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[Tip] Enable HTTPS In Twitter

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Twitter logo

Enabling and using HTTPS mode for websites that require logins is pretty much important particularly if you are accessing the internet via unsecured public Wi-Fi connections.  Understanding how important it is for users to use HTTPS, we have earlier covered several articles explaining how to enable HTTPS mode for Facebook and Gmail. Now it is Twitter’s turn. Twitter has just added an option to enable HTTPS mode for everyone who uses the site. Until now, to use HTTPS on Twitter, users had to visit https://twitter.com/ manually. Thankfully it’s automated now with a simple option. Let’s get into details about how to turn on the secure HTTPS mode for your Twitter account.

Steps:

1. Login to your Twitter account and click on the “Settings” which can be found by clicking on the dropdown arrow next to your account name (if you are using the new Twitter). You may also use the direct Twitter account settings page link to get onto the page.

Twitter settings link

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and locate the HTTPS settings:

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Check against “Always use HTTPS” and click Save button

Twitter https settings

That is it. You have now enabled the HTTPS mode for your account. Twitter from now on, will send and receive data from its servers using secure HTTPS. So now you can just use Twitter on any public Wi-Fi hotspots without worrying much about eavesdroppers. If you are using Twitter app on iPhone and iPad, this has already been enabled for you so you do not need to adjust this setting.

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[Tip] Top 4 Ways To Schedule Your Facebook Status Updates And Twitter Tweets

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With the evolution of social media, so many new features are being added to the social networking sites so often to keep up with the ever increasing demand from the users to stay connected with their pals in the sites like Facebook and Twitter in a number of different ways. But we still feel that they are lacking some features. One such feature I think of is the ability to schedule the updates in the networking sites so as to respond faster to future events like birthdays, parties etc.

We understand how handy it could be if we are able to schedule Facebook status updates and the Tweets in twitter. Here are the list of such services (most of them are free) offering this feature.

1. Sendible

Sendible schedule

Sendible is the popular tool for scheduling emails, sms and updates for social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. If you signup as a free user, you can send up to 100 updates per month using Sendible. You can also send messages to more than one site at the same time using Sendible.

2. LaterBro

LaterBro twitter facebook updaes

LaterBro (funny name, isn’t it?) doesn’t require you to create an account at their site. You just need to login to the site using either your Twitter account or with your Facebook account. You can then schedule Facebook updates or tweets from multiple accounts.

3. Social Tomorrow

Social tomorrow facebook

With Social Tomorrow, you can schedule Facebook status updates, fan page wallposts, twitter tweets and sms text messages. Note that there is a limit of 500 messages per month.

4. Hootsuite

Popular web based twitter client Hootsuite also offers scheduling Facebook and twitter updates. You can see all your scheduled messages under one column. It is an easy to use and already established service, strongly recommended.

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Embed A Tweet In Your Blog Post

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Twitter has recently added a feature that lest us to integrate or embed any tweet in to the web pages by generating HTML code for that particular tweet.Blackbird Pie lets you embed tweets into any web page by generating static HTML tweets for posts.

1. Go to Blackbird Pie and enter the full Twitter tweet URL there (as you see in the screenshot) and click Bake it.

Blackbird Pie enter Tweet URL

2. It will now generate an embeddable HTML code along with a preview to show how that particular tweet will look on your site after embedding.

twitter blackbird pie tweet preview

If you are not familiar with working on HTML code, avoid editing the code as far as possible.Just use copy and paste.

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Google’s New Launches: Google Follow Finder & Twitter Replay

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Google is clearly showing its love for Twitter nowadays.Yesterday (April 14, 2010) Google has made 2 announcements both relating to twitter related features launch in Google.

The first one which was announced earlier was called Google’s Twitter replay that lest you search.Twitter replay will allow you to recall what had happened on anyway in the past courtesy the twitter tweets.To use this feature, click on the “Show Options” when you search for anything in Google.Then choose “Updates” from the sidebar menu.You can see a horizontal graphic chart which represents the volume of the tweets tweeted within a particular period of time, you can always go back to the history by using the backward arrow link just below the chart.You can click on any date/period to see the tweets about that topic in the given period.To see how it actually works, follow this link.

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Google Follow Finder:

Google Follow Finder is yet another Twitter related feature that was announced by Google yesterday.Follow finder analyzes public social graph information on twitter to find people that you might want to follow on Twitter.To use this feature, enter Google Follow Finder site and enter your Twitter user name and search for Tweeps.

Google follow finder

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The Dalai Lama Officially Joins Twitter

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Dalai Lama has just joined in Twitter today and guess what? He already has 60,000 followers from this verified twitter account.

Just as the Twitter revealed about the site reaching 50 million tweets per day mark, Dalai Lama’s entry into the site mean more surge in tweets mentioning and welcoming @DalaiLama

Right now Dalai Lama’s account is posting updates from his official website dalailama.com.The number of followers is likely to increase further more as this news is drawing attention from the worldwide user base just like @billgates created lot of buzz last week around with more than 508,000 followers in his account.

Dalai Lama Twitter account

You can follow #Dalai Lama on twitter @DalaiLama

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Twitter Is Hitting 50 Million Tweets Per Day !!

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The world’s most popular microblogging site Twitter has revealed site metrics in a blog post earlier today.

As per the data chart provided, you can see that the number of tweets per day have been are on the rise exponentially and just crossing 50 million mark in Jan-Feb 2010.

Twitter tweets per day chart

The number of tweets per day have gone up from 5,000 tweets per day in 2007 to 300,000 in 2008, to 2.5 million per day in 2009, and now they have grown enormously to 50 million tweets per day (600 tweets per second on average).

These values are exclusive of the tweets from twitter accounts marked as spam.Twitter however has to go a long way to if it wants to beat the giant sites in its genre like YouTube that serves a billion videos every day and Facebook where users spend 8 billion minutes per day.

Search Engine Land blog has an interesting post comparing Facebook, twitter and the new bee Google Buzz:

Facebook status updates: 700 per second
Twitter tweets: 600 per second
Buzz posts: 55 per second

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace Ribbons For Websites

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Noticed a ribbon reading ‘Follow Me on twitter’ and with a link to our twitter account ‘twitter.com/techrena’ ? (Don’t forget to follow us, tweeple)

I have created this ribbon for this site from socialribbongenerator.com.This site offers social ribbons for websites like Facebook ribbon,MySpace ribbon,YouTube and Twitter ribbons.

I have used Twitter ribbon for my site and you can notice the same on the right extreme corner of this blog.Go grab one for your site and pick the ribbon which suits your site design.You can also have

Twitter Ribbon techrena

more than one ribbon but you need to make sure they don’t degrade your site’s look.

Bing Brings Twitter Search

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Twitter Search right from Bing!

Bing has today announced that It has integrated Twitter search in the universal Bing search, which now lets you the latest real-time tweets for your favorite topic or from the ‘Hottest topics on Twitter’.

Bing is also letting users know the ‘Shared links about Hottest Topics’ that the majority number of users are sharing.It’s known that Bing was previously gained access to the tweets of celebrities to include them in Bing search for testing purposes.

Twitter is providing Bing access to the overwhelming deluge of public, real-time tweets rushing in from all around the world so they can help you find those that make the most sense right now.

Twitter Team in their Blog Post

Bing and twitter search

The deal seems to have worked out and now Bing has access to all the tweets data of whole public in Twitter and this information is available via a simple Bing search.

At present the this is restricted to the US users.

Link:Access the Bing’s Twitter Search.

YouTube Launches Real-Time Comments Search Similar to Twitter Search

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YouTube is testing a new feature ‘Real-Time Comments search’ and this feature has been launched in ‘TestTube’ where in the YouTube engineers and developers test out the upcoming features.

This new search however, is pretty much similar to that of ‘Twitter Search’.

“The full comment will appear on a continuously updated results page, and “trending topics” indicates the hottest topics of conversation on YouTube at that particular moment.”

[Access Real-Time Comments Search Page]

youtube comments search Twitter search

Like Twitter search results, YouTube also displaying  ‘Trending topics’, the hot searches that are being made in YouTube right at that moment.

Similar to Twitter, search results get updated whenever a new comment arrives (It has to be that way, since they are meant to be real-time updates).

Yahoo’s Twitter Clone ‘Meme’ Now In English

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Yahoo which made it’s official entry into ‘Microblogging’ platform a while ago by launching Yahoo Meme in Portuguese. Now Yahoo has targeted the English users worldwide by launching English version of ‘Yahoo Meme’.

The following are the excerpts from Meme’s ABOUT page.

What is Meme?

“Meme is where you share everything you find that’s interesting”.

What does Meme mean?

A “meme” is commonly known in the web as some kind of content that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention.

Yahoo Meme English Launch_Techrena

Yahoo Meme isn’t a twitter clone exactly but has similar features like following users and even ranking for the most popular content posted by the users.Meme allows users to share web content that they feel interesting, including text, photos, videos, music.

But the service isn’t open to all as it is still in ‘Alpha Version’, however interested users can drop-in their emails to get notified when the service comes available to them.