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Using Twitter Favorites

Twit­ter is renowned for allow­ing its users to cre­ate and define some of its fea­tures (i.e. @replies, #hash­tags, retweets). The Favorites fea­ture is one of the older ones on Twit­ter, but it doesn’t get a lot of pub­lic­ity. To see your favorites go to http://twitter.com/favorites and to see other users’ favorites go to http://twitter.com/username/favorites. You’ll […]

Easily Integrate Twitter With Your Site

I know this has been cov­ered more than once, but my old AI Marty specif­i­cally asked me how I inte­grated Twit­ter with my site so I  thought I’d write out a lit­tle more than 140 char­ac­ters in response. I have to admit most of the work was done for me by CSSRockstars’s free theme Charade, […]

Another Month With #Magpie

It’s been 75 days since I signed up for the some­what con­tro­ver­sial ad net­work for Twit­ter so I’d thought I’d give an update on how much bling-bling I’m rak­ing in by allow­ing them to insert tweets into my time­line that are ads for other prod­ucts related to what I tweet about.

One Month With #Magpie

About a month ago I signed up to be a twit­terer for Mag­pie, an ad net­work for Twit­ter. Basi­cally, they match key­words you tweet about with ads much like Google’s AdWords. They orig­i­nally pro­jected that I could make about 40€ per month if I agreed to let them insert ads into my tweet feed. Not […]

mail2twitter are you scamming people?

I was just check­ing out Dig­i­tal Labz’ 19 Handy Twit­ter Mashups and Tools and saw they listed mail2twitter. “mail2twitter is a free ser­vice that allows you to post tweets through e-mail, and the most impor­tant, from any email-enabled mobile device.” That struck me as odd because if you have access to email wouldn’t you have […]