I find this the best way to back-up your tweets since Twitter itself doesn’t offer any kind of backups.

Best of all, it’s free so you can lose!

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With http://twitter.com/MattsOffice you can send a command by placing a keyword in a @reply message. Valid keywords are “light”, “bright”, “dark”, “temp”, “hot”, “cold”, “lcd”, and “view”. For example, to retrieve the temperature of my office I just need to update my Twitter status with a simple question like “@MattsOffice What is the temperature?”

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Twitpic fixed this vulnerability by Monday and in an apology letter explained that the hackers tried every PIN combination possible until one worked. Now, Twitpic says a “fix has been put in place to prevent this from happening,” and that less than 10 users were affected by the hack and “no account information was compromised.”

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Here’s how to do it, add the following code in your single.php (This example uses U2S.Me to shorten URLs, you can easily change the 1st line of the PHP to fit TinyURL API or any other URL shortener you like but yes, do feel free to use mine, as it’s free!)

*Place the code where you want your ReTweet This! button to appear, I’ve placed before my content so Twitters can see it if they come to my site.

<div class=”retweet snap_noshot”>
<?php
$newurl=exec(’curl “http://u2s.me/api.php?url=’.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].’”‘);
$ttitle = get_the_title();
if(strlen($ttitle>110)) {
$ttitle = substr($ttitle, 0,110);
$ttitle .=’…’;
}
$ttitle .=’ ‘;
$turl = ‘http://twitter.com/home?status=’.$ttitle.$newurl;
echo ‘<a target=”_blank” href=”‘.$turl.’”>ReTweet This!</a>’;
?>
</div>

Now, this will basically execute CURL command to get the shortened URL back from U2S.Me, a URL shortening I made couple hours earlier in about couple hours.

You’ve probably noticed other codes that do something like http://myblog.com/p?=112 and this isn’t really great for SEO, shortening your URL first through a URL shortening service lets you preserve your SEO-friendly URL such as http://myblog.com/mycategory/myblogpost.

Here’s a sample Tweet created from the code:

The nuclear doorbell http://u2s.me/vkb1

Above is the button generated on Zedomax.com, now you can easily do this too by adding the CSS like this in your style.css file:
.retweet {
float:right;
height:30px;
width:110px;
text-align:center;
margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
padding: 5px 0 0 0;
border:1px solid #0018ff;
background: #0018ff;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-khtml-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
.retweet a {
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
}

Please ignore “snap_noshot” tag in my code, that’s if you are using Snap.com to advertise but don’t want Snap to show up on your ReTweet This! button.

I’ve borrowed some code from Drew at Dev-Tips.com, thanks! (He also has an example for a Wordpress plugin using TinyURL, slightly different method than mine but works too.)

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My goal was to unfollow anybody who hadn’t updated in x days. I decided that 30 days was a reasonable number. If you haven’t updated in a month, chances are that account has been abandoned, or you’ve been forced to leave Twitter for other reasons.

I also felt this period covered me for folk who were on holiday, moving home, or away from Twitter for some reason beyond their control but would return in the future.

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I am usually too stubborn to use any free services for image editing so let me explain how I did it in about 2 minutes using Photoshop.  If you have access to Photoshop, try it out yourself it’s not too hard.

First off, pick out a photo of yourself that you want to use…for me, I chose this one for this DIY:

Next, you will want to “rotate” the picture about 45 degrees, so you can make a diamond cut out of it.  (Since the picture is upright, I need to rotate it about 45 degrees and make a box cut first.)

1) Go to Edit->Transform->Rotate.

2) Rotate your picture about 45 degrees like this:

3) Then select this tool, which is basically ellipse selecting tool:

4) After you make a nice rounded-corner box, right-click and select “Make Selection”.

5) Once you make the selection, you will want to cut it, so go to Edit->Cut.

6) After cutting your face, go to File->New to open a new window to paste to.

7) Make the Width and Height about twice bigger than default.  (My default was 200×200 so I made the new window 400×400 pixels so I can rotate my face.)

After you make the new window, simply paste by going to Edit->Paste.

9) You will get something like this:

10) Using the same methods as in Step 1 and 2, rotate your picture so you get a diamond.

11) Now, find you layer window, right-click on the face layer, then select “Blending Options”.

12) Select “Drop Shadow” and press OK.  (You can also mess around with the values a bit if you want to.

13) You should get something like this now:

14) We need to get rid of extra whitespaces so go to Image->Trim and press OK.

15) Yey, you are done!  Save as a Jpeg, Gif, PNG, or your favorite type of image file and upload to Twitter.

Now your profile picture will definitely stand out since everyone else uses squares while you are a diamond in haystacks!

Now, go re-tweet my tweet on this cool hack plz!

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Some fun for the weekend, are you twittering too much?

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The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.

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Twitter page @OfficeChair

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The 140 characters of Twitter really allows this device to be the perfect interface as writing a letter can take a second or two as seen in the video.

Video demo of writing, “Spelling with my brain” @uwbci.

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Here’s an interesting video from Tim O’Reilly on Twitter, pre-order his book here.

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