Delete Twitter DMs with DM Whacker

twitter-logo-birdieTwitter is emerging as very helpful social networking place as compared to other social networking websites. Its active user base, simple design and user-friendliness makes it even better and bigger.

Twitter is a good tool to get quick help, news updates from various people around the world. It has various interesting features, but as they say every coin has two sides.

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Emoticons for Twitter

by Haris on February 6, 2009
in Social Networks, Tips and Tricks

I always tell one thing that I miss the most on Twitter is the support of emoticons. Every IM has emoticons, and I think Twitter is incomplete without them.

Since you can’t use graphics on Twitter, my friend Imran has found TwitterKeys, a website that has a compiled list of UTF-compatible characters that you can use as emoticons on Twitter.

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Complete List of Twitter Acronyms

twitter-logo-birdieTwitter being the most active social network has opened and started many new trends. Although Twitter itself allows 140 character limit for the updating your status.

You might have observed some acronyms, short forms on Twitter to make use of these 140 characters as much as they can.

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DestroyTwitter: Desktop Twitter Client

by Haris on January 30, 2009
in Freewares, Social Networks, Softwares

destroy-twitter-iconI think, right now, Adobe AIR is all dominated by Twitter clients, because every new Twitter app or client you download is powered by Adobe AIR.

In between hundreds of Twitter clients, a new client has popped up which is rather addictive and provides one of the most simple, light and easy-to-use interface.

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How To Get Twitter Avatars in WordPress Comments

by Haris on January 24, 2009
in Tips and Tricks, WordPress

twittar-birdieTwitter is no doubt one of the most used services online now. You will hardly notice any blog, or website not making use of it.

If you notice lots of (your) blog readers from Twitter, you can implement Twitter avatars in your blog’s comments section with a small, nice plugin.

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MyTweetSpace: Twitter Background Generator

by Muzzammil Waheed on January 14, 2009
in Internet, Web 2.0

mytweetspace-logoAll the twittering twitters out there must be wondering how can they customize background of their twitter profile and apply their very own theme.

I’m sure you all must have seen profiles with a nice, custom background with their name, blog URL and contact details. Now you can also have them without using any designing application like Adobe Photoshop or The Gimp.

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Update Twitter Status from Yahoo Messenger

by Haris on November 9, 2008
in Freewares, Tools, Yahoo

Calling all Twitter and Yahoo IM fans out there! Guess what? Now you don’t need a separate Twitter desktop client for status updates when you use Yahoo! Messenger.

A New Zealand-based development team at WackyB, has created a plugin for Yahoo Messenger that syncs your status messages between Yahoo Messenger and Twitter.

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Witty, Yet Another Windows-only Twitter Client

by Hammad Memon on November 9, 2008
in Freewares, Internet, Tools

Well, I know this is not the first Twitter client you are hearing of. There are many others like TwitterFox for Firefox, Twhirl for Windows, which is Adobe AIR-based and many others that have been developed for Twitter.

I have another Twitter client called Witty, an open-source app, which uses the Twitter API to bring you the Twitter experience on your desktop.

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How To Use Twitter on Nokia S60 Phones

by Haris on November 3, 2008
in Freewares, Gadgets

Ever since I got my hands on the Nokia N96, I’ve been trying to find and use a nice, decent Twitter client for Nokia S60 devices. It’s sad to see that there are very few Twitter apps for Nokia, but still I was able to find some nice free apps.

Below is a list I’ve compiled which can help you in running Twitter on an S60 device.

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