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Twitter Adds (and Removes) Retweets (Beta)

Posted on 11 November 2009 (5)

Some of you may have noticed a new Twitter Retweet logo marking your friends’ RT’s. Since users, the originators of the term, have been utilizing “RT” (followed by the author’s @name) almost as long as Twitter’s been around, and applications such as Tweetdeck and Seesmic implemented the feature long ago, what took Twitter so long [...]

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10 Twitter Ranking Sites: Cut Out the Noise

Posted on 12 August 2009 (45)

With the widespread growth and popularity of Twitter these days, the userbase so broad, do you know your place within this vast social network? How do you rank amongst your fellow Tweeple?
The following 10 Twitter ranking websites are being graded on a scale of 1-10 for:

Overall site score
Significance of their Twitter account scoring system
Value of [...]

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Review of Su.pr: Stumbleupon’s URL Shortener

Posted on 10 July 2009 (9)

By now, a lot of Internet users are suffering from URL-shortening overload syndrome and I am no exception.  When I found out about Stumbleupon’s Web 2.0-aptly named Su.pr, I can’t deny that I groaned more than just a bit.  When it comes to the Unique Ideas Department, URL shortening is old hat and I wondered [...]

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