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- 5 Ways Twitter Can Save You Money
- Here's how to find sweet tweets to shave the cost of everything from bialys to BMWs. Forget about Kutcher and Anderson Cooper. Twitter is now a source for saving big in 140 characters or less. Users share tips...
- Articles 2009-09-21
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- PROJECT RETWEET: Twitter's Plan to Officially Support Retweeting
- Moments ago, Twitter announced Project Retweet, a plan to make the retweet a natively-supported feature of the microblogging platform. Retweeting, for those who are not familiar, is the practice of sharing interesting links and tweets on Twitter by adding "RT" plus the originator's username at the start of the...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Project Retweet: The End of RTs as We Know Them?
- Today's big news is that Twitter has just announced phase one of Project Retweet, their program to formalize the retweeting movement on Twitter. They're opening up the flood gates so that developers can tap into the four new APIs and update their applications, or build new ones, in preparation for...
- News items 2009-08-13
- The Many Flaws of Twitter's Retweet Feature
- I've been a Twitter user for almost two years now and I have always been impressed by the emergent behavior that has developed from simply giving people a text box with 140 character limit. The folks at Twitter have also done a good job of noticing some these...
- News items 2009-11-23
- RT: Retweet Competition to Follow URL-Shortening Craze
- First Twitter ignited the URL-shortening service fire, and now a similar phenomenon appears to be happening with "retweeting" services. Retweet.com is reportedly set to launch today.First of all, if you are not a Twitterer, you may be unfamiliar with the concept of retweeting. Basically, when someone updates their status on...
- News items 2009-08-19
- What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?
- Twitter is of course in the process of rolling out a new retweet feature. The feature adds a retweet button to each tweet on your timeline, much like the "reply" button that has always been there. However, one distinct difference between these two buttons is that where the reply button...
- News items 2009-11-19
- The Williams Defense: Twitter CEO Defends Retweet Functionality
- Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, has taken to his personal blog to defend the new, official implementation of Retweeting . The main problem that people have with Twitter's system is that Retweets do not appear as Retweets. Instead, Twitter inserts the original Tweet from someone you...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Project Retweet: Phase One
- Some of Twitter's best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting. When you want to call more attention to a particular tweet, you copy/paste it as your own, reference the original author with an @mention, and finally, indicate that...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Twitter Begins Rolling Out its Own Retweet Feature
- Back in the summer time, Twitter announced that it intended to add a retweet option to its service and the API. Twitter is now rolling out the feature to a small percentage of Twitter users."You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse
- Hey, have you heard? Twitter is changing its Retweet feature, and everyone is complaining about it. Hubspot's Dan Zarella says the feature "could completely eviscerate most of the value out of Retweets." PC Mag's Lance Ulanoff calls it "frightening dictatorial." And fired-up...
- News items 2009-11-11
- More to Retweeting Than Meets the Eye for Businesses?
- Retweeting is a phenomenon that has taken the Twitter world by storm. The concept began when somebody added the letters "RT" to somebody else's tweet and posted it as their own. The idea caught on on a massive scale, and now there are services that utilize retweeting as the backdrop...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Twitter Looking To Make 'Retweets' Official
- By Andy Beal - Fri, 08/14/2009 - 16:18 If you're a new Twitter user, you've probably stumbled over the correct etiquette for "retweeting" someone else's tweet. Do you use "RT: @andybeal…." or "Retweeting @andybeal….."? And what about those precious characters lost when you retweet? We only get 140 to start...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Twitter Implementing Retweets On A Small Scale
- By Andy Beal Remember Twitter's plans to make "retweeting" an official function? Sure you do, the mock-ups looked like this: Well, Twitter just announced the following: We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild....
- News items 2009-11-06
- "What's Happening" with Twitter?
- There's a lot of change going on with Twitter these days. Recently we got the highly-anticipated Lists feature, which helped us to organize our streams and discover new, interesting people to follow. Then Twitter began rolling out its retweet button feature, which seemed like something that had been strangely missing...
- News items 2009-11-20
- Learn Twitter-Speak for All Your Twitter-Based Marketing Initiatives
- If you believe Rick, Twitter is an awesome and powerful marketing tool. I think it's a pointless waste of time. If you are more Rick than Dave, then you might be interested in this Twitter-to-English dictionary. I was actually kind of jazzed to run across this, because...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- A quick Twitter guide and glossary for business users
- Posted by Jason Hiner @ 3:01 am Categories: Social networking, Twitter Tags: Twitter, Hastags, Tweetdeck, Tweetvisor, Smart Phones, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology For a service that is remarkably simple, Twitter is often difficult for new users to understand and to quickly turn into something useful. In...
- News items 2009-08-17
- How to Make Money via Twitter
- The rap from cynics throughout the Web 2.0 period is much like that during Web 1.0 -- "where's the business model?" And it remains true that Digg, Facebook, and YouTube, in particular, have failed so far to convince skeptics that they will ever be able to become...
- Blog posts 2009-05-02
- Follow Top Business Executives with ExecTweets
- Want to become a successful executive? Then you need to think like one. ExecTweets aggregates the Twitter feeds of top business executives, giving you a unique window into the minds of some of capitalism's finest. So, who's tweeting? The site's roster of execs...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Manage Your Twitter Account in Outlook with TwInbox
- Most hardcore Twitter users rely on TweetDeck or a similar program to read, tweet, retweet, and all that. But such programs aren't exactly boss-friendly: They instantly betray the fact that you're not working. Enter TwInbox, which lets you manage your Twitter account inside...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Tips to Rescue Your Stranded Ideas
- Got a great, innovative idea but having trouble finding anyone who will listen? It's a common problem for junior members of the team who may struggle to get experienced colleagues to pay attention to their pet projects, but it's not an issue that's exclusive to young workers. Alexandra Samuel, writing...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
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