Add new ‘Follow on Twitter’ button

Do you want to add official ‘Follow on Twitter’ button to your WordPress blog, website or online journal? Twitter has launched new Twitter Follow button which can be displayed by any website or blog. Similar to Facebook widgets, Twitter Follow button comes in two appearance formats: light and dark. There are few customization options to modify Follow button according to look and feel of your website or blog. So besides the Tweet button, you can also add Follow on Twitter button to increase user interaction on Twitter platform.

1. Open follow button page on Twitter website. There is no need to login into your Twitter account for generating code for your Twitter follow button.

2. Enter your username, for example: if your Twitter ID is @hackslover – then enter tothepc in the username box.

3. Then click to select background color design among light and dark options. You can preview the real time Follow button look on right side as you modify settings.

4. You can also chose to show or hide followers number count on the right of Follow button. Also, chose your language from the drop down box among options like: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

5. Once you have customized look and settings of Twitter follow button: copy the generated code and paste into your website template. [Image Credit: Twitter Blog]

WordPress users can display this Follow Twitter button in the sidebar by pasting code in new Text Widget. You can also show on single post page by pasting code in single.php file at required place.

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Disable Twitter mention & reply email notifications

Is your inbox over-loaded with Twitter notification messages for every mention or reply for tweets on your Twitter profile? New Twitter version has the option of email notifications for mentions and replies turned ON by default. Hence, you may have seen deludge of new emails from Twitter regarding Twitter mentions in inbox of email address associated with your Twitter account. Fortunately, you can disable and turn of email notifications for mentions and reply by customizing notification settings.

1. Open Twitter.com website and enter your Twitter account login details for successful logging into your Twitter profile dashboard.

2. After login, click profile name at top right and then click Settings option from drop down menu. This will open Settings webpage with ‘Account’ tab activated.

3. Now click ‘Notifications’ tab and check for options under ‘Messages’ section. Click to uncheck (no tick) “I’m sent a reply or mentioned” option.

4. Then click Save button at the bottom to apply changes for customized notification settings of your Twitter account.

From now on you will not receive any Twitter notification for reply or mention in your email inbox. Regarding previous notification emails, you need to manually delete them for inbox clean up!

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Break the Limit of 140 Characters in Twitter for iPhone [Cydia Tweak]

Here is another tweak for today. If you use Twitter you should know that you can’t Tweet anything that exceeds 140 characters. So this tweak will let you break the 140 characters limit in Twitter for iPhone. All you have to do is to download and install ’140Plus for Twitter’. Without any settings this will add a new feature to the Twitter app for iPhone. Open the Twitter App and type anything that exceeds 140 characters. The picture below has been taken from iPhoneitalia, showing a longer tweet.

After typing in your tweet just tap ‘Send’. Now you can choose to fit your tweet within 140 characters or you can publish your tweet (140+ characters) by tapping ‘Paste’. You and your followers can view the entire tweet. Below is the picture showing the tweet with 140+ characters being submitted.

Sometimes you might have felt that 140 characters are not enough to share your tweets with others, but now you can tweet anything you want to, no matter if its greater than 140 characters. You can download ’140plus for Twitter’ from the BigBoss repository. You will need to jailbreak in order to use this app. To jailbreak your iPhone via sn0wbreeze follow this guide and for Redsn0w follow the guide posted here.

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Twitter acquires TweetDeck for $40 Million

TweetDeck, the most popular and widely used client application for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, and MySpace, has been acquired by Twitter for US $40 Million.

TweetDeck is available on various platforms such as Adobe Air based Desktop Application, Chrome Extension, Android, iPhone, and iPad. The application supports integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, MySpace, and most importantly Twitter. It allows its users to integrate all these social sites together for a better social experience. Moreover, the user can use the same application on his smartphone (Android, iPhone etc), on Desktop or in Google Chrome Web Browser.

Earlier, we had reports surfacing last month suggesting UberMedia (which owns Twidroyd) was in talks to acquire TweetDeck. Apparently, Twitter struck the deal with TweetDeck with hefty $40 million dollars.

This deal means not too much change for the users of TweetDeck for now as the company would be focusing on integration with Twitter.

If you are a user of TweetDeck, would you still use it after its acquisition by Twitter? Do let us know in comments section.

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