Few months back Google announced that they would stop the Realtime search partnership with Twitter as Twitter had its own concerns. And now that Google is doing well with Google+, personal search results are introduced that leverages content from your Circles, and highlights them along with organic search results. Its a great value add to search, but not everyone is a Google+ user and not everyone likes to have personal search results. Instead, you might want to bring back the Twitter search results. If you’re among those, you’re lucky, coz…
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Sync Google+ Posts/Status with Facebook, Twitter [Cross-Post]
Google Plus has got strong positive reviews from critics, and so far most of the users seem to love it. Within a week of its launch, it managed to get 5 million+ users (unofficial number), and have engaged users like never before. It happened to me aswell, where I never spent more than couple of minutes on Facebook, ended up spending hours on G+. For some users its a goodbye to Facebook, (and for few twitter too), but the reality is, it won’t happen that soon. Every social network needs…
Read MoreGet Free Twitter mention Notifications via SMS
Its not always possible to catch your Twitter updates/mentions or direct messages while you are travelling or in area that has poor 3g connectivity. That’s why it makes more sense to subscribe to Free SMS Notifications for all mentions, so that you get them and see when you feel. Twitter has now announced that whenever an account that you follow mentions you, you’ll immediately receive a notification. You’ll know who is talking to or about you on Twitter, and you’ll be able to continue the conversation in real-time. To get…
Read MoreHijack Facebook, Twitter accounts with Firesheep, How to Secure against it
How easy can hacking get? Do you wish to hack someone else’s Amazon, Facebook, Twitter or Windows Live account in just one click? Its now as easy as that with a a Firefox extension called Firesheep which can hijack a person’s current user-session over an open Wi-Fi connection. Firesheep is a work of Eric Butler who made the proof oc concept public after after presenting at a Security event. The purpose of the experiment was to showcase the security risks associated with session hijacking, aka sidejacking. So what all can be hacked with…
Read MoreGoogle Makes Every Tweet Searchable with Twitter Timeline
After fetching Real-Time Tweets into Google search results, Google is all set to make every tweet in history searchable. So, if you wanted to see the CES (Consumer Electronics show) Tweets in context of the timeline, you will be able to see them on Google. (At present the service has archived tweets back to February and is working on the rest.) How to Try it: You can try it now by selecting ‘options’ on the search page and selecting ‘updates’, You should then see the timeline updates for your chosen…
Read MoreTrack Tweets Mentioning Website/Domain
One of the biggest trouble of URL shorteners is the visibility of the Domain/website while publishers attempt on tracking the Retweets. While researching proper ways, I came across this service called BackTweets and really found it simple, yet helpful. These days, almost everyone owns a website or at least a blog and back tracing/Tracking tweets makes sense as it would help one in estimating Reader’s response from across the world. Here’s what it looks like for Taranfx (screen-shot showing the untraceable ones alone) Its notable that BackType, UberVU also accomplish similar stuff but,…
Read MoreVisualize Twitter Tweets from any Timeline, Feed
FunTweet is a new service that leverages Twitter’s service to convert almost ant Twitter stream to Visual Images. They already have there presence in a similar service called FunMail, that allows iPhone and android users to embed their text’s context into places, fun graphics, and appropriate images with your original text. FunTweet will turn text in Tweets into a matching image. By using the service, you can convert all your timelines, or a HashTag, Trending topics, or even a friend’s timeline into visual Tweets. The concept is cool and can…
Read MoreTwitter to Introduce New Web Client, that will Replace Desktop apps
The credit of Twitter‘s popularity goes to the intuitive desktop clients like TweetDeck, Seesmic, etc which make users experience unique. But Twitter is planning to change the trend, and would endorse a new web-interface that could change the Horizon. Twitter will soon release new set of features that would “make you forget” desktop clients, as claimed by Alex Payne’s Tweet sent out today: If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.) Uh,…
Read MoreTwitter is Profitable Already, but Ads are coming
A while ago, we talked how Twitter is profitable already. The Primary soure being Google Real-time search and Bing Real-time search which together pay several million dollars, every year. If you recall, we’ve seen a lot of business propositions for Twitter that could possibly one way or the other. But, at the end of the day people concluded that Twitter doesn’t need one. But, Twitter owners claim “having one won’t hurt us”, so true. As per the latest from MediaPost, Twitter’s adoption of an ad platform is “imminent”. Anamitra Banerji says that “we are…
Read MoreHow Twitter was Created [Video]
Every second you blink, Twitter gets 600+ per second new Tweets during non-peak hours. This goes upto 900 per second during peek times, of Earthquake, Apple events. Serving Millions and billions of tweets everyday is all to hard for a normal web application. Twitter is built on some scalable programming architectures that makes it work with a charm. Here is a brief video of How Twitter was created highlighting contribution of each developer and Programming language/platform. (Credits to Ben Sandofsky) Evolution of Twitter Legend: Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, HTML/CSS/Images, Misc, TestCases…
Read MoreTwitter Usage Stats 2009-2010
Twitter had been growing dramatically over the last few years. So what exactly are people talking about? (image credit) Nearly, 25% of the tweets are all about emotions. 20% of tweets go towards announcements, support. And nearly 13% are RTs. During 1998, twitter grew 752% and in 2009 1382% year-on-year. If we look more closely on the month-over-month growth, it reduced in the trailing months of 2009. As per the latest data statistics from HubSpot, Twitter’s growth is slowing down dramatically. As they report, in October 2009, Twitter’s growth rate had…
Read MoreHow Twitter was Hacked
Internet faced World Wide Panic as Twitter.com was defaced to run out of service. Soon after the attack Users were able to see a page that claimed work of “Iranian Cyber Hackers”. In simple words, it was nothing but a DNS hijacking attack in which Twitter’s DNS records were altered. That means surfers trying to reach the website directly via name resolution services were redirected to a fake domain, while the Twitter servers were running. As a result, applications that depended upon Twitter’s API - such as TweetDeck or mobile phone…
Read MoreTwitter for Business: Contributors Feature
Years after the launch of World’s biggest social network, Twitter didn’t see to have any official encouragement for Business. Twitter has encouraged and helped so many businesses grow. Who can forget that dell made millions of dollars by just promotions on Twitter. Thankfully, the good news is here, Twitter has developed new features that will enable Business users to collaborate better than before. The new features are available to few of the business already and it would open out to the rest of the world as soon as it becomes…
Read MoreTop 10 Twitter Commands
Twitter is bountiful, every single second Millions of people indulge to create information equivalent to what was produced in a month, a decade back. Apparently, the information is enough for any single person to get crazy over. So what is the way out? Filters, follows, commands, searches, tags, lists. Probably, you have come across each one of them. And a question dangles in your mind - “Wait a minute, what are those commands, you referred to”? Twitter has a list of commands operatable via web interface that let you get…
Read MoreTwitter Unfollow Notification
Twitter addiction has often healed the loneliness. But what exactly happens when you wake up in the morning and see that your Twitter Followers decreased? You start wondering, my o my, what bad did I tweet yesterday that left couple of them annoyed. (and who were they?) Don’t worry there are Twitter bots all over the internet that will save your day. They incorporate ways to alert you of the unfollowers on a periodic basis so that you can know the evil truth and concentrate on better things. Follow @goodbyebuddy…
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