A year after being taken over by Twitter, Posterous will be shutting down.
If you’d like a backup of all the content you’ve posted there, Posterous has created a way for your to get all your information.
Posterous also suggests that you move WordPress.com or Squarespace, as they have tools to help you import your Posterous file.
TweetDeck is the most powerful Twitter tool for tracking real-time conversations. Its flexibility and customizable layout let you keep up with what’s happening on Twitter, across multiple topics and accounts, in real time. To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone. They will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter. We’ll also discontinue support for our Facebook integration.
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised in recent months that an option for users to download an archive of all the tweets from their accounts would be available this year. At least for some, this long-awaited feature has arrived – and we’ve had a play with the archive browsing tool.
The first report of the new option that we saw in the wild was from user @Psilosophy, who indicates where the option supposedly can be found for those who have it enabled – at the bottom of your Settings page.
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There’s nothing conceited about proactive consideration.
Let me start by saying that.
Many of you make it incredibly difficult to retweet your tweets. Please consider a possible retweet when you’re constructing your original tweet.
This is what I do…
I start my tweet construction with RT @faydra_deon: (yes, I include the colon) in front of my tweet and then add the content, eventually modifying the way the tweet is phrased so it all fits.
Anyone who tweets with me knows I don’t use shortcodes (e.g, luv, tombout, kaythxby, etc.), acronyms (e.g., SMH, OMG, BTW, etc.) or any other text-type (e.g., b4, u2, oomf, etc.), and I always try to use the correct punctuation, which means I sometimes have to pull on all my grammar, spelling and punctuation skills to tweet what I want within the 140-character limit. 
Anyway…
I start my tweet construction with RT @faydra_deon: in front of my tweet and then add the content.
Tweet before modification...
Once I have everything I want to say, then I modify the way the tweet is phrased so it all fits and includes the retweet information that will be attached to the tweet if/when someone retweets the tweet.
Tweet after modication...
Then before I tweet it, I remove RT @faydra_deon: and send it out.
Final tweet...
I’m not so conceited that I think everything I tweet will get retweeted, but I make room for the possibility that someone may find value in one of my tweets and will want to retweet it for others to see, and that’s why I try to be proactive to help the process along.
There have been times I wanted to retweet several of the people I follow and who follow me, but having to remove 20 or more characters to make it happen is simply too much work. I start out trying to cut it down, and then I realize that it just takes too much time to “doctor” the tweet for retweeting and still maintain the original meaning the tweeter was trying to convey.
The following are things that I find make it very difficult to retweet other people’s tweets:
These are just a few examples and not really note-worthy for retweeting, but I’m sure most of you understand what I’m getting at.
If you think you should be getting retweeted more, and you’re at a loss as to why people aren’t sharing your great tweets with other Tweeters, consider being proactive to make your tweets more re-tweetable.
Let me make this post short and sweet.
Twitter got it all wrong with their version of TweetDeck. Yuck!
If you feel the same way, and you’d like to use the last version of TweetDeck before Twitter ruined it…
You’ll need Adobe Air installed on your computer.
Make sure you don’t have any other versions of TweetDeck installed when you install this one. You’ll get an error message.
Many thanks to @ChelaBK for sharing this with me, and many thanks to David Amador for sharing this with the world!
Just in case you’re wondering where I stand in this debate, read by January post on the subject.
About a week or so ago, I had a tweeter DM me and ask me what the numbers (letters) represented next to my tweets.
Not too long ago, Twitter stopped allowing duplicate tweets. When I first started doing the Question of the Day back in July 2009, I would tweet the question every hour from 9a to 9p, and it would be the same, exact tweet. About a month or so ago, I tried to do the same thing I’d been doing since July, and Twitter gave me an error message that said “duplicate tweet.”
I did discover that you can send identical tweets as long as there is at least three hours between the previous tweet and the next tweet, but that didn’t serve my purpose.
I tweet the Question of the Day every hour, because different tweeters see it at different times of the day. While the same tweet may be annoying to someone who’s spending every hour on Twitter, some tweeters only see the question once or twice, while others miss all of them, believe it or not.
Anyway, that’s what the numbers (letters) represent. It’s a way for me to distinguish one tweet from another even though all but the number (and URL) is the same content.
Thanks for asking!
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