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Mentionmapp. Twitter Trending Topics Nederland. Rop Gonggrijp verliest zaak in VS over Twitterdata. Jeroen Wollaars (wol) Ten technical Twitter tips for journalists. So you think you know Twitter?

Ten technical Twitter tips for journalists

But do you know how to archive tweets, set up an RSS feed of a Twitter stream or have private group chat? Here are some practical, technical tips to help you: 1. Learn to love Twitter’s own advanced search. Since being updated earlier this year, Twitter’s search options have become much more powerful than they once were. Type to: in the search box on Twitter’s home page to get messages sent to you or to a particular username.

Find local tweets using near: and within: This is a tip sent by journalism student Jeroen Kraan @KraanJ when we were discussing Twitter tips on @journalismnews. There is a list of more Twitter advanced search commands here. 2. 3. 4. To add a feed of tweets from a user copy and paste the following, replacing xxxx with the user name. This method doesn’t work for Google Reader but is compatible with RSS readers such as NetNewsWire. jobs There’s also this really handy tool from Sociable.co. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Helpful links: Similar posts: Poynter. Even the young person who sends and receives hundreds of text messages per day is unlikely to think of them as acts of reading and writing.

Most text messages, including mine, are delivered in casual code for humdrum purposes, a mode of expression that makes communication seem as automatic as breathing. Roy: coffee? Jeff: now? Roy: see u thereJeff: k But consider my exchange with my daughter Alison: Dad: Ali, rock heaven has another saint. The 27 words in these messages work hard. All in 27 words. The narrative power of the text message was revealed dramatically in recent days as the world mourned the deaths of almost 80 Norwegians, most of them young, all victims of a single mass murderer named Anders Breivik. As the killer stalked his young victims, gathered at a camp to learn about government and democracy, a 16-year-old survivor named Julie Bremnes began an urgent exchange of text messages with her mother Marianne.

Julie: Mummy, tell the police that they must hurry. I take that back. Snap Bird - search twitter's history. Snap Bird - search twitter's history. Topsy: Now Searching Tweets Back To May 2008. Looking for old tweets?

Topsy: Now Searching Tweets Back To May 2008

Look to Topsy. The service has just expanded to have what it claims to be the largest searchable collection of past tweets, over 5 billion of them, stretching back to at least May 2008. That makes it more comprehensive than Google’s Twitter search or even Twitter’s own Twitter Search. Topsy will be sharing the news itself later today, on its blog. Beyond being comprehensive, another nice thing about Topsy is the ability to restrict a search using special “operators” or commands — such as “from” — to find tweets from a particular user or the ability to see tweets within a particular date range. Google lacks this type of filtering; Twitter has it, but only for going through tweets back for about a week or less. Show Me The First Tweet By… What was the first tweet from Ashton Kutcher? Using Twitter’s advanced search page, I can search for all tweets by Kutcher — from:aplusk – but the results only take me back 5 days.

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