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August 2009

August 24, 2009

Reader Answers: Facebook Fixes

Two readers recently sent me tips on how to solve a couple of the Facebook problems I've written about in the past.

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Teachable Moment: Remember Who You Friended…

... before you trash them on Facebook.

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QuickTip: When You (Or Your Hash Tags) Don’t Show Up in a Twitter Search

In an earlier post, Bug Alert: Some Twitter Hash Tags Don't Show Up in Searches, I noted that one reader was having this problem, but I wasn't able to find other examples.

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Reader Question: Shortening Your Links on Twitter

Reader Laura asked: I have sent url links to a friend a couple of times & they have not automatically shortened to tiny URLs so my tweet itself is next to nothing! Is there a setting I need to click or something?

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Reader Question: When Your Facebook Posts Don’t Show Up on Friends’ Home Pages

Reader Mari wrote to say that some of the things she was posting on Facebook weren't appearing on her friends' home pages. She had checked her privacy settings and all her friends had permission to see them. She also knew they hadn't hidden her, so that wasn't the problem either.

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Reader Question: Can Someone “Own” a Twitter Hash Tag?

A reader recently joined Twitter and found a number of other users who were tweeting about a topic that interested him. They were using a specific hash tag to identify the topic, so he began adding that tag to his own related tweets as well.
Shortly thereafter, someone contacted him claiming that his organization owned the hash tag and had even set their Twitter user name to the same thing. The organization demanded that my reader stop using the tag, so he wanted to know if this was fair game.

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Reader Questions: More About Facebook Pages

Since I posted my series on Facebook Pages a couple of weeks ago, I've received several additional questions through comments and e-mails. I'm going to respond to a number of them here so everyone can benefit from the answers.

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Reader Question: Sending Messages to Facebook Friend Lists with More Than 20 Members

Reader Diane recently sent in this question regarding friend lists on Facebook: I found that the message section doesn't allow you to send to a list that has more than 20 people on the list. Is there a way around this issue?

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Reader Question: When Someone Else Has the Twitter Name You Want

Reader Cheryl publishes a blog--let's call it A Cool Blog--and she wanted to create a Twitter account of the same name. Unfortunately, when she signed up for the service, the name was already taken.

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