I really like the set of social media buttons you have on the pages of your AskDaveTaylor site, Dave. What are they, and how did you add them to your site? In particular, a lot of the ones I've looked at have uninteresting sites like Delicious and Reddit, but don't yet support the new Google Plus "+1" button, so yours is really slick. What's the story?

I'm a big fan of Pinterest [ I am too, you can find AskDaveTaylor on Pinterest as d1taylor -- Ed ] and recently noticed that some of my friends are having their Pinterest activities show up on their Facebook timeline. Nice. I want. How do I hook up Pinterest to Facebook and vice versa?

I've been tasked with writing a series of tweets for a Black Friday marketing campaign and am finding it a bit tricky because I don't know how to easily check line length for a long series of lines. I'm on a Mac and can get around in Terminal. Is there some script you can share with me to check this, Dave?

I'm just getting into Twitter and see that lots of people upload photographs to the site. Cool, but since I don't have a smartphone, am I excluded, or i there a way to upload photos from the twitter.com site too?

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This year, CTIA was an afterthought, a last minute decision for my buddy Conor Swanson and I, but the right one. If you haven't attended CTIA, it's a different kind of conference... Where else can one find a Satellite Transceiver Station on a convention floor sitting next to LG's booth?

CTIA, in case you're not familiar with the group, is the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry. You can find out more about the association and the conference at the Web site: ctia.org.

We enjoyed checking out a number of products during the convention, including Sprint and Google's partnership to release Google Voice on the Sprint network, but my favorite product was...

I've been having fun making weird videos and uploading them to YouTube. What I really want to do, though, is share them with my friends on Twitter and Facebook. What's the easiest way to share a YouTube video on Facebook?

We're getting into social media a bit late and just found out that someone else has registered our trademarked product name as their Twitter handle. They're not using the account, but they also aren't responding to queries from us about switching ownership. We don't want to pay anything - after all, it's our registered trademark! - but will cover a minimal fee. What can we do?

A colleague of mine had a very weird thing happen yesterday: he checked in to a restaurant just before a lunch meeting, and some random person called the restaurand and asked to be connected to him. He had no idea who it was and it's set off quite a firestorm in the office about whether anyone in the company should use geolocation checkin games. I think it's a bit overblown, but want to know, how can I see who are my Foursquare friends and remove those I don't know?

I dig Twitter and use it a lot to stay in touch with friends and chat, but recently I've been noticing that if I mention certain words or phrases that I get "@" replies from people I don't know, generally trying to sell me things or convince me to visit their Web site. I don't want this spammy pollution in my twitterstream. Can I report them as spammers if I'm using the Twitter app on my iPhone?

I'm a big fan of Twitter, but notice that sometimes when I tweet about certain topics I find that spammers and other people reply to me with @replies, just trying to get me to visit their sites. It's very spammy and stinks. I go to twitter.com in my Web browser: is there any way to report a twitter user as spam on the site?

After switching over my Facebook account to always use an encrypted connection [see Connect to Facebook Securely with SSL] I would like to do the same with other sites I visit. Gmail supports it [see Secure Gmail Connection], but what about Twitter? Is there some way to connect to Twitter with a secure, encrypted SSL connection?

Dave, here is a question for you. Today I got a Twitter follow from someone who has made a total of 1 tweet, and yet this person already has 3,712 followers. I've seen other Twitter accounts with the same high number of followers and hardly any tweets yet. How do they do that? I thought content was important to building followers on Twitter.

I run a small company and I have found that social media is fantastic for generating interest in my business. But someone told me that most of the online population doesn't speak English as their first language. I only speak English and my marketing budget amounts to two moths and a ball of pocket fluff. So tell me - how can I use Twitter and Facebook to target foreign markets?

Apparently now that Twitter is using OAuth, I can change the password to my Twitter account and the apps retain access. That's pretty alarming! Is there some way to at least know which applications have this level of access to my Twitter account?

I'm an active Twitter user (twitterer?) and would like to have my tweets / twitter messages show up on LinkedIn as my status updates. I've seen other people set this up but can't identify what service they use for this. Can you help me out?

I signed up for Google Buzz along with everyone else, but every time I look at it in my Gmail account, it's just status updates from Twitter. If I wanted to follow these people on Twitter, I'd do so. I want to get rid of Google Buzz, or at least not have it show up in my Gmail screen. How can I do that?

A friend and I were having a beer when her phone beeped: it was a direct message she'd received on Twitter. Cool. How did she set that up and how can I do the same on my iPhone?

I'm a skeptic. Yup, that's me. I have heard that some people are getting paid to send out an occasional sponsored or advertising tweet, but I can't believe it. I mean, really? If so, what's involved and, well, how do I get involved?

I've just started getting into lists on Twitter and am stuck: I accidentally added someone new on the wrong Twitter list and don't know how to edit it. How do I change Twitter list members?

I think that Twitter is pretty darn cool and would really like to be able to add a Twitter search box to my web site. In fact, I'd love to have some buttons that are pre-defined searches, like for the name of the latest movie in the theater or a celebrity too. Are those possible? I haven't seen anyone do anything like that before...

I'm trying to be efficient with my time, Dave, but somehow I end up forgetting about Twitter as I work on LinkedIn and play on Facebook. I know that I'm supposed to be involved in all the big social networks, but who has the time? Is there some way that status updates from LinkedIn can at least show up in my Twitter account [ed: "twitterstream" is what we hardcore folk call it] without me having to do anything special?

Now that I have over a hundred friends on Facebook, I'm kind of drowning in the never-ending flow of live updates from them all. A social media guru pal of mine told me that I should be using facebook lists, but I've no idea what they are. Dave, help! What's a Facebook list and how do I create one?

I've been hearing that all the follow Friday stuff is passé and that we should instead be creating Twitter lists. Um, okay, but I don't see how to do that in Seesmic Desktop, which is how I interact with Twitter. What's the big deal with these lists and how can I create one?

I'm becoming a Twitter power user and find it a pretty simple way to broadcast information about my upcoming product sales and related. Problem is, I'm also curious about what information can be gleaned from the shortened URLs I have to use, including ideally some Google Analytics-like geographic data. Is that even possible?

I heard on the news today that my favorite social network, Twitter, is being plagued by what they called a "denial of service attack". What on Earth is that? They're forced to not actually get service and it's an attack? I mean, I've been to restaurants where I experience a denial of service, but how can something like that affect Twitter or Facebook or whatever?