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Facts About Text Messaging. On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking. Lawsuit: T-Mobile text blocking is harshing our buzz, man. If you're a text messaging company serving thousands of clients (including Rick Warren's Saddleback Church), having your short code blocked by a wireless carrier is a death knell. But the four-year-old EZ Texting says in a new lawsuit that T-Mobile began blocking all access to its 313131 short code on September 10—all due to an EZ Texting client that provides information about medical marijuana. At some point this year, EZ Texting says that T-Mobile got wind of legalmarijuanadispensary.com, a website which uses EZ Texting to communicate with cell phone users who want information on legal marijuana dispensaries in California.

Deeply alarmed at the prospect of client messages not being passed to one of the big mobile operators, EZ Texting had cut off its relationship with the marijuana website on September 9, despite believing that it was "acceptable under all applicable laws and regulations. " Today, the company filed a federal lawsuit, seeking an injunction against the blockage. Help Center. Twitter Alerts - TweetBeep.com.

All You Need to Know to Tweet on Twitter. Parsing Twitter Usernames, Hashtags and URLs with JavaScript. Updated 10/05/2011 As part of an AIR project that I have been working on with my good friend Rob, we came across the need to parse a number of URLs within the text of a Twitter post. This may not sound too easy at first, but thanks to the prototype property available on JavaScript objects, our task was a relatively simple one. The prototype object of JavaScript is a pre-built object that simplifies the process of adding custom properties or methods to all instances of an object. For example, there is not a trim() method available on the String class, therefore, through the wizardry of regular expressions and the prototype property, I can add one.

You simply need to specify String.prototype before your method definition. e.g.: String.prototype.trim = function() { return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");} With this in mind, we can add methods to our String class, at runtime, that will allow us to manipulate the text string that is passed back in a Twitter JSON packet. The Goal Demo Demo 1. Demo 2. Twitter. History Creation and initial reaction Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo.

Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.[15][16] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass,[17] inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes. The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability. "[18] Work on the project started on March 21, 2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9:50 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST): "just setting up my twttr".[1] Dorsey has explained the origin of the "Twitter" title: ...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect.

With Twitter, it wasn't clear what it was. Growth Initial public offering (IPO) Twitter Hashtags Wiki - Hash Tags Wiki. Twitter Hashtags Wiki - Hash Tags Wiki. Twitter Search. Hashtags. Hashtags Introduction Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. Hashtags.org provides real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags. How To Use Hashtags Start using hashtags in your tweets, preceding key words. Finally, track other tweets on the subjects you're interested in (ie: those containing the appropriate hashtags) by browsing/searching at Hashtags.org, TwitterGroups, TweetChat, TweetGrid, Twitterfall, etc. Use of hashtags Hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

Suggestions and tips CamelCase Example uses Further reading (In rough chronological order) Known issues. Home. Hashtag - HashDictionary a Twitter dictionary. iHashTags.com.