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May 5, 2009

What Twitter Is Really For

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by David Hakala

Recent press reports indicate that people are deserting Twitter in droves. The short-message social network that captured headlines for weeks is suffering from information overload. You sign up with Twitter, follow a few people, activate the RSS feed, and instantly you are flooded with dozens of messages like this:

“Just ate a baloney sammich.”

“Look at the cute thing my baby did…”

“Taking out the trash.”

Who cares, right? The problem is that question on Twitter.com’s home page, the one that text-messaging teens constantly send to each other: “What are you doing right now?” If I want to know, or just open a more meaningful conversation, I’ll ask you. But I don’t want 50 trivial updates per day!
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March 28, 2009

How Can I Make Sure Only Certain People See My Twitter and Facebook Information?

Filed under: Internet,privacy & security,social networking — Tags: , , , — admin @ 5:00 pm

by Tina Gasperson

Social networking is fun, but you have to be careful about monitoring your privacy in online communities and behaving accordingly. Otherwise the whole world might see you with the cyber-equivalent of a lampshade on your head at the company Christmas party. Either watch what you type, or make sure your privacy settings are set to prevent anyone you don’t want nosing in your personal business from doing so.
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March 19, 2009

Twitter Clients for Mac OS X

Filed under: Internet,Macintosh,social networking — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — admin @ 8:00 am

by Dee-Ann LeBlanc

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Twitter, even if you haven’t used it. While the folks at Twitter are proud of the simplicity of their approach, having every Tweet from every person you’re following just flow into one long stream can get overwhelming.

Fortunately there’s a Twitter API that allows third party developers to write tools that interact with it. In the OS X world, there are many different Twitter clients. This article discusses four of them: EventBox, TweetDeck, twhirl, and Twitterrific.
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February 12, 2009

How to Get Started with Online Business Networking?

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by Tina Gasperson

The people in your office have been talking about business networking online. It sounds intriguing and to hear them talk about it, it works great. It’s true that networking with colleagues and potential colleagues online can be a great way to meet new people, get your name “out there” and even find a new job or a new employee.
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January 26, 2009

Twitter Is Easier with Clients and Add-ons

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by Tina Gasperson

You’ve taken the plunge and signed up for Twitter, found some friends to follow, and you’ve bookmarked your profile page so you can remember to add regular status updates. Even so, sometimes it is hard to remember to visit yet another page frequently throughout the day, and if you’re out on the road, it may be impossible. What you may not have realized is that there are free tools available that make it even easier to use Twitter and make it a part of your daily routine.
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January 15, 2009

How to Link Twitter and Facebook Accounts

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by Tina Gasperson

Social networking is great for keeping in touch with friends and business contacts, and for getting the word out about your latest project – or just your latest vacation. Sometimes it can get difficult to manage all your online social activity, though. For example, once you’ve updated your status in Twitter, you still have to remember to update your status on Facebook because not everyone who follows you on Twitter is also your friend on Facebook. To keep up with all of that, you might find yourself spending more time online than you want to. Alternatively, you can grab a simple application that will automatically update Facebook at the same time you update Twitter, and vice versa.
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December 31, 2008

What is Twitter and how do I use it?

Filed under: Internet,mobile computing,social networking — Tags: , — admin @ 4:54 pm

By Tina Gasperson

If you spend any time at all on the Internet, you’ve probably been exposed to the term “social networking.” You may be familiar with sites like Myspace andFacebook are common examples of social networking Web sites, where users are connected to each other via friend lists. When you sign up for an account on one of these sites, you can find your friends, family, and acquaintances, put them on your friend list, and get notified whenever one of them updates their information or posts new photos.

Twitter is another example of a social network, but with a few differences that make it a little less intuitive for new users. The most important feature of Twitter is the status update, sometimes called a “tweet”. Users send frequent tweets of 140 characters or less that let their network of followers know what they’re doing right now. Veteran Twitter users swear by the service, saying it keeps them connected to other people in their network. Twitter provides business networking opportunities along with purely social “gab,” say fans of the service, that make it an invaluable part of their online life. (more…)

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