Monthly Archives: January 2010

Who Wants a Twitter Username?

If you missed out on getting the Twitter username you really wanted, it appears that Twitter is offering an opportunity to rectify the situation. According to TheNextWeb, Twitter is planning on making available usernames from inactive accounts. Many of these usernames, including some much-coveted ones using short words, have been gathering dust so Twitter must [...]
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Hone In On Hashtags

Many people use hashtags – those things at the end of a tweet that start with the # symbol – but how do you get value from them? One way is using Twubs, a user-friendly user that provides a way to do search for hashtags to quickly see a wide variety of tweets about a [...]
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FollowerWonk: How do You Match Up

Ever wonder how you compare with other Twitter users in terms of the length of time on Twitter, the number of followers, how many followers you have in common, etc.? FollowerWonk is a free service that makes it easy to do these kind of comparisons. Below is a comparison between myself (@markevans) and co-mesh organizer, [...]
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How Long Have You Been on Twitter

How Long Have You Been Tweeting answers a simple question: how long have you been on Twitter:
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Twitter: Big in Brazil

Social media is being embraced around the world but it’s always interesting to see countries where a particular service is wildly popular. Facebook, for example, has a huge number of users in Canada, while Orkut, Google’s social media service, is popular in India and Brazil. Not surprisingly, Twitter has been a U.S.-led phenomena since its [...]
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Twitter 101…and Then Some

There’s no lack of information about how to use Twitter but a blog post by Noupe, which bills itself as having  “curiosity for finding what’s new and better”, has put together one of the best guides anything you wanted to do on Twitter but were afraid to us. Even if you’re an active or savvy [...]
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