Yahoo! has gone through a lot of changes since it was first conceived all the way back in 1994. I have personally been using Yahoo as an email service provider since the early days of Yahoo! Mail Classic and have seen all of their iterations and developments first hand. In fact, I have had my Yahoo email [...]
Hashtags are extremely useful ways of finding and sharing context specific pieces of information on Twitter and beyond. They are becoming more and more prevalent, especially when used in conjuction with events such as concerts, exhibitions, conferences and live online chats. They are a means of highlighting subject-related information and increasing the likelihood of someone [...]
Twitter spam is still increasing and it is not always easy to recognize a spammer, especially if you are using 3rd party software that does not display all of the content that you would be able to see by visiting the main Twitter website. The standard list of characteristics of a spammy twitter account include: They are an egg, they [...]
Twitter favorites are denoted with the use of a gold star and are the Twitter equivalent of a Facebook Like or a Google +1. They appear in the Twitter activity and @username tabs and can give great insights into the person behind the @. Favorites are important because they not the same as retweets; they [...]
If you are connecting your Twitter account on Foursquare: Make sure that you use the web interface on a PC, laptop or tablet so that it uses the twitter oauth protocol. If you are connecting to twitter through the Foursquare mobile app, it will ask you to type in your twitter login and password, which [...]