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?...

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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......

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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...

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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?...

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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?...

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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?...

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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?...

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On my journey to find the ideal Google Gmail account ID, I ended up registering a few extra accounts (Gmail addresses? Not sure how to phrase that). Problem is, at this point I just want to axe the old addresses but can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. How on earth do you delete or cancel a Gmail account address?...

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The tech gossip blog TechCrunch had a hacker send them confidential business documents from Twitter, obtained by a European-based hacker who had broken into their servers. Not so good. How did he do it, though, and is there any risk of my Twitter account being compromised?...

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I've been noticing over time that I have a lot of subscribers to my content on Friendfeed. That's cool, but now that I look at the service, there's a lot it can aggregate, including the items I mark as shared in Google Reader, my RSS reader of choice. What I can't figure out is how to tie the two together!...

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I have been honing my computer skills to try and make some money and start a business. The only problem is i seem to be having troubles finding jobs. Pretty much I'm doing free computer diagnostic. I pick up the computer, diagnose every aspect of how its working all for free. After that I contact the customer and discuss the problem(s) they may be having and discuss were to go with it. This is a...

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I've been experimenting with a variety of different Twitter clients on my Mac, and while I'd been stuck for a while on Twhirl I've recently switched to the beta of Seesmic Desktop a few weeks ago. Until a few days ago when a few friends encouraged me to try Nambu. Worked pretty well, but the Seesmic team mailed me a notice about an update to its Seesmic Desktop client that includes Facebook integration. Nice. I...

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In previous blog entries (see How do I sponsor searches on Google? and Advertising cannot be your only online marketing channel), I've talked about how to use paid services to promote your business online, focusing specifically on Google Adwords and how it lets your company appear as "sponsored" results on a search page. Then we talked last week about the distressingly ephemeral nature of paid advertising and explored examples of how mindshare rapidly declines once...

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In an earlier blog entry (see How to sponsor a search result), I talked about how to use Google AdWords to promote your business and how to get "sponsored" results in search engines like Google and Yahoo. I continue the conversation by talking about low cost grassroots ways that you can promote your business online through having a great content-based Web site, social networking and other avenues. But first, I want to talk about why...

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I am just getting started on Twitter. Would you explain what are hash tags, how do they work and how are they used?...

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I have been inspired by some of the evening meetings I've attended, both those that are 'meetups' and those that are more informal. I want to host one of my own but don't know how to start. Can you give me some tips to get started, Dave?...

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We're living in a noisy world. There a millions of blogs, and photos and radio shows and podcasts and websites, and… whew! There's a lot of stuff out there. So if you're just starting out, or even if you've been doing it for awhile, you probably wonder how you're going to get noticed. The bad news is if it was easy, you'd be noticed already. The good news is that there's never been a greater...

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Dave, is a retweet where you redo a message or retweet someone else's message in Twitter? Also, how do you do that...?...

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I'm head of marketing for our company and our younger employees keep telling me that it's critical we monitor the online social networks for information about our company and products. I think they're too self-absorbed and that the online world is such a tiny percentage of our customer base that it's safely ignored. What's your opinion?...

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I've started to get involved with Twitter based on watching your tweets and am enthused, but anxious about people I don't know reading about what I'm doing. So I want to protect my Twitter updates. Is that a good idea? How do I do it?...

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