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Posting to Twitter with PHP and OAuth class

Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a bit of an update on a font site I threw up a few years ago. Specifically I wanted to put a script together to tweet a random font each day. Should have been easy since I already had … Continue reading →

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Twitter mention spam is a pain

Posted on July 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Guess I’m just used to e-mail spam. It’s just always there and Spam Bayes does a pretty decent job of taking care of it. But Twitter mention spam is more irritating. Probably just because it’s relatively new, but irritating anyway. … Continue reading →

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Going to try cross posting with Twitter

Posted on March 12th, 2011 by Ryan

Came across a WordPress plugin called Twitter Tools today. Like most of the 10,000 other Twitter plugins it lets me tweet for each of my blog posts. But this one also promises to go the other way creating a blog … Continue reading →

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Just finished up a couple of WordPress plugins

Posted on January 16th, 2011 by Ryan

Needed a break from a larger web app I’m working on and this weekend kicked out a couple of WordPress plugins that I’ve had on my idea file for a while now. The first is called rTwit and lets you … Continue reading →

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Should you delay retweets?

Posted on January 9th, 2011 by Ryan

Finally noticed the schedule tweet button in TweetDeck this morning.  I have a knack of sending out tweets in batches, and since it annoys me when others tweet 20 in rapid succession it probably irritates others when I do the … Continue reading →

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Predicting the stock market with Twitter

Posted on October 25th, 2010 by Ryan

Looks like there may be more to Twitter than just a list of what everybody’s cat is doing. Researchers at Indiana University used 10 million tweets to gauge the collective mood of the users and have been able to predict … Continue reading →

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bit.ly and PHP

Posted on July 24th, 2010 by Ryan

Needed a quick and easy way to create a bit.ly URL for another site of mine. Google came through for me. David Walsh posted a short PHP function on his site that takes your bit.ly login, API key, and the … Continue reading →

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Should have joined Twitter earlier

Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Ryan

For whatever reason, Twitter just never really appealed to me. The idea of limiting myself to 140 characters seemed, well, too limiting. And my first few skims of Twitter had too high of a junk to good stuff ratio. But … Continue reading →

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