With the popularity of a service and an api come third party services that either use the service’s authorization system or add functionality to the service. A prime example is Facebook. Sites on the Internet may allow you to log in to the service with your Facebook credentials. This is useful as users do not [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Tweetfilter, Twitter Filters And Customizations
Twitter users do not have a lot of filtering options on the official site. While it is possible to switch from timeline view to mentions or retweets, there are not a whole lot of other filtering options available. Want to filter for media tweets or replies? Then you have to use a third party Twitter [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Twit Cleaner, Sort Out The Garbage Among Your Twitter Followers
I have started using Twitter more regularly in past weeks. Trying to get a good solid message out every day now which links to an interesting news piece. Most of my messages do not link to Ghacks, but to technology news that I find interesting but cannot post about on Ghacks. I just stumbled upon [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Comments: 28
Do you use Twitter?
Twitter is a service which really baffles me. It is an absolute killer idea, but I am still astounded by the volume of traffic it has. I find it very useful for a number of things. It can automate some tasks, you can keep a personal log of things you’ve done, you can use itto [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Flickr To Twitter Poster
If you want to post an image from your Flickr account as a status message on Twitter you need to do quite a few things to accomplish the task. First you log into Flickr and navigate to the photo that you want to post if it is one of the photos from your account. It [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create a dynamic Twitter Signature
Twitter: Some love it while others would never even think of using the service that lets other people know what you are currently doing. Still it is widely popular and third party applications are beginning to be published that take advantage of this popularity.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Twitter Real Time Search
If you are using Twitter regularly you might find the Twitter real time search script handy. Tweet Scan makes it possible to search in real time for keywords on Twitter. The result of the search is displayed on a individual page that can be bookmarked or subscribed in your favorite RSS reader. If you would for instance want to stay updated on anything related to Yahoo you could search for Yahoo and add the RSS feed to your reader.