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Google rolling out new real-time search feature

by Stephen on December 8, 2009

Google is in the process of rolling out it’s new real-time search feature; an enhancement it has been trying to incorporate for some time.
The “latest results” window appears on the search results page and includes results from Twitter and other pages the Googlebot has indexed within the past few minutes. This feature is not [...]

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Twitter Fail Whale – in Lego

by Stephen on March 30, 2009

The Twitter Fail Whale has become a familiar image to all users of Twitter; it pops up when the Twitter system experiences by a period of downtime or a system hiccup.
A new version of the image has now appeared on flickr, this time made from Lego!
The Lego version of the now iconic Fail Whale image [...]

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Twitbin – A neat Firefox plugin for Twitter

by Stephen on March 26, 2009

Twitbin Screencast from brbreslin on Vimeo.
Twitbin is a Firefox plugin I have had installed for a while. I haven’t used it in ages and I had forgotten all about it until I noticed the little icon in the bottom right hand corner of my browser. I clicked the icon to see what it was for [...]

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Cisco Fatty and what not to Tweet

by Stephen on March 26, 2009

It has been a while since the interweb has been all a flutter about a seriously stupid act which has cost the protagonist dearly in terms of future carrer prospects. It has just happened to “theconnor” and boy are people lapping it up.
“theconnor” is the Twitter username of a potential new employee at Cisco, or [...]

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Twitter and the world of search

by Stephen on February 23, 2009

If you are fairly new to Twitter you could be forgiven for being unaware of its search function. Bizarrely, the link to the search area is placed at the bottom of the page with all the legal and development stuff. Maybe this is an intentional move; allowing nosey parkers to try out the search system [...]

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Feedly plugin for Firefox

by Stephen on February 12, 2009

This is a video of Edwin Khodabakchian talking about the awesome Feedly Firefox plugin.
I have been playing with it (the plugin) for about half an hour or so and I have to say I am blown away by it! Once you have been using it for a little while you will wonder [...]

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TwitterHawk is a new advertising service aimed at Twitter users.
The service allows you to engage in extremely targeted marketing campaigns by sending tweets to people who may be interested in your product or service. In its simplest form, it works by locating tweets which include your chosen keyword or keyword phrases and then sends the [...]

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Tr.im is quite a new url shortening service. It allows you to shorten the url of any web address for posting on Twitter or for using anywhere else it is neccassary to shorten a web address.
I signed up for the services of Tweetburner recently, but each time I visit the site there is a problem. [...]

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What exactly is Twitter?

by Stephen on December 19, 2008

The basic premise of Twitter is to tell other people what you are doing right now in 140 characters or less; kind of like an online text message. The message, or tweet, is available for everyone to see through the public timeline or through delivery to the timeline of the members who are following you.
The [...]

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UK Politicians Get Tweeted!

by Stephen on December 19, 2008

Looks like everybody is having a bit of Twitter these days!
Tweetminster is the latest spin off to adopt the Twitter platform and is providing a space for people to communicate directly with UK politicians.

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Like Twitter but With More Characters – Twitblogs

by Stephen on December 18, 2008

Twitter is currently the talk of the internet for those in the know, but the limit of 140 characters per tweet can be a little restrictive for some people.
As an extension to the Twitter format, Twitblogs has just launched (Twitblogs is not affiliated in any way with Twitter). You can log into Twitblogs using [...]

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Is There a Best Time to Tweet?

by Stephen on October 21, 2008

If you work the same hours every day and use Twitter to promote your business/website/blog, could you be missing out on a ton of potential traffic because you are not Tweeting at the best time for you?
People use Twitter in many different ways and you may never see a Tweet from someone you follow (and [...]

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Peeps at Work – Twitter Down for Maintenance

by Stephen on October 7, 2008

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