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Message (previously called a Direct Message) is a private message sent via Twitter to one of your followers

Message (previously called a Direct Message) is a private message sent via Twitter to one of your followers

You cannot send a direct message to a user who is not following you.

select the privacy settings for who will see your Tweets and Retweets posted to your Facebook wall. It is set to friends by default.

@Replies will not be posted.

To link your Facebook updates to Twitter, use this application on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twitter.

If we're not experiencing issues, your account is public, your tweets have been posted for more than 24 hours, and you're still not listed, your tweets have most likely been filtered out of our search index for quality reasons.

caution against aggressive behaviors and suggest that you stay away from: Repeatedly posting duplicate or near-duplicate content (links or tweets) Abusing trending topics or hashtags (topic words with a # sign) Sending automated tweets or replies Using bots or applications to post similar messages based on keywords Posting similar messages over multiple accounts Aggressively following and un-following people Twitter may automatically remove accounts engaging in these behaviors from search (or even suspend in some cases) in order to ensure the best experience for everyone.

TwitterGadget account allows you to sign in using a username / pass in places where you are unable to use the "Sign In With Twitter" button (which requires access to Twitter.com).

You will need to be able to sign into TwitterGadget from a computer where you can access Twitter.com in order to create an account with TwitterGadget. Once you create the TwitterGadget account, you can use the username / password anywhere, even on computers without access to Twitter.com.

We only index Tweets for about two weeks

Twitter automatically filters search results for quality. Some accounts may be automatically filtered as a result of rules violations or activity that degraded Twitter search

how do I know what message they replied to? Easy! Just click any space around the Tweet and your details pane will open to display the Tweet they replied to, as well as other content related to the message.

People will only see others' replies in their home timeline if they are following both the sender and recipient of the update.

People with protected accounts can only send replies to people they have approved to follow them.

how do I know what message they replied to? Easy! Just click any space around the Tweet and your details pane will open to display the Tweet they replied to, as well as other content related to the message.

People will only see others' replies in their home timeline if they are following both the sender and recipient of the update.

People will see any mentions posted by someone they follow

D [username] + message - sends that person a Direct Message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive. You can also use M [username] + message to send a private message!

When a Tweet starts with a @username, the only users who will see it in their timeline (other than the sender and the recipient) are those who follow both the sender and the recipient.

If someone sends you a reply and you are not following them, the reply will not appear in your Home timeline. Instead, the reply will appear in your Notifications tab.

While Yammer has made some enterprise traction, most companies that use it are smaller to mid-size businesses versus large enterprises. Most large enterprises with whom I’ve spoken about Yammer express trepidation over the service’s pricing and community model. At the same time, SMBs with whom I have spoken about Yammer don’t seem to have the same security or expense concerns, so Yammer could stay a viable solution for the smaller markets. The introduction of Salesforce Chatter, and the already strong SocialText solution, should knock Yammer out of enterprise consideration.

FriendFeed was, and still is, loved by a loyal following for its fast, powerful social sharing and discussion possibilities.

but by stripping those out what we have here is essentially FriendFeed’s vision gone mainstream

the team that pioneered realtime discussion and sharing groups at FriendFeed now works at Facebook and its co-creator Bret Taylor is now CTO there

Use IM+ to connect to MSN®, Yahoo!®, Google Talk™, AIM®, Jabber®, ICQ®, Facebook®, MySpace, Skype™, and Twitter at the same time!