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Thursday, August 27, 2009

How to get tweets about breaking news in popular topics

By popular request, we’ve created Twitter accounts to tweet the latest stories in the most popular Alltop topics. Behind the curtain, Twitterfeed is accessing our RSS feeds to automatically generate tweets. Twitterfeed checks each RSS feed every thirty minutes and then tweets the five newest stories.

To put it mildly, these Twitter accounts are very active—think “firehose” level of tweets. But if you want to stay on top of your favorite topics via tweets, it’s the way to go. Here’s a list of what we’ve done so far. Click to follow them.

  • Blogging. Featuring blogs like Problogger, John Chow, and Copyblogger

  • Celebrities. Featuring sites like TMZ, Perez Hitlon, and Go Fug Yourself.

  • Design. Featuring sites like Toxel, Wallpaper, and Josh Spear.

  • Humor. Featuring sites like The Bloggess, Stuff White People Like, and Craftastrophe.

  • Macintosh. Featuring sites like TUAW, TidBITS, and MacNN.

  • News Featuring sites like New York Times, Al Jazeera, and Washington Post.

  • Oddities. Featuring sites like Fark, Weird Asia News, and Laughing Squid.

  • Photography. Featuring sites like Steve’s Digicams, Digital Camera Resource, and Photo News Today.

  • Recipes. Featuring sites like Nibbledisk, 101 Cookbooks, and Cooking Light.

  • Science. Featuring sites like Scientific American, Discovery, and New Scientist.

  • SEO. Featuring sites like SEOMOZ, Searchengine Land, and Matt Cutts.

  • Social media. Featuring sites like ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, and Building 43.

  • Tech news. Featuring sites like Wired, Ars Technica, and TechCrunch.

  • Twitter. Featuring blogs like Twitter Status, Tweetmeme, and Twitter Blog

  • Web design. Featuring blogs like A List Apart, Bokardo, and Smashing

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A man walks into a bar and says "Bartender give me a triple shot of Jack".
The bartender pours, and the man downs it, slams the glass on the bar and says "Another".
The bartender pours another. The man downs it and says "Another".
As the bartender pours the third glass he says, "Mister you drink like you have a problem. Want to talk about it?"
The man says, "Ten years, ten years I've been married to my wife, and today I go home a little early to surprise her, and I find my best friend, MY BEST FRIEND, in bed having sex with her."
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THE TALKING PARROTS

Sources in the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) stated on Sunday that Keti Bunder, about 200 kilometres south-east of Karachi, is a wildlife sanctuary for common fish species, water birds and marine mammals, particularly various species of dolphin.
Wildlife experts and activists have warned that decreasing flow of fresh water has assumed an alarming level seriously threatening all local and migratory marine species, besides causing heavy environmental and ecological losses to the entire costal area, especially Keti Bunder. If the government fails to realise the gravity of the situation and take appropriate measures on an emergency basis, the fallout of the situation could be disastrous for the marine life and ecology of the region.
Certain dolphin species such as bottlenose dolphin, hump-backed dolphin, common dolphin and spinner dolphin swim into the Keti Bunder creek and mangroves forest areas in breeding season.

Aashq Banaya Aapne Ringtones:
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Aashiq Banaya Aapne (Tempo 90 bpm )

18*#, 18#, 1#, 19#, 1#, 28#, 3, 29#, 18#, (hold 7), 9**, 1*#, 18#, 1#, 19#, 1#, 48#, 29#, 1#, 78**, 199*#, 788**, 7, 1*#, 1#, 29#, 28#, 29#, 2#, 18#, 19#, 1#, 78**, 7, 1*#, 1#, 2#, 29#, 28#, 4#, 39, 28#, 19#, 1#, 78**, 7, 199*#

Dillagi Mein Jo Beet (Tempo 140 bpm )

38*, 6, (hold 6), 9, 5, 48#, 3, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4#, 4#, 3, 3, 6, (hold 6), 9, 58, 4#, 4#, 3, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4#, 4#, (hold 3), 9, 7**, 6, 5, 68, 7, 7, 69, 78, 59, 6, 78, 19*#, 78**, 19*#, 78**, 19*#, 78**, 1*#, 7**, 6, 59

Dilnashin Dilnashin (Tempo 125 bpm )

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Mar Jawan Mit Jawan (Tempo 100 bpm )

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