Friday, April 17, 2009

Twitter: Response to two reader questions.

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Tweet Question 1:

What’s the Fail Whale?

When Twitter’s servers get overloaded, all of a sudden you see a picture of a bunch of birds trying to lift a whale out of the water. There is no way the birds will lift the whale, ergo the twitter servers are overloaded.

Grab a coffee, snack etc. It might be a while before you get back, maybe a few minutes to a few hours.

Tweet Question 2:

Twitter HT means Heard Through

If you found out about something through a Twitter user, and you want to let people know you heard it from them thus HT = you Heard it Through them. This is different than RT, because it most likely means you heard it in real life, not over Twitter.

That's it for the Q & A

Oh one more twrick ;)

Twitter Hash Tags (#) :

The point of this without going overboard is anytime someone uses the phrase #dog in their tweet, it will be much easier to find in search.twitter.com than if you just searched for dog, because the word Pdog associates with many things.

Happy Tweeting.

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