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Being @tag on Twitter

by Tom on 19. Oct, 2009 in twitter

When I signed up to Twitter in early February 2007 I wanted as short a username as possible, and as Twitter was still young, I was able to get a three letter username – @tag – which are my initials (@tom had gone) to save on those precious 140 characters. Twitter didn’t do tagging, and [...]

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Native Symbian S60 Twitter Clients

by Tom on 26. Mar, 2009 in Symbian S60, twitter

A quick post to mention that a few native Symbian S60 Twitter clients are under development. I haven’t installed or tried any of these, but when I have the time, I’ll post my feedback here. Gravity Gravity will be a commercial product, developed by mobileways, who already offer native S60 Twitter functionality within their WirelessIRC [...]

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Twitter Digests

by Tom on 04. Apr, 2008 in blogging

I’ve just switched off the automatic posting of Twitter digests to this blog, and given my Tweets a nice little home in the sidebar. Seeing my blog fill up with posts called something like “Twitter Updates for 2008-04-03” and looking at the ramblings within made it look like I had abandoned it (I’ve just been [...]

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Twitter Tools for WordPress

by Tom on 19. Feb, 2008 in blogging, twitter

I’m toying with the idea of extending my use of Twitter to cross post the titles and URLs of new posts on this blog (and others that I contribute to) as a kind of aggregator as well as micro-blogging platform. I’ll be using Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plugin to to the job. If all [...]

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Twitter server maintenance

by Tom on 14. May, 2007 in Web Stuff

I tried to view a friend’s Twitter stream today, but there was a server error. Here is the message: Brilliant!

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