If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter, you’ve likely received a TrueTwit validation direct message. It says something like “Nelly Nameless uses TrueTwit validation service. Please validate your account.”
If you think this practice is okay, you need a Twitter direct message refresher. And when you’re done reading THAT, we’ll tell you why this “harmless annoyance” (aka TrueTwit) is anything but.
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One of the announcements Google made this week at its action-packed Google I/O conference was that Google Glass now has an app for Twitter, in addition to apps for Facebook, Tumblr, Evernote, Google+, CNN, and ELLE.
Earlier this month, a tweet from an official Twitter Glass app was spotted, indicating that the roll-out of said app wouldn’t be far behind. That time has arrived.
It looks like Twivo, the Twitter spoiler blocker brainchild of this teen, did not make it to market fast enough to be able to shout “first!”
Another service has popped up ahead of it and it promises to do the same thing, though a bit differently. But they both protect your sensitive sight from spoiler tweets. You know the tweets we’re talking about, those “ohmygodIcan’tbelievehejustDIED!” tweets that are now ruining your favorite shows! [Foot stomp!]
If you find browser tabs SO 2012 and want a faster way to immediately access Twitter, you might be interested in BirdDrop.
The poopy sounding app sits in your Mac’s menu bar until you’re ready to “drop a tweet” or view your account without scanning the six hundred tabs you have open for Twitter.
TweetBackup, one of the most popular Twitter archiving services out there, announced yesterday that it is shutting down.
If you’re a TweetBackup user, we’ve got suggestions below for where to shift your Twitter backups, as well as the scoop on why the shut-down is happening.
If you love to tweet while watching TV shows, you probably have a healthy hatred of spoilers – particularly if you live on the West Coast. (Those East Coast folks seem to delight in ruining shows for the of us, don’t they?)
But very soon, that could all change. A teen just won a hacking competition by submitting a “spoiler blocker” for Twitter – and she’s calling it Twivo.
Have you noticed a bunch of direct messages and tweets lately telling you folks are managing their Twitter followers using something called ‘Just Unfollow’?
We’ve noticed it as well and took some time to check it out.
If you’ve been thinking of using it, we’ll tell you what’s what. And if you’re already using it, read this before you needlessly annoy the crap out of potential followers.
After Google announced it would be shutting down its uber-popular Google Reader feed aggregator this summer, feed-reading apps have been gunning to claim those lost Readerites for their own user base.
The most popular straight-up Google Reader replacement is Feedly, with other content aggregators such as Flipboard and Pulse offering users easy import of their Google Reader RSS feeds plus more – super-integrated social sharing, save-for-later functionality, content discovery.
In that second category, wishing to provide people an RSS reader that does more than just import your favorite feeds, is MyBucketz.
If you were SUPER sad (as we were) to learn that Listorious no longer exists, you’ll be happy to learn of another Twitter list tool, TwitChimp.
It’s an interesting little slice of technology that allows users to find targeted followers – and although it isn’t free (beyond a certain threshold), it does provide some additional options that we think you’ll appreciate.
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