Forever Deleting Tweets: Righting the Ultimate Undo?
Forever Deleting Tweets...
Finally. Twitter has gotten rid of deleted tweets from its search index. Before doing so, tweets you delete from your Twitter profile were still available by accessing this residual index. Interestingly enough, Twitter already has a hard enough time providing search results both...
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Twitter Ban in Hollywood May Be a Good Idea
Twitter Ban in Hollywoo...
Reports emerged this week of a Twitter ban in Hollywood, where actors are kept from tweeting about certain upcoming projects as part as their contract with studios. While the reports are unconfirmed and the rumor mills are churning around the reports, the possibility of a Hollywood...
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When Will Brands Provide Value through Twitter?
When Will Brands Provid...
You a Twitter user? Check your direct message inbox. Anything of value in there? Not likely. Your Twitter inbox is probably full of messages that read “thanks for following me! I’m so glad we can be new best friends.” or “click here to learn how to get 10,000...
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Who Wins Big with Publisher’s Clearing House on Twitter?
Who Wins Big with Publi...
I’ve always wanted to win one of those really big checks from the Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes. Yet even their commercials, showing the joyous recipients surprised at their front door with balloons and a film crew never got me off the couch and to the phone...
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Lunch.com Makes Twitter More Digestable
Lunch.com Makes Twitter...
Parsing value from a monolithic data pool such as Twitter’s is an extreme feat, but one that many companies and developers are tackling nonetheless. This week the personalized recommendation service Lunch.com released a new feature that allows you to create a list of the top...
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Maybe Twitter Makes You Dumber, But Not Me.
Maybe Twitter Makes You...
What about Facebook could possibly make you smarter? And on the flip side of the coin, what about Twitter could possibly make you dumber? There are a few factors involved, according to Dr. Tracy Alloway. A psychologist from the University of Stirling in Scotland says her studies...
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What if Twitter Just Improved URL Shortening?
What if Twitter Just Im...
For Twitter users, URL shorteners are helpful little life savers that keep us from going over our 140 character limit. and after last week’s buzz about the impending future of URL-shortening service Tr.im, a lot of people are wondering what the best direction for URL-shortening...
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What Retweeting Means for Twitter
What Retweeting Means f...
Twitter is finally (almost) letting you retweet directly from its site. A big deal. I know. Retweeting has become an integral method for conveying, quoting and attributing content from others. Whether you’re looking to get someone’s attention by retweeting their original...
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Is Hollywood Ruining Twitter?
Is Hollywood Ruining Tw...
Is Hollywood ruining Twitter? The celebrities have all but taken over the microblogging platform, taking it fully mainstream to the point of no return. When did it become news that Bill Gates is fed up with Facebook, and Martha Stewart finds Twitter easier to use? And did the creators...
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More Dismay for Twitter Trending Topics
More Dismay for Twitter...
Has Twitter trending topics gotten too spammy? It’s a question we’ve needed to address since the moment Twitter introduced trending topics, which were once relegated to Twitter’s search page and now display on all public Twitter pages. But a recent incident with...
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