Category Archives: Twitter

Twitter adds Activity tab for a bigger stream

Twitter launched a new tab in your web experience called Activity, which I imagine will make it’s way to the mobile and desktop clients, that allows you to : “View favorites, follows, retweets and more by people you follow” I see this as a direct comparison to the Ticker that Facebook launched and has driven…

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Book Review: “21 Recipes for Mining Twitter” by Matthew Russell

The book 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter is an add-on to another book I am reviewing by Matthew Russell, Mining the Social Web. This small, yet incredibly useful, book covers 21 tips and accompanying code for mining Twitter data.

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TheSocialNetworker Episode 19 – Greplin social search

Greplin is a new search engine that only looks against your own private social data Google never sees. In this screencast I walkthrough setup, adding accounts and my opinion of data security.

 
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When running a conference tweet aggregator, protect your stream

You see numerous conferences running Twitter aggregators to capture all of the traffic and chatter. I strongly agree with this idea of having it shown and utilized. However, it is important to also protect your Twitter stream from being hijacked.

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