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TwitterBerry is an application that lets you use Twitter from your BlackBerry. “How to Use Twitter from Your BlackBerry” by Simple Help is a step-by-step tutorial on installing TwitterBerry on your BlackBerry. Each instruction is accompanied with a screenshot of the step. If you are looking for a few good people to follow once TwitterBerry is [...]

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What does “re-tweet” mean? I just got on Twitter and see this RT stuff a lot. What’s going on? Word of mouth on Twitter Re-Tweeting on Twitter a way of forwarding someone else’s status update on to all of your followers. If you see a tweet from one of your contacts and decide that it may be [...]

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Am I too late to the party? What else is new… anyway, I have been poking around on Twitter recently. Most of that twittering had been done from my personal account however there is now a dedicated Twitter stream for this site as well. I figured it was about time to drag Of Zen and [...]

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A dangerous phishing exploit is currently making its way around Twitter, so be careful which links you choose to click. Tech blogger Chris Pirillo describes the exploit in “Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter”. Potential victims of the phishing scam receive a direct message that reads: hey! check out this funny blog about you… jannawalitax . blogspot . [...]

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Robert Scoble says “Twitter warning: your account data is being sold” in reference to the conversation around Mark Trapp’s tweet that Twply.com has been sold. Twply is a brand new service that sends Twitter @replies to your e-mail address. In order to use Twply one must supply the service with their Twitter username and password. Twply’s [...]

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I was just wondering how to tell if you have been blocked by someone on Twitter. What happens when you get blocked? When you block another user on Twitter, the site asks you to confirm the action and states that the following rules will be put into effect: You are removed from the blocked person’s friend list. The [...]

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TwitterFeed is a service that will take a blog’s feed and automatically publish the updates to one’s Twitter account. All you need to do is sign in to TwitterFeed (you must use an Open ID) and give the service the URL to your feed. TwitterFeed will then keep tabs on your blog, and push the [...]

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Micro-blogging service Twitter gains more popularity every day. One of the most significant indicators of an online service’s popularity is its visibility on the radar of scam artists, spammers, virus creators, and other such agitators. More of these folks are specifically targeting Twitter users lately, and so you should be able to protect yourself by [...]

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