with the intersection symbol ∩ between first two strings:
I'd like to use this in my Twitter bio but no success ...
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How do I set up an account with multiple users? [duplicate]
Our organisation wants to set up a single Twitter account identity with multiple users from the organisation. How do we do that?
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Avoiding "need to reauthenticate" when unfollowing Twitter users
When I do some cleanup in my Twitter contacts on Crowdfire, I sometimes get a popup that requires me to re-authenticate on Twitter (which requires me to enter the password). Sometimes clicking once to ...
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How to see what other people tweeted to someone
I just joined Twitter. For example let's take Dwayne Johnson. If I follow him and if I wanna see what other people have tweeted to Dwayne, what should I do or where should I go to see it?
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How to see tweets from specific people I follow
I follow 300+ individuals in my Twitter account and feeds are falling in place but I miss tweets from 10+ important person I follow. Is there a way I can customize my timeline to get to see tweets ...
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Hit rate limits in Crowdfire copy followers
When I use the copy followers feature by Crowdfire, I sometimes get an error "you hit Twitter limits, retry later", even without following anyone:
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Why is Twitter forcing to add a phone number?
I just signup for a Twitter account. I was following screen instructions. After setting username it reaches on "Add a phone number" page (see the below screenshot):
I do not have any phone number and ...
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View a tweet in the context of a user's feed
Recently I came across a tweet from around a year ago and wanted to know what that user was tweeting before and after that particular tweet. I was surprised to find that there doesn't seem to be any ...
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Facebook getting search history from Gmail, LinkedIn and Twitter
Recently, in my Facebook search bar I've noticed it shows "recent searches" that I didn't search on Facebook. For instance, I looked at Paul Graham and Scott Adams' Twitter feeds. This showed up in my ...
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Delete all Twitter DMs at once [duplicate]
I have been looking around for a while now and it seems that all the ways to delete your direct messages on Twitter at once are outdated and do not work anymore. I was just wondering if anyone had ...
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Stop notification for certain tweet?
Whenever I log into Twitter, I often see notifications for a mildly popular tweet I made a while ago. It's rather annoying to see that someone Retweeted or Liked something I don't care about anymore. ...
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Tweets don't show up in search
I'm having a problem with my Twitter account. It was running smoothly since 2012 but I started to notice (for over a year now) that my tweets are not showing in the search results as well as the ...
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Twitter Analytics on Inactive Account
Twitter Analytics is available on one of the Twitter accounts I manage. This account was moderately active previously, but has been inactive for the last few months. The account follows less than 50 ...
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What is a Twitter Timeline and how do you use it?
What is a Twitter timeline, and how does it work? How do you access it? Is this a timeline in "Moments"?
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My Followers are not able to see any of my notifications on Twitter. What could be causing this?
My followers on Twitter have been unable to view my likes, retweets, and mentions for almost a week.
I have placed 2 tickets, and sent multiple messages to @support and have not received anything ...
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Can a user DM another user if they were once blocked but now aren't?
user1 and user2 have a direct message conversation.
user2 blocks user1.
user1 blocks user2 and deletes the DM conversation.
user1 unblocks user2
user2 unblocks user1
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How to make Twitter Analytics don't take me into account?
I'd like to see the number of my Twitter impressions during some time without taking me into account. Is it possible?
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Follow users by criteria on Twitter
Keeping in mind Twitter's Following rules and best practices, I've tried Crowdfire's Keyword follow and I find it very powerful because:
I can easily list many users whose profile or tweets match a ...
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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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How can I view just the tweets of my followers?
What if I'm trying to do relationship development and I care more about the people I have a reciprocal relationship on Twitter?
I know there are many bulk-unfollow tools, but that only makes sense ...
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How do I share individual tweets/retweets to Facebook?
I want to share some tweets and retweets to Facebook. The Facebook connect app in Twitter shares every tweet to my Facebook account. I want to be able to control which tweet/retweet gets posted to ...
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How to prevent a Twitter user from viewing my profile?
I've read on a Twitter support page that when we block a user that user will be notified that he/she has been blocked. My question is: when I block a user, that user will still be able to see my ...
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Use Twitter Advanced search to find retweets made by a single account?
I've been trying to find a way using Twitter Advanced Search to return retweets made by a certain user. I'm trying to use a 3rd party tool called Twools to pull just retweets using a search. I've ...
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Search for tweets with special characters
I want to find tweets with links with the ob:// URI scheme:
Example 1
Example 2
I have tried doing advanced search for the string ob:// but the :// get stripped off.
How can I filter tweets with ...
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How can I know which app added someone in the list of people I follow on Twitter?
There is user X in the list of people I follow on Twitter. How can I know which app added user X?
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GEO Place Manipulation
I have encountered a very unusual and bizarre situation in Twitter. A user with account @hh88hhhh seems to tweet from multiple locations even though it's nearly impossible he/she can be in these far ...
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Daily Twitter stats appearing in sidebar then disappearing straight away [closed]
Sometimes when I refresh my profile page on twitter it shows me a chart with my daily tweet impressions, but then, when I go to look at it, the image has already disappeared and I'm left looking at a ...
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Create a script to block all followers on Twitter (except those that you follow)
Early last year Clayton Lambert posted a script on his blog which allowed you to automatically block users following you that were using the default Twitter profile image 'egg'.
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How do you change the Twitter profile photo on Tails OS?
When I try to do that from Tails OS, it tells me that the website is trying to extract HTML5 canvas data that can uniquely identify my computer.
How do I get around this without violating my security?...
Mr Super Security
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Can people see that you've liked their retweet on Twitter?
So if somebody retweets something on Twitter and you click to view it, but click onto the original account that tweeted it and like it from there, will the person who retweeted it get a notification?
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How can I unfollow everyone at once on Twitter?
Instead of manually unfollowing everyone by clicking on "Unfollow", is there a way to automatically unfollow everyone on Twitter?
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Limit search results to only tweets in Google?
I am trying to search for a particular string and I want to see only results from all user's tweets.
"site:twitter.com" - doesn't work, because it searches in user's bio, name, etc., which I do not ...
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Favoriting a tweet that is in the favorites of someone you don't follow
If I favorited a tweet on a person's favourites that I do not follow, will they get a notification of it?
I'm on person X's profile and I look at their favourites but I don't follow them. I ...
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Find out which contact joined Twitter
When I get a message from Twitter saying that one of my contacts is now on the service, I get their Twitter handle but no other information. Very often people won't use their actual name or photo, and ...
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Prevent promoted tweets on Twitter
I get "Promoted" tweets all the time on my Twitter feed and the majority of the time, they are just a nuisance as I've specifically selected accounts to follow and I feel like they are infringing on ...
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How do I hide Twitter Following/Likes?
A Twitter user's page usually shows Tweets, Following, Followers, Likes, and Lists at the top right below the banner image, as seen on @shanselman's Twitter page:
But it's apparently possible to hide ...
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Retweets of retweets, and what happens when they are undone
I have a question about retweets on Twitter. Imagine Bob posts a tweet. Then Sue retweets the message. Finally, Sara retweets Sue's retweet. What happens to Sara's retweet if Sue "undoes" her retweet? ...
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How to stop Twitter from switching to mobile site
The last few times I have gone to Twitter it has automatically switched to the mobile site. How can I keep it on the standard site?
Chromium 48.0.2564.82 (Developer Build)
Ubuntu 15.10 (32-bit)
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How do I upload animated gifs from Twitter onto Facebook and have them animate?
Animated GIFS on Twitter are great for capturing a meme. Downloading them is tricky, but can be done by reading the HTML source or using an external tool.
The problem I have is, whenever I upload an ...
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Viewing Twitter replies
I am having a recent problem on Twitter. I used to be able to see replies to a person's tweet by just clicking on the reply arrow. It would show all the replies that people have done to this tweet. ...
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Filter Twitter DMs to view only unread
I would like to filter my Twitter DMs directly in the app/webapp or via 3rd party software to be able to see only unread DMs or responses. I sent a lot of messages myself and it is hard to track ...