Twitter is breaking shit because they hate their users/want to monetize. I used to use Tweetdeck to send out coordinated facebook and twitter posts for work; I'd like to avoid using two different programs (doubling my work). HootSuite seems close, but for semi-irrelevant reasons, not currently an option. I run a Mac.
What are the best options out there?
posted by klangklangston
on May 14, 2013 -
6 answers
For a while I've been using Echofon as my Twitter client. It's got some things I don't like, but I always assumed they'd eventually get fixed. However, Echofon has discontinued support for the desktop client, opting instead to focus on mobile platforms. I'm looking for a replacement, since some features in Echofon have inexplicably stopped working and obviously won't be fixed. Anyone got suggestions on a replacement?
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posted by Legomancer
on Apr 25, 2013 -
3 answers
How useful is Twitter these days? I work in an advocacy-type job at the intersection between law, politics and a giant, sometimes heavily regulated industry. I really need to strengthen my connections, and I'd also like to raise my organization's profile online. Social media is obviously one part of the arsenal -- but is Twitter a worthwhile starting point? I only have so much time in the day to devote to this, and I could instead focus my efforts on blogging for a moderately well-trafficked niche group blog. I'm not so much interested here in driving traffic to our website, but rather to entering more fully into the conversation online.
posted by yarly
on Apr 24, 2013 -
12 answers
So, I've recently inherited the community and social media role for the company I work for. I'm hoping to use our social media presence to drive up engagement and get users to use our product (a niche-focused social network in the finance realm), but I want to do it
without being a douchebag.
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posted by SansPoint
on Apr 9, 2013 -
10 answers
My mom wants me to help her with her "online presence." How do you do that for a therapist?
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posted by mokin
on Apr 2, 2013 -
22 answers
I'm looking for a Mac desktop Twitter client that will let me hide or clear tweets once I've read them--NOT a filter, but a way to clear up my screen by making tweets I'm done reading invisible.
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posted by pavane
on Mar 23, 2013 -
8 answers
II am trying to get a handle on web content and which content has, overall, the best stickiness. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr are, as near as I can tell, mostly visual. Blog and microblogging sites like Wordpress and Twitter are word based. Quora, Reddit and Metafilter are information sharing communities. Podcasts and music sites like MySpace or Soundcloud are, for the most part, sound focused. And then you have sites like Facebook and Google+ that are trying to combine the best of all of them.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Mar 10, 2013 -
5 answers
A team from our office is heading over to a number of China cities and they want to be active on social media the whole time to promote it. But given that China blocks twitter and Facebook, I need some workarounds. Is there a client like Hootsuite or tweet deck or buffer that ISN'T blocked? And what are my other options? Does instagram work? What about Linkedin?
posted by rileyray3000
on Feb 21, 2013 -
10 answers
I have been combing the social networks I use trying to find a way to link two of them. It's not a big list; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Soundcloud, and Wordpress. I know about IFTTT and Hootsuite, but I'd prefer to not use third party apps if possible. Facebook and Twitter of course, connect to almost everything. But I'm also trying to figure out how stuff I upload to Soundcloud can be posted on LinkedIn. And likewise, I can't get LinkedIn posts to show up my Facebook business page. Is it just not possible w/o 3rd party apps that will make posts I don't need? If there is a way, can somebody tell me?
posted by CollectiveMind
on Feb 8, 2013 -
3 answers
Not sure I want to use Twitter bootstrap for the mobile versions of my Wordpress site. What alternatives do I have?
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posted by radiocontrolled
on Feb 4, 2013 -
2 answers
I recently discovered Commander Chris Hadfield's excellent
Twitter stream, and would love suggestions for other great "tweeters" that I am currently missing out on.
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posted by roomthreeseventeen
on Jan 27, 2013 -
7 answers
Paraphrased: "It's not that that half of your visitors will be on mobile devices, it's that all your visitors will be on mobile devices half the time." Who said it? I saw it on Twitter a few weeks ago and can't find it anywhere.
posted by furtive
on Jan 21, 2013 -
1 answer
I want to transform my department's social media team into the campus experts on social media. What are the books, workshops, tools, websites and communities I should be looking into?
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posted by pwnguin
on Jan 19, 2013 -
12 answers
I need to have access to all 16,679 of @Horse_ebooks' tweets. Twitter and most other archives will only give me 3,200. As you can imagine this is a dire need.
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posted by six-or-six-thirty
on Jan 4, 2013 -
13 answers
What's an example of a project like Diaspora or App.net that's actually been successful?
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posted by pete_22
on Dec 16, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm really tired of social media; I've grown to find all of it (FB, twitter, etc.) endlessly boring. For those of you who have come to the same place, have you just faded away, or do you leave notes on your open accounts to the effect that "I'm not really here anymore?" Prolly not going to shut it off altogether.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Dec 4, 2012 -
26 answers
Does anyone know how to clear the search history for Twitter's iPhone app?
posted by JFunk2800
on Nov 14, 2012 -
1 answer
I read this
somewhere filter. A few years back, I read a very detailed description of a well known journalist (working at Reuters, or AP or something - it might have been Anthony De Rosa) who explained in great detail how he managed his Twitter and other (social) information streams to find original sources and be on top of breaking news. I would like to find
that specific article again.
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posted by NekulturnY
on Nov 8, 2012 -
9 answers
twitter won't recognise my password, or send an email to the related gmail account - now what?
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posted by gusset
on Nov 5, 2012 -
1 answer
Confirm/Deny for me that lots of 'log on with Twitter' instances involve handing over a lot of rights to your twitter account which aren't relevant ?
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posted by southof40
on Oct 27, 2012 -
7 answers
I've created a promotional video for my website, which is currently listed as a Metafilter project called Conversus. The purpose of the video is to show how I can (with Google Translate) translate any conversation from most languages to most languages. I want to do this as part of the interview services I offer. In this video, I explain how this works by creating people using synthetic voice software, I give them names and I interview them. Since they are not real, am I being unethical if in a Twitter post, I say, "Rodney, Svetlana, Ying, Niles, Maria, Bridget, Nanette & Hassan talk about being interviewed."? I've been a journalist for a long time and ethics is kind of hard wired in, so I'm just checking a broader opinion base.
posted by CollectiveMind
on Oct 25, 2012 -
2 answers
My Facebook posts appear on my twitter feed, but my tweets dont appear on my Facebook feed (which is what I really need)...
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posted by sandra_s
on Oct 22, 2012 -
7 answers
I have tried to figure out Twitter on my own for over a year. I still don't get it. I googled articles. I emailed people and asked questions. I paid attention when it came up in conversation in online forums. I finally screwed up my courage and set up an account, even though I didn't know how to use it. At some point, I asked someone I met in person about it. But I am still doing it Rong. So Rong in fact that I just stopped bothering to try.
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posted by Michele in California
on Sep 21, 2012 -
56 answers
What did I do to my iPhone 4 that caused it to not be able to "save images" from Twitter and Facebook anymore? All the gory details inside...
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posted by Hanuman1960
on Sep 20, 2012 -
3 answers
I'm looking for an online tool to create a daily web-based magazine for a citizen journalism collective. Ideally, it would gather articles, links and photos from designated multiple users on Twitter, and allow an editor to lay them out and edit them to create nice, readable pages.
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posted by scrm
on Sep 1, 2012 -
4 answers
Following Jacob Appelbaum and Bruce Schneier on Twitter has led me to some interesting articles / videos, etc. RE: information security, surveillance, and online censorship -who else should I be keeping an eye on?
posted by ryanshepard
on Aug 31, 2012 -
11 answers
What's the best way for mulitple users to update an online "conditions report" via cellphone?
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posted by bethnull
on Aug 30, 2012 -
2 answers
Does anyone have any information about emergency contacts at Posterous (or someone at Twitter who is minding the Posterous store) for an online app problem that is creating a security breach for a class I'm teaching?
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posted by jeanmari
on Aug 3, 2012 -
11 answers
Twitter question: If I have the URL of an individual tweet, is there a way to see the next and previous tweets from that user?
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posted by danb
on Jul 28, 2012 -
1 answer
What is #tcot? I understand that it stands for Top Conservative On Twitter but what does that mean and why do people use it? What is the history and why did it start? Does it get compiled somewhere or something? Thanks
posted by Uncle
on Jul 27, 2012 -
7 answers
I'm interested in psychology, public health, and aging. Who should I be following on Twitter?
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posted by leedly
on Jul 27, 2012 -
4 answers
How do I see Twitter as someone else sees it (i.e., see the tweets of only people that a specific user follows)? Seems like a nice way to get more information from a specific field or channel. Tried ctwittlike but it didn't work.
posted by circular
on Jul 25, 2012 -
6 answers
Dearest metafilter, show me the way to display a random tweet, selected by hashtag (preferable) or username, by using PHP/javascript/magic.
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posted by doublesix
on Jul 10, 2012 -
2 answers
Trying to pipe individual lines from a big text file through to twitter, at scheduled times.
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posted by roobot
on Jul 7, 2012 -
9 answers
I'm bothered that my friend follows mostly hot girls on twitter; how do I deal with this?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 5, 2012 -
55 answers
I recently became enthralled with the unfolding Twitter saga of the larcenous wedding photographer. So now I'm wondering how many similar stories have happened without me realizing; not just the big stories like Anthony Weiner, the Li Gong incident and Cook Source, but more low-key incidents that I might not have heard about where people were lying, cheating, or were just plain wrong and were discovered through social media. The human flesh search engine and Internet vigilantism articles on Wikipedia have some famous examples, but does anyone know about more obscure stuff? Thanks!
posted by jihaan
on May 27, 2012 -
28 answers
