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How do I search within my Twitter followers?

Date: 17th May 2010
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Twitter Apps, Twitter News

This is a question I get asked a lot, so I was thrilled to receive a notification by email this weekend that Tweetreports now offers this functionality.

Now, with just a few clicks you can search and follow updates posted by your followers, people you’re following, or both. So watch the video to see how our In-Network (search within) feature works.

Their video (reproduced below) shows you how, and you can visit their website at www.tweetreports.com to find out more about their full product, which offers a whole host of useful features.

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Guestblog: Twitter for business – twitter backgrounds and twidgets

Date: 14th April 2010
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Being as a friend calls me, a pioneer, I love finding things and trying them (trying in every sense of the word!).

One of my latest finds has thrilled me no end :-) It's here, http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com/

This nifty little gadget enables you to experiment with having a 'branded' twitter background. Yup a background that matches all your over stuff :-)

Research has shown having consistent branding across various social media platforms and apps increases recognition of the brand. Even if the brand is just you.

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Why are we adding loads of lists to Business on Twitter?

Date: 22nd March 2010
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Bright AtlantaI’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it :)

Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.

And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan :)

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Will ‘buzzing’ replace ‘tweeting’?

Date: 18th February 2010
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Guest Blogs, Twitter Musings, Twitter News

A Guest Blog From Colman Carpenter

Last week, Google started rolling out a new feature to Gmail users…Google Buzz. For now, those using Google Apps to manage their domain’s email miss out on Buzz, but Google have promised that they will be enabled in due course. Buzz is Google’s first serious entry into the social networking space, aimed squarely at the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Whilst Google have long been expected to expand into this area, Buzz ended up sneaking in under the radar somewhat, perhaps because Google didn’t want another high-profile damp squib on their hands (remember Wave)? But you can be sure that Google is serious about Buzz, and sees it as a core part of it’s future strategy.

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The Java Balloon Project – The Highest Twitter Client In The Room

Date: 22nd September 2009
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Interesting Tweets, Twitter Fun, Twitter News

A guest post from Viorel Spinu, co-founder of Sety (Java custom development company)

I would like to introduce to you a new Twitter related story that happened this Friday in Bucharest, Romania.

Friday, the 18th of September 2009, the first auto-tweet has been sent from a helium balloon during the local WebStock IT NewMedia conference.

The concept

As an example of unusual Twitter application, we have custom programmed an IPhone to automatically tweet a photo of the room every minute. Next, we have attached the IPhone to a helium filled balloon and let it fly during the WebStock conference (a local Bucharest IT conference), having so created “the highest twitter client ever”.

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Twitter down? Denial of service attack

Date: 6th August 2009
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As of writing, Twitter has been down for 2 hours – and according to its blog, twitter is defending a denial of service attack.

The hordes have headed over to Facebook to moan about Twitter, and to get their ’status update fix’ – only to find that facebook is having problems too! Rumour has it that that’s a DoS attack too, but I have no statements to that effect.

It makes you wonder though doesn’t it – what would happen if Facebook and Twitter disappeared completely? Where would those who have built their business purely around one, the other or both be?

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Clickable links in twitter backgrounds?

Date: 29th July 2009
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OK, it’s not a solution that’s going to suit everyone, and it reliies on a download, plus you have to pay, but thanks to Mashable for telling us about ClickableNow from SHIFT Communications and Whitley media, which gives you clickable links in your Twitter backgrounds.

We’ll let them tell you about it:

ClickableNow is a paid service that adds clickable hyperlinks to your Twitter background, and it’ll set you back $19.95 (you can RT this post to win a free code), but otherwise using the service is rather simple. You can login using Sign In with Twitter, pay once (and use forever), drag-and-drop links onto your background image, and preview your page.

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Can Social Media help me find my Fairway Taxi?

Date: 16th July 2009
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Twitter Musings, Twitter News

Obviously I’m a massive fan of social media, but a late night conversation with someone who’s not quite converted yet led to this post.

In the conversation I was lamenting the fact that for the past 10 years I’ve wanted to own a Fairway taxi. One that looks like this:

taxi Some people dream of Audi A4s, some want Maseratis and Lambourghinis – I want a good old London cab.

7 seats, diesel engine, turns on a sixpence (so easy to park), and just look at those curves!

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Many suspended Twitter accounts weren’t backed up

Date: 6th July 2009
Comments: 4 Related Categories: Twitter Apps, Twitter News

My inbox was full of frantic emails today from people on the Tweetmentor course who had suddenly found that their accounts were suspended.

The Twitter status blog says:

Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.

We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.

So hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

But interestingly, out of the emails I received, about 60% were from poeple frantic that they would lose all of their contacts, and have to start from scratch again, as they hadn’t backed up their followers.

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7 New Twitter Apps from Killer Startups

Date: 28th May 2009
Comments: 4 Related Categories: Innovative Twitterings, Interesting Tweets, Twitter Apps, Twitter Fun, Twitter Musings, Twitter News, Twitter for Business

I’ve been a fan of Killer Startups for a while – the premise is that they add 15+ startup sites a day and allow users to vote on them. Unfortunately not as many people as could be are voting, and it seems that there are lots of (ahem) Killer Startups missing out on publicity, so if you could take the time to pop over and have a nose around, I’m sure it would be appreciated!

As this is a blog about Twitter, I’m only going to feature recent Twitter related posts on there, but there are others that are well worth a look too!

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