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Corey Pudhorodsky sur Twitter : "Found this "Top Tweets Friends" list on the ground. A paper #twitter leaderboard! Twitter Now Suggests Hashtags As You Compose A Tweet. How Twitter is Changing: A new study reveals Twitter’s new direction. InShare587 2010 will be forever commemorated as the year Twitter matured from a cool but undecided teenager into a more confident and assertive young adult. While there’s still much room to mature and develop, Twitter’s new direction is crystallizing. With a new look, Dick Costolo as the new CEO, and an oversold new advertising platform, Twitter is growing into something not yet fully identifiable, but formidable nonetheless.

At a minimum, Twitter is an extension of each one of us. It feeds our senses and amplifies our voice. Combining our senses with digital inner monologue is something that we must learn to use wisely . As there are multiple sides to every story, in this case, Twitter, its users, and the sentiment in between, let’s look at the opposite end of the stream for a moment. Let’s start with the population of Twitter. Social Biography As Twitter is an extension of your digital identity, users are finding comfort in sharing more about who they are. Where in the world are we?

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HOW TO: Use Twitter's New Retweet Feature. One of the best things about Twitter is the way that it allows content and information to spread quickly across the network from person-to-person. This happened for two reasons: 1. because Twitter is a one-to-many communications platform and 2. because it allows for content to be easily repeated. In fact, the latter led to what we call the "retweet. " It's safe to say that the founders of Twitter did not initially envision this as a use for their platform, but the retweet convention organized itself organically and was embraced by third-party apps. Unfortunately, retweets were messy for a couple of ways.

First, because of the 140 character limit placed on tweets, retweeting someone else's content sometimes meant editing their text in order to ensure that the customary "RT" and "@username" attributions fit. Second, because there's often overlap in who we follow, retweets many times led to redundancy in your timeline as more than one of the people you followed retweeted the same content. SocialWhois » Home Page. 20+ Great Twitter Tools for Firefox. People love Twitter, and they love Firefox, so it only seems natural that there would be quite a few tools to merge these two items.

Whether you want to have a full Twitter client inside of your browser, or just the ability to share parts of a site, a whole Web page or just the URL of the site you are reading, there is a tool for you. Take a look through these 20+ tools and there is sure to be something that appeals to you. As with all Firefox tool lists, we do recommend you don't install all of these unless you want your browser to slow down considerably.

What is your favorite Twitter tool for Firefox? Clients Friendbar - See your incoming tweets right in the toolbar as well as post updates of your own. Twitter Line - Displays incoming tweets from your friends timeline in a toolbar, and allows you to post updates to your own account. Twitter StatusBar - A discrete tool that collapses into your status bar when not in use. Utilities. Feedalizr | Home. §.