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Retweet with Link

Twitter users are familiar with retweet. A tweet is a 140-character-or-less text which is supposed to be an answer to the question "What are you doing?" . Twitterers compose these texts and publish them in Twitter. Anybody can read those short texts. As a Twitterer you either compose text like that or follow other Twitterers to read their texts. Because the short text is like a short burst of words people tend to refer to it as 'tweet' which matches the sound of Twitter that purposely carry a bird in the logo. A retweet is a copy of somebody else tweet. You should acknowledge the author of the original tweet in your retweet. This is done by starting the retweet with ' RT @author: '. Replace 'author' with the Twitter handle of the author of the original tweet. Supposed that @ chelahmy tweets "Heavy rain in Kuala Lumpur. S.M.A.R.T. tunnel is expected to be closed" . @chelahmy is a Twitter handle. If you want to retweet @chelahmy then you sh

You've Landed Here Because of My Retweet

You must have clicked on a link in a retweet that bring you here. The retweet starts with ' RTL ', which stands for ' retweet with link ', and ends with a link pointing here. This has nothing to do with the content or the author of the tweet that I reweeted. You may want to learn more about retweet with link here . If you have landed here not because of a retweet then you may want to search Twitter with keywords ' RTL @chelahmy ' where this link appears on those retweets. Generally this link is shortened on those retweets. Why I place this link when I retweet? I do this because I want to promote my blog. I don't blog that often. I am a software programmer and right now I am programming around Twitter. You may find that most of my blogs are about my ideas around Twitter. I would like to write about my programming in Twitter but that may come once in a while. Ideas will come more often. There is not much different in term of process to come up with an idea a

Twitter E-Books

Why e-books? I have been asking this question since the beginning of wiki and search engine. I believe many of you are asking the same question. We can just do googling to search for any information. Chances we will land on a wiki page with our first search result. We all know that almost all information today are free. As free as the Internet. Again, why e-books and pay for the prices like the print books? I would rather buy a print book myself. I will answer this question from the content point of view. The only reason that an e-book is better than print book is because there is no actual print book that you can find in any book store for the said e-book. Well, majority of e-books on the Internet fall into that category. An e-book organizes its content just like a book. We read an e-book using a computer or an e-book reading device. We can print an e-book for off line reading but we have to bind it ourselves or get a printing and binding service to make it look like a print book. For

Viral Tweet Instruction

This is a scheme to generate viral tweets. Do it only for good causes. 1. Tweet something that will make people want to know more about you. Or, tweet something that will lead people to your blog or website. Make sure you place a link to your blog or website in the tweet. 2. Retweet the latest tweet by the person X who introduce you to this scheme via Twitter direct message. * 3. Also retweet the latest five retweets by the same person X. Do the earlier retweet first. 4. Send a direct message to people you know to tell them about this scheme. Make sure you provide them with the link to this instruction . You may copy the same direct message you received from person X. * If you get into this instruction not from a Twitterer then you may assume that person X is @chelahmy . And the direct message can be something like this, "Make your tweet viral to reach as many people as possible http://bit.ly/ipNym ". Good luck! May this scheme works for you. If you feel that the schem