Twitter is a microblogging service that lets users post "tweets" of up to 140 characters.

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Investing into google or twitter advertisement? [closed]

I'm planing my marketing campaign now. I would usually invest into Adwords, however now I'm thinking, should I try out twitter for business? As it will also guarantee followers, therefore long term ...
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Multiple calls for mutiple Facebook, twitter buttons

If a page has multiple facebook/twitter buttons for multiple stories (24 buttons for 24 stories), its creating 24 files for fb likes and 24 folders for twitter where count is saved. This is making the ...
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Are twitter backlinks counted

We've recently had our website tweeted by a couple of bigish media outlets 0.5m+ followers, some of the links are our direct url, and some are t.co urls. From an seo point of view a link on their ...
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mass data collection for twitter [closed]

I have a list of about 4000 twitter users I need the number of followers and number of tweets for. Is there a tool that can do this automatically without having to manually input them? How about a ...
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Bootstrap tutorial [closed]

I am a newbie :( Out of a mix of curiosity and a desire to live on the edge, I just downloaded Twitter's Bootstrap! I see many cool bells and whistles there! The problem is I don't know how to go ...
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Why I see instant clicks from Twitter?

I don't know it is the right place to ask or not. But I have this doubt. When I post something on twitter, I see some 9-10 instant clicks on that link. I get this everytime. I searched a lot about ...
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Custom short URLs

I'm creating a WordPress site for a client and he mentioned that he would like his own custom URL shortening when sharing to Twitter. How do I go about setting up one of these? If I had to guess, I ...
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How to create sharing icons with the share count number showing?

See a sample article on theonion.com I know how to create icons for these sites without using their standard widget, but how did they get the number of share, bellow each icon ? Is there an API to ...
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Preventing botvisits to website

Every time some user shares my website's address inside his/her tweets, the following bots come to my website: UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/) ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler) ...
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SEO: Twitter outranks personal site?

For some reasons, even though I websites has pretty great onsite SEO I thinks, my Twitter profile "outrank" personal site consistently in Google/Bing SERPs on different computer around country and ...
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How to index Facebook & Twitter company pages by location?

I own a regional business directory and want to collect and add URLs of company Facebook Pages and Twitter pages by location (City and/or Zip code). What would be the best method to accomplish this ...
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Creating country specific twitter/facebook accounts

I see many companies that have an international presence trying to localize their social media presence by creating country or language specific accounts. However some seemed to have done so without ...
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Summary of usage policies for website integration of various social media networks? [closed]

To cut to the chase... I look at Twitter's usage policy and see limitations on what can and can't be done with their logo. I also see examples of websites that use icons that have been integrated ...
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When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? [closed]

When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the new version to come alive.
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Content from a domain I used to own is appearing in my twitter feed

I had an old domain with a WordPress setup hosted by GoDaddy. I changed the business name and moved everything over to a new site, new domain, and new host a couple of years ago. I let the old domain ...
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Do twitter links adversely affect SEO?

I had planned on making a page according to a specific theme using content populated from the Twitter search API. With the new display requirements, I see I am obliged to include hash links, twitter ...
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How to share post to G+ Twitter and Facebook

I have fb profile connected to twitter and when I write to twitter it will be shared to fb profile I have G+Twitter plugin which will post to twitter since I post to G+ but it doesn't share the post ...
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How Does Amazon have so much information in a tweet? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Twitter Product Preview on Tweets So I just saw the tweet below and was wondering, how does amazon get the extra information into the tweet?
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Do I need to have separate Twitter account for my website? [closed]

Is it good to have separate twitter account for my website? or Should I use the personal account? Which one will be more effective? My website is still have small user base (1000+).
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Blogger widgets speed problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Make blogger load faster Recently I installed Google Analytics on a Blogger account. I was shocked when I saw load times for the landing pages between 10 and 60 seconds. ...
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Share click rate non-mobile vs mobile? [closed]

Has anyone seen any data for FB/Twitter/etc share click rates for mobile devices vs traditional non-mobile? I'm working with our designer right now and we are pondering the best places for share in ...
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Need a service that provides “Most tweeted articles in the last 24 hours”

any recommendations for a service that would fill the following 4 requirements: Gather a list of the most tweeted articles within a 24hour time range for a given site domain Easily loaded ...
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Website that allows Twitter-like message accessed via TinyURL

Looking for a website that allows me to post Twitter-like messages that are accessed via TinyURLs and that allows me to create an account to get reports on the access of each of these messages. ...
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Some questions about social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+)

I have some questions regarding social plugins (facebook, twitter, google+). By asking the following questions I would like you to take into considaration the following parameters: I want my website ...
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Twitter button not keeping the count

I created a twitter button using the code and instructions here: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons Here is my code <a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" ...
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Tweet count just shot up

On our homepage we have a tweet button and counter: http://www.scirra.com This was around 600 until overnight it suddenly doubled to 1,200. It's been continuing to rise at a normal rate since. Has ...
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How to make upload images harder to access from url? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to restrict the download of all files in a folder? I am wondering how Facebook, Google+, Twitter and so on prevent images users upload, from being navigated like: ...
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Marketplace to buy Templates for Twitter Bootstrap framework?

Are there any sites where I could buy a site template designed in Twitter Bootstrap (so that it's easy to modify)? I'm working on a site redesign and I think finding a template that looks close ...
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Why are we being twitter spammed?

This is a search relating to us: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/scirra We're getting a of of new accounts tweeting: The Layers Bar - Scirra.com Firstly this is not us doing it as we're ...
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utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range

I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually ...
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What is the standard image size(s) for facebook (corporate page), twitter and youTube?

I am going to employ the services of a graphic designer, to create logos/ images for my website for the following sites: Facebook (corporate page) Twitter (twitter account for the business) YouTube ...
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Twitter Product Preview on Tweets

I just saw that twitter can also preview the products as it is on below Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/gillcleeren/status/131640082397528065 In this case, it is an Amazon product. I was wondering ...
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How does google know my twitter name? [closed]

Sometimes when i google i see this result Are you MyTwitterName on Twitter? If so, you can see more results like this by connecting your Twitter account to your Google Account. Learn more ...
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Implementing Facebook Like and Tweet Buttons into E-Mail

I am sending an email campaign out to subscribers and I would like to incorporate a Facebook Like and a Tweet Button into my email. Since I cannot use javascript inside emails I was wondering the best ...
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Creating a form that posts to Twitter - how to get started?

I'm trying to figure out how to create an HTML form that would allow a user to log in and tweet their message directly to Twitter. What resources should I look at to get started?
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Twitter form field like on thankyoustevejobsfor.com [closed]

How was the form field on http://www.thankyoustevejobsfor.com/ created? You can automatically tweet the message that you typed into the field.
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widget / template code for +1, Like, Follow on Twitter etc

I am trying to setup a website for this design studio and need to put in a widget which would allow people to "Like, +1, follow on twitter" etc. I have been writing code for some years now, but I am ...
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(How) Could I import twitter posts as annotations in Google Analytics?

A site I maintain tweets every time a blog post is published. Since the editors of the site have gone a bit mad with the ability to change the apparent date a blog post was published (back-dating as ...
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Service to give access to download after Tweet / FB Like etc

I remember stumbling across a free service that you could integrate with your website that would give visitors access to a download (PDF/ebook/white paper etc) if you Tweeted/ Facebook Liked etc. but ...
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Twitter Tweet or TwitterMeme button?

The Twitter Tweet button and the Tweetmeme Retweet button seem to pretty much do the exact same thing. Which should I use and why? -- It seems that Tweetmeme is now recommending the Twitter Tweet ...
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Crossing Twitter follow info with members database

I have an email database with a couple of thousand members and a twitter account with a couple of thousand followers. Many of them are in both lists for sure. For the purpose of segmenting the email ...
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Anyone know a way to find out the number of Twitter followers for a particular account on any given date?

I manage two corporate Twitter accounts and two personal Twitter accounts, and it would be really useful to know how many followers each account has at the end of each week. I'm using TweetStats.com ...
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Renouncing the registration system

I want to completely remove the registration page from my web app (for obvious simplification and uniformity) and only use "connect with Facebook" and "connect with Twitter" the website is a technical ...
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How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?

Is possible to send URLs with "#" selector to Twitter ? In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ? I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret ...
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Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?

Why should/shouldn't I put social media icons on my website?
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Misalignment of Facebook & Twitter buttons

Here's a minimal example of my problem. It contains two buttons, from twitter and from facebook. What I'm observing in Firefox 3.5.15 is: While the page is loading, the buttons are more or less ...
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Twitter tweet count - bug? [closed]

I think this is the best place to ask about this question. I recently created this account: http://twitter.com/sarcasticquotes I have posted 3 tweets so far. (No 'private' tweets at all). It is ...
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Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?

I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets. Are people really using custom ...
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Why isn't Twitter widget working?

I have Twitter's own widget set to load on a website, which works just fine. However, on my WP-powered blog the script is included but not rendered. I call it inside an empty div like this: <?php ...
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Share on: FB, Tweet, Digg, Linkedin, Delicious, My mother, … it's just on fashion, or of some real value?

Nowadays your site is not in fashion if you don't show at least a couple of share buttons like these: Is this just fashion, or do people actually get something good out of it? When I say ...

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