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“Buy twitter followers & facebook likes” How do they do it? [closed]

I saw some websites that they sell followers and page likes. My question is how do they do it? My question is how can they register 10.000 accounts for their selves, and how do they "tell" to those ...
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Is there a hack to force Twitter not to convert words like ASP.NET to links? [migrated]

Currently, Twitter converts anything that has dot inside it into a link, e.g. ASP.NET becomes http://ASP.NET, Any.DO becomes http://Any.DO etc. I currently make a space if I want the word to stay the ...
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Mac - A Twitter client without growl

What's is the best OS X Twitter client that doesn't use Growl? I'm looking for something like the old Adobe Air Tweetdeck, with tweet notifications in a window with clickable links and options to ...
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Realtime Twitter streaming on Linux

Tweetdeck has the ability to show messages in real time. I have not been able to find this capability in any other client that I've tried. The latest versions of Tweetdeck don't run on Linux. Is there ...
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How do I delete my own tweets in TweetDeck v1.0?

How do I delete my own tweets in the new (v1.0) TweetDeck? It was pretty clear how to do this in the former Adobe AIR application.
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Hiding Twitter profile pics in Tweetdeck

Where in Tweetdeck is the option of not displaying people's profile pics and just displaying their name? Or should I look at another Twitter client for this?
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iPhone and Mac Twitter App Not Parsing HTML in Feeds [closed]

I've come across this problem where my tweets on the iPhone and Mac Twitter app are not parsing the HTML properly. In any browser, the HTML is parsed fine. It only happens to the apostrophe character ...
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Tweet bookmark and put it in freemind

I am using the latest Safari on OS X Lion. I would like to have a system that when I want to bookmark some website, I use some key combination and then a small window or similar appears, asking me ...
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How do I pause a HashTag Feed in TweetDeck?

I'm using TweetDeck in both Google Chrome and with Adobe AIR. When a really hot HashTag Feed comes along, it looks like a high-speed train going by and I can't read anything. Is there anyway to ...
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Display multiple Trending Topics at the same time in TweetDeck

I want to display multiple trending topics at the same time in TweetDeck. For example, I want to view Worldwide, Turkey and United States side by side. I'm selecting Add Column > Core and Trending ...
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Can I run a script on my LOCAL windows machine from PuTTY?

I use a command line twitter client, TTYtter, thru PuTTY on a linux box. Lots of tweets contain links, so there's a /url command to open urls, which searches for URLs a in a given tweet and runs a ...
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Moving fields in an XML document

I want to be able to manipulate a twitter feed. The feed is being displayed by a google map. The balloons on the google map display the tweet content but not the user or the time and date of tweet. ...
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TweetDeck and real via retweets

Is it possible to configure TweetDeck to do native retweets showing "via personname" instead of "via TweetDeck"? I played around in the settings, but couldn't find such a setting.
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How do I configure the Gnome Do Microblogging plugin for Twitter?

I'm having trouble configuring the Microblogging plugin for Gnome Do to use my Twitter account. I'm able to sign into Twitter.com without any problem, but the same login credential result in an error ...
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Setting up Silver Bird for identi.ca

Silver Bird (formerly Chrome Bird) is a Google Chrome Extension for tweeting directly from a browser window without going to twitter.com. I use Silver Bird for tweeting in Chrome, but I want to use it ...
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Which twitter client can synchronize unread tweets?

Right now I'm forced to read all the tweets in a single client on a single device (TweetDeck on my Android phone). If I would switch to another device and/or client, I would need to search for the ...
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Turn of link click tracking in Tweetdeck

Lately, I have seen that Tweetdeck/Twitter has started to track clicks on links by replacing links with a t.co based URL link. Is it possible to turn of this so that when you click a link you go ...
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Chrome twitter plugin?

Is there any twitter plugin for Google Chrome which is similar to Echofon for Firefox? I think, this is the only reason of using firefox instead of chrome - suitable twitter client.
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Unable to access a specific Website from one computer

I'm struggling to access twitter.com from my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.4). I've read the question below, and taken the steps listed below, but without success. How do I diagnose not being able to reach a ...
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Twitter Client with Push Notifications on Windows 7

Can anyone suggest a Twitter client (or gadget) that has push notifications and runs in Windows 7?
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Twitter client for Mac that can show in growl the result of a search

Is it there any twitter client for Mac that can show in growl the result of a search? For instance, in real-time show in growl all results pertaining to the hash tag #Apple.
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Tweetings keeps to raise an exception

I have installed Tweetings on my netbook running Windows 7 starter. It works fine, except that sometimes a dialog box about an uncaught exception appears, telling me that the configuration file has ...
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twitter access behind a proxy [closed]

we're forced to use a proxy server for internet & lan connections in our company and they've recently blocked twitter. I use twitter for my work as I follow many well known people from software ...
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Browsing through twitter how is this possible [closed]

this user http://twitter.com/#!/BlitheDemeanor has 81,403 followers yet has only "tweeted" 33 times. Am I missing something? How is this possilbe?
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How to control alerts in TweetDeck

In TweetDeck I have several saved searches. This would cause a pop-up to come up constantly, so I turned off the alerts. However, there are some things I want to be alerted to. How can I enable alerts ...
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Twitter client that can only show tweets with specified words?

Does anyone know of a Twitter client that can filter and show tweets that only contain specific words? I'm currently using Twhirl because it looks good, clean, can be customized (text size) etc. ...
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Is there some application for Twitter that show my updates in real-time?

I want to enter my username and see updates constantly from my account. What applications could I use for that on Windows 7? I want to be able to change the font-size, I want to put in a big display. ...
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How to see all tweets to a particular user [closed]

I am following a certain person on twitter. I then started following another person who is also following him. I noticed that after I did this I could see the tweets that this person was making to ...
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Is there a service that reads an RSS feed, and based on a search pattern will tweet me?

Is there a service that reads an RSS feed, and based on a search pattern will post to twitter? My colo/ISP has a planned maintenance RSS feed. But 80% of it does not concern my rack. What I'd like ...
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New Twitter not working on chrome beta

New Twitter website isnt working properly on my google chrome 8.0.552.28 beta When clicking on a tweet, it wont show the window with all the info. but the > button does change to < position, once ...
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Applescriptable Twitter Client?

Anyone know of a Twitter client on the mac that supports applescript?
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Echofon Twitter client: Can I do unread syncing between multiple Macs instead of just between a Mac and an iPhone/iPad?

I use Echofon for Twitter on my two Macs and I would like to sync the status of my read tweets between these two. I know I can sync between a Mac and an iPhone/iPad, but can I also sync between two ...
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Anyone knows if there is any twitter client for Mac that don't need a “user”+“password” login ( uses OAuth )?

Is there is any twitter client for Mac that don't need a "user"+"password" login ( OAuth ) ?
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How do I remove Growl notifications for one contact only in Adium?

I've written a little script to pipe Twitter in and out of Jabber. I'm using Adium on OS X to get these messages: and I have it so when Adium is in the background, it pops up a Jabber notification. I ...
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I want to easily switch accounts for Twitter - is there a Firefox/Chrome/IE plug-in to do this?

I have several Twitter accounts to which I post messages. One is a personal, one is a professional, and a couple for each software system I developed. Does any one know of a plug-in for one of the ...
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Recommend firefox extensions for Twitter? [closed]

Twitter is lack of a lot of features, eg. picture upload, picture/video preview etc. Could you recommend some good firefox extensions/greasemonkey scripts that make twitter easy to use?
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Is there any Twitter app for Mac to update my status, no timeline?

I'm looking for a Twitter client for Mac that could just update my status, no need for timeline, mentions or groups support. Just an icon on the menubar and/or key combination that will give me a ...
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How to block annoying twitter search widget

this twitter search widget is popping up all around the internet. the animation is annoying the hell out of me. newspapers think they are cool when they put this twitter widget next to their articles, ...
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How to chat with a person who's not following you? [closed]

I've found a guy I need to speak to on Twitter, but when I write him a message with the @person: syntax is there any way he can read it? I'm following him but he doesn't even know me! How do I begin ...
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What does “via” mean in Twitter terminologies? [closed]

What does "via" mean in Twitter terminologies?
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Pino can't connect to twitter

On a fresh installation of Fedora 13, I tried using Pino to access my twitter account, but Pino always times out even though I'm positive user and password are correct. When started from the console, ...
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Add column to Tweetdeck for all tweets sent out

I currently have a column that contains a Twitter group/list containing only my twitter account. However, this doesn't capture the reply or retweets I send. They only contain basic original tweets. ...
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Is there something similar to msn messenger but with a running feed beside it, showing group updates?

My company uses msn messenger constantly, but there are certain broadcast messages we would like to make, that could be viewed similar to a twitter feed. Is there a simple (or my jaded coworkers won't ...
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Twitter - Looking for a TweetDeck alternative [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Which Twitter app do you use? I'm looking for an alternative to TweetDeck with all the same features but with a different interface. I'm not a big fan of column-based ...
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Where are the TweetDeck settings-files located in (ubuntu-) linux?

i'm running Windows as well as Ubuntu and like to sync both tweetdeck installations via dropbox. Therefore i need to locate two files: td_26_[username].db preferences_[username].xml I found them ...
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Is there a twitter client which automatically saves all tweets I see?

I'd like every tweet about certain topics saved, so tweets with a certain hashtag, word, user, etc. To reiterate, if I see a tweet, I want to save it forever and ever. I'm running Ubuntu Linux.
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Simplest twitter client that only allows me to post tweets (not read follow list)

I am looking for a Twitter client that has the simplest interface allowing me to post tweets (with shorturl integration). I don't want it to contain the home feed (tweets from the people I follow). Is ...
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Twitter client for Linux that doesn't break?

I used 2 programs: Choqok tircd both of them fail every so often - either crashing and requiring re-launch (tircd), or they for some reason stop to authenticate properly (Choqok). Is there any ...
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How to manipulate an RSS feed?

I have a personal RSS feed provided by GoogleReader and displaying all my shared items together with the notes I've added. I would like to massage this feed a little to do things like: * Splice it ...
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Portable Twitter clients?

Are there any good Twitter clients for Windows that can run on a thumb drive?

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