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thesethings (andy)  //  @thesethings
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Mar 21 / 9:29pm

What is Littlecosm?

I only gave Littlecosm a lil screenshot earlier.  Here I explain a bit more.

Check out the game here: http://littlecosm.com.

Filed under  //  littlecosm   massively multiplayer game   screencast   twitter   twitter client  
 
Jan 18 / 7:51am

Twitter supports username attribution in multi-user group accounts

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I noticed something interesting in a recent @godaddy tweet. In addition to the usual client attribution (via web), the tweet had a linked username attribution (by Salem_P). I'd never seen by attribution in a tweet before.

In any case, it saves group/corporate brands a few characters. (An ad-hoc hack corporate accounts often use is signing tweets with initials like "^SP" inside tweets).

I wonder how long this has been supported by the API. I just don't see it used, even by group clients like CoTweet and Hootsuite.

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Filed under  //  api   brand monitoring   go daddy   multi-user   social media   twitter  
 
Dec 11 / 12:22am

With Google's new realtime search, we may have to trick Google to search Twitter right.

Use site:twitter.com to search your Tweets on Google.

It's not rocket surgery, many of us know the site trick.  
But now we have to use it to outsmart Google's new realtime results. And that's why I mention it.

I recently had to dig up an interaction I had on Twitter. I knew that Twitter's search wouldn't remember the 6 week old tweets, despite the fact that they're not erased.  So I went to Google. Some "realtime" search results were neatly displayed among the "regular" results, despite not being the tweets I was looking for.  And the non-realtime results weren't even on Twitter.com. 

So I added site:twitter.com to my query, which seemed to shake Google off of its attempt to mine "realtime" results, and its incomplete Twitter pool, and back to its snapshot of the web, which includes a good (better) chunk of Twitter.com.

I do like the way Google's new realtime results are displayed. I'm not completely knocking the feature.  Just don't confuse it with searching Twitter. It's not.

 

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