Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Question from Gail: I hope you’ll be able to answer a question for me, Rick.
I have a fairly active Twitter account for my business. I’ve had it for 3 years and it has over 11,000 followers and right at 18,600 tweets.
What I need to know is will changing my username cause me to lose my followers and tweets? [Read more…]
Question from Twyla : If I mute someone on Twitter will they be told that I have muted them?
The reason I’m asking is my brother-in-law is always posting obnoxious and disgusting tweets that I’d rather not see.
I certainly don’t want any of my friends to see them either, but I don’t want to upset my sister. [Read more…]
Question from Jeremy: I’m a professional photographer and I use Facebook and Twitter to showcase some of my best images to potential customers.
I’ve noticed that those services automatically strip the location metadata from every photo as it’s being uploaded.
The metadata in my photos is important because it contains some really important info, including the location where the photo was taken. [Read more…]
A while back I wrote a post explaining how to “Unfriend” someone on Facebook without really unfriending him/her.
Well, several people read that post and then asked me if it’s possible to do the same thing on Twitter. The answer is yes. All you have to do is “Mute” them.
Before I explain how to mute someone that you follow on Twitter, perhaps I should explain what muting actually does and doesn’t do. That way you can decide whether you would rather mute a person who posts annoying tweets or just go ahead and unfollow him/her (or even go nuclear and block them altogether).
This is what happens after you have muted someone that you are following on Twitter: [Read more…]
Question from Andy: I’ve been using Twitter for several months and I’ve become pretty active on there. I usually post at least a dozen tweets every day.
The problem I have is lots of spammers have started replying to my tweets with spam offers of all types.
Some days there are so many spam replies that it’s hard to wade through them to read the real replies.
Is there any way to block the spammers from replying to my tweets? [Read more…]