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miru667 · 1 year ago

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Thanks to everyone who tried out my quiz! xDDD I'm happy with the scores, it seems that I set the right level of difficulty! Below I'll talk about the results:

Favourite colour: Started out with a hard question, I see! This would've been an easier question years ago when my self insert's default outfit was a red hoodie! It's hard now since I've got lunchlady miru and death god miru now, and neither of them wear any red (except for lunchlady's red hair tie), plus all I draw is Audrey now who also doesn't usually wear red LOL. The other colours are there to try to trick you - I knew some ppl thought I had an affinity to orange since Audrey is orange, and green is there for those of you who relate me more to onceler. Green and teal are more Audrey's favourite colours, although I super love teal as well.

Home fandom before the onceler fandom: This also tripped some people up I'm guessing because I've stated multiple times before that the onceler fandom was my first fandom - that I was ACTIVE in. Kingdom Hearts was my heart and soul for almost 10 years until the Once-ler came in! I just was always a quiet loner who enjoyed media my own way with maybe 1 other irl friend. I was a huge fan of Beyblade too, but it only lasted about 5 years before I went back to KH, my home. And Steven Universe (2013) came out after the Lorax (2012), so that one's just plain wrong if you remember that I was in the onceler fandom since 2012.

Where does the 667 come from: This one was answered publicly on my tumblr blog more than once! https://miru667.tumblr.com/post/37104426699/ive-always-wondered-whats-with-the-667-in-your It was a two part answer, so you had to just pick the most accurate one. Robert Schumann is there to try to trick you since his name is close to Schubert.

Where was I born: I thought that maybe this would be tricky because just because I'm a Canadian living in Canada doesn't mean I was born there, but almost everyone got this one! Nice!!

Audrey Grace is: my darling niece!! HAHA SORRY this one tripped people up because yeah she's also my OC. But she's not JUST my oc, yanno? She's the apple of my eye, and I refer to her as my niece quite often, to every single person online and offline. More than half got this correct! Good!

Who is my wife: I've been tagging Elsa as my wife on my sideblog for years! The Once-ler is there as an option to trip up the ppl who think I still see the onceler that way. xP I don't! He's just my roommate now. I'm flattered that a few people thought I had an irl wife though omg...in my dreams lmao.

My fav artist/band: OOF this one tells me I'm not talking about my fav band enough! No one should feel bad, I agree it was the hardest one. MCR is a very close second to iDKHOW and going to that MCR concert was the peak moment of my life, and I talk about how much I love christmas music all the time on twitter, and I reference Taylor Swift a lot because of Audrey and because she's current (and I also genuinely love tswift, her stuff is pure poetry and she's a genius). But iDKHOW's music...man it's like they can't make a bad song to me. Morbidly cozy romantic vibes just reach all the way to the depths of my soul and make me feel healed and cradled. Two of my drawings were inspired by their songs: [link] [link] I think it's just that they're not as active as much and not many other ppl really know them so I don't really get a chance to mention them often? But in general I also just...don't talk about my interests that often, that's just the way I am aaaaakjhfg

Audrey Grace's fav food: Anyone who's seen her in RP long enough would know this answer, plus I've stated it directly in a self reblog recently (now deleted). This post on her blog was also a clue: https://audtreegrace.tumblr.com/post/699641281660551168/your-hair-looks-like-pumpkinpos I don't blame anyone for choosing any of the other answers though, because she LOVES those foods too and I've shown it in artworks!

Siblings: Phew I was watching the results and for a while there a lot of ppl thought I was an only child? lksfjhgld do I really have only-child vibes omg (don't answer that). In the end, more than half of you got the right answer so, good!! I love my younger sister so much, she's the original inspo for my Audrey, and I'm sure I've mentioned that on multiple platforms.

What I look forward to every spring: This question is easy for my twitter followers! I mention cherry blossoms every year on twitter, and share my photos. People who know me would also remember my bday is in the winter, not spring, and that I don't really care about the lack of sunshine during winter, which is my fav season. So those two answers are out by process of elimination. As for the onceler fandom anniversary...yeah, for the third time I've tricked you LMAO IM SORRY;;; I just wanted to wave to those who know me for more than onceler. :,) It's not that I don't care about the fandom anniversary - I do care about it! But I don't wait for it with anticipation like I do with cherry blossoms. But most ppl got this answer anyway so I feel loved!

And that's it! Thanks for reading if you did! I'm not offended by anyone's score at all, this was soooooo fun for me LLOLL xD

I made a friendquiz! 10 questions to see how well you know me :3 Though tbh I think you'd have to have followed me on twitter for a while to stand a chance haha ^^;; But it's a good way to find out some random facts about me anyway, so feel free to try!

#mirusays #long post #obnoxious post where i talk about myself

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autoirishlitdiscourses · 4 years ago

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Discourse of Wednesday, 03 February 2021

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larrysmymedicine · 4 years ago

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someone posted a link to a dropbox that had the show in it and i was able to watch it. it was amazing and i loved it!! louis looked so good and his voice? ugh so amazing. i love him so much. and i loved his new song? it was perfect. and like props to his band! they sounded so great with their backing vocals! did you see the news about his livestream breaking records? the biggest male solo livestream of the year! he did that! we did that! no promo, no major label, and louis is still this successful. i’m so proud of him.

yes!! a fellow slytherin! hello! it’s amazing that i’m a slytherin because i also feel like i’m hufflepuff sometimes? hufflepuffs and slytherins make good friends though so that doesn’t surprise me. but i’ve taken so many sorting hat quizzes, including the pottermore one ages ago, and i still got slytherin. most recently though i took the sorting hat chats quiz, it’s the most in depth sorting quiz i’ve ever taken and it’s incredibly detailed. i got primary and secondary slytherin with that quiz and i can’t deny the accuracy of it. once you have time, you should take it! it’s really fun! sortinghatchats dot wordpress dot com has a link to the quiz.

how long have you been a potterhead? personally i’ve love hp since i saw the first movie on tv, i was never allowed to read the books as a kid, but i didn’t start really getting into it until 2005. goblet of fire had just come out and i wanted to watch the movie so badly. then my family got our first computer that christmas and i was able to look up clips from the movie. i found youtube that way, then fanvids, which introduced me to the concept of fanfiction, and that was it lol. as soon as i started reading hp fanfic i was done for and i’ve been in the fandom ever since.

i hope you’re having a great holiday season! hopefully it isn’t too cold (or hot? depending on where you live)! it’s not as cold as i would like it to be here. it’s decent but still gets hot around midday which sucks, but at least it’s been getting cooler at night. - holiday pal

That's so great that you were able to catch Louis' show.... It was sssssoooooooo ammmmmaaaazzziiiinnnnggggg!!!!! I'm still not over it... And COACOAC is just 🤯🤯😍😍🥰🥰❤️❤️💕💕 I'm so proud of him!!!!

Growing up I was more into the Indian movies/series so didn't really get into the HP fandom untill 2013/14 I guess.... Somewhere around that time, my cousin introduced me to HP movies... I loved them so much that I read all the books.... Bye Books>>>>>Movies

I'll definitely take the quiz that you mentioned once I have some time to spare...

As we spoke earlier I'm working on the research paper on 1D... It's been a mess actually... I have just 20hrs left to submit it and shit load of work to do and also try and get some sleep... I hope I'm able to finish it on time....

As for the weather, it has been unpredictable here with rains, hot and cold all coming together in a weird ass way...

Hope you have a lovely day!

Thank you for writing to me!

Be Safe!

TPWK 💕

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un-enfant-immature · 6 years ago

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This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day

Not all the bots on Twitter are spammers or democracy hackers. You may recall seeing requests to the Thread Reader app bot to “unroll” a long thread into readable copy, for example, and in more recent days you may have spotted Twitter users tagging a newer bot, @this_vid, on tweets with a video file attached. The handy bot (aka DownloadThisVideo) offers a way to download both videos and GIFs from Twitter’s site for easier offline viewing.

The idea for @this_vid comes from Shalvah Adebayo, a backend developer born and raised in Nigeria, and currently living in Lagos. Shalvah says he got into development back in 2013, during his final year of secondary school (high school).

“There was a kid in a lower class that people talked about in awe — ‘he knows programming!,'” explains Shalvah. “I had no idea what it was then,” he continues. “I watched a command-line quiz application he’d made, and I was impressed. I’d won a laptop in a competition a few months back, so the next day, I walked into the only computer shop I knew and asked them for ‘Programming videos.’ They gave me something on C++. I watched those at home that day and went back the next day to buy the actual software (the IDE). That was how I started writing C++,” he says.

Since then, Shalvah moved from C++ to Android development, then web development. He went to university and then quit, and began working in the tech industry. Today, Shalvah works full-time as a remote software engineer for an engineering consultancy and product design company in South Africa called Deimos Cloud.

He builds apps in his spare time as side projects, and has previously open-sourced other bots like @RemindMe_OfThis, which lets you set reminders by tweets, and TwitterThrowback, which is like Twitter’s version of Facebook’s “On This Day” feature.

However, the Twitter video downloader bot has become one of his more popular creations, and is now seeing around 7,500 user requests per day, and as many as 9,500 at peak times.

Shalvah explains he got the idea because it was a personal pain point. Internet access where he lives can be spotty, and the Twitter app’s video experience was not ideal. He said he preferred to download the videos to watch them offline, but couldn’t find any easy way to do so.

“I knew of a couple of sites and apps that did that, but I don’t like installing apps, and I didn’t like the friction involved in using a site,” the developer says. “Plus, I wanted an asynchronous process, where you could just say ‘hey, I want to download this’ and continue browsing Twitter and come back later to pick up your download.”

Plus, Shalvah says he saw a lot of other Twitter users asking how they can get the video posted in nearly every popular thread where someone had tweeted a video.

The bot, @this_vid, has been up and running since May 2018. After sending it out first to his own followers, Shalvah then began to point people to it whenever he saw them asking on a thread how to get a particular video that was shared. This led to its increasing popularity around Twitter.

“I think it really solved a problem for a lot of people, and that was what made it so popular. So there were quite a lot of people, both friends and strangers, that tweeted about it to their followers, and it just kind of grew organically,” he says.

There are some videos that @this_vid can’t download, because the poster — often a sports organization (e.g. The NFL ) — has restricted it from downloads. But in most cases, all you need to do is mention @this_vid in a reply to the original tweet, and you’ll receive a link with the video download in a few minutes.

The bot works by querying the Twitter API for the tweet data, and then retrieves the media URL along with a few other fallbacks.

Because Twitter is rate-limited, allowing the bot only 300 tweets every three hours, Shalvah made the download link for each user easy to remember at: download-this.video/Twitter_username. That way you can get to your downloads even when the bot can’t reply.

The bot itself is free to use, open source and supported through Patreon donations.

There’s some concern that people could download videos they don’t have the rights to through a bot like this, or publish them elsewhere and take credit. Shalvah says he doesn’t believe the bot is in violation of Twitter’s copyright policy, developer terms or rules.

So far, most people seem to be using the bot for personal use. But Twitter hasn’t always been kind to third-party developers, so it remains to be seen how long @this_vid will last.

Shalvah says he intends to keep @this_vid free and will continue to develop it.

#TechCrunch

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stevishabitat · 4 years ago

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Pile of Good Things: Car Brand Bingo

So following from that post about the car brand quiz, here is the bingo card I made for my kiddo for car rides. Car brands are one of kiddo’s special interests (also my mom’s, and kiddo’s other parent’s, so we are a car-loving family for sure!).

On the long drives to therapy and to drop kiddo of with their other parent, we often play Car Brand Bingo, along with other car games. It’s one of my tools to keep us both from getting a little cranky on long trips.

If Car Brand Bingo is your jam, please feel free to print it out and use it! Or DM me and I can send you a Google Doc link for a better quality print :-D.

Note: This is US-centric, the most common brands we’re likely to see here in the Midwest, your mileage may vary if you live in another region. I do know I’m missing a few prominent brands, kiddo has already told me. I intend to make another one at some point, either as an alternative to this one, or with a bigger grid to handle more brands.

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“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.” - Eleventh Doctor, “Vincent and the Doctor”

I’ve been photo-journaling since 2013. It was the first time I’d really dealt with persistent depression, and I was able to figure this one thing out. If I took pictures of the moments when life didn’t suck, when I noticed beauty or had a moment of curiosity… If I took a picture in that moment, then I could look back at it later… in the moments when my brain was shouting at me that everything was terrible and I felt like a failure.

I’ve not shared much of that here on Tumblr, because I don’t feel like my personal stuff is interesting enough, and my photos aren’t really pretty, and I don’t have an aesthetic.

But after seeing a few posts about people finding the writing thing hard, or other suggestions for dealing with depression didn’t work for them. I kind of wanted to show a different approach.

So this is what works for me.

Full disclosure, I also take medication, I have some support in the form of my mom, I’ve gotten out of an unhealthy relationship, and I finally managed to find a treatment for my chronic illness. So no, nice pictures are not the end-all of dealing with depression or anxiety. But it’s a thing that can be helpful in a very real way.

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filipeteimuraz · 6 years ago

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Be a Better Teacher and Writer: 6 Teaching Techniques You Should Know

Marketing is a chance for education.

Sometimes, marketing takes the form of entertainment, but often, you get to assume the role of a teacher.

This is really powerful. You can become one of the few educational influences in most people’s lives after they leave school.

Beyond helping your business grow, inbound marketing allows you to make a real impact.

Partly, that’s why I’m still so passionate about it even after all these years.

Once you start thinking of yourself as an educator, you can become an even better marketer by learning from traditional teachers.

I’m going to show you 6 different teaching techniques you can use to make your marketing content even more useful to your readers.

1. Use the “desire” method

You might already be using this method even if it’s not intentional.

The “desire” method is all about getting students’ attention.

Think of an average class, even at the university or college level. Most students don’t want to be there.

They feel like they’re learning something that probably won’t be very useful and just want to know what’s on the exam so that they can pass it.

One of the main reasons for this is because lectures are set up to teach about a topic, not to satisfy a desire.

For example, in a computer science course, you might have a lecture about sorting algorithms or asymptotic complexity.

Even if you have an interest in computer science, those titles alone won’t get you excited about learning.

What happens in the first few minutes of those lectures?

More or less the same thing every time. It’s usually a slide about “what you will learn,” which again just lists the specific things included in that topic.

The solution is to build desire: What if you started off with the benefits of learning the topic?

Back to our example about asymptotic complexity, which basically just classifies how fast an algorithm can run (how complex it is).

What if, as a teacher, instead of saying that your students will hear a lecture on “asymptotic complexity,” you say that they will learn how to “find inefficiencies in code and speed up their applications.”

That’s already more attractive and speaks to what students really want to learn.

The intro slides could focus on how coders at Google use the concept of asymptotic complexity in their daily work. Or how a long-time coding problem was solved because someone found a way to reduce the complexity of the coding solution.

Using the desire method in your content: This concept is all about focusing on benefits to readers and customers. More so, it’s about conveying those benefits in the headline and at the beginning of any content.

While many marketers don’t know why they do it, this is the reason why having a benefit-driven headline is so important. If you’re teaching something that will help your reader accomplish something, make it clear!

In addition, your introduction is your chance to show your reader what could be possible if they learned what you are about to teach. Cite statistics, case studies, personal experiences, and anything else that shows how great the results can be.

2. Games are more fun than work

Ask anyone whether they’d rather read a textbook or played a video game, and you’ll get the same answer 99% of the time.

Educators have realized that students learn better if they are fully engrossed in a lesson, which happens if they are having fun.

That’s where the concept of “gamification” came from.

No, you don’t have to create a video game for your content, but there are ways to make your content more game-like and fun for readers.

Let’s look at a few ways you could do this.

Example #1 – Quizzes can be fun: A quiz can be either fun or boring, depending on the topic.

Online quizzes draw engagement and grow in popularity when done right—that’s a fact. A study of 100 million articles in 2013-2014 found that 80% of the most popular pieces of content were quizzes.

For example, the top one was: “What Career Should You Actually Have?”:

By framing it around fun careers (Oprah on the intro image), the creators drew people to the quiz.

When you create a piece of content, consider designing a quiz to go with it.

There are many free tools, such as Qzzr, that you can use to create a quiz. You just copy and paste the HTML code that it gives you into your content:

If you use WordPress, you could try the SlickQuiz plugin, which allows you to create quizzes from inside your admin panel:

Another benefit of using quizzes is that most people who take them will consider sharing their results with friends, bringing you additional traffic.

Most quiz tools include social sharing buttons on the results screen to encourage sharing.

Example #2 – The M&M’s pretzel scavenger hunt: This was a fun but simple game that M&M’s made in 2013.

The whole came consisted of one simple picture in a Facebook post.

The objective was to find the hidden pretzel man in the image. Even without getting any prize, Facebook users loved the simple game and shared it with their friends.

This game resulted in 25,000 new likes on the product’s Facebook page plus over 10,000 comments and 6,000 shares.

Example #3 – How Heineken successfully used an Instagram game: During one of the biggest events in tennis, the 2013 US Open, Heineken created an Instagram account.

A new account was loaded with 225 pictures of people in tennis audiences.

To win the game, you had to follow clues in the pictures that led you to the final picture.

It was essentially a complicated scavenger hunt.

This game lasted only 3 days, but Heineken increased its follower count by 20%.

3. Start with pain

This tactic goes well with the desire method (from #1 above).

People are motivated in two main ways:

To get benefits

To avoid pain

It’s natural to want to get good things and avoid bad ones.

Focusing on inducing desire was about the benefits. It’s achieved through showing what learning about your topic will do for your reader.

Here, though, you want to drill home what will happen if they don’t learn from your content.

For example, if you write a guide to correct posture, you could point out that if the readers don’t learn from your guide, they may develop poor posture, accompanied by back and neck pain and chronic discomfort.

Desire and pain can be used together, or they can be used separately.

Here are a few headlines that focus on benefits:

4 Ways to Boost the Conversion Rates of Your Link Building

5 Ways to Make Your Content Mobile-Friendly for Increased Traffic and Engagement

Here are a few that focus on pain:

7 Warning Signs Your Free WordPress Theme Is Sabotaging Your Blog

Don’t Get Left Behind: The 8 Most Effective Link Building Tactics For 2015

The same goes with your introduction. Pain, especially if the reader is already aware of it, is a great way to get their full attention.

If you illustrate the pain well, readers will pay close attention to your work, which will result in better learning.

4. Chunking works wonders

There’s more to teaching than just getting the attention of your students.

You also want to teach your material in a way that maximizes how well a student learns as well as remembers what you taught.

That’s where chunking comes in:

Chunking involves breaking up a complex topic into smaller “chunks.” Studies have shown that this improves short-term memory retention.

The classic example is phone numbers.

Most phone numbers consist of 10 individual numbers, for example: 2338223948.

If someone just read out those numbers, they’d be hard to remember. However, if you separate them into three chunks, it gets a lot easier: 233-822-3948.

Applying chunking to content: The main principle behind chunking is breaking down something tough to learn into smaller bits.

When it comes to content, you can use that in two ways.

First, divide up your content into smaller subsections by using subheadlines.

If you look through any of my posts, you’ll notice that I have subheadlines every 200-300 words.

While there’s no specific length you need to aim for, make sure the subsections don’t get too long. If they do get long, break them up again into further subsections (usually h3 or h4 tags).

Next, you can apply chunking to paragraphs. It’s hard to focus and learn reading long paragraphs.

You should have 2-3 sentences per paragraph maximum in almost all situations. You can see that I have short paragraphs like this one in all the content I create.

This is a simple change that makes a big difference.

5. Understand and use VAK

Something that educators need to understand is that not everyone learns the same way.

One popular viewpoint is “VAK,” which stands for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Or in regular terms: seeing, hearing, and touching.

Different people learn best in different ways. Some need to touch things to learn, while others prefer seeing.

However, the vast majority of people learn best when more than one (or all three) ways of receiving information are involved.

To illustrate this concept, let’s go through an example.

Pretend you were teaching how to pump up a basketball. Here are examples of different ways to teach it:

Visual: Write a blog post on how to pump up a ball; you could include pictures. Or create an infographic, detailing the process.

Auditory: Create an mp3 recording explaining the steps.

Kinesthetic: Give a student a deflated ball and pump, and explain how to pump it up (would also include a visual or auditory explanation).

Visual+Auditory: Create a video that shows you pumping up a ball and explaining how to do it.

As you can see, there are multiple ways you can teach a topic for each learning type.

In addition, you could create multiple forms of content for a single topic. For example, you could create a podcast narration of a blog post so that your audience could both read (visual) and hear it (auditory).

The takeaway here is to try to involve multiple ways of learning for all your content. If you can get your audience to take action (i.e., go find a ball to work on), you can involve kinesthetic learning as well.

6. Engagement leads to knowledge

Many studies have shown that the more engaged students are, the better they learn.

The term engagement covers a bunch of different concepts, but it usually refers to any time when a student is actively doing something while learning. Examples would be things like asking questions, talking productively with peers, thinking, and answering quizzes.

While some of the other techniques we’ve looked at are difficult to apply online, improving engagement is very possible—not only in your content but in other areas of marketing like social media and email.

For example, we’ve already looked at including quizzes in content, which is an opportunity for students to engage.

Additionally, you can change how you write content and the type of content you write in order to get more engagement.

Here are some other guides that dig into this topic in more detail:

7 Psychological Principles to Get More Engagement on Social Media

How to Cut Your Bounce Rate in Half with Interactive Content

5 Engagement Metrics That’ll Help Improve Your Search Rankings

Conclusion

Being a teacher is a big responsibility, especially online, where you could be teaching thousands with your content.

By using the proven teaching techniques described in this post, you can help your readers learn better and take more action.

Ultimately, you’ll make a bigger impact, which will also benefit your own business.

Many of these techniques can be combined, so use any or all of them—whatever applies to your content.

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This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day

However, the Twitter video downloader bot has become one of his more popular creations, and is now seeing around 7,500 user requests per day, and as many as 9,500 at peak times.

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However, the Twitter video downloader bot has become one of his more popular creations, and is now seeing around 7,500 user requests per day, and as many as 9,500 at peak times.

Plus, Shalvah says he saw a lot of other Twitter users asking how they can get the video posted in nearly every popular thread where someone had tweeted a video.

The bot works by querying the Twitter API for the tweet data, and then retrieves the media URL along with a few other fallbacks.

The bot itself is free to use, open source and supported through Patreon donations.

So far, most people seem to be using the bot for personal use. But Twitter hasn’t always been kind to third-party developers, so it remains to be seen how long @this_vid will last.

Shalvah says he intends to keep @this_vid free and will continue to develop it.

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This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day

However, the Twitter video downloader bot has become one of his more popular creations, and is now seeing around 7,500 user requests per day, and as many as 9,500 at peak times.

Plus, Shalvah says he saw a lot of other Twitter users asking how they can get the video posted in nearly every popular thread where someone had tweeted a video.

The bot works by querying the Twitter API for the tweet data, and then retrieves the media URL along with a few other fallbacks.

The bot itself is free to use, open source and supported through Patreon donations.

So far, most people seem to be using the bot for personal use. But Twitter hasn’t always been kind to third-party developers, so it remains to be seen how long @this_vid will last.

Shalvah says he intends to keep @this_vid free and will continue to develop it.

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/04/this-handy-twitter-video-downloader-bot-is-now-seeing-7500-requests-a-day/

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This handy Twitter video downloader bot is now seeing 7,500 requests a day

However, the Twitter video downloader bot has become one of his more popular creations, and is now seeing around 7,500 user requests per day, and as many as 9,500 at peak times.

Plus, Shalvah says he saw a lot of other Twitter users asking how they can get the video posted in nearly every popular thread where someone had tweeted a video.

The bot works by querying the Twitter API for the tweet data, and then retrieves the media URL along with a few other fallbacks.

The bot itself is free to use, open source and supported through Patreon donations.

So far, most people seem to be using the bot for personal use. But Twitter hasn’t always been kind to third-party developers, so it remains to be seen how long @this_vid will last.

Shalvah says he intends to keep @this_vid free and will continue to develop it.

Via Sarah Perez https://techcrunch.com

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I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you’ve had a busy week, between getting used to having your kids in school or planning what to do on this long holiday weekend.

Sorry for the folks in “sunny Florida” with plans ruined while dealing with Tropical Storm Gordon. (But you’re welcome for this souvenir to help you remember the occasion.)

I’ve been doing a lot of reading, besides taking my Google IT Support Professional Certificate class on Coursera, so I haven’t been able to share them on this blog like I should. I say “should�� because they follow-up on issues I’ve raised here and you deserve a resolution to what you read here. Often, I put information on social media (my Twitter feed @feedbaylenny is on this page), or in the comments section of blog posts, but it’s only right to follow through in the format you saw it, and update the original. Unfortunately, most media don’t do so.

There may be a lot but it’ll go by quickly.

COMING UP: Watch John Oliver’s show that had fans shut down the FCC’s website. Examples of Trump vs. the media this week. See how NBC and Google called him out in separate incidents. Plus, the bill Bernie Sanders plans to introduce this Labor Day week forcing some huge companies I’m sure you’ve spent money on to cover the cost of government assistance programs their workers rely on.

And please, don’t miss out. If you like what you read here, subscribe to CohenConnect.com with either your email address or WordPress account, and get a notice whenever I publish. I’m also available for writing/web contract work.

Ajit Pai (Wikipedia)

I’ll start with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai being cleared by his agency’s own inspector general. Reuters reported the Donald Trump appointee was under investigation to determine whether he was unfairly biased in favor of the Sinclair Broadcast Group–Tribune Media merger. Just weeks before the deal was announced, Pai raised suspicion by bringing back a rule – the UHF discount – that would’ve helped the largest U.S. television broadcast group stay within national ownership limits. But the inspector general said in his report there was

“no evidence, nor even the suggestion, of impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, favoritism toward Sinclair, or lack of impartiality related to the proposed Sinclair-Tribune merger.”

Of course, the deal never happened since the FCC eventually questioned Sinclair’s candor over necessary sale of some stations. Tribune backed out and sued Sinclair for $1 billion for alleged breach of contract. According to Reuters, Tribune said Sinclair

“mishandled efforts to get the transaction approved by taking too long and being too aggressive in its dealings with regulators.”

Now, Sinclair is countersuing.

“In Delaware Court of Chancery, Sinclair rejected Tribune’s allegations and suggested the companies had been very close to winning U.S. Department of Justice approval.”

It accused Tribune of pursuing a

“deliberate effort to exploit and capitalize on an unfavorable and unexpected reaction from the FCC to capture a windfall.” Tribune called Sinclair’s counterclaim “entirely meritless” and “an attempt to distract from its own significant legal exposure.”

Do you have access to the internet? Of course you do, since you’re reading this. (OK, maybe you’re reading a friend’s printout of this post.) Regardless, in December, the FCC under Ajit Pai repealed many net neutrality rules passed in 2015 during the Obama administration. Think of it as price up or speed down. Those internet service providers (ISPs) you love to hate, according to Variety, had been banned from

“blocking or throttling traffic, or from selling ‘fast lanes’ so websites and other types of content can gain speedier access to consumers.”

But luckily, denying all Americans equal access to a free and open internet got very controversial. Friday, California lawmakers passed a bill what Variety called “the strongest government-mandated protections in the country” and it’s now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Brown hasn’t said whether he’ll sign it. But the FCC ’s repeal forbids states from passing their own net neutrality rules. If Gov. Brown signs California’s bill, this could go to court. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer (think Fios), claims net neutrality stifled investment and burdened ISPs with regulation. Since June, ISPs have been able to make changes as long as they’re disclosed. So far, Reuters reports major providers have made no changes in internet access.

Here’s more controversy from the FCC, and something I hadn’t written about before. This time, the agency is accused of lying to its watchdog, Congress, and it involves a TV comedian. More than a year ago, during the height of the net neutrality debate, the FCC claimed its “comment filing system was subjected to a cyberattack,” according to The Verge. On May 7, 2017, our old friend John Oliver, who I’ve shown on this blog several times, asked Last Week Tonight “viewers to leave pro-net neutrality comments on the commission’s ‘Restoring Internet Freedom’ proceeding.” Oliver encouraged them

“to flood the FCC’s website with the use of memorable links like gofccyourself.com and justtellmeifimrelatedtoanazi.com. That night, the FCC’s filing system crashed.”

LANGUAGE: Viewer discretion advised.

The next morning, senior officials concluded, according to emails uncovered by the inspector general, “some external folks attempted to send high traffic in an attempt to tie-up the server.” Of course, the site was shut down by a surge of valid complaints. Several people disputed the unsubstantiated fabricated traffic claim in emails, but the DDoS theory was passed on to commissioners, like Pai, who told members of Congress (Fake News Alert!) what happened that evening was “classified as a non-traditional DDoS attack.” Now, the agency’s inspector general is reporting

“there was no distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and this relaying of false information to Congress prompted a deeper investigation into whether senior officials at the FCC had broken the law.”

Turns out, an Oliver producer gave the FCC a “heads up” days before running the episode but it never responded, and the commission knew Oliver’s show had the power to move enough viewers to crash their system! According to that busy inspector general’s report, “We learned very quickly there was no analysis supporting the conclusion” that it was a DDoS attack. That’s when FCC officials started being investigated for allegedly breaking the law by providing false information to Congress. But the Justice Department decided not to prosecute.

We knew Facebook has been on the hot seat with Americans angry about how it handled 50 million users’ people’s data, as far back as March, but President Trump was more concerned about Amazon. Then, days later, I reported, “‘Vice President Mike Pence is concerned about Facebook and Google,’ according to a source. He argues those companies are dangerously powerful, and is worried about their influence on media coverage, as well as their control of the advertising industry and users’ personal info.” It looks like the Pence position is winning. Trump spent the week tweeting about fake news and according to Axios, attacked Google “for allegedly silencing conservative voices.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034456273306243076

Ars Technica reported that on Wednesday, Trump tweeted this

“video that claimed, incorrectly, that Google did not feature his first speech to Congress as president.”

(Hit the play button.)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034907478566359041

It also reported Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wrote a formal letter to the Federal Trade Commission, released Thursday, asking it to “reconsider the competitive effects of Google’s conduct in search and digital advertising.” But it wasn’t just Google for Trump.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035209068095434752

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035117507839967232

Politico quoted him as saying,

“I think what Google and what others are doing, if you look at what is going on with Twitter and if you look at what’s going on in Facebook, they better be careful because you can’t do that to people. …I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1035120511259500544

And as you just read, the president also claimed NBC Nightly News anchor “Lester Holt got caught fudging” his tape on Russia, but the peacock network fought back and posted the video of Trump’s extended, unedited interview with Holt last year.

No wonder he hates the media!

Of course, I won’t completely defend the news media from allegations of dumbing down and doing anything for profit in too many cases. But I’d love to see some of these disagreements fought out in open court. I don’t care who sues who. I just want the evidence presented so the truth becomes obvious to everyone.

Wikipedia: Cohen at King’s Garden, Odense, Denmark, Aug. 17, 2013

Also, I want to know why all Lenny Cohen searches show Leonard Cohen the musician instead of me!

As for the big tech companies, Yahoo! Finance reports,

“Wednesday morning, the Senate Intelligence Committee will question Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on their responses to foreign disinformation campaigns. The committee also invited Google CEO Sundar Pichai, but he declined to testify — another Google representative will testify in his place.

“Wednesday afternoon, the House Energy & Commerce Committee will quiz Dorsey on Twitter’s ‘algorithms and content monitoring.’”

NBC News has reported Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the platform’s news feed product since the data issue March, with “more posts from friends and family” and “less public content, including videos and other posts from publishers or businesses.” Now, NBC continues,

“The goal was to make Facebook more social with fewer commercial and product posts. Publishers ranging from big businesses to mommy bloggers are forced to post more content that they create personally, rather than sharing products or affiliate links.

“With these changes, some small publishers claim to see a massive downside.”

What I want to know is why in July, Zuckerberg decided Facebook would not ban Holocaust deniers! Fortune reported,

“Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said he found Holocaust deniers ‘deeply offensive.’ Then he said, ‘but at the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong—I don’t think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong. It’s hard to impugn intent and to understand the intent.’”

So Holocaust deniers are simply uninformed? Are you kidding me, Mark? I would’ve hoped Sandberg, who grew up in North Miami Beach, whose brother David was my high school class valedictorian, would’ve set him straight. The Times of Israel reports Sandberg “said in an interview last year that, as a tech company, Facebook hires engineers — not reporters and journalists.” Personally, I find this would be one fight losing my job over. There has to be a line somewhere. Go far enough and you’re “just following orders” and we know what made that phrase so well known.

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1019619640996171776

Zuckerberg later clarified in an email,

“I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.” Then, he “reiterated a distinction he tried to draw in the interview: Posts that advocate violence will be taken down, but those that peddle misinformation will stay but ‘would lose the vast majority of its distribution in News Feed.’”

Sounds like he has lost the vast majority of his mind!

Also coming up this shortened Labor Day week, Morning Brew reports Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will “introduce a bill requiring major employers—like Amazon, Walmart, and McDonald’s—to cover the cost of government assistance programs its workers rely on…programs like food stamps, public housing, Medicaid, and more.” For years, there has been criticism years about the way Amazon pays and treats workers at its warehouses. According to The Washington Post, the Democratic Socialist said his goal

“is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb about $150 billion in taxpayer dollars that go to funding federal assistance programs for low-wage workers each year. The bill … would impose a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at companies with 500 or more employees. For example, if an Amazon employee receives $300 in food stamps, Amazon would be taxed $300.”

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Keep in mind, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos (another who spent years in Miami) also owns The Washington Post!

Two last things: The cemetery near Detroit finally fixed my grandfather’s grave. In June, it took hours to find the marker since it was buried under inches of dirt. Now, it has been raised and leveled.

And this weekend is the 3?th anniversary of my bar mitzvah. The party had an animal theme, of course, and all the kids got t-shirts like this. (Yes, I’m keeping the specific year as evergreen as the narrator says on that Philadelphia show The Goldbergs on purpose, even though there are readers who were there!)

So that’s about it. All the original pages I found have been updated.

Before I go, I also have to thank every one of you for more than 16,800 page views on this site! The numbers have risen exponentially recently, and I wonder why. Please let me know if there’s anything I should be doing more here.

Leave your comments in the section below, and don’t miss out. If you like what you read here, subscribe to CohenConnect.com with either your email address or WordPress account, and get a notice whenever I publish. I’m also available for writing/web contract work.

Labor Day weekend leftovers I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure you’ve had a busy week, between getting used to having your kids in school or planning what to do on this long holiday weekend.

#Andy Lack #Ars Technica #Gov. Jerry Brown #Jack Dorsey #Leonard Cohen (musician)#Sen. Orrin Hatch #Sundar Pichai #Tropical Storm Gordon #UHF Discount #Yahoo! Finance

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16 Essential Tools for Digital Marketers in SMEs

16 Essential Tools for Digital Marketers in SMEs written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing

Like any good craftsman, a digital marketer needs tools to perform to the best of his abilities each day.

Through the years working in marketing, I’ve tried and tested a lot of tools. Some bad, some good and a very few extraordinary. I’ll focus on the latter group today and hope this essential selection will help you do things better, quicker and more efficiently.

A digital marketer these days wears many hats: some of us are content marketers, others focus solely on SEO, but some marketers, especially in SMEs and startups, they do it all. That’s why I’ve chosen tools to help you at every aspect of a digital marketer’s job.

We’ll start with content marketing tools, going from content creation to the SEO optimization of that content, followed by e-mail and social media marketing tools.

Don’t write more content, write better content.

2 million blog posts are being published every single day.

So during the time, it took you to read up to here, about 1000 new blog posts saw the light. Unfortunately, 99% of them will never get to shine.

Why?

Because they don’t add value or stand out.

Of course, standing out is easier said than done. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to turn the odds in your favor.

The first thing you should do is find something to write about. But not just anything, I see a lot of content marketers that have an idea and immediately start writing.

I believe there’s something else you should do first.

Research.

In this day and age, there’s so much data available. So getting an estimate of the potential success of your article BEFORE you write it is a must.

Here are the tools you need to do it:

1. Feedly (Free)

In Feedly, you can follow all your favorite blogs in one space. No need to go visit them all one by one.

It’s pretty straightforward to set up a profile, add some interesting blogs you’re probably already reading and start spotting popular topics. It’s not as difficult as it sounds. Thanks to their popularity metric. (Check out the number column between publisher and title.)

Feedly has a paid plan with a bunch of extra features, but I’ve managed just fine with the free version.

2. Buzzsumo (Paid)

This tool does a little bit more than just show topic popularity. It will tell how many backlinks an article has and more importantly, where they came from.

Awesome for link building. Because guess who makes a great audience to reach out to for link building?

People who have already shared similar content, that’s who.

Buzzsumo offers a free 14-day trial, after that, you’ll need a paid plan. It’s not the cheapest at 99$ per month. If link building is not your top priority, you might want to give this one a pass.

3. Keyword Planner (Free)

Both Feedly and Buzzsumo are great to discover popular topics. But for more in-depth analysis we use Google’s Keyword Planner.

This free Google Adwords tool is developed to discover additional keywords to advertise on, but I also use it to give me a nice idea about the search volumes for the topics I found with Feedly or Buzzsumo. Just type the keywords and it will tell you the average monthly searches and the level of competition. Using these insights will give you an idea of the potential audience for your topic.

PRO TIP: When doing keyword analysis for SMEs we suggest focussing on medium to long tail keywords. They might have less traffic, but there will be less competition and it will be easier to rank higher in Google’s search results page. (SERPs)

4. MOZ (Paid)

A great tool with a ton of features. The main features relevant to us are those which offer an estimated monthly search volume, a keyword competition indicator in Google SERPs and a variety of SEO features to optimize your website on- and off-page. You get a lot of bang for your buck, but at 99$ per month, it’s not the cheapest.

Now we’re all set to start writing about that amazing topic you just discovered. Here are some great tools to help you with the writing process.

5. Grammarly (Free)

Nothing is more embarrassing than a typo.

Enter Grammarly. This free Chrome extension will filter out any mistakes straight away. Which comes in handy when you’re working directly in WordPress or preparing the final version to go live on your site.

With the paid version you can detect more advanced mistakes, but, especially for native speakers, the free version is quite sufficient.

Once it’s written, it’s time to add some flavor to your article. There are many ways to go about it: Librestock, Unsplash, and Giphy are all great resources to find free images and GIFs and spice up your piece.

But if you want a little bit more personality I suggest Canva.

6. Canva (Free)

This intuitive tool will allow you to create your own designs, whether it’s for your article, social media or just to do some basic photo editing.

It has a free version, but for professional use, I suggest the paid version. At 12.95$ a month. It really is a bargain.

Whether you don’t have the time to write one yourself, or you want it written in a specific language, you can always let someone else do the heavy lifting for you. Consider outsourcing the job with these platforms:

7. Upwork (Paid)

Most people in the start-up or freelance world will be familiar with this one: Upwork. Still, I often encounter SMEs who could benefit hugely from this platform, without even knowing it.

Whether it’s for content marketing or web design, you’ll find the best-cheapest-fastest (pick two) man for the job. From experience, I know you can get a fully SEO optimized 800-word article in perfect English for 50$.

8. Fiverr (Paid)

A very similar and often cheaper, but in my experience also less qualitative platform is Fiverr.

In my opinion, it’s more suitable for easy, repetitive tasks, such as email collection or image creation. Most tasks cost 5$, hence the name Fiverr.

9. HARO (Free)

HARO, short for Help A Reporter Out is free and can be used in two different ways.

You can use it to contribute to other articles and become more known in your niche.

Or you can use it to get experts’ thoughts on your topic. It’s an easy way to crowdsource your article.

It’s a free platform, unfortunately, the return isn’t always there.

10. One-Click Quiz Maker (Free)

Content doesn’t necessarily have to be an article. Did you know theNew York Times most shared piece of content of 2013 was a quiz?

But you’re not familiar with making quizzes?

That’s where the One-Click Quiz Maker comes in.

From time to time it’s interesting to shake things up and do something different. And different doesn’t have to mean hard! Simply put in any topic you want to create a quiz about and the tool does the rest.

11. Yoast (Free)

This WordPress plugin is an absolute must for digital marketers. It will tell you immediately how SEO optimized your article is. And, more importantly, it will tell you what to do to improve it.

Topic: check

Copy: check

Images: check

SEO optimized: check

Now that your masterpiece is ready, it’s time to move on to the final part.

Oh, you didn’t think writing it was enough, did you? Just letting it sit there and hoping traffic will come is doomed to fail.

Time to get your piece in front of as many (relevant) eyeballs!

This last set of tools will help you do just that.

Email marketing tools every marketer should use.

12. Mailshake (Paid)

Turn your email marketing into a machine with Mailshake. This awesome tool allows you to set up, schedule and follow up your cold outreach campaigns, metrics to evaluate your campaigns included.

This email tool will set you back 9$/month per user, which makes it a great addition to your list of SME marketing tools.

13. Mailchimp (Paid)

Probably one of the most well-known tools on this list.

Everyone starts small. But with the right resources, you can execute big plans. MailChimp’s features are powerful, but at a price point that works for anyone. You know your business. They’ll help you grow it with their email marketing tool.

The cost varies on the size of your mailing list, if you have less than 2,000 subscribers, you can send up to 12,000 emails for free. I’m not sure on the formula, but to give you an idea: my mailing list has a little over 10K subs, and I pay about 120$/month.

14. Hunter (Free)

Just surf to any website, press the hunter extension icon, and it will scan the site for emails with the same domain and give you a list.

15. Rapportive (Free)

Rapportive, on the other hand, will enrich that email address with information from Linkedin. Very handy in B2B communication to evaluate possible leads.

These two chrome extensions will help you find and verify email addresses. And they go well together like Batman and Robin.

16. Buffer (Paid)

Another well-known tool. This social media marketing tool allows you to easily schedule and create your posts across all social media channels.

Especially for SMEs with a limited budget to spend on social media, Buffer is a great tool to manage all your social media channels on one platform. Create all your posts in one go and you can forget about social media for the week. And at 102$ a year it’s very competitively priced.

Now it’s your turn

That’s it, folks! I personally use these tools on a weekly basis and recommend every single one of them. Depending on your business needs, your mileage may vary, but I’m confident there’s at least one tool that will be valuable to your marketing.

About the Author

Nigel Lindemann works as a digital marketer at Survey Anyplace.

from Duct Tape Marketing https://www.ducttapemarketing.com/tools-digital-marketers/

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