March 12, 2011
If you want to secure your tweets against any issues that might happen to Twitter and its servers, consider backing up your Twitter shares. If you use Twitter as a bookmarking tool sharing the most interesting links you come across, you may want to create a searchable archive to be able to quickly find a [...]
June 3, 2010
America’s Library of Congress recently announced it intends to index the entirety of Twitter‘s archive. This is a massive undertaking, as every day there are in excess of 20 million messages sent out on Twitter. Even if you never intend to send out a message of 140 characters or less you have to admit Twitter [...]
February 7, 2010
I recently wrote about how you can find out when someone searches Google for your name. If you are interested in who is looking for you and your general online reputation, you are probably equally interested in finding out what is being said about you online. People could be spreading information about you or your [...]
January 22, 2010
Those of us that have been using “the Twitter” for a while have it pretty much figured out by now. We hop onto our favorite free Twitter tools like TweetDeck, quickly glance at our many columns of rapidly-updating information, check out trending topics, and casually send replies and retweets. This type of usage is no [...]
September 9, 2009
Here’s an interesting tool for all of you who like to use your IM (chat) programs for everything. Now you can use chat bots to search Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter – without having to go to the sites. Although this seems to work fine (and I used it all day today for searches), you [...]
July 8, 2009
One of the coolest, and most exciting features of Twitter is how good it is at connecting people – the user base is huge and full of interesting people you can connect with in a way only Twitter allows. The problem, though, is that Twitter does essentially nothing to help you find interesting people. There [...]
June 27, 2009
One of Twitter‘s coolest uses is as a real-time search engine. News tends to break and spread faster on Twitter than anywhere else, and generally speaking, people know things there before anyone else picks them up. All the stories should be taken with some healthy skepticism, but Twitter’s proving itself to be the place for [...]
April 8, 2009
With the economy in such a poor state, more and more people are finding it extremely hard to find a job. Sadly, it can literally take months to even be contacted about a job let alone find one, thus resulting in the job hunting blues. Even though it can get extremely frustrating (I know first [...]
January 30, 2009
For a long while, I was a big TweetDeck fan but then for some strange reason it started crashing constantly. That and along with the fact it was a huge screen hogger started to make me look once again at TWhirl, my former Tweet darling. But any hesitations about going back to my ex were [...]
December 25, 2008
Today’s article is a little gift for all of you Tweeps (Twitter users) out there. This is the most diverse list of new Twitter apps, sites, services, and fun activities that I could find. I thought about trying to tie in the 12 Days of Christmas, but I had 15 things, what can ya do? [...]
