#Newnewtwitter Keyboard Shortcuts
Twitter's new design, the second one since the mass adoption of the platform, lovingly called #newnewtwitter was just enabled on my account. You can get a nicer output than what's below by pressing '?' in #newnewtwitter. They're pretty useful keyboard shortcuts - if you, like me, find yourself using the Web version more often than anything else.
| Actions | Navigation | Timelines | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Favorite | ? | This menu | G H | Home |
| R | Reply | J | Next Tweet | G C | Connect |
| T | Retweet | K | Previous Tweet | G A | Activity |
| M | Direct message | Space | Page down | G R | Mentions |
| N | New Tweet | / | Search | G D | Discover |
| Enter | Open Tweet details | . | Load new Tweets | G P | Profile |
| L | Close all open Tweets | G F | Favorites | G M | Messages |
| G U | Go to user... | ||||
Twitter Direct Messages Bulk Deleter
If you're a Twitter user and a organisation freak, you're certainly aware that Twitter doesn't give you the ability to bulk-delete direct messages. Back in the days, Damon Cortesi had built a nifty bookmarklet that allowed you to stick it to the man. Problem is, that bookmarklet is now deprecated, due to Twitter's change of layout - most of the stuff just doesn't work the way it used to, so the infamous DM Whacker was laid to rest.
Until I got really fucking tired of all the direct messages. Here's a reboot of Damon Cortesi's DM Whacker: DMDelete-v2.0. It's fast, uses Twitter-specific resources (such as their jQuery and dialogs), and is merciless. Give it a try, all you have to do is drag the link blow to your bookmark toolbar (or wherever you want really), go to your Twitter inbox and click it!
This is beta software! Feel free to relay any feedback you might have after using - it's rather challenging to thoroughly test this piece of code on my own, so there may be random hiccups.
How to use Twitter @replies
Okay, I've had it with "Social Media Experts" being openly clueless about the way one of the main system of their field of expertise works. Let me explain to you how Twitter replies work, it's not rocket science.
Back in the days, @replies would simply be another tweet. The user you were replying to would see it appear in its @mention and the whole process was pretty much client-side. About two years ago, that changed. A lot of you "social media experts" apparently weren't around then. The way @replies work now is much better. When you @reply to a user, only that user will see it in its @mention tab, whether he follows you or not. Everyone else that follows you will not see it. That's a great implementation to avoid having your stream filled with customer service replies, among other things. The kicker here is that everyone that follows you and the user you're replying to will see it as well. It promotes discussion and people jumping in to comment on a "private discussion" you were having.
So please. If you want to reply to a specific user, the first thing in your tweet should be a @reply. Not a "Hi @user". Got it?
If you claim to be a social media expert, don't let anyone catch you doing this or this. Thanks.
Speaking at Podcamp Montreal 2010
Funny story. The PodCamp Montreal people had a full schedule when someone bailed, they put out a call for speakers. I answered, thinking it'd be cool to speak again (after I paid my ticket, too!!) I asked my boss, Martin Ouellette, and a friend, Sylvain Carle, to help me to populate a talk on Social Media titled "Does Social Media Really Exists?" which, interestingly, derived from a 2 minutes discussion at Commun's HQ. Bottom line is, I'm speaking at PodCamp Montreal with Martin Ouellete and Sylvain Carle, Sunday at 10:30. Don't miss it. They made a cool badge that's really too big and so to have it render properly I need to put some text in this article, but I really have nothing more to say about it. It's going to be a debate. If you're thinking of attending, bring your opinions and your voice, because you will be asked to stand up for what you believe in! Hopefully this is long enough...
Small details can make your day
I'm a person who gives ridiculously great importance to small things. Sometimes it's a bad thing - I notice every little thing, meaningful or not, and sometimes it's a good thing - it doesn't take much to make my day or make me happy. I'll give you an example, and you'll understand a bit.
Today's Monday. Everyone hates Mondays, I'm no exception to the rule. I think that Mondays are life's way of getting payback for a nice weekend (I believe that's a quote from Sean Coates or someone else on Twitter). So I don't have high expectations for Mondays. However, I had a pretty good Monday! It started by getting to work, finishing in 3 hours a task that was estimated to 4 hours - then figuring out what I'd do for the rest of the day. I didn't have anything assigned, so I ended up working on my Subversion/TortoiseSVN talk I'll do on the 29th. So while working on that, I had to search for some stuff in the PHP Manual. I remembered I had seen a news posted on the front page that said a new system was online. I guess at that point the evil marketing influence took over, and I suggested on Twitter that someone should redirect all the pages to docs.php.net if we wanted to use that new system. I had it wrong though, but that's not the point. The point is that Rasmus Lerdorf, the PHP man himself, corrected me. It kinda warmed my heart a little that the big guy was talking to me. I guess that's a bit of fanboyism, but whatever. Last time Rasmus talked to me, he was autographing my laptop at the 2007 PHP Quebec Conference, so it's an improvement 
I know, it's stupid, but it's a little thing that just makes me happy, even if he's telling me I'm wrong and I can't read for shit.
