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How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter!

Karen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:15:25 +0000

This is a question that I have been asked before by loads of my friends and I thought I would write a short post on my tips for your mass of DMs or Direct Messages that you may have building up on your Twitter profile.

First of all your DMs shouldn’t really give you any cause for concern, even though they may be a bit of a pain to have loads, they are generally not a problem, but, if you do want to get rid of them, there is sadly no option on Twitter to delete multiple DMs, so how do you do it?

Some time ago you used to be able to use a program called DM Whacker, but sadly this no longer works on twitter, so my advice would be to use SocialOomph (formally TweetLater), besides been able to do stacks of other things, you can also “purge” your list of DMs from Twitter.

You have a choice of all DMs, older than 7 days and older than 30 days, so you can keep some that you may deem important. Yes it’s that simple.

But remember once your DMs are deleted, that’s it, you will not be able to get them back, they are gone for over, so be careful you don’t delete messages that you want to keep

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New CommentLuv 2.80 and A Nice Surprise For Blazing Minds!

Karen — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:10:05 +0000

The mighty CommentLuv plugin has now been updated to version 2.80 and it seems faster than the previous versions and also has some nice new features included in the latest incarnation.

Which I will list for you in a moment, but first let me mention the nice surprise I had from Andy from CommentLuv via Twitter, I was reading in my Twitter time line that the new version was listed in the WordPress Plugins Directory, which I have to admit I don’t visit that often, I use the search from within WordPress for updates etc. But, after receiving this tweet from Andy, I had to check it out!

@BlazingMinds have you seen the new screenshots page for commentluv 2.80? http://bit.ly/bGUe44
June 5, 2010 8:40 am via TweetDeck ReplyRetweetFavorite
@CommentLuv
Andy Bailey

Imagine my surprise and excitement when I saw the second image on the page, were my red headed avatar is in pride of place in a screenshot of how the plugin is displayed.

Many thanks to Andy for this

Anyhoo on to the features of the CommentLuv 2.80

WordPress 3.0 Compatible

Use comments meta table instead of hard coding into the comment content

Drastically improved commmunication with API for comment status changes

Near 100% accuracy for API to identify members links for info panel

New heart icon for registered members. Improves hover rates.

Removed depreciated function to clean old style additional data

Added link to remove someones luvlink data in the comments admin page

Dutch Translation by Rene wppg.me

Added comments_array filter to make Thesis behave

Added check to see if link already added (WP 3.0 compatibility)

thanks to @hishaman for helping the thesis testing

Added code to settings manager to prevent viewing outside wordpress (and fixed the typo later, thanks speedforce.org)

I’ve been a firm fan of CommentLuv since starting my blog and I do recommend everyone using WordPress to installed this superb plugin,

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Another Twitter Phishing Attack, Password Resets Sent Out!

Karen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:16:36 +0000

Sadly it seems that someone has been out Phishing again and earlier I saw a tweet in my timeline from the Safety team at Twitter with regards to the attack and that accounts that they think may have been attacked have been sent a password reset

Some users are being targeted in phishing and/or brute force attacks; we have pushed out password resets to users possibly affected.
June 3, 2010 6:29 am via webReply RetweetFavorite
@safety
Safety

So if you do get an email from Twitter asking you to reset your password, first of all make sure that the link in the email does indeed go to Twitter and no where else and then go ahead with updating your Twitter.

Also: we'll NEVER auto-email you a new password; we use a reset process. Delete email attachments claiming to contain your PW; they don't.
June 3, 2010 6:43 am via webReply RetweetFavorite
@safety
Safety

Be safe and always make sure your email from Twitter is real, if Twitter think that you are at risk then you should have received one of these emails already or you will be getting one shortly, another good point to remember is try not to use website that ask for your Twitter password and only use sites that use the Twitter OAuth for your security when giving access to your Twitter account.

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FollowFriday Helper, a Great Twitter Tool

Karen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:40:30 +0000

Friday seems to come round quicker everyweek and I, like so many others, like to give my support to those that have been kind enough to me over the week by ReTweeting my posts etc, and it can be quite daunting sorting out a list of those that have. and then working out which of the Twitters have retweeted the most or mentioned you the most times over that week and if you are very popular on twitter it can be even more of a task .

So while searching the net I came across a handy [intlink id="retweet-rt-twitter" type="post"]Twitter Tool[/intlink] called FollowFriday Helper…

Once you have logged in with your Twitter account via Twitter Oauth, you can start recommending those Twitters that have been kind enough to have ReTweeted your tweets, mentioned you, ReTweets you’ve made to other Tweeters and even those that have already recommended you in the past, it’s simply to do and when you make your choice a list is loaded up with the Twitters avatar, bio, URL, location and other information about how many tweets they have mentioned you with etc. You can even see the tweets they have made about you, very handy when you want to know what they have tweeted or retweeted.

But the really nice thing that I like about Twitter FollowFriday Helper, is that it’s not just for FollowFriday, you can use it for a selection of other preset hashtags – #FollowFriday #ff #ThankYou #TY #Gratitude #Top #FollowSaturday #FollowSunday #FollowMonday #FollowTuesday #FollowWednesday #FollowThursday #FollowNow #FollowEveryDay #MustFollow #FollowerOfTheDay – plus, you can add your own in the tweetbox, so really you can use it for anything you want, I select my recommendation and then add a line of text at the end saying why I recommend them and then you get a tweet like this:

So if you are looking for a Twitter Tool that will help you with making your FollowFriday recommendations then give this [intlink id="using-twitter-with-your-blogs" type="post"]Twitter Website[/intlink] a try, it’s easy to use and best of all it’s free, what more could you ask for

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Avoiding Twitter Phishing Scams in Direct Messages

Karen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:24 +0000

As you get ever popular on Twitter and you use it more and more, you may notice that you get a lot of DMs (Direct Messages) from other users and a lot of these have links included, though some of these are genuine, other are blatant phishing scams to get your information.

One of these includes the text “Is this you on here?” and once you click this you are taken to the login page of Twitter, this is just a cunning way of stealing your log in details to take over your account, so to put it simply DON’T CLICK IT!

If you have been tricked in to giving your username and password, then change it straight away on the Twitter setting in your profile.

I’ve recently been recieving DMs with regards to “iq scores“, now I’m not sure if these are phishing scams, but I’m not clicking them, if you have found you are sending these DMs then change your password.

So a couple of simple rules to follow:

Never provide your Twitter username or password to any website that looks suspicious.

If you are not sure about a link in a DM then don’t click it.

If the DM is from someone you know, tweet them asking them if they sent it, if they didn’t tell them to change their password.

There you go a few simple rules that should hopefully keep you safer from the Twitter phishing scams..

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How to get rid of all the Twitter Direct Messages

Karen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:26:59 +0000

It can be a real pain in the rear when you get loads of messages in your Direct Messages inbox on Twitter and what makes it worse is you can only delete them one at a time, what a complete headache.

So I was surfing the net today looking for something that would remove mass DMs from Twitter and I found one!

It’s called the DM Deleter and it is so simple to use all you do is add a bookmarklet to your browser and then visit your Direct Messages on Twitter, you will then see a panel appear on your Twitter page like the one below:

Then you just make your selection and press delete, it’s that simple, I just used it and it deleted loads, it’s very useful and anyone using Twitter should use this to spring clean their Twitter messages.

For more information and the bookmark link then check out the DM Deleter..

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