What The Trend? is a Twitter web application that helps you find out what terms are trending on Twitter and why. It does this by explaining why each term is trending on Twitter and these explanations are edited by you.
You can edit the explanations without having to sign in to What The Trend?, but if you want to be given credit for your explanation you will have to sign in to What The Trend? with your Twitter account. You can also register a trend at What The Trend?.
The Twitter lists feature was added by Twitter some few weeks ago and an important start-up has been made out of the addition of the Twitter lists feature to Twitter. This start-up is called Listorious.
Listorious is a free web service that makes finding the Best Twitter lists of Twitter users on any given topic easy, and it also makes it easy for list creator to publicize their lists by means of a directory.
At the time of this writing, Listorious has some awesome Twitter lists like “Mashable”, “Charities that Twitter”, “Top 50 Funny”, “Funny People” and a whole lot more of other awesome Twitter lists in their Twitter lists directory.
You can also add your Twitter list to Listorious but to be able to do that you will have to login in to Listorious using your Twitter account.
Mozilla has released the third revision of Firefox 3.6 Beta yesterday, Tuesday, November 17th, 2009, after releasing the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 and the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 some days and weeks ago respectively.
The Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 contains 80 fixes from the previous revision of the Firefox 3.6 Beta.
Like the other revisions of the Firefox 3.6 Beta, the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The features available in the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 includes:
To download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 go here.
Twitter has announced that they will be upgrading their network equipment today between 11pm Pacific Time and 1am Pacific Time and so as a result of this the Twitter site may be unavailable for short periods at the time of the maintenance.
If you want to change the picture of your Twitter profile, follow the steps below:
Step 1: When signed in to your Twitter account, click the “Settings” link at the top right corner of your Twitter profile. When you click the “Settings” link you’ll be taken to the “Account” tab of the Settings page.
Step 2: When taken to the “Account” tab of the Settings page, click on the “Picture” tab.
Step 3: In the “Picture” tab, click the “Browse” button, and then choose the picture you want from the dialog box that will open containing files and folders saved on your computer.
Step 4: After you have chosen the picture you want, click the “Save” button to upload and save your new Twitter profile picture.
Please note: At the time of this writing, the maximum size of a picture allowed by Twitter is 700k and picture formats accepted by Twitter are JPG, PNG, and GIF.
So this is how to change your Twitter profile picture.
Twitter Grader is a free Twitter tool that allows you the check your Twitter profile’s power, that is how your Twitter profile ranks. It checks the power of your Twitter profile (rank) by looking at a variety of factors including the number of followers, power of those followers, the level to which you are engaging the community, that is the Twitter community.
To check your Twitter ranking with Twitter Grader, type your Twitter username into the input bar on the Twitter Grader homepage and click the “Grade” button. After you have done this, you will be sent to a new page showing you your Twitter profile’s ranking, your number of followers and followings, your number of tweets, your account summary, a tag cloud for your Twitter profile, and tips and suggestions for your Twitter profile if there are any areas of concern with your Twitter account.
I send and receive emails through an email client, Windows Live Mail, to be precise. So how do you send or receive emails? Please answer this question by voting in the poll below. Thanks.
How Do You Send Or Receive Emails?
On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, Mozilla officially released the revision 2 of the Firefox 3.6 Beta, Firefox 3.6 Beta 2, for download by the public. The first version of the beta of the Firefox 3.6, the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, was just released on October 31st, 2009, so the release of the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 has been really soon after it. The Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 comes with 190 fixes from the Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.
The Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 is available for Windows, Macintosh (Mac), and Linux.
The features available in the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 include:
To download the Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 go here.
A hash tag is a word on Twitter which is prefixed by the hash or pound symbol (#). Hash tags are for putting tweets into categories. For example if you tweet and you want your tweet to be categorized and grouped together with other tweets that are talking about cats, then you either add the cats hash tag #cats to the end of your tweet or you make the word cat in your tweet a hash tag, for example, I adopted two #cats from the shelter today.
So hash tags enable Twitter users to be able to track tweets which are talking about what they are talking about. Also, hash tags are clickable links. When you click on a hash tag you will be sent to page where you will see all tweets that include that particular hash tag that you clicked on.
TweetStats is a Twitter web service which graphs your Twitter stats. TweetStats graphs your tweets per hour, tweets per timeline, tweets per month, and reply statistics.
To graph your tweets, enter your Twitter username into the input bar on the TweetStats homepage and then click the “Graph My Tweets” button.
The new Windows operating system, Windows 7, which was just released about two weeks and some days ago has made some tremendous sales in it’s first few days of sales compared to that of it’s predecessor, Windows Vista. According to the NPD group’s weekly tracking service, the first few days of Windows 7 unit sales have exceeded that of it’s predecessor, Windows Vista’s first few days of unit sales by a huge 234% in the US.
Wow, for me I think Windows 7 has done a great job in the market and I can see that with this new windows operating system, Microsoft will have a success and it has already started with the first few days of Windows 7 unit sales exceeding the first few days of Windows Vista unit sales by 234%.
Branding yourself sends a message about what you are about and what you stand for to people, and branding yourself on Twitter is no different because branding yourself on Twitter sends a message about what you are about and what you stand for to people who will have access to you on Twitter. So to send a message to people on Twitter about what you are about and what you stand for you have to brand yourself and you can brand yourself on Twitter through many ways but one great and common way is to get a Twitter background which can help you in branding yourself. The default Twitter backgrounds that are on Twitter are not good for branding so you have to get one from outside Twitter. So where on the outside do you get a Twitter background? You get it from Twitbacks.
Twitbacks is a web service which creates great Twitter backgrounds and gives them out for free to the public. Twitbacks has a lot of Twitter backgrounds for you to get for free and if you don’t like the Twitter backgrounds that they have created, they give you the option of creating your own Twitter background for free. To be able to get a Twitter background from Twitbacks you must register an account with them.
After you have chosen or created your Twitter background, they give you the option of automatically uploading the Twitter background to your Twitter account for you or you downloading the Twitter background onto your computer and uploading it onto your Twitter account yourself.
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With Twitter backgrounds from Twitbacks you can add the links to your social networks profiles, and you can also add a photo, logo, biography (bio) of yourself, and even your phone number and email address.
Twitbacks also help promote your Twitter profile for you but with that one you don’t get it for free, you will have to pay some cash.
To see a twitter background from Twitbacks in full working mode, you can go to my personal Twitter account @shirleyszone, as at the time of this writing I’m using a twitter background from Twitbacks, and you can also go to the Twitter profile of Twitbacks @twitbacks because they are using one of their own Twitter backgrounds (obviously).
I use three email services, that is Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Google Mail (Gmail), meaning I have an email account with each of these three services.
So what email service do you use? Please share your answer with us by voting in the poll below. Thanks :).
What Email Service Do You Use?
On October 30th, 2009, which was some few days ago, Twitter made a new feature available to all Twitter users. This new feature is called Twitter lists.
So what are Twitter lists?
Twitter lists are a way of grouping Twitter users you are interested in and this can include Twitter users you are following and those you are not following, for example friends, family members, classmates, etc. The Twitter list of the people you are interested in will showcase the latest tweets of those people. Any Twitter user can follow a Twitter list and when the person does it doesn’t mean he or she is individually following all the Twitter users on that particular Twitter list but he or she is rather following the Twitter list as a whole meaning he or she is following the Twitter list only and not any Twitter user in that list.
An example of a Twitter list is the Twitter team list which was created by Twitter themselves. Also a Twitter list can be public or private.
A public Twitter list is a list which can be seen by anyone. When I say anyone I mean anyone on the internet who goes to the page of the Twitter list will be able to see it.
A private Twitter list is a list which can only be seen by the creator of that particular Twitter list. Not even those listed in that particular Twitter list can see the list, it’s only the creator. So it’s a secret list.
So far at the time of this writing my personal Twitter account @shirleyszone and Shirley’s Tech Zone’s Twitter account @ShirleysTechZ have both been added to three Twitter lists each by other Twitter users. I haven’t created a list in @shirleyszone or @ShirleysTechZ yet. I think I will be doing that soon.
So have you created any Twitter lists? Or have you been added to any Twitter lists? Please share it with us in the comments field. Thanks :).
Sometimes on Twitter people unfollow you and you don’t know about it and sometimes people follow you back but you miss following them back probably because you follow people back manually and you don’t use a mass follow back Twitter service or application. So how then do you know these people who are not following you back and these people you are not following them back? Well, this is where FriendOrFollow comes in.
FriendOrFollow is a Twitter web service which lets you find out who you are following but is not following you back and who is following you but you are not following back.
To get to know who you are following but is not following you back and/or who is following you but you are not following back with FriendOrFollow, on the FriendOrFollow homepage enter your Twitter username into the input bar which says “your twitter username” and then click “Submit”.
When you do this you will be taken to a tab page where you are shown who you are following but is not following you back. This tab page is named “following”.
To know who is following you but you are not following back click on the tab which says “fans”, and to know all those you are following that are following you back click “friends”.
FriendOrFollow is a tool I use almost everyday to check those who I’m following but are not following me back and those who are following me but I’m not following them back. I must say that FriendOrFollow is very helpful to me and I think that it would be very helpful to you too if you try it out. It’s a very good tool.
Have you used FriendOrFollow before? If so what do you think about it? If you haven’t used FriendOrFollow before, is there any other tool that you use to check those who you are following but are not following you back and those who are following you but you are not following them back? Please share it with us in the comments field. Thanks :).
Stewie puts Windows 7 through its paces as Brian looks on.
Entrecard is a social advertising network for bloggers where members drop on the Entrecard widgets of other members for Entrecard (EC) credits when they visit the blogs of these members and members also are able to buy advertising space on a fellow member’s widget with Entrecard (EC) credits. The Entrecard widget of a member is placed on the member’s blog.
I’m an Entrecard member and as a result have an Entrecard widget on placed on my blog so that Entrecard members who visit my blog can drop on my widget and notify me that they visited my blog and also earn Entrecard (EC) credits for dropping on my widget. Other Entrecard members too can buy advertising space on my Entrecard widget with Entrecard (EC) credits.
So as a reward for all the members of Entrecard who have visited my blog and dropped on my Entrecard widget, I’m going to list the top 10 droppers here. Thank you to every member of Entrecard who has visited my blog and who also reads my blog frequently. I also thank all visitors and readers of my blog who are not members of Entrecard for visiting and reading my blog. I really appreciate all your visits to my blog and readings of my blog :).
The Top 10 Droppers Are:
So all Entrecard members and non-members of Entrecard keep on visiting and reading Shirley’s Tech Zone. I love you all :).
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