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Re: How to Create Pre-Written “ReTweets” for Twitter

Dave L — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:07:58 -0000

Re: How To Insert Symbols In Your Tweets

Dave L — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:32:52 -0000

http://TweetSmarter.com is designed to make this even simpler for Twitterers.

Also, not all symbols appear on all Twitter clients, so TweetSmarter has an auto-highlight feature that lets you know if you are using symbols that not everyone can see.

Re: Johnny Lee’s Wii hacks

Dave L — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:16:22 -0000

Incredible and wonderful .. hadn't seen this one yet .. thanks for putting this up!!

Re: Twitter Follwing SPAM…An explanation

Dave L — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:44:02 -0000

Spam is something arriving unsolicited. You're saying that if someone follows you, their follower request is spam depending on their motives. I say only something unwanted is spam. In most cases, they are one and the same thing outside of Twitter. Unsolicited = unwanted. But it's a little different on Twitter.

On Twitter, the person who receives the request gets to decide.

1. What if Twitter starts a news service and announces it by following everyone?
2. What if someone starts a service that announces itself by following people, but *100%* of the people followed follow back?
3. What I only follow people talking explicitly about my product?

#1 looks questionable, but most people would appreciate it. #2 Looks even more questionable, but turns out to be not spam at all. #3 looks very reasonable, but what if no one followed back? That would be a negative vote against that account.

I like the system the way it is, giving people the freedom to decide, rather than attempting to censor people by labeling their behavior and lumping all people with similar behaviors together.

Re: For a few dollars more…Microsoft will get Yahoo

Dave L — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:28:28 -0000

Really no surprise at all. They can't signal that in a negotiation, but they have to be ready to pay what it takes considering how obviously significant this is to them.

Re: Twitter 101: Clarifying The Rules For Newbies

Dave L — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:30:09 -0000

Well done. Too many guides philosophize without getting down to brass tacks.

Re: iPhone Wordpress app now available

Dave L — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:39:41 -0000

Very nice! Thanks for the heads up, Dave!

Re: Twitter Should Be A Two-Way Conversation, Not One-Way Like Most Use It

Dave L — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:07:44 -0000

Well ... legislating how people communicate is not a great idea. Freedom is important. Some don't reciprocate, but why shouldn't Twitter resemble the real world? Everyone need to find their own way. If you're there, you can help them do it!

Re: A Positive "Coincidence of Interest"

Dave L — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:12:06 -0000

One thing I've learned in creating positive results is to give specific instructions, and track results when possible (like your recent advice [http://snurl.com/28a5d] on Twitter for how to reach people who need help).

Sharing good information is not a bad thing! But combining information with an approach to get people to take action is even more powerful. On the web, lists of steps to take, or links to places people can learn more or take action is one way to start in that direction.

Re: Twitter is Booting Followers or Spammers?

Dave L — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:18:03 -0000

The problem with that "status" is it's now 14 hours after the problem was to be resolved in "several" hours, and lots of people only lost followers after the "restoration" began. Some people lost 100%.

So, Twitter Status, is this not fixed yet, a new problem, or a new set of rules we all have to play by? Why not say "still working on it ... still working on it .. done!" instead of just leaving it as "Even after this recovery is complete ..."

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Viacom sues YouTube for $1Billion, but then what?

Dave L — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:57:27 -0000

They wanted to have a stake in online video, but didn't like what Google was offering. These guys hate not having options. So they made their own--lousy--option, and to make it look better to themselves, they made it bigger.

Re: I want your stare like a shot.

Dave L — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:23:28 -0000

Awesome composition. Great work!

Re: Free wallpapers for portrait monitors

Dave L — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:56:00 -0000

Thanks, Ravi!

I'm adding more all the time to this collection. I also take requests if someone is looking for a certain kind of image. A few of these are also shown on Flickr<.a>

Re: Iridesco Watercooler - Whenever I hear someone says, “do what you love”,...

Dave L — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:42:21 -0000

Even simpler: find people who are in those overlapping areas and get in touch with them.

Re: Which Great Company Or User Should We Feature Next?

Dave L — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:09:43 -0000

I see I got here too late and someone already recommended us! My wife and I run @Twitter_Tips as a service to the Twitter community.

I worked in tech support for many years and decided to just start helping people from a seperate account some months ago, which has now grown to over 15K followers.

We try to tweet the most about the things people are asking us about or having problems with. We actually don't have time to do a blog because helping people via @Twitter_Tips takes so much of our time! I've tried to recruit some people to help but so far it's just my wife @SarahJL and me.

(Love your service! Hope Twitter buys you and drops that silly "Recommended Users" thing they are trying for new accounts.)

Re: Pracitcal Guide to Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

Dave L — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:22:29 -0000

DON'T notify twitter in the present case! Notify the poor person who only has to change their password to take back control

Re: 2009/01/03/my-twitemperature/

Dave L — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:01:18 -0000

"Cold" the way this is measured could also mean "original."

Re: Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion

Dave L — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:40:47 -0000

There are several updates at http://controltheweb.blogspot.com/2009/07/mass-.... There is a semi-official response from Twitter that this is a problem that they are trying to resolve.

Re: Has Twitter Reached its peak?

Dave L — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:06:41 -0000

Looking more closely I just see normal variations: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=twitte...

Re: Dreamhost - A Year of Hosting in Review | Moongrabber

Dave L — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:35:04 -0000

Gone through many cheap hosts. Dreamhost seems to be among the best of the bunch. Very hard to rate reliability ... reliably. Everyone has problems from time to time.

Re: Advertising Over Twitter: The Results

Dave L — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:47:16 -0000

There is nothing against the TOS in what you did. The TOS is short and easy to understand. http://cli.gs/psZj13

Re: Best Social Media Advice From This Site

Dave L — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:13:21 -0000

Chris, I made your subheads links back to this article,but used a lot of your content. Glad to take it down if you think it's too much.

Re: Is Twitter Abandoning Their 140-characters limit?

Dave L — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:44:26 -0000

It's a Javascript issue. You get up to 250 characters in some cases: http://www.seoconsultants.com/twitter/supertweet/

Re: Why Google & Twitter Need to Ditch “Nofollow” for All Our Sakes!

Dave L — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:08:39 -0000

Google easily checks the "importance" of topics happening on nofollow links (lots of tweets clustered together in time on the same topic, for example) and can apply that importance to followed information on the same topic. But this is an imperfect solution.

Creating walled gardens around content (nofollow) to keep spammers/black hats out is also an imperfect solution.

You suggest "perhaps we need a better search engine." Of course we do. We always will. Perfection is not attainable, but improvement is. And Google is constantly improving, and most of us who really care about search don't rely solely on Google (Twitter search, anyone?)

Dave's last blog post..Share your blog posts everywhere

Re: How to Change Your Twitter Username ID

Dave L — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:24:11 -0000

Glad to hear that worked. It has failed in the past. Changing to a name that was recently used used to give the "name unavailable" message. Tried it several times. So makes me concerned that this might not always work.

In other words, each name, once created, was unavailable to be used again, regardless of whether it became "available" by changing the name on the account it first existed on. So using a name then changing the name to something else made the original name unavailable.

Re: Is Google Really the Bogeyman?

Dave L — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:15:58 -0000

You could say "Foul wind sweeps nation, who brain farted: Google or SEO's?"

Re: Is Google Really the Bogeyman?

Dave L — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:15:58 -0000

You could say "Foul wind sweeps nation, who brain farted: Google or SEO's?"

Re: What! Twitter Traffic Flat? Must Be A Mistake!

Dave L — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:50:20 -0000

Another explanation: http://ow.ly/d91L

Re: What’s Your One Best Twitter Tip?

Dave L — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:09:03 -0000

I followed the first people my favorite people follow (you have to calculate the /friends?page=##) and made great contacts that way right from the get-go. (But now I'm scaling back from being over-twerped).

I also don't see how people don't engage with @'s. How can you not, with all the interesting things people are doing and sharing?