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How To Know Immediately The Next Time Twitter Is Down

Mary C. Long — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:00:12 +0000

Yep, Twitter has been going up and down like a merry-go-round today. Has this annoyed you? Affected business interactions possibly? Or maybe the only real trouble you’ve had is wasting time reading posts reporting these supposedly catastrophic outages (they’re really not a huge deal).

So we will now save you from having to read said posts ever again, by showing you how you can know immediately the next time Twitter is down.

And when those “OH MY GOD, TWITTER IS DOWN!!!” posts pop up, you can just ignore them. Unless Twitter is down ALL day. But we’ll show you where to go then too.

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When Apps Go Bad: Another Reason Not To Allow Any Old App Access To Your Twitter

Mary C. Long — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:30:47 +0000

When you click a link in spam direct messages, you put your Twitter at risk (of sending others the same spam direct messages). But you know this already because you read our previous post, so you don’t do that anymore.

And there’s another way you’re putting your Twitter – and your reputation – at risk: By allowing any ‘ol third party app access to your Twitter, just so you can sign in to various platforms with one click.

But what happens when apps go bad and start tweeting lies on from your account?

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Another Twitter Bug Suspected As Gruesome Picture Plagues Timelines

Mary C. Long — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:55:54 +0000

CNBC is reporting that “shortly before 10:00pm ET on Thursday, Twitter users began complaining of unusual photos appearing in their timelines.”

Unusual and gruesome.

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Is Something Technically Wrong With Twitter Today?

Mary C. Long — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:39:49 +0000

Have you been getting an error message at all today when you try to view your mentions and other interactions via “Connect” on Twitter.com?

If so, fear not – you’re not alone!
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Having Trouble Linking Twitter To Facebook? You’re Not Alone

Mary C. Long — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:55:00 +0000

We know it’s not a best practice to link your Twitter to Facebook, but many folks do it regardless. And if you’re one of these misguided folks (I am as well, don’t take offense), you may have noticed the connection is spotty lately.

What’s going on?
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No, That Picture Is Not You – Don’t Click That Link!

Mary C. Long — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:30:17 +0000

There’s a new and particularly nasty virus making the rounds on Twitter and more and more folks are falling for it.

Have you seen it? We bet you have – and we hope you didn’t click the link!
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Yes, Twitter Is Down. Again.

Mary C. Long — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:46:36 +0000

Yes, Twitter is down. Again.

The last time this happened was on June 21, when there was a worldwide outage for twenty minutes. What is going on with Twitter lately?
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Beware The Twitter Question Mark Bug!

Mary C. Long — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:07:12 +0000

You don’t really need to fear this bug, as far as we know – but you’ll notice it sooner or later. We just thought you should know so you wouldn’t be alarmed . . . so we’re telling you about it via an alarming headline.

What is this bug already?

Go to Twitter.com and type that question – or any question really and see for yourself if you’re so impatient! Or read more here to find out.
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UGNazi #TangoDown’d Twitter Today . . . Or Did They?

Mary C. Long — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:15:06 +0000

Yes, we know that you know that Twitter was down for a little while earlier today, we just wanted you to know what caused it. Too bad we can’t definitively tell you!

Twitter continues to blame the outage on a cascading bug, but there’s a group claiming otherwise.
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Today’s Twitter Outage Due To Cascaded Bug

Mary C. Long — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:55:14 +0000

According to Apica, Twitter’s homepage began showing errors at 6:33 a.m. PST.

But why did today’s Twitter outage happen? Well, according to @twittercomms it was a “cascaded bug.”

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Having Trouble Accessing Twitter?

Mary C. Long — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:09:22 +0000

Are you having trouble accessing Twitter today? You’re not alone – it seems many users are. The horror.

But don’t worry. They’re just experiencing some “issues.” Twitter’s engineers are on it:

Patience, grasshopper. Patience.

(3D Engineer image from Shutterstock)

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Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Deleted’ Tweet Hasn’t Been Deleted At All (And Everyone Can Read It Right Here)

Shea Bennett — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:00:04 +0000

UPDATE: Twitter has now removed the Murdoch tweet completely. As a warning for future generations and/or media moguls, the rest of this article has been left as written.

Yesterday we reported about the arrival of Rupert Murdoch on Twitter, the ‘scandal’ that’s been caused by some of the messages he’s been sending on the network, and the accidental verification of a Twitter profile that pretended to be Murdoch’s wife, Wendi, but actually turned out to be a hoax.

Egg on Twitter’s face. Even worse, a rather disparaging tweet that Murdoch wrote about Britons that he was immediately pressured into removing hasn’t been deleted it all – it’s still there, in public, and everyone can read it.

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Have Your Searches Frozen On @HootSuite? One Simple Tip To Get Them Working Again

Shea Bennett — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:40:21 +0000

Earlier today I noticed that the searches I had running over various Twitter profiles in HootSuite had stopped updating. Further investigation revealed that some of these had been frozen since Friday.

At first I assumed it was an issue with my computer, but after doing a little digging on Twitter I discovered it was far from an isolated incident.

Thankfully, it’s a very simple fix.

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Twitter Bug #23,423: Now When You Click On A Profile Avatar, It Gets Smaller

Shea Bennett — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:00:44 +0000

About a year-and-a-half ago I wrote a post that suggested that when you upload your profile avatar to Twitter it needs to a big image. Not enormous, but a decent size: say, 400×400 pixels.

Why? Because when people visit your profile and click on your avatar, they expect to see something larger appear. That’s the way the internet works – images are scaled down to fit into a given space, but if they’re clickable we expect them to get bigger. While Twitter automatically scales down your avatar to a 48×48 thumbnail for people’s streams, your profile image scales up to 128×128, and when you click on that you instinctively expect it to get even bigger, because there’s been a progression there.

This used to be what happened. But now, all of a sudden, when you click on an on avatar on a typical profile page the image doesn’t get bigger it all. It gets smaller. And it all looks a bit daft.

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HootSuite Offline for Hours: How Are You Coping?

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:28:30 +0000

When Twitter.com goes down, I feel extremely cut off from what’s going on in the world of Twitter. But at least I know that everyone feels this way… today, HootSuite, the popular Twitter dashboard and the one that I personally use most, is down, and I feel very left out of a conversation that I know is still going on.
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