Problem with Changing Reply Structure on Twitter and The Transitive Follower Theory May 24th, 2009

I just want to do a really quick post about the recent Twitter changes with regard to how @reply’s are shown in your timeline.

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If you don’t know already, Twitter used to have an option in the settings area that allowed you to choose whether or not you could see reply’s of a particular user you were following that were replying to another user. In short, if you don’t know the person in an @reply from a user, their tweet with that reply would not show up in your timeline feed. You could, before the controversial change, opt to see them or not.

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How to Use Twitter for Your Business (part II of X) January 8th, 2009

Welcome to the second installment of my 10 part series, How to Use Twitter for Your Business.

Picking a User name

The very first part of using twitter, once you have decided to use it for your business, is registering a user name.  There are a few things to keep in mind when coming up with a user name.  First of all, you should use your real name.  Of course, you are probably not the first company with your name, so this probably won’t be the last step in your search for a user name.  If your business name itself isn’t available, then just choose anything that is close to it.  Add “Inc”, “ORG”, or “official” to the user name to diversify your search.

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