Twitter

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers.

Twitter @Username Tab Usefulness

Tweeps who mentioned, favorited, retweeted, listed and followed

New Twitter

The new tab with your @Username keeps you up to date on your tweets that are favorites, the latest retweets (of your tweets), tweets directed to you (replies and mentions), tweeps who have listed you, and your new followers.

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Twitter Activity and Mentions Tabs

Found activity stream irrelevant, and mentions stream full of bugs

New Twitter

Twitter rolled out two new tabs, @Username that replaced @Mentions and Retweets tabs, and the Activity tab on August 10, 2011. I have sour feelings about these new features which have come to me after three months waiting, and still full of bugs.

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200 Million Tweets per Day

A billion tweets are sent every five days on Twitter

Twitter

Twitter has achieved yet another milestone on June 30, 2011, it's users now send 200 million tweets per day. A billion tweets are sent every five days on Twitter. This is up from 65 million tweets per day a year ago. Two years ago, just 10 million tweets were sent per day.

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Mamata Still Minister of Railways on Twitter

Techno savvy Mamata doesn't have time to update her Twitter bio

Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee had opened a Twitter account with username mamata_tmc on May 20, 2010. Her brief bio only mentioned her as Minister of Railways. After winning the right to form the next government in West Bengal on May 13, 2011, and resigning from the Union cabinet on May 19, 2011, she is yet to update her Twitter bio.

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Twitter Follow Button

Easiest way for users to discover and follow your account directly on your website

Posted by on June 1, 2011 filed in Twitter
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Twitter Follow Button

On May 31, 2011, Twitter has launched the new Follow Button which can be seen on the right sidebar of this blog alongside the Facebook Like button launched just over a year ago, and the Google Plusone button which is made public today. Follow button enables their visitors to subscribe to their Twitter feeds directly from their websites with a single click.

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Get the Most out of Twitter in 2011

Four simple suggestions from Twitter to try out anytime

Posted by on February 2, 2011 filed in Twitter
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New Twitter

Our resolution is to help you get the most of out of Twitter this year. To start, we thought we'd send this note with four simple suggestions. Come on by our web site to try these out anytime!

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Twitter Santa on Christmas Eve

Follow on twitter my favourite Twitter Santa's

Posted by on December 24, 2010 filed in Twitter
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Twitter Santa

In keeping with festive season, twitter trend of Christmas Eve, and promoting my friends on twitter in a novel way, I decided to publish on Christmas Eve profiles of 23 Twitter Santa's on my blog. It's a fun project on the one hand, and promoting my friends in whatever best way I could on the other.

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Chinese Activist Sentenced for Twitter Retweet

Female activist sentenced to a year labour re-education for political satire

Cheng Jianping

Chinese authorities have handed out a year-long labour re-education sentence, from November 15, 2010 to November 9, 2011 in Zhenzhou Shibali river labour re-education camp, to an online activist for re-tweeting a tweet frοm hеr fiance, Hua Chunhui (Twitter username: @wxhch).

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365 Days on Twitter

GoldenTwine completed 365 days on Twitter

Posted by on September 26, 2010 filed in GoldenTwine, Twitter
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GoldenTwine on Twitter

I joined Twitter rather late on September 26, 2009. Today, I have completed 365 days on Twitter. I have 20,921 followers and 20,910 following, listed in 2,080 lists, tweeted 20,414 times.

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