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er which might be someone your followers don t know or have any relationship with 4 it prevents you from seeing multiple versions with different comments from different people 5 if someone retweets you it is difficult for you to learn that they did you will have to go outside your conversational thread e g on twitter com you have to wade through your interactions to see which of them are twitter fake retweets 6 if you retweet people they will never learn that you did unless they go through that same investigative process i e except for the commercial accounts which use analytics care a lot about the number of retweets they will probably never learn that you retweeted them 7 your so called retweets either will not show up or will show up in an inferior way in tweetdeck or any other twitter clients or applications and if they do show up will not prominently display your icon they will prominently display only the icon of the author of the original tweet 8 a fake retweet has no url and is therefore not searchable it has no separate identity it has no identity in and will not show up in any kind of twitter search such as keyword and hashtag searches examples of how this undercuts the value of your twitter experience are too numerous to mention but a stream come to mind 9 you won t be found when people are looking for people to follow with similar interests 10 the identities of intermediate tweeters will never be known 11 in many instances to the extent your identity is recognized at all by the recipients they can t reply to you or retweet you or dm you and may not even be able to verify your user name 12 it eliminates discussion 13 when the pseudo retweet is itself retweeted whether by rubber stamp retweet or by traditional retweet you won t be mentioned at all 14 if you want to be part of a hashtag trending event your pseudo retweets have no impact since they re not considered separate tweets only classic retweets will count in sum it takes the social out of social media by a eliminating conversation and interaction b insisting on blind rubber stamping c preventing you from letting your friends know you ve honored them d preventing you from knowing your friends have honored you e making you invisible f making it harder for you to meet new friends with similar interests and g removing any clear indication of your identity to your existing friends one of the primary uses of the traditional retweet is not to repeat something at all but to start or continue a conversation with 2 3 sometimes even 4 or 5 people participating in a single tweet in this type of classic retweet you re repeating something in order to preserve the conversational thread here are a couple of everyday examples from some good conversationalists who use traditional retweets as conversation https twitter com sheconsulting status 487018672616009728 https twitter com polipaca status 488129181822099456 http twitter com tashamiel status 12650036800 http twitter com mireyamayor status 12651573387 http twitter com sherriacp statuses 12649436005 http twitter com ninibaseema statuses 12575093633 https twitter com raybeckerman status 488352362277646336 https twitter com grouchomama718 status 488055888629202944 https twitter com johncoxonmedia status 488450081885261825 the people who engage in such conversations are the people having the most fun of all on twitter and are the coolest communicators here twitter s pseudo retweet makes such engagement and interaction impossible twitter s management thinks twitter is for information only and is not supposed to be social and that a retweet is for the purpose of repeating or rubber stamping the original tweet why did twitter do this my guess is that it has to do with appealing to twitter s business customers read paying customers corporations celebrities social media professionals major news media who do not themselves retweet but who wish to be retweeted by others making it easier to quantify their impressions and to enhance their visibility at the expense of the rest of us twitter thinks it can make more money from its advertising euphemistically termed promoted tweets by being able to quantify the number of repetitions they receive if you fall into the trap your interactivity with your friends is shattered and your visibility to your friends is removed even the paying customers for whose benefit this was done are being screwed although they may not realize it instead of becoming a part of the twitter conversation they re just getting the same type of paid advertising spam they could have bought anywhere else and if they do get rubber stamped they re being rubber stamped by the least experienced least visible least influential people on twitter since those of us who are knowledgeable are likely to avoid touching the rubber stamp button like the plague conclusion this is my advice 1 don t use twitter s so called retweet function ever 2 use genuine traditional retweets only 3 configure any twitter apps which you may be using to do traditional rather than rubber stamp retweets if yours cannot readily be configured to do that drop it and use one that can period see how to set up your twitter apps or clients to do traditional retweets rather than rubber stamp retweets some people ask what if the original tweet is too long i say that if you really can t shorten it edit it or use a longer tweet service then forget it why punish your followers by injecting spam into their stream your followers are looking for stuff from you not from strangers stuff from strangers which they didn t ask for and don t recognize has a name it s called s p a m when people complain that they ve been seeing a lot of tweets in their stream from people they don t recognize that s because of peeps using twitter s rubber stamp button the length problem should become less and less of a problem as automatic elongated tweet features become more and more available for example see twitlonger and twtmore a in the 2010 round of shorty awards voting people were advised that one way to vote was by retweeting the retweet votes were retrieved through twitter search with the aid of twitter hashtags apparently none of the votes lodged by the fake retweet button were counted since the tweet had no url hence no identity of its own it is unclear what votes were or were not counted in the 2011 shorty awards b many tweeters and many internet twitter applications use keyword searches in twitter search to find new people to follow who share similar interests all use of twitter s pseudo retweet is excluded from such searches let s say for example i am looking to find new people to follow who are interested in indigenous peoples rights and use the hashtag indigenous or the term indigenous to locate them or let s say i m asking mr tweet or some other application which helps with friend finding to find me people who tweet using the keyword indigenous and let s say you re someone who constantly uses twitter s fake retweet technology to send out tweets using the hashtag indigenous i will never even learn of your existence because my search will turn up none of your pseudo retweets the poor saps who use twitter s fake retweet are constantly losing opportunities to make new friends who share similar interests short url for this post http goo gl p8ifai posted by raybeckerman at 11 09 am 130 comments saturday july 6 2013 the lesson i ve learned about url shorteners it goes without saying that when tweeting links it s a good idea to use url shorteners in view of twitter s 140 character limit but if you re ever going to reuse the tweets you should be very discriminating about which url shortening service to use i ve shortened a lot of links with different url shortening services not concerning myself with the company s pedigree big mistake a few weeks ago i learned that all of my tux pla net links don t work and just discovered that my is gd links are often no good either so i ve been going through the very painstaking work of converting them to goo gl links google s url shortening service i figure if google goes out of business then the internet will probably have gone out of business i ve converted all the tux pla net links but have hundreds and hundreds of is gd links to go through some of the is gd links work but most do not so i have to test each one and replace the non working ones if you come across one of my is gd links to a youtube video which doesn t work you can try searching for the name and singer in my playlists find the playlist that has the recording and go to that video and if you ever come to any link that doesn t work either because the shortened link doesn t work or because the video has been taken down deleted made private etc please tweet me about it so i can update the link thanks posted by raybeckerman at 8 51 pm 2 comments friday may 31 2013 twitter basics the 5 basic rules for happiness on twitter 1 upload a picture for your avatar so people can see who they re talking to 2 put something in your bio so people can get some idea of what you re about 3 be interactive see the power of 4 be yourself not phony 5 don t be all about yourself take an interest in others that s it those are the basics follow them and you will have a ball application of the 5 basic rules the following points are just refinements of points 3 4 and 5 6 retweet other people see awesomeness of retweets if you like it retweet it use traditional or classic retweets not the retweet button 7 don t worry about how to get a lot of followers just follow and pay attention to people you appreciate and your network will keep on growing as a general rule unfollow people who aren t following you to learn how to identify and unfollow them go here 8 don t follow celebrities suggested accounts must follows power twitters or best or top twitters or lists that is all hype meant to benefit them not you following these types is the easiest way to get frustrated and wind up like most people quitting or going inactive look for people who are interactive and unselfish whose style you like and who tweet about things that are up your alley you re not here to be a follower but to make friends 9 don t let yourself be boxed in by twitter s terminology as to what it is for it is for anything conversation and writing are for making new friends making people laugh getting a laugh sharing thoughts sharing information making the world a better place learning teaching kvetching commiserating using it mainly to update your status is a good way of ensuring that your status is lonely 10 avoid spammy behavior such as a sending auto dm s to people who were kind enough to follow you b asking people for favors c following people and then paying no attention to them d picking fights starting arguments splitting hairs and or responding to tweets without making it clear what you are responding to and e sending comments on tweets without retweeting them 11 if you would like to be retweeted here s how to improve your chances a make your tweets good b make them short and c be a retweeter yourself 12 get one of the free software applications or clients that provide a nice conversational interface and make it easy to follow people s tweets my favorite is tweetdeck for chrome 13 don t follow someone until you ve looked at their tweets and decided you re really interested but if you like to keep it simple you can distill the above rules into 3 simpler rules which are real easy to remember 1 share 2 share 3 share if you re promoting a cause help other people promote their causes too promoting your agenda but not those of others is just selfish when i use the term retweet i m referring to the traditional retweet not the rubber stamp button which twitter implemented in early 2010 and mislabeled a retweet for a more detailed explanation of why you should never ever use twitter s rubber stamp version go here here s a short url for this post http goo gl tvlej5 posted by raybeckerman at 1 52 pm 17 comments thursday march 28 2013 coalition for queens presents access code learn how to build your own iphone ipad apps no background required we re excited to announce the launch of access code our comprehensive and affordable ios development course led by an expert practitioner no previous background required we believe that everyone should have an opportunity to learn how to code and begin a career in technology our 8 week 50 hour course will give you the foundations to create your own iphone and ipad applications full scholarships are available learn more and apply today for our spring class starting on may 18th accesscodenyc org we hope to see you soon jukay dave frank ben the c4q team share access code posted by raybeckerman at 1 33 pm 0 comments monday february 25 2013 ways in which twitter foolishly diminishes interactivity 1 twitter for some strange reason imposes limits on the number of tweets since i m a high volume tweeter i m always bumping up against those limits if i go over the limit i wind up in twitter jail i e i can t tweet for an unspecified period of time so i often have to refrain from responding to people who ve tweeted to me directly or thanking people or asking people questions or greeting people or saying you re welcome or how are you because doing so would put me in jail 2 again because i m a high volume tweeter i try to space my tweets out when possible i use socialoomph com as my tool for doing that however whenever i have in my tweet twitter often rejects it as an unsolicited mention which means that i can t use my spacing tool for tweets which a respond to someone or b mention someone or c retweet someone so the people whom i would have liked to mention often the authors or publishers of the blog post or article in question will never know 3 the twitter retweet button is another anti conversation impediment if anyone retweets me with that i usually never find out about it twitter is shooting itself in the foot with these things twitter should listen to its users oh and how exactly does it help twitter to a limit the number of tweets i tweet b prevent me from mentioning other twitter accounts when my tweets come from socialoomph com and c prevent me from knowing who s retweeted me answer it doesn t short url for this post http goo gl hmnpq posted by raybeckerman at 10 21 pm 0 comments tuesday december 18 2012 my youtube channel isn t completely lost it s just harder to find first published 5 14 12 previously i had a youtube channel that was fun i added youtube videos i liked to favorites and or playlists after you clicked through and played a song you were still on my channel in 9 months my channel had more than a million views on march 7 2012 youtube ruined its channel system now if you click on a playlist link it s hard to find my channel and if you click on a favorites link you can t detect my channel at all so i m slowly converting all of my favorites links to playlist links but for now here s how to find my channel...