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New Twitter Account

So as I mentioned earlier, I no longer show up in Twitter results.  I tried to get it fixed, but it’s not worth my time anymore.  I created another Twitter account with the same username.  The old account was renamed.  … Continue reading

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I’m Banned from Twitter Search

Being in the Social Media Monitoring space, I often need to test certain functionality with Twitter Search.  For my account, this is very difficult.  For some reason, none of my tweets ever show up in Twitter Search.  Have I been … Continue reading

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4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business

I just read Gartner’s report on using micro-blogging (Twitter) in the enterprise and I can’t imagine the authors of the report have much experience with Twitter.  The statement, “it is not imperative for every corporation to be actively participating at … Continue reading

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Twitter as a Platform

I recently noticed a few companies using Twitter as a platform instead of a messaging system. For example, Alaska Airlines was experimenting with giving users the ability to get flight information when they tweeted their flight number. IM systems have … Continue reading

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How to get Twitter followers fast

Once or twice a day I find a spammer that started to follow me.  After a few hours Twitter finds them and their account is terminated.  You can generally identify these users with a low number of updates, and a … Continue reading

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Twitter Followers

I understand the twittequette where if you follow me, I’ll follow you.  Is there any other requirement for following someone?  Does everyone need to get something out of a follow relationship? I wonder what denversnowdude’s 839 followers are getting out … Continue reading

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The Lemmings of Twitter

I do not use auto-followers for Twitter.  I look at each one and decide if I will follow the twiticate policy of following people that follow you.  I will generally follow anyone that follows me except if they are spammers.  … Continue reading

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How I update my status

I have long said, Twitter is not a product, it’s a feature.  (Although the general population is not listening to me.)  Since several sites now support some type of status, I wanted an easy way to update them at once.  … Continue reading

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Tweet, tweet

If I tweet online, will it make a sound if no one is there to hear it? Probably not.  I finally got on the bandwagon and created a Twitter account.  I have a shell script to update my status from … Continue reading

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