The second deal was made available today for a new 32-inch Vizio HDTV at Target for 9.99. However, some may have been disappointed or mildly irritated when they found out the code they were given didn’t work.

Leena Rao at TechCrunch points out that on just the second deal offered on this highly publicized account from Twitter, there was already a typo (which was at least corrected within 3 hours).

These things happen. I’ve certainly had my share of typos (not to mention people pointing them out), but with such a new product, that advertisers are probably pumped up about, it’s a little embarrassing to have it happen so soon.

If nothing else, consider it a lesson that proofreading tweets is particularly important if you are using Twitter to push sales – especially if you are providing discount codes.

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Q: I am a blogger and want to cross-post articles from my blog into Twitter?

A: Go to FeedBlitz, type the address of the feed in the Subscribe box and choose Twitter from the subscription options. The other option is Twitter Feed but that requires you to have an OpenID.

Q: I know that TwitPic allows me to post pictures on Twitter but I want to use my existing Flick account with Twitter.

A: Go to TwitterGram and associate your Flickr name with your Twitter account. Now assign a special tag (say Twitter) and any picture that you post on Flickr with that Tag will automatically get posted in your Twitter account as well.

Q: I just ordered a laptop on eBay and the owner shipped it via UPS. I want to track this package on Twitter.

A: Follow TrackThis on Twitter and send this bot a Direct Message with your Airway Bill Number. You’ll be notified each time your package changes location. Works with FedEx, UPS, DHL and USPS.

Q. I want to add events in my Google Calendar using Twitter?

A: Go to Twittercal, add gCal as your virtual friend on Twitter and add events by simply sending direct messages to your new Twitter friend.

Q: Oh! I just saw a spam profile on Twitter that is using my picture and tweets. I want to report impersonation on Twitter.

A: Send a message to Twitter spam watch team at @spam with the suspicious user name.

Q: My Twitter friend just sent me a tweet in French. I want to translate his message into English.

A: Follow twanslate and send a direct message with the text you want to get translated along with the language code of the target language (en for English, fr from French, etc.).

Q: I want to use Twitter as a Gmail Notifier.

A: Create a new Twitter account and set the status of updates as “Protected” so that the updates don’t appear in a public timeline. Now subscribe to your Gmail RSS feed using FeedBlitz and become mutual friends.

Q: I want to use Twitter as an alarm clock to remind me that I have to pick my daughter from school in 30 minutes.

A: Follow timer – send a direct message with the reminder time and it will ping you at that time. For instance “d timer 30 pick daughter”.

Q: I want to use Twitter for ego surfing.

A: Go to tweetbeep and set up alerts for certain keywords and web URLs. You’ll get an email notification as soon as someone mentions you or your brand or your blog posts in their tweets.

Q: While I like the default Twitter search engine, I want to know about other alternatives.

A: Try Tweet Scan and Monitter. Unlike Summize, you don’t have to refresh the Monitter page each time there’s a new result matching your search query. And it support multi-column search so may track multiple keywords on the same screen.

Q: I want to conduct a quick and simple poll on Twitter. Is it possible?

A: Go to StrawPoll and create a poll. Your Twitter contacts can participate in the poll by simply sending an @reply message.

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I order to user Xbox Live to Twitter you need to have registered account with twitter and Xbox live. Xbox Live to Twitter is developed using .Net framework.

Screenshot of Xbox Live to Twitter

Download Xbox Live to Twitter.

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Indian bloggers have this problem because our friends prefer orkut and before this it was not possible to let your Orkut friends know about your tweets. By this application, they would get an idea what twitter actually is!

Moreover, it shows which all of your friends are using Twitkut so that you can follow them. It shows you their combined recent tweets too. This way you don’t have to follow them separately on Twitter. You can simply read their tweets every time you visit Orkut.

It can act as a bridge between Orkut and twitter, I like it personally. Only limitation is that It can only update the activity stream 3 times a day. So, if it has already updated thrice in a day, it won’t update again.

Add Twitkut to Orkut Profile

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