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Twitter primer Part II

OK, so in part one we covered the very basics of twitter. Now it’s time to make it work more easily and efficiently. Twitter has a concept called “lists”, which are both very useful and rarely used. You can follow entire lists from other people or organisations with one click, which is very useful when [...]

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Twitter primer Part I

OK, so what is Twitter? Twitter is a short-form broadcast service. “Short-form” because it’s limited to 140 characters, “broadcast” because it’s you sending a message to the world. All of it – not just your friends like Facebook, but everyone. A point worth remembering. (Here’s a recent example of a tweet ending up in the [...]

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Honeycomb twitter clients

Well, I’ve tried a few twitter clients since I got my Acer A500 10.1” tablet, and for me, the best is Tweetcomb. (What I really want is for Tweetdeck to release a tablet version, and I’d like that tablet version to mimic the desktop. But they’ve just been bought by twitter, so who knows what [...]

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