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Hugo Chavez
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Twitter
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Venezuela
It is hard to believe that the man pictured at left, Hugo Chavez, leads a nation. Granted, he's leading Venezuela straight into the ground, but never the less, he is in control.
After his Parrot, nicknamed Little Castro, asked him to join Twitter, Little Castro thought it was a bird lover's club,
Chavez hired 200 people to assist him in managing the account. Those on Twitter know how difficult managing a single account can be, so cut Chavez some slack.
Now Chavez and Little Castro have a new vision of how to use Twitter. Ferreting out currency speculators.
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Hackers
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Turkey
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Twitter
Twitter was hacked today seemingly by accident by a young man from Turkey. The story of how Twitter was hacked, both ridiculous in its simplicity and amazing in its effect is detailed below.
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Hugo Chavez
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Twitter
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Venezuela
The socialist leader of Venezuela, who joined Twitter 2 weeks ago, has become so overwhelmed by Twitter that he has hired a staff of 200 to help him tweet.
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bit.ly
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Facebook
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Twitter
Bit.ly, the popular link shortening service, has launched a redesign of their site which focuses on four key features.
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Blackbird Pie
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Social Media
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Twitter
Clickable links, hashtag searches and more. Embed tweets with Twitter's latest feature, "Blackbird Pie."
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Conan O'Brien
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Social Media
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Twitter
Conan O'Brien, hot off his appearance on 60 minutes and in the midst of his tour of greatness across the U.S. of A, has some thoughts on Twitter and what it has meant to him. If you aren't following @ConanOBrien on Twitter, you aren't a true American.
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TweetClaims.com
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Twitter
Want that Twitter user name you think will put you on the microblogging map but unfortunately someone else who has since abandoned use of the site has that which you covet?
Thankfully Twitter knows of this problem and will get around to clearing the issue up. A new service,
TweetClaims.com is also here to help by letting you sign up to be notified when that name you so desire is once again available.
TweetClaims.com’s creator, Luke Woodward, upon learning that Twitter was going to remove inactive accounts, thereby allowing the user names of the non-user to become available, had the idea to start a service that would check Twitter for the names both he and other want to use.
Since its launch last Wednesday, more than 2,200 people have signed up for the free service. If you are looking to get in on that name you desire, visit TweetClaims.com and sign up. Or don’t, and remain branded with that awful Twitter user name you currently have.
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Facebook
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Social Media
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Twitter
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Wildfire
Wondering where all those Facebook, Twitter and other social media marketing campaigns come from? That's right, Wildfire. Big news for the popular service.
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Google
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Google Buzz
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Twitter
PostRank, a social media analysis outfit discovered that Google Buzz is apparently the choice hangout for robots. According to their research, most of what is posted to Buzz, almost 90%, originates from news feeds, Twitter, or other automated sources.
More specifically, 62.57% of Buzz posts originate on from Twitter with users posting their Tweets to Buzz without having to separately enter their status updates to each site.
Blogs, websites and other online avenues are posting to Buzz by RSS accounting for 26.47% of total content. Those two percentages for you non-math majors add up to 89.04% of very non-unique posts.
Do you use Buzz? If so, send me a message and if I ever use the service I will respond in kind.
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BirdHerd
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Social Media
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Twitter
Twitter's contributors feature is nice, but we don't know exactly how it will work. Enter BirdHerd, an easy Twitter group management application.
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Facebook
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Social Media
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Twitter
Come on, everyone's doing it...
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Social Media
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Twitter
Want to IM chat combined with Twitter in a simple format?
t.imo.im is a Twitter based IM service from Imo.im, founded by an ex-Google employee. Seems like a great many ex-Google employees go on to create new and interesting things. Go figure.
t.imo.im uses Twitter's direct message conversation feature, and turns it into an instant messaging service. The service is certainly worth using if you are into Twitter, IM, or both. Have you used t.imo.im or plan on trying it? In the alternative, is IM use so 1998 that you wonder if I even understand what the "kids" are doing these days which is why I chose to write on the topic of IM use in the first place?
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Google
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Twitter
Chirp wasn't the only Twitter news of the day. Search giant Google launched a new feature allowing one to search for past tweets.
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Chirp
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Twitter
Twitter held its Chirp conference today. Interesting revelations from the company and a glimpse into the future of the site.
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Advertising
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Marketing
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Twitter
Twitter has launched their new advertising platform, "Promoted Tweets."
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Social Media
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Tweetie
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Twitter
On the heels of Twitter for business, the acquisition of Tweetie and more, Twitter Media launches!
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App Store
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apple
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iphone
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Twitter
Twitter has acquired one of the more popular Twitter apps for the iPhone, Tweetie.
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Aardvark
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Facebook
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Google
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Twitter
Sign up for a service and post that you did so to Twitter or Facebook? Who created that feature?
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Blackberry
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Social Media
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Twitter
Twitter for Blackberry is in beta no more! Last night at 8 PM CST, BlackBerry's very own Twitter app will became available for download. From screen shots and early reviews, this is a must have for Twitter users with a Blackberry. Get
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Blogger
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Facebook
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Ping.fm
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RSS
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Twitter
Ping.fm is a grand service. With one post, you can simultaneously update Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and more. It is like magic. Further, users of
Hootsuite, oh how I love Hootsuite so, can now use a beta version to update via Ping.fm from the service.
Now Ping.fm has gone one step further. According to the Seesmic
blog, you can add RSS feed monitoring and post it to a network. According to the blog:
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All you simply need to do is choose the RSS selection under Services / Tools (right there in the Dashboard), and then enter in your RSS feed to the blog of your choice.”
Managed by Superfeedr,
the unfortunate thing at present is the fact that the new feature is limited to a single RSS feed. If you use multiple feeds, combine them into one and the RSS feature for Ping will be up, running and glorious.
Add us to your feed. We don't post too much, so we won't bombard you, but what we do post will make you quicker, stronger, faster and possibly vomit free.
