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The $17,000 Tweet: Don’t Ever Underestimate Twitter
This is such a fun story about using Twitter, making bets and following through. A few days ago, the person behind @poultrykeeper sent the tweet you see below after his boss insisted Twitter is a waste of time. He made a bet with him about how many times his tweet would get retweeted.
I've been o ...
Happy Birthday Twitter: An Infographic Of Twitter Milestones
Can you believe our beloved Twitter is five years old? I remember when she was just a newborn, and we all nervously embraced her. The future of Twitter was unknown at that time, but we were adventurous. Little did we know how she would completely change our lives. She certainly didn't disappoint us, ...
How To: Not Be Boring On Twitter
Just like everyone else, when I first got on Twitter in March of 2009, I didn't know what to tweet. I followed a few people and just watched them. I didn't tweet anything for a few days because I was so nervous about it. Looking back, it seems kind of silly. A few weeks into my life on Twitter, I so ...
How To Use Twitter: A Simple Infographic & Slideshow
Those who have been on Twitter every day for a few years now like me will probably agree that Twitter is a different place to hang out now than it used to be. Back in the day, Twitter was a small community of geeks, and we were all a very tight knit group of friends. Since then, Twitter has evolved ...
Social Media Tattoo: Put Facebook Friends On Your Arm
[Update: Too bad this tattoo turned out to be fake! I was really hoping this girl was for real.] I realize that this story is on every single major blog in the world today, but if there was ever anything that deserved to be on Bit Rebels, this is it. I just couldn't resist writing about it. This has ...
Real Birds Are Now Tweeting On Twitter (Really!)
When I was young, I found a sparrow that had fallen out of his nest. His mother left him on the concrete. He was only a few days old, and hadn't grown any feathers yet. I nursed him back to health, and at the end of the summer, I tried several times to set him free. He wouldn't fly away, so I decide ...
5 Reasons Your Twitter DMs Are Being Ignored
Since I've been on Twitter since 2008, I've truly been able to benefit from the social networking platform. The majority of information I know today is a direct result of the many hours I've spent reading the links shared by people I follow on Twitter. I also enjoy conversing with my Twitter friends ...
Tweets From Japan: Shining Hope Into The Darkness
It seems like I've started dozens of articles with this same sentence: I love Twitter. However, each day I find more reasons why Twitter is such a fabulous place to hang out. Whenever there are tragedies happening around the world, I can always find some sort of peace and comfort on Twitter. Have yo ...
How To: Be Awesome On Twitter
I've written 1,200 articles here on Bit Rebels, and many of them are about Twitter. It's a topic that never gets old to me. When I started on Twitter back in 2009, there weren't very many articles that explained the whole Twitter dynamic. Those of us who were on the site regularly just had to fig ...
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Are We REALLY Addicted To Social Media? [Infographic]
We see it in tweets all the time. People send things like, "I'm a Twitterholic" or "I invite you to a Twitterholic Anonymous meeting." Most of us, or at least most of the people I know, either love their Facebook or their Twitter, and they check in on those sites every day.
I've always thought ...
For Your Next Tweet Up: Twitter Inspired Beer Glasses
We have featured a lot of Twitter inspired designs, and one thing I'm noticing as time goes on is that they are getting more and more creative. It's a really neat progression to watch. It seems artists and designers are growing as fast as the site itself.
For example, it used to be that most Tw ...
A Sweet Granny Reads Conan O’Brien’s Tweets
Take it from me; a girl can get tired of writing about intellectual topics. I mean, my brain was completely fried after writing about how to make edible panties from noodles and how to shave your entire head in 24 seconds. Every now and then, I have to take a break from things that truly make a di ...
Twitter Rings: Save Your Favorite Tweet or DM Forever!
Have you ever received a special tweet or DM that you wanted to save forever? I have. When I get a tweet that I want to save, I put it into my "favorites" right away. I have thousands of tweets favorited. I really need to go through them, but that is topic for a different post. When I receive a ...
Twitter’s Top 75 Badass Women
A while back my dear friend HowellMarketing and I had a conversation about the influential and inspiring women on Twitter. We were both in awe of how many like-minded, talented, hard working, smart women we had become friends with as a result of Twitter. We talked about how we should write an articl ...
The Twitter Thesaurus: Gives You Shorter Synonyms
If you are a Twitter addict, or someone who wants to appear less intelligent than you really are, you may like this site. It is a "word-shortening thesaurus." Oh wait; using shorter words makes you look smarter, right? I don't know, all I know is that you'll fit more words into your tweets, and t ...