Tag: Twitter Inc.

How To Create & Use Twitter List

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can create Twitter list. Twitter list is one of the useful features in twitter, Twitter list can help you in making category of people you follow. Like I have a list called My in which I have listed all my Twitter handles (accounts).

Twitter- List me, baby!

How Twitter list can help you

  • You don’t need to follow everyone in your Following timeline
  • You will able to manage to follow everyone’s tweet
  • You can help follow other’s list
  • Other can follow your list
  • You can follow anyone privately
  • Having a list or having in a list can help you in branding and marking yourself or your brand/products

So let show how you can make a public and private list in Twitter

  1. Go to Twitter.com
  2. Login to your account
  3. Now go to persons/brand profile (you go to your own profile) of which you want to add in your list
  4. Click on list button
  5. Select Create a list

    6. List button -- Create a list

  6. Fill out the details like what name you want to give to that list, what that list is about and you want to make that list private (only you can see and follow that list) or for public (anyone can see and follow that list)
  7. Click on Save list button

    8. Create a new list

Now once you have created the list if you want to add more people just visit there profile and click on list button and select the name of the list in which you want to put them into. And generally your list URL will be Twitetr.com/YOUR-USERNAME/NAME-OF-YOUR-LIST if you don’t have more than one list of same name.

Twiter lists

You won’t be able to add the people in your list whose tweets are private or who have blocked you on Twitter. To manage all your lists go to Twitter.com/lists

Get More Then What You Get On Twitter.com Using Chromed Bird

Cross Post With Google-Chrome

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you about a Google Chrome extension which is going to definitely useful for you if you are very active user on Twitter. Twitter is one of the most popular Social Networking site on the internet. And there are bunch of desktop and web client for Twitter user. But I found Chromed Bird a Google Chrome extension one of the best Twitter web client. It provides you more then what you can do using Twitter.com.

Chromed Bird Google Chrome Extension

I am a very active user on Twitter and while using this extension I found it very to useful and easy to use. Let see the some features of this extension

  • Upload images from extension itself (twitpic.com, yfrog.com and pict.mobi)
  • Shorten long URL using bit.ly, j.mp, is.gd, goo.gl, mcaf.ee and many more (also you can use your personal account’s API to shorten your URL)
  • Follow/Unfollow anyone
  • See tweets from any specific user
  • Add and remove tabs of timeline, search, list inside extension
  • View where shorten URL taking you (by hovering over them)
  • View all the Tweets in one tad named Unified
  • You can Compose, Reply, ReTweet, Share, Favorite and Delete tweets
  • Get notification when any nee tweets arrive
  • Search tweets
  • Save your searches and get updates on it
  • When a new tweet is available you will able to see which tweets you have read and which tweets you haven’t
  • Mark all tweets as read in one click
  • Very light in weight
  • See for which tweet it is being replied of
  • Add, Remove, Move as much  tabs you want
  • You can resize it up to 800x600px

And many more

You can customize the setting by going to the option menu. To get this extension Click here

Thanks to @Suhel for the tip.

Put Your Twitter Following And Follower’s Avatar On Your’s Twitter Profile Background Using Twilk

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine and your weekend gone good.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can put your Twitter Following and Followers on your Twitter background. Twlik is a web application which helps you to create background with the avatars of your Following and Followers with few clicks.

Twilk Twitter Background Logo

Let see how you can

  1. Go to Twilk.com
  2. Click on Get Started » button

    3. Twilk Get Started » Button

  3. Now it will take you to Twitter page to get access to your account (if you are not login Twitter will ask you to login)
  4. Click on Allow button

    5. Twitter Allow button

  5. Now select the settings according to you
  6. After you make your settings according to you click on Preview These Settings button

    7. Twilk Settings Page

  7. It make take few minutes according to how many Following and Followers you have
  8. Then you will see the preview of your background how your background will exactly look like
  9. Click on USE BACKGROUND button

    10. USE BACKGROUND Button

Now go and see your Twitter profile background is changed with your Following and Followers avatars of your Twitter account.

If you want to remove your Following/Followers avatars from background go to Twitter.com –> Settings –> Design and select a new background you want and click on save changes button.

If You Printed Twitter

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell and show you if you thought of printing the Twitter. Have you thought how many tweets are been done ever second to let you know it’s more than thousand tweets per second. So if think of printing all the tweets are been done, how many papers it’s going to take? Let’s have a look to it


Image credit: Info-Graphic

Note: – This graph was made in 2010.

How To Shorten Your URL Using Twitter Shorten URL (t.co)

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can use Twitter shorten URL service t.co to shorten your big URL. As Twitter shorten URL service t.co is not for general shortening service, it is used on all links included in Direct Message notification emails and for the tweets which are done using Tweet button. But today I will tell you a trick by which you can use t.co as a shorten URL.

Here are three way how you can get the t.co shorten link
1.      Do any one of the following
i)        Bookmark Tweet Button In Your Bookmarklet
(1)   After you bookmark it
(2)   Go to the page of which link you want to make it short
(3)   Now click on that bookmark
(4)   A popup will open

ii)      Tweet Button Extension For Google Chrome
(1)   After you install the Tweet button extension
(2)   Go to the page of which link you want to make it short
(3)   Now click on that extension

(4)   A popup will open

iii)    Or you can just adding a link at the back of link you want to make it short
http://twitter.com/share?url=
Just add the above link before the URL and press enter
in a web browser address bar

2.      In all three ways you will see a twitter page will open
3.      In that Twitter page you will see a t.co link just copy that t.co link
4.      And use it wherever you want to use

Hope this trick will help you in getting t.co shorten link

Auto Update Your Twitter Using FeedBurner

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today in this post I will tell you how you can auto update your Twitter account when you post something new on your blog. You all must be using FeedBurner for your blog to track readers and to monetize your content on FeedBurner. As FeedBurner give updates to your readers same way it will also update your twitter timeline.

Here how you can
1.       Go to FeedBurner.com
2.       Login to your account
3.       Click on the feed name which you want to socialize with your Twitter
4.       Now go to Publicize –> Socialize
5.       There you click on Add a Twitter account button
6.       A popup will open
7.       Give your Twitter ID and Password of the account which you want to Socialize(if you are not logged in to Twitter)
8.       Click on Allow button to give access to your Twitter account
9.       Now choose the option how your blog post will get tweet, like you can add Hash tags, Additional text and other which you want
10.   You can also see the demo how your tweet will get updated
11.   Now click on Active or Save button

Click here to see how one of my blog get updated using FeedBurner.

History Of The Internet

Hi! Everyone, hope you all are fine.
Today this post I will show you History of the Internet. Instead of saying much, let see the Timeline Infographic and a video on History of the Internet.

Here is a video on more insight about History of the Internet.

If you are having problem in viewing the videos Click here.