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Monday, November 11, 2013
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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Monday, September 9, 2013
How to Get RSS Feeds for Twitter
Twitter is permanently retiring the Twitter API v1.0 sometime later this month and, to the end user, what it means is that all the existing Atom and RSS feeds of Twitter will stop working once the old API is turned off. With API v1.1, Twitter has completely switched from XML to JSON format and the other big change is that all requests to the Twitter API must now be authenticated with OAuth.
In simple English, you can no longer subscribe to any of the Twitter streams – be it search results, timelines of users, their favorites or even Twitter Lists – in your RSS Reader.
That said, there is any easy workaround.
What we really need is some sort of a parsing program sitting between Twitter and our RSS Reader. The parser would fetch updates from Twitter at regular intervals and convert them from JSON to RSS which we can then subscribe in our favorite RSS Reader.
This can be easily accomplished with a simple Google Script but before getting your hands dirty, try any of the following RSS feeds. These feeds use the new Twitter API v1.1 and are served from the Google cloud.
Since the Twitter API now requires authentication for all requests, we will have to create a new Twitter App that our Google Script will use to communicate with the Twitter API.
Go to dev.twitter.com, sign-in with your Twitter account and create a Twitter app. Give your app any name, description, website (any URL) and put https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/ in the callback URL field. Click Submit.Once the Twitter app has been created, make a note of your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Key.Go to script.google.com and choose File->Make a Copy to copy that script into your Google Drive. Put the Twitter Consumer key and Secret in line # 24 and 26.Go to File -> Manage Version and choose Save new version.Go to Publish -> Deploy as Web App and choose Anyone, even anonymous under Who has Access. Click the Deploy button.Now that you have deployed the Google script, go to Run -> Start and grant the necessary permissions.Choose Run -> Start again and the script will require access to Twitter. Grant access and you’ll get an email with links to some sample RSS feeds for Twitter.That’s it. You can now generate custom RSS feeds for any Twitter Timeline, List or Search Results by simply change the value of “q” parameter in the feed’s URL. As always, you are free to use, modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Justin Amash Backs DOMA Repeal On Twitter
WASHINGTON -- Conservative Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said Friday that he supports repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, though he wouldn't commit to cosponsor legislation to do that.
In an unexpected Twitter exchange with The Huffington Post, Amash, one of the more savvy members of Congress when it comes to social media, began with a tweet stating that the "real threat" to traditional marriage isn't lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples, but government itself.
Real threat to traditional marriage & religious liberty is government, not gay couples who love each other & want to spend lives together.
— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) March 27, 2013
This sparked a series of tweets with HuffPost about where he stands on repealing DOMA, a topic that has dominated the news this week as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the law.
@repjustinamash Hmm. So do you support the right for gay couples who love each other to get married?
— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 29, 2013
@repjustinamash But you support idea that private, consensual union for gay couple = federally recognized marriage?
— jennifer bendery (@jbendery) March 29, 2013
@jbendery Of course. How can anyone stop a couple from getting married in their own way? I just want government out.
— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) March 29, 2013
@jbendery Right. ;)
— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) March 29, 2013
As laid out in his tweets, Amash emphasized that his support for repealing DOMA is tied to his belief that government shouldn't be involved in anyone's marriage. Amash's spokesman Will Adams explained the congressman's libertarian-leaning position on the matter earlier this week.
"I think in his ideal world, the governments -- at all levels all together -- would get out of marriage," Adams told HuffPost's Chelsea Kiene on Wednesday. "Much like we don’t want the government involved in my church’s communion or we don’t want the government to regulate my church’s baptism, we don’t want to have government regulate another sacrament in my church, which is marriage. That’s then his position."
Adams added, "But as a federal legislator, as a congressman, he’s in charge of shaping federal law and so he’s willing to oppose the federal government's definition of marriage in DOMA."
During Friday's Twitter exchange, HuffPost took the issue a step further and asked Amash if he would cosponsor the Respect for Marriage Act. That bill, which Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) files in every Congress, currently has three GOP cosponsors. Amash didn't bite.
@jbendery We'll take a look. Thx.
— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) March 29, 2013
Amash's views on DOMA have shifted in recent years. He said in 2010 that he "strongly support[s] the federal Defense of Marriage Act." But by 2012, his position was more in line with what he says now: "I believe that marriage is a private, religious institution that should not be defined or redefined by the federal government."
Chelsea Kiene contributed reporting.
Friday, July 19, 2013
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
How to Get RSS Feeds for Twitter
Twitter is permanently retiring the Twitter API v1.0 sometime later this month and, to the end user, what it means is that all the existing Atom and RSS feeds of Twitter will stop working once the old API is turned off. With API v1.1, Twitter has completely switched from XML to JSON format and the other big change is that all requests to the Twitter API must now be authenticated with OAuth.
In simple English, you can no longer subscribe to any of the Twitter streams – be it search results, timelines of users, their favorites or even Twitter Lists – in your RSS Reader.
That said, there is any easy workaround.
What we really need is some sort of a parsing program sitting between Twitter and our RSS Reader. The parser would fetch updates from Twitter at regular intervals and convert them from JSON to RSS which we can then subscribe in our favorite RSS Reader.
This can be easily accomplished with a simple Google Script but before getting your hands dirty, try any of the following RSS feeds. These feeds use the new Twitter API v1.1 and are served from the Google cloud.
Since the Twitter API now requires authentication for all requests, we will have to create a new Twitter App that our Google Script will use to communicate with the Twitter API.
Go to dev.twitter.com, sign-in with your Twitter account and create a Twitter app. Give your app any name, description, website (any URL) and put https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/ in the callback URL field. Click Submit.Once the Twitter app has been created, make a note of your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret Key.Go to script.google.com and choose File->Make a Copy to copy that script into your Google Drive. Put the Twitter Consumer key and Secret in line # 24 and 26.Go to File -> Manage Version and choose Save new version.Go to Publish -> Deploy as Web App and choose Anyone, even anonymous under Who has Access. Click the Deploy button.Now that you have deployed the Google script, go to Run -> Start and grant the necessary permissions.Choose Run -> Start again and the script will require access to Twitter. Grant access and you’ll get an email with links to some sample RSS feeds for Twitter.That’s it. You can now generate custom RSS feeds for any Twitter Timeline, List or Search Results by simply change the value of “q” parameter in the feed’s URL. As always, you are free to use, modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Remember When Using Twitter Was Fun And Easy?
Recently, Twitter released the latest update to its API (application programming interface) and completely cleared out support for the previous version. An API is a programming language that allows two different applications to interface with each other, such as displaying a list of your Tweets at a website. Since then, what was once a simple process is now a royal pain in the neck.
For example, in order to display a list of tweets from a specific account all you needed in most cases was the Twitter username or the user URL, such as @adaptistration or https://twitter.com/Adaptistration. Now users will need to jump through a myriad of hoops in order to set something like that up, all of which begins at a site you’ll love to hate in short order: https://dev.twitter.com/apps.
Officially, Twitter claims the update is to provide a more consistent user experience but that’s mostly corporate spin for offering less flexibility, higher development costs, and usage limits (not to mention an ideal way for Twitter to begin serving up ads alongside with your feed data).
All grousing aside, here’s what you need to do today: check any widgets or scripts at your organization’s website that display a Twitter feed to see if they are still functioning properly. If any of them aren’t, odds are it is because they are no longer compliant with Twitter’s API 1.1 standards.
In order to get them working again, you’ll need to find a different third party solution (or download an updated version), pay a developer to write a new version, or just find a different solution. Either way, you’ll still need to get over to time-suck central to create a Twitter app, generate access tokens and secret keys, and making sure the rest of your related OAuth settings are properly setup.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
How to Send Out of Office Replies in Twitter
Twitter, for many, has become a preferred medium of communication in recent years. Your email message may never get read or, in the worst case, may get caught in the Spam folder but tweets are less likely to suffer from such issues.
When you are travelling or take a “disconnected” vacation, with limited or no access to the Internet, you create an “out of office” reply in your email program to let people know that you won’t be able to respond to them right away. How about doing something similar for people who are trying to reach you through Twitter?
Unlike your email program, Twitter offers no easy way for you to setup out of office auto-replies but we can easily and quickly add such a feature to our Twitter account(s) with the help of a simple Google Script.
You specify the start date and the end date when the auto-responder should be active and any tweets sent to you during this period will automatically get a reply from your Twitter account saying you are out of office. The replies are sent once so if a person sends you two or more tweets during your vacation period, they will get only one out-of-office auto-reply.
Go to dev.twitter.com and sign-in with your existing Twitter account. Create a new Twitter app (screenshot), add a description, website (any URL) and callback URL (https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/).Once the Twitter app has been created, click the Settings tab and set Read and Write as the Application Type. Click Update to save your changes.Switch to the OAuth tool tab and make note of the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.Open script.google.com and choose File -> Make a copy to duplicate the auto-responder script into your Google Drive.Enter the start and end dates of your vacation, the Twitter app keys (from the previous step), and your Twitter handle.Go to Run -> Start to initialize the auto-responder. Say Yes if the script requires you to authorize access to certain Google Script services.Choose Run -> Start and it will show an “Authorization Required” dialog. Allow the script to access your Twitter account and you are done.The script will invoke itself on the start date specified by you and will respond to all incoming tweets until the end date. It will then uninstall itself automatically. As always, you are free to use, modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
When you are taking another vacation, just open the auto-responder script already present in your Google Drive, change the Start and End dates and choose Run->Start to setup the autoresponder again.
Friday, June 7, 2013
How to get 1 million twitter follower
You're looking at it wrong; don't go into this with "I need 1 million followers".If you have an idea to share, and are knowledgeable, the follows will come. You're not going to get 1 million follows overnight, and even if you did, those follows would mean nothing.
I would rather have 500 dedicated followers than 10,000 paid for or "follow4follow" followers.
Be personable, dedicated, and TALK to people, the follows will... follow.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes
Meet @DearAssistant, a Twitter bot that is like a mini version of Siri. You can tweet your questions in plan English and the bot will reply with an answer.
The Twitter bot is internally using Wolfram Alpha so there’s a whole range of questions that it can answer. Here are some questions that people have asked @DearAssistant so far:
How many calories are in Diet Coke? (link)When was Mahatama Gandhi born? (link)What is the distance between city A and city B (link)Who directed the film M (link)What is the price of Kindle Paperwhite (link)You can also ask the bot for word meanings, weather conditions, language translation, to convert between time zones, date calculations (how many days until Christmas) and more.
Writing a Twitter bot is surprisingly simple and you can get one up and running in 5 minutes. It helps if you know little bit of coding (simple JavaScript) but that’s certainly not a requirement for writing a basic Twitter bot.
A bot is essentially a program that is always running in the background and whenever it encounters a command (tweets in this), it processes it (based on the text of the tweeet) and sends a reply to the tweeter in another tweet.
Earlier, you would need a web server to run the bot while the bot itself would be written in languages like PHP, Perl or Python. That’s complicated so we will use Google Scripts to write the Twitter bot and host it on our Google Drive.
Create a new account at Twitter that will become the bot. Then go to dev.twitter.com, sign-in with your new Twitter account and create a Twitter app. Give your app a name, description, website (any URL) and callback URL (https://spreadsheets.google.com/macros/). Agree to the terms, fill in the CAPTCHA and submit the form to create your first Twitter application.Once the Twitter app has been created, click the Settings tab and choose Read and Write under Application Type. This is important since we want the bot to read tweets as well as post tweets. Click the Update button to save your changes.Switch to the OAuth tool tab and make note of the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. We will need these later in our Google Apps Script.While the Twitter app will monitor and respond to tweets, the Wolfram App will be used to determine answers that users will be posing to your Twitter bot.Go to developer.wolfram.com, create an account and then choose “Get an App ID” to create your new app.We will need this App ID in the Google Script. Remember that your free Wolfram Alpha App can only be used for a non-commercial purpose.While you are signed-in to your Gmail account, go to script.google.com and then choose File -> Make a copy to duplicate the Twitter bot into your Google Drive.Edit the values of TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_HANDLE (your new Twitter account) and WOLFRAM_API_ID – you know them all from the previous steps.Go to Run -> Start to initialize the Twitter bot. Say yes if the script requires you to authorize access to certain Google Script services.Go to Run -> Start to actually run the Twitter bot. It will show an “Authorization Required” dialog and will redirect you to Twitter where you can grant the script access to your Twitter account.That’s it. Close Google Scripts and your Twitter bot is now up and running, ready to take commands. As always, you are free to use, modify and distribute the source code with attribution.
Also see: How to Use Twitter as Gmail Notifier
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Twitter Study: Reasons For Success On Twitter
Friday, May 17, 2013
FB Likes, Twitter Followers, Youtube Views.
Do business that sell these services actually make money, they are a dime a dozen on flippa.Isn't the market saturated by now?
How would you develop a marketing plan to build traffic and convert to sales?
Examples:
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http://marketingstack.net/#2 Blow Out Prices.
http://instantsocialfollowers.com/
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Know the Sleeping Time of anyone on Twitter
Actors, singers, journalists, sportsmen, musicians, writers, politicians, bloggers and your friends – they are all active on Twitter now. The only time when they are not posting messages on Twitter is probably when they are sleeping.
Introducing Sleeping Time – a mashup that will help to determine the approximate sleeping cycle of any Twitter user with a click.
Here are 1-page sleeping reports of Tech, Bollywood and my friends in India.
The algorithm uses the timestamp of the last 500 or so updates of a Twitter user to calculate his or her sleeping time. Consider this app in the early pre-alpha stages so please let me know if you encounter any bugs or if your sleeping report is way off the actual pattern.
The icons are courtesy Nuvola.
Monday, February 25, 2013
two twitter newbie questions
Hi. I do artwork at my bookshop in downtown Omaha and to try and increase my customer base i started a twitter account, #drawntastic. I've been doing some celebrity artwork and posting it on twitter by sending a notice to the celebs acct to come to mine and see it. That part is not a problem. The part i'm not comfy with is the tweets of mine visible in my twitter stream of the contacts i've been trying to make. i'd rather someone not see the number of letters i've sent out). its not been too many yet but it would be a lot longer if i didn't feel anyone could look at my out-going tweets and see how hard i'm trying to make contacts. Also, i used to do half-finished artwork and mail it to the celeb for them to send back and have finished if they would like me to. I'd send out a lot of these thru twitter but again do not like the long list of my tries at contact. is there a way to hide these ?also: if i cut a photo from my gallery or cut a tweet (that i sent out myself) from my stream is it gone on their end too ?
David
Thursday, February 21, 2013
John Wall 'Blessed' Twitter Postings Demonstrate The Power Of Positive Thinking
WASHINGTON -- It's fun to watch the Wizards again. John Wall made his long-awaited return to the court with a Wizards victory against the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday.
On Monday night, Wall helped the Wizards easily defeat the Orlando Magic, with a jaw-dropping crossover on Ish Smith, giving the Wizards a blowout win a highlight worth an Adidas sponsorship.
The Wizards have won their last three games, the last two with Wall on the court. Wall helped the team win their last six games of the 2011-12 season. So things are looking up for basketball in D.C. after starting the season with an extended and dismal losing streak.
Wall's positive attitude, on full display most days on his Twitter feed, may be one of the reasons the Wizards are getting more wins.
Take a look ...
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Royal Portrait: Twitter Reacts To Duchess Kate Middleton's Unflattering New Look (TWEETS)
The first official portrait of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was unveiled today and, as HuffPost Style aptly put it, it's an un-tagger.
It turns out most of the Internet agrees, and some desperate tweeters have turned to the art world's favorite restorator to come to the rescue.
The new Kate portrait is hauntingly lifelike isn't it? #theeyesfollowyouroundtheroom twitter.com/quebectango/st…
— QuebecTango (@quebectango) January 11, 2013
We've compiled some of our favorite twitter reactions to #Portraitgate in the slideshow below. Take a look at the bitter tweets and let us know if you think the portrait is accurate or, erm, vampire-like, in the comments section.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
xHTML/CSS coder required. Must have full experience with Twitter Bootstrap.
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I am using the Twitter Bootstrap framework/elements for my latest website design, I've created the site design mockups using all twitter bootstrap elements so the flat png wireframes look exactly how they should do when coded.By Vision4DVD in forum Programming Replies: 3 Last Post: Nov 10th 2010, 11:04 pm By FTN-Chris in forum Templates Replies: 0 Last Post: Aug 23rd 2009, 3:01 pm By Hon Daddy Dad in forum Design Replies: 3 Last Post: Sep 24th 2008, 9:09 pm By weasel in forum Programming Replies: 3 Last Post: Jan 28th 2008, 8:33 am Replies: 1 Last Post: Dec 3rd 2007, 5:43 pm You may not post new threadsYou may not post repliesYou may not post attachmentsYou may not edit your postsForum RulesI just need someone to re-create each page in actual xHTML/CSS using the twitter bootstrap framework/elements (nav bars, buttons etc). I'll have the selected person do just one page first to see if you've been able to re-create it successfully and with appropriate strict xHTML/CSS etc, then the rest.
Skype or PM me.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Don’t Miss This Special Twitter Event!
We all want to be better at blogging, that’s a given! Wouldn’t you love to go to those blogging seminars that you always see online? Getting to mingle and hear some famous bloggers talk about how they beat the odds and became successful, it’s a great way to understand how you can take your blog to the next level.
But sometimes you can’t always make it to those events! And even if you could, most of them charge an arm and a leg for admission, and it makes it tough on a newbie starting out because you may not have that much money to spend on an hour seminar!
When I was speaking in Ohio at one of the many blogging conventions this country has, I realized the price of admission to go to one of these things. To be honest, it’s kind of outrageous and sometimes hilarious at the price they charge just to get into one of these things.
While there, I really got to thinking about events that I could create that would be free to bloggers who were just getting started. The kind of event that you could attend in your own living room or office.
Naturally that event would have to be online, and that’s just the event I created!
Why People Go
You want to be included in events like this because usually there are some great professional ideas that come out of them. The kind of ideas that can really get your blog off the ground and start getting a name for yourself. That’s why people pay outrageous prices of admission…to be included in these ideas!
The event that I have created is called Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2013 and it’s going to include a lot of good things that you can use to bring your blog to the next level!
This event will be on Twitter and you can come! Look for the hashtag #BlogTips to see the discussion.
Who What When Where
The What When & Where
The event will be held on Twitter on January the 9th at 6pm EST and will last until 7pm. If it goes over, that’s fine too! I don’t want to hold these great bloggers to a time limit! One of the speakers, Marcus Sheridan recently did a post where he went over his allotted time while speaking at one of the many conferences he does, and I just don’t want to limit these people at all!
It will be focused on social media marketing strategies and how you can take your social media to the next level and get some visibility and traffic to your site! There are really so many points that you have to focus on in your social media strategy and the professionals can show you some great pointers!
The Who
No, it’s not the band, but almost as good! I really hit the ball out of the park with the guest Tweeters in this chat this time!
First up is one of the greatest content marketers in the business, Marcus Sheridan. He can show you how to distribute content through social media with a more positive effect for traffic. Plus a whole lot of other good stuff that even I don’t know about! You can follow Marcus for the event here.
Next, is a blogger we all know and love. Yep, you guessed it! Ms. Ileane! I love Ms Ileane because right from the very start of our relationship she has always been super helpful with just about everything! From YouTube to Scoop.it, Ms Ileane can be found on just about every social media platform available!
One thing that always stuck in my mind about Ms. Ileane was in an interview I did about her on my blog called An Intimate Interview with Ms Ileane where she told me that the key to successful social media strategy was building relationships and communities. I’m really excited to see what she will be giving us in this event, because you know it’s going to be good! Follow Ms. Ileane on Twitter!
Next up is Alison Irish, or Allie Rambles from Ramblings of A WAHM. Allie is a true “mom blogger” and she even gets up at 5:23am! Now that’s dedication! Her theories on social media marketing are astounding to get more visibility with your updates and bring more value to the reader. Follow me for this event on Twitter!
I really am looking forward to this event on Twitter. I have always wanted to bring value to the reader without them having to pay an arm and a leg for it! Please check out the event in more detail!
RSVP
You can RSVP for this event in two places: Google Plus and Facebook.
Also, add me on Google Plus to get in on some future events that I will be doing called “Google Plus ‘Hangout with Wade’” where I will hangout with one or two bloggers every week and talk about different things that can improve your blog! Who knows? I may ask you to hang out with me! (My wife is making fun of me right now…lol)
Anyway, I’m not a popular blogger, and don’t profess to be, but I want to help people learn how to get visibility and make money with their blog. I know this Twitter event is going to really help you in your social media strategies, and I hope to see you there!
