gHacks technology news » twitter tips http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Do you use Twitter? http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/06/do-you-use-twitter/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/06/do-you-use-twitter/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:14:19 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/06/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 manage yourself. I am also using it to communicate with my readers at my new blog, and it can be used really well for websites in general, as a way to keep in touch with readers even when they’re off-site.

However, I really, really don’t care what people are doing right now. The people who I do care about are very limited, I would follow about 3 Twitter users, even then I wouldn’t read all the tweets. Twitter can be cool if you find something funny or interesting on the net, you can send the link to your firends without needing to create an email. However, I really don’t care when someone gets up, when they brush their teeth.

Call me anti-social, but I just can’t see the “addicivity” behind all this. In fact, following a lot of people would clog up my twitter clients, so I would miss a lot of valuable stuff. I am not criticizing you guys who follow hundreds of people, I completely understand that we are different. Regardless, Twitter is an awesome idea and a well-implemented service. So do you like Twitter? What do you use it for?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/06/do-you-use-twitter/feed/ 28 Flickr To Twitter Poster http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/25/flickr-to-twitter-poster/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/25/flickr-to-twitter-poster/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:01:23 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/25/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 is also possible to simply navigate to a photo on Flickr and use that with the service. Then you copy the url of the photo and load the Twitter homepage. There you log into the account and paste the url of the photo into the status update form.

Flickr2Twitter (Flickr To Twitter) is an experimental Firefox add-on that get rids of the copying, pasting and manual opening of the Twitter homepage. It adds a button to every photo page on Flickr that makes it is possible to post the photo to Twitter. A click on the button will automatically load the Twitter homepage in a new tab in the Firefox web browser. If the user is already logged in it will automatically paste the url of the Flickr photo into the status update form leaving the last step of submitting the message to Twitter to the user.

Users who are not logged in will have to log in first before the process continues.

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Flickr2Twitter is an interesting Firefox add-on for those users who use the two web services Flickr and Twitter. It offers an easier way of posting Flickr images to Twitter by getting rid of a few steps that users usually have to undertake to post photos to Twitter.

Please note that the add-on is classified as experimental which means that users need to log into the Mozilla website before they can download and install the add-on in the Firefox web browser.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/25/flickr-to-twitter-poster/feed/ 2 Create a dynamic Twitter Signature http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/create-a-dynamic-twitter-signature/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/create-a-dynamic-twitter-signature/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:09:48 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/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.

Twitsig is one of those applications. It creates a dynamic image that is displaying your user icon and your last message in a signature image. This signature can be embedded into forums or blogs for instance where signatures are allowed.

The process is simple. Just enter the twitter user name and click on the Get Code button. Three different types of links are displayed once the code is generated. One direct link to the image which does not get updated, one html link to embed into websites and blogs and one in BBcode for forums.

Since I do not have a Twitter account I have used the one from Bill Gates which means that you get his updated Twitter notifications in this article.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/23/create-a-dynamic-twitter-signature/feed/ 1 Twitter Real Time Search http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/twitter-real-time-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/twitter-real-time-search/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:04:07 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/04/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.

Results are displayed with user icons and and a preview of the message that has been published at Twitter. Searches can also be filtered by username. If you want to search all messages at Twitter from a specific user you can do so by leaving the keyword field blank and only entering the username in the second form.

tweet scanTweet Scan can be added as a search engine to the list of possible search engines if you use Firefox. I have not tried it with other browsers but it will probably work as well.

It seems that registered users can also receive updates per email. I did not want to register to the website and could not check that out though.

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