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Twitter allows to reply to people you are following by appending an “@<username>” in front of the message. But unfortunately, the person you are trying to reply to doesn’t see this reply if they, in turn, are not following you. Of course this impedes some communication , but it turned out that all you had [...]

Twitter has gone from a microblogging service, to a source of news , a social platform and even a communication forum. But the Twitter website and the Twitter interface is completely bird-brained when it comes to facilitating these unintended uses of their service. The solution ? TweetDeck. TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR application (read “black and cross-platform”) [...]

A man condemned to be hanged was sentenced on Saturday. “The hanging will take place at noon,” said the judge to the prisoner, “on one of the seven days of next week. But you will not know which day it is until you are so informed on the morning of the day of the hanging.” [...]