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Twextter Tips - I get how many Tweets per hour?

Unless you’re a serious user and you’ve got a whole lot to say, chances are you haven’t run into Twitter’s hourly limit. Oh, yes, Twitter has a limit alright.
You can make up to 100 calls to its servers per 60-minute period - but that’s not just Tweets. If you look up someone’s bio, check the [...]

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Twextter Tips - Clicking on the twitter lists

We’ve made some useability changes to the way you get information about tweets and users that appear in the tweet lists.
If you click on a user, you’ll get their basic “name, location and bio” status. Click on a tweet and it will appear in the long tweet window. Click the Long Tweet Window and if [...]

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Twextter Tips - What are hashtags?

One of the advanced features starting to get a following in Twitter is the idea of hashtags. These allow Twitter users to join “groups” despite the fact that Twitter isn’t really designed to handle it.
You can get more information on hashtags from http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags and from WildApricot’s Tech Blog.
Hashtags make it easier to follow big events.
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Twextter Tips - How to launch weblinks inside a tweet

One of the things Twextter can do is launch a weblink that’s inside a friend’s tweet.
All you do is click on the tweet with the weblink inside it and when it appears in the Long Message Window popup, click on that popup and your web browser will start up and head to that web page.
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