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Send multiple direct messages on twitter

Howdy People, You have already learnt “How to update your twitter status ?” and also learnt how to interact with twitpic API to successfully upload images. Today I am going to show you how you can send direct message on twitter using the Twitter API and PHP. This piece of code will allow you

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Twitter disables flash widget temporarily

Twitter being the brightest star in the social networking arena is vulnerable many threats. In the recent threat sensed by the company they had to disable the twitter flash widget which is used to display user updates on their web site or blog etc. This decision was taken on 23rd jan, 2010 in an int

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Twitter Retweet (beta) finally here

Hey Folks, There was a post on Digimantra few months back when one of my friend claimed that she had a RT button in her twitter account. Few people agreed and quite a few disagree. But twitter has started showing retweet (rt) buttons as beta, the notification is like :   The retweet can

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Using Twitter for Monitoring Trending of your Brands

Hey! Hello. Yes, we all know how useful Twitter can be with the real-time search thingy. And it's also great for knowing what has catched the world's fancy lately. But there is a bit of a snag with Twitter. It doesn't provide you with tools for following the trends. So, say I am someone interes

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Alert: ThursdayProfit.org another phishing scam on twitter

Hey Guys, Something very wrong happening with twitter these days and we are here to report you at the earliest. This time my own personal account got tampered by the phishing scam. There are updates being sent on twitter from the various accounts mentioning the link http://ThursdayProfit.org . I

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Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)

As discussed in my previous posts as well, that twitter is the most happening web application on the internet today. So vandalists try to target twitter, along with the facebook. Today twitter got its first DDoS attack. DDoS is the abbreviation used for Distributed Denial-of-Service and under this a

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Add power to twitter web in firefox

Hey people, After much anticipation twitter finally released its new homepage with the new look of a real time search engine last week. Before twitter made its homepage live we got to hear many other changes like introducing retweet (RT) button from different sources. One of my friend also claime

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Twitter’s new homepage – A real time search engine

The much awaited Twitter's new shiny homepage is now live. After twitter announced it on its blog, Many blogs attempted to predict what it can be and many of them release the leaked screenshot of the twitter's new homepage and finally its here. However this change is reflected only when you are not

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Alert : TwitViewer can be another twitter scam

Twitter being the most fruitful tree in the internet today is seems to be lowering lot low that we often see phishing scams taking more often. We have a series of twitter scams now. Today everyone got  alarmed again when twitter was flooded with twitviewer tweets saying: "Want to know whos stalkin

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News : Twitter introduced RT button on web

Recently heard that twitter is changing its homepage and someone also tossed this news that they are going to revamp it big time. I think now I know what is coming. Twitter is introducing this RT button for the people to retweet the tweets from their timeline straight from the WEB interface. All the

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Create dynamic twitter badge displaying latest status without using API

Hey Folks, Tired of inserting heavy script tags from different websites ti display your latest twitter updates on website ? Well today I am going to share this simple yet powerful PHP script with you, which requires no API interaction with twitter, no password authentication, but displays your la

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Twitter fixing follower count

Noticed something different on your twitter profile's homepage? Oh I am not talking about any ads incorporated by twitter for the revenue generation but it’s about your follower count. Twitter is fixing your follower count by cleaning up its data source. They are nuking bots from your follower’s

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