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1 Dec 2009

Today is my 31st birthday. A year ago today, I was working at a job I hated. After work, Harry threw me a party, complete with both our families and baked me a Funfetti cake. I had heard of Twitter, but had not yet joined. Had you asked me a year ago today what [...]

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HOW TO: Use Refollow to Manage Your Followers on Twitter

In: How To| Internet Tools| Twitter

28 Nov 2009

There are a lot of different third-party applications that claim to make your Twitter experience even better. One has certainly come in more handy than others for me, and that is Refollow. I have found with the more followers I get on Twitter, it becomes a lot more tedious to keep up. Once I discovered [...]

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Tags: Follower management, Followers, Following, How To, internet, Refollow, Twitter

#LITweetup Helps! A Success for Island Harvest

In: Events| Life| Twitter

17 Nov 2009

For the past few weeks, I have been involved in planning the #LITweetup Helps! Food Drive. After just a few short weeks, myself and a great group of 4 other people planned a series of 3 events to benefit Island Harvest. It feels so good to help others, especially during this time of year.
During the [...]

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Tags: charity, food drive, long island

Does Your Twitter Background Need Some Work?

In: Deals| Twitter

3 Oct 2009

When I first started on Twitter, my background was a Dave Matthews Band wallpaper. It was fine for me then, but I felt like there was so much more to me then DMB. So I designed a new background:

Since I made it in March of 2009, I’ve gotten at least one @ reply a day [...]

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An Open Letter to Kanye West

In: Celebrity Gossip| Music| Television| Twitter

14 Sep 2009

Dear Kanye,
I forgave you when you had a hissy fit at the Grammy’s in 2004 claiming you were robbed of the Best New Artist award. Everyone has a bad day. I forgave you in 2005 when you said “George Bush doesn’t like black people” during the Katrina Benefit. Partially because I really disliked George W. [...]