Archive for the 'Twitter' Category

TweetForger : Forging your tweets the way you want to

April 5 2011No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

I recently encountered a web application named TweetForger which as its name suggests is an application that can be used to create and send out a communication that looks like, but in fact is not, a Twitter "tweet" from someone else. The only way a forged tweet can appear in a Twitter stream is if [...]

Blackbird Pie Twitter Plugin for Live Writer

May 10 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Blackbird Pie Twitter Plugin, which has been written by Scott lets you insert a twitter quote from a new service called Blackbird Pie. Basically this service lets you put in a tweet url and get the code to put on your blog/website that shows that tweet, for example: The plugin is easy enough to use, [...]

Re-Tweet Plugin for WordPress Blog

March 16 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Often bloggers promote their blog post via social media like Twitter, Facebook etc. To share the blog posts via Twitter can be made easy by using a simple and easy to integrate plug-in for WordPress blogs. The TweetMeme Retweet plug-in button used by some of the biggest names over web Techcrunch.com, PerezHilton.com, Break.com, CNET.com, Wired, [...]

Know Twitter using free Twitter Guide Book

March 5 2010one Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Twitter , one of the most popular word of yester year is a very strong and effective social Media. No wonder it has been embraced by internet users quickly and rapidly. For newbie’s, Twitter can be made easy by using a free Twitter Guide Book.  This book covers a majority of features of Twitter & [...]

Twitterly Butterly Delicious : Amul

February 3 2010No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

I found this Amul Hit on twitter, which was put on twitpic by @thetanmay who captioned that Cashing in on #IconicIndianAds, Amul Butter releases ad with Amul Boy, Girl and Twitter Bird. On Tuesday 2nd,feb10 a trending topic was started on twitter by the Hashtag iconicIndianAds to recherish some of the best Indian advertisements. With [...]

Get and Send tweets from MSN Messenger

January 11 20103 Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Now tweets can be sent and received via  MSN messenger as well. There’s a bot twitonMSN which integrates an API into twitter account and link it to your msn messenger account. To setup this bot follow the steps : Visit  TwitonMSN and add a contact name to your MSN Messenger. The contact is an automated [...]

Banned Passwords List on Twitter

December 29 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Twitter prevents people using a particular password  indicating that certain passwords such as ‘password’ and ‘123456? are too obvious to be picked.It just so happens that Twitter has hard-coded all banned passwords on the sign-up page. All you need to do to retrieve the full list of unwelcome passwords is take a look at the [...]

WordPress Plugin to show Twitter Fans

December 26 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

There is a plugin for wordpress that can show my twitter followers in a box similar to Facebook’s fan widget.  After you activate, it gives you a new widget called Twitter Fans. Just drag n drop it in the sidebar. And set your username, that’s the only required thing. The plugin can be configured very [...]

Oops ! Twitter got hacked by "Iranian Cyber Army"

December 18 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Twitter

Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to another Web page.Instead of the usual Twitter Web site design, visitors to the site instead saw a black screen with an image of a green flag and Arabic writing. [...]

Twitter introduces new interface for mobile phones

December 12 2009one Commented

Categorized Under: Internet, Twitter

Twitter introduced a new interface optimized for mobile phones. It is focused for an improved experience on Android, iPhone, webOS and Nokia S60 platforms, the interface was designed with the Twitter API. Most features from the site have been included, such as reply, retweet, favorites, mentions and direct messages. Following, search and other functions are [...]