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January 26, 2010

One Year Later: NOW Are You a Twit if You Still Don’t Tweet?

One year ago today, I wrote my very first post about Twitter. At the time, I said that, despite the ever-building buzz, I had my doubts about how important it really was to be on it. I listed five specific factors that made me question its value. Today I'm going to revisit each of those to see what has and hasn't changed—for Twitter and for me.
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T4L Is Getting Socialer

After starting Tech for Luddites last year, I created both a Twitter account and a Facebook page for it, which have provided other options for readers to keep up to date with my blog posts.

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T4L Redux: The Twitter Hash Tag

The hash tag (#) is not an official Twitter feature, but it has certainly become a standard element of tweeting. However, the concept can be a little hard to wrap your head around, and some people experience problems getting them to work right, so here are some posts I wrote about it during the year that I hope will help answer any questions you may have about it.

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Twitter Lists: What Are They and How Do You Use Them?

Twitter Lists were implemented a little while back, so I figured it's about time I try my hand at explaining them!

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Update Your Facebook Fan Page Status with TweetDeck

This morning, a reader contacted me because every time he updated his business page status line, the status line on his personal profile was also being updated.

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Connect Your LinkedIn Status Updates with Twitter

In previous posts, I wrote about how you could have Twitter automatically update your Facebook status line directly from Twitter or with TweetDeck. Now you can also connect your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts so your tweets update your LinkedIn status line. And, unlike with Facebook, it works in the other direction as well--you can post an update on LinkedIn and tweet it at the same time.

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Twitter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Retweet Changes

Sometimes I swear the geniuses at Facebook and Twitter are in competition to see who can be the most tone deaf to their users. Twitter has just taken a giant leap ahead with their new retweet feature.

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Vote for T4L in the Mashable Open Web Awards

Woo-hoo! Tech for Luddites has made it into the top 5 finalists for a Mashable Open Web Award in the Most Educational To Follow category. Thanks to everyone who nominated me!

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Introducing Twacebook! (Fitter?)

Okay, so it's really called Facebook Lite--Facebook's latest attempt to Twitterize itself. It's just arrived today, so this is my first look at it, and my first thoughts about it. If I say anything here that turns out to be incorrect, please let me know and I'll set the record straight.

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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: 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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