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This article shows how to install Twitter Cards into Blogger - and explains why you might do this if Twitter could be an important source of visitors for your blog. What are Twitter Cards Recently, Neil Patel explained why having social sharing tags installed into your blog can be important, and I've written a little more about it specifically for Facebook and Blogger  here . Twitter, for reasons best known to themselves, have developed their own version of social media meta-tags, called "Twitter Cards".    (Apparently they do make some use of Open Graph tags - but not for Twitter cards displays.) Two things happen inside Twitter when someone tweets a message including a link to a website or blog that has Twitter-cards installed.   Firstly, the message has the words "View Summary" under it, instead of just "Expand". Secondly, when someone in Twitter clicks the View Summary link, more information (ie a "Twitter Card") is shown about the cont...

This article is about how to stop the annoying email messages that Twitter sends when an acquaintance joins Twitter and decides that they think you should follow them there too. What happens if a "friend" invites to you follow them on Twitter A few weeks ago, I got an email message saying that Helen Someone had just signed up to Twitter, and had provided my email address as someone who followed her elsewhere, and who she thought should follow her here too. But I'm already on Twitter, and my account there is linked to a different email address than the one which Ms Someone "generously" chose to share with Twitter. And frankly, I get enough email from her already, the last thing I want her doing is bugging me on Twitter too. So what did I do? Like any sensible person, I deleted the email. But now, every few days, I get an email message like this : ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Helen Someone is still wait...