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		<title>What is it: #FridayFollow or #FollowFriday?</title>
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No matter if you call it Friday Follow or Follow Friday, at the end of each work week you'll find thousands (if not millions) of people using hashtags to give digital shout outs to their friends and fans on Twitter.

The Friday Follow tradition is great for finding new and interesting tweeters. And since the #FridayFollow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Twitter Tools to Take Your Tweets to the Top.</title>
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Are you frustrated that your Twitter profile is getting overrun with spam accounts instead of real (and interesting) followers? Do you want to make connections with actual people instead of getting the same teeth-whitening spam tweets in your Twitter stream? If so, you're going to need the right combination of Twitter tools to get rid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Secrets of the Twitterati.</title>
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The Urban Dictionary defines the Twitterati as:

Twitterati: The Tweet elite, whose feeds attract thousands of followers and whose 140-character spews capture the attention of the rapt who doggedly monitor them.

Maybe it's not the most glowing definition going, but the point is clear: There are people out there whose tweets hold more interest (and probably influence) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 &#8220;Gotta Have&#8221; Wordpress Plugins for Your Blog.</title>
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One of the quickest ways to make blogging easier on yourself is to use Wordpress plugins. From automating tasks like backing up your blog articles to guarding your site from spam, plugins enhance your website and help you maintain a top notch blog. Luckily for us all, Wordpress makes installing and using plugins as simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Apple iPad a Game Changer?</title>
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I've got a new post on my Posterous site regarding the newly-announced Apple iPad with the initial details of the Apple iPad and some quick thoughts on it. The short version: The Apple iPad is everything I thought it would be and more. And at a lower price, too! I'm pretty sure I'll be getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Hashtag 101 &#8211; What They Are &amp; What They Do.</title>
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When used in a tweet, a hashtag is a word, or words, which have been prepended with a hash symbol (&#35;) to assist in organizing information about them. For example, if you wanted to create a hashtag out of the word "Twitter", you'd type it as "#Twitter" (no, they aren't case-sensitive). See how simple it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Want a Custom Blog Comment Avatar?</title>
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If you're looking to spice up your blog comments a bit, sign up for a (free) Gravatar account. Many websites have an option to display the avatar of your choosing wherever you comment on a blog (based on the email address you use to comment), and it's a great way to add a little something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Use Twitter Lists.</title>
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Twitter lists are a great way to help organize your tweeps into categories, or lists, that you define. Getting started with Twitter lists is easy, but how you use them every day is another story. There are probably as many ways to use them as there are people who use Twitter, but today I'm going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Valid Twitter HTML Widget.</title>
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I was a bit surprised when I found out the (now older and difficult, if not impossible, to find anywhere on Twitter) Twitter HTML widget didn't validate. They've got an empty &#060;ul&#062; (e.g. without any &#060;li&#062;'s) in their code, and that makes the W3 HTML validator cranky.

The fix (in bold below) is simple enough:

&#060;ul id="twitter_update_list"&#062;&#060;li [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t &#8220;Get&#8221; Twitter? Neither Did I, Until&#8230;</title>
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A lot of people don't "get" Twitter. I know I didn't when I first signed up, which is why I tweeted a handful of times and then forgot about the account for over a year. It felt so pointless to me at first, and 140 characters to get a thought out there seemed like nothing [...]]]></description>
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