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Twitter doesn’t allow certain characters in your profile, but doesn’t tell which ones it dislikes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/09

“Bio can’t include ‘invalid characters'”

Oh well: some profile characters give you a “Bio can’t include ‘invalid characters'” error.

This is forbidden:

Makes things work in .NET, Win32, x64, C#, SQL, Visual Studio and Delphi. Married to a cancer survivor. Responsible for brother with IQ<50. @AdestMusica member.

But this is allowed:

Makes things work in .NET, Win32, x64, C#, SQL, Visual Studio and Delphi. Married to a cancer survivor. Responsible for brother with IQᐸ50. @AdestMusica member.

I solved it thanks to these links:

I’m not the only one bumping into this; you can not put imperial height either: [WayBack] eve peyser on Twitter: “WHY WONT TWITTER LET ME PUT MY HEIGHT IN MY BIO I SMELL A CONSPIRACY https://t.co/4CCNgNLTFu”

I tested ‘ and ” so they are not invalid any more.

–jeroen

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TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/12

Especially HTC devices used to store part of the context information like this:

<HTCData><Twitter>id:11111111/friendof:00000000</Twitter></HTCData>

[WayBack] TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter:

Convert any Twitter account’s username or @handle into its respective Twitter ID, or convert ID to username

You can also do the Twitter ID to @handle conversion by URL (at the time of writing, neither existed, which is intentional: replace your own ID there) [WayBack] permalinks – URL link to Twitter user with ID, not name – Stack Overflow:

I could not find a twitter URL that does the conversion the other way around.

–jeroen

 

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Twitter / Settings – see which external applications can post on your behalf

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/08

If you want to investigate or limit the list of external applications that can post on your Twitter account: https://twitter.com/settings/applications

via: [WayBack] Duizenden Twitter-accounts misbruikt door hack TwitterCounter – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Twitter image size suffixes – via: Making silly #latex jokes is much more fun than doing final tweaks in my thesis on #coeffects…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/18

Twitter stores images on twimg.com in various sizes.

You specify the size by adding a colon plus suffix to the URL. No colon plus suffix means a default size.

Suffixes you can use see to come from the media entity in Entities in Objects | Twitter Developers:

  • thumb
  • small
  • medium
  • large

There is one undocumented size: orig

The default size seems to be medium.

Examples (full images below):

media entity observed size URL
thumb 150×150 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:thumb
small 340×325 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:small
medium 600×573 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:medium
(none) 600×573 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png
large 1024×979 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large
orig 1600×1529 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:orig

Thanks to Thomas Petricek [WayBack] who poked fun last year on Twitter [WayBack] at both LaTeX and O RLY (the image meme [WayBack], not the text meme)

--jeroen

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Posting from Google+ to Twitter: an #IFTTT recipe

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/12

A long time ago I setup to post from Google+ to Twitter.

Somewhere close to spring 2015, that stopped with a G+ tweet about FireDAC which linked to my G+ post about it.

I could not find out however how I initiated that post forwarding, so I did some searching, then decided to go the IFTTT route: 10 Easy Steps To Automate Your Google Plus To Twitter Postings – Social Media Strategies & Techniques For Business Professionals.

The page does not allow you to select text or right click, but you can view the source (for instance in Chrome with view-source:http://www.garyhyman.com/10-easy-steps-to-automate-your-google-plus-to-twitter-postings/) so I’ll summarise:

  1. Note your Google+ numeric ID. For me these were 31 digits. Lets call it ####.
  2. Append the ID to http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/ so you get http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/####, then verify it indeed returns an RSS feed
  3. Login to ifttt.com (create an account first if you don’t have one), then create a new THIS source from the RSS feed icon.
  4. Select the link from 2. as source.
  5. Click on the THAT link, and select Twitter (you might need to enable IFTTT for Twitter).
  6. From the Twitter list, select “post a tweet”.
  7. Amend the text if needed (remember you only have 140 characters!), then press Create Action.
  8. Test (you might need to wait for about 15 minutes): indeed it worked as my G+ post got picked up by a tweet pointing to it about 15 minutes later.

Notes:

There are more complex schemes going through FeedBurner which I didn’t try yet:

Other alternatives I might try when IFTTT stops working:

–jeroen

 

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Optimal posting time? (via: Are there optimal days/hours to post questions in order to get visibility and answers? – Meta Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/22

A while ago, i came across this interesting question: Are there optimal days/hours to post questions in order to get visibility and answers? – Meta Super User.

The recommended time 1400 UTC is related to my blog post scheduling behaviour.

Virtually all my blog posts are either (when both apply at the same time, that is pure coincidence):

I schedule posts on Monday through Friday:

Difference between 0600 UTC and 1400 UTC

So why the time difference of about 8 hours between 0600 UTC and 1400 UTC?

That has to do with the public I generally interact with: software developers speaking English, mainly living in European and USA, with a minority in India, Asia and down-under.

  • At 0600 UTC, most Europeans are about to wake up or just arrived at work, so they get fresh content. Still quite a few people from India and Asia are up (returning from work) can read it the same day it was posted. And virtually everyone in the USA is still sleeping, so they get fresh content too.
  • At 1400 UTC, most Europeans are at work, people at the USA East Coast just started working and the rest of the USA is waking up and (hopefully) going to work. So you get a huge group of on-line people online with a high chance if comment/answer interaction on your question: great for getting answers on the same day.

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Interesting try by Tame.it: Your Twitter timeline

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/07

I tried Tame.it for a while to condense my twitter timeline and separate noise from information.

It looks like my tweeps are so disparate that Tame finds it hard to distill the information.

But if you have a similar tweeps, Tame.it could do a much better job.

–jeroen

via Tame | Your Twitter timeline.

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Download your tweets: are you one of the lucky ones that are in the Twitter beta?

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/17

Interesting, when I browse to https://twitter.com/settings/account, there is no option to download all my past tweets yet so obviously I’m not on the beta.

Are you?

–jeroen

via: Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets – The Next Web.

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Dear fellow social media users, please post screen shots as PNG, not as JPEG image files

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/01

I still see many people post screen shots as JPEG images.

JPEG images introduce distortion, and usually are bigger than PNG images.

The PNG images are more crisp, and have more vibrant colors.

So dear fellow social media users: please post screen shots as PNG images.

Comparison: the JPEG on the left is 120 kilobyte, the PNG on the right only 60 kilobyte and looks much better.

JPEG PNG 

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More on Delphi x64 by twitter kylix_rd (Allen Bauer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/11/09

As a continuation of the previous assembly, the new twitter kylix_rd messages on Delphi x64 (and some reactions by Danny Thorpe):

To save people from browsing Twitter history:

kylix_rd:

Interesting x64 fun fact: RIP relative addressing. Some instructions that use a 32bit offset, are interpreted as [RIP+offs].
7 nov

@danny_thorpe Add x64 and it happens even more.
7 nov

Because of the way the Intel instructions are encoded, it is possible to encode the same effective instruction in different ways.
7 nov

You know what would have made the x64 “REX” prefix moniker even better? They could have called it T-REX.
7 nov

As much as people like to deride the aging x86 architecture, I gotta admit that AMD did a fine job of stretching it into 64bit land.
7 nov

@davidheff Undetermined. There are plenty of reasons to deliver them separately. Either way will have no impact on the results.
2 Nov

Be ready for 64 bit: In Delphi XE, this “Component.Tag := NativeInt(Self);” will just recompile in 64 bit.
2 Nov

@davidheff Oh don’t worry… there will be plenty who will find that “limiting”, if only in concept and not in the real world :-)
2 Nov

x64 Fun Fact: JMP opcodes/offsets are identical to 32bit. Can only xfer control to an address +/- 2GB away. Thus the PE image size limit.
2 Nov

danny_thorpe:

@kylix_rd I remember digging through the x64 specs. Fun times til mgmt shut it down. Still have my Amd x64 laptop circa 2003 or so.
8 nov

@kylix_rd You just noticed? :P
8 nov

davidheff:

@kylix_rd is it still on course to be a cross-compiler as announced by Nick – single 32 bit compiler that can create 32 and 64 bit images
from Stavanger, Rogaland
2 Nov Favorite Retweet Reply

@kylix_rd Actually, I wonder whether the compiler wouldn’t give out first at such a monstrous demand
from Stavanger, Rogaland
2 Nov

@kylix_rd Think most of us should be able to avoid creating 2GB images!!!!
from Stavanger, Rogaland
2 Nov

–jeroen

via Allen Bauer (kylix_rd) on Twitter
Danny Thorpe (danny_thorpe) on Twitter
David Heffernan (davidheff) on Twitter

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