Itamar Kestenbaum

Twitter has been making changes to keep up with the very lingo that has been created around the microblogging service. The word “tweet” was already introduced into the user interface by the tweet-count changing from Updates to Tweets.

Recently, YouTube have made it much easier for users to find friends through Facebook, Yahoo!, and Gmail (which has been possible for a while.) Now, they’re taking on Twitter with a new hashtag attempt. The hashtag is #SubSaturday, short for Subscription Saturday, and it will encourage people to recommend others for subscription the same way #FollowFriday recommends friends for following on Fridays.

These sorts of news are kind of “whatever”, but have to be mentioned:

Apparently, there’s a glitch going on on Twitter where everyone’s tweet count has gone up ridiculously! I just recently tweeted that I had tweeted my eight-thousandth tweet, and my tweet count is now 24,117:

Over the next short while, Twitter will be rolling out a new feature called HoverCards. It’s going to simply be an in-stream profile preview.

Have you ever seen a twitter conversation and wished you could see it in all it’s glory rather than clicking “in reply to” over and over and tracking the conversation in reverse? Well now you can! This tool isn’t new, but it’s a goodie and I think it’s well worth sharing with y’all!

Bill Gates just tweeted out the most curious tweet with a link to a website:

When clicking the link, the first thing that pops out at you is a note from Bill Gates with a signature on the bottom. Here’s what it reads:

This seems to be the weekend for retweet feature releases! I don’t know if this came out this weekend per se, but it’s the first time I’m noticing the new retweet feature being prominently displayed in the stream of my iPhone’s TweetDeck! Pretty freaking awesome. I first noticed it when a tweet showed up in my stream that was not from someone I was following. Then, I realized there was a little yellow retweet sign made famous by twitter’s new project retweet!

Some Background

Yesterday, I wrote a post about how Twitter rolled out Assigned Tweets. That led to a really great discussion with Ross Simmonds (who commented on said post) which went a little something like this:

Come on. You know you’ve thought about it. And if not – at least you’ve thought about whether or not there was a tool out there so vicious and so ruthless as to allow you to easily and with a click of a button unfollow everybody that you are currently following! Well… It exists. And it ain’t pretty: