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Stop Doing Follow Friday Wrong
Only two hours into the day on the East coast, the #FF Tweets are already flowing through my stream. I tend to not pay much attention to these, as they seem to be the same every single week. It’s not that I don’t want to find new people to talk to – I do! But [...]
Think Before You Tweet
Twitter is a great place to say what you think before you’ve had a chance to think about it. Oh, how true that seems to be every moment of every day in my Tweet stream. At any given moment, I can scan through Twitter and find things that make my eyes bug out of my [...]
Do Your Tweets Make Sense?
Life doesn’t always make sense, so why should all of our Tweets? One fun new site is sure that you will agree with that sentiment. The premise behind That Can Be is a simple one: input your Twitter name and allow the service to compose your next Tweet. The results are often hilarious, usually head-scratchers [...]
Borders, Bieber and WilsonTech1 – Thanks for the Memories
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Today is Lamarr’s last regular video on Lockergnome, and he used the opportunity to discuss another sad story: The death of Borders. According to the Wall Street Journal, they are preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy which will affect a [...]
The Best TweetDeck Chrome Extension
Yeah, this is how I scroll…
Change the Way You Tweet With TweetDeck’s New Deck.ly
TweetDeck wants to change the way you Tweet by offering you the capability of using more than 140 characters. Their new project – Deck.ly – helps to ease the software’s dependence on Twitter and become a greater platform in itself. At its basic level, the new service will allow you to post updates that are [...]
TechMeme Including Tweets as News
TechMeme has long been a news aggregation site that many of us look to in order to keep up with what’s going on. I personally visit their page MANY times each day so that I can make sure I’m not missing out on something we should be reporting. TechMeme includes headlines from tech and social [...]
Ring Around the Tweets
I know that each of you has something inspiring to say on Twitter every day of your life, right? You continually amaze yourself when intellectual and stimulating thoughts flow from your fingertips in less than 140 characters. It’s not enough that those snippets are permanently saved in the Library of Congress, is it? You need [...]
Twitter Nixes Verified Accounts
Back in 2009, Twitter introduced Verified accounts as a way to help the public determine who the real celebrities are online, and to prevent our being duped by fakers. A simple blue check mark would appear in the profile of those who had been verified by the social media organization. I don’t know about you, [...]
Which Twitter Client is Right for You?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Dylan is talking today about his love of HootSuite as a Twitter client. He hates having to run extra apps and software on his machine, such as Adobe Air. HootSuite is nice and simple, and uses very little resources. HootSuite touts [...]
Is Social Media Making You Lazy?
Twitter is making us lazy. I counted at least ten different Tweets this evening where people asked their followers to answer a question that they could easily have looked up themselves. In the time it takes to Tweet something out and wait for replies, we could have found the answer on Google. One example would [...]
Twitter Shakes Things Up With New Logos and Guidelines
Yesterday afternoon, Twitter announced a few changes to the way things are done on and around the site. In addition to some sexy new logos, they are urging all of you to do some things differently when writing about the popular service. Twitter has always encouraged us to use the most up-to-date logos possible. That’s [...]
Are you Retweeting Mashable?
Mashable is one of the largest social media news sites on the planet. Their fearless leader, Pete Cashmore is a quiet force to be reckoned with. I have a feeling that when Pete “asks” you to re-Tweet their Twitter updates, it’s not really a request. Are you a fan of Mashable? Do you tend to [...]
Twitter for Windows Phone 7 is Ready to Roll
Twitter for Windows Phone 7 was released into the wild yesterday. The client includes all of the features that you’d expect from Twitter – your timeline, suggested users, messages, lists, and a great way to explore Twitter without even logging in. Developers feel it is one of the fastest clients available, and one you will [...]
What is the Best Twitter Client?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Marques has created another screencast for us. This time, he is showing off an Adobe Air Twitter client called DestroyTwitter. This client has an unbelievably light footprint. The installer is under 1mb in size, and the memory usage can run as [...]
