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Unfollowing.net Is Dead, But You Should Still Unfollow Everybody On Twitter

Before Twitter shut it down, for a brief second a service called Unfollowing.net automagically unfollowed your entire feed on Twitter. I did it a year ago, and it was the most amazing thing I ever did. But don't start re-following immediately. Take a week. Be free. Post with abandon. Don't care about what other people think about it. Then rebuild. Slowly. Stick with people, if you can help it.

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Reclaiming Our Old Tweets

Right now, thanks to limits in Twitter's API, you can only access your last 3,200 tweets. I've got like 7,000 or so tweets held hostage in Twitter servers. But Twitter may finally give people access to every tweet they've ever, uh, tweeted with a new download tool. It's not the holy grail — access to every tweet ever — which would be one of the most powerful information tools ever created, but at least it's a start.

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The Apps People Tweet From

If Twitter decides to become more like Facebook, controlling the entire user experience, the numbers would be on its side: By analyzing a million tweets, Ben Mayo discovered that 77 percent of all tweets come from first-party apps. And that's not the only interesting number he dug up. (via)

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Building A Piecemeal Social Network

Adam Pash of Lifehacker on why he's quilted together a social network instead of using Facebook: "Facebook does about everything well enough. It's a full-fledged internet operating system. But like most operating systems, the stock applications aren't as good as the apps and services built by companies who are passionate about one thing."

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The Insane Piracy Rate On Android

Dead Trigger is a super polished first-person shooter I bought for a buck. It's now free on Android, because according to the developer, "even for one buck, the piracy rate is soooo giant, that we finally decided to provide DEAD TRIGGER for free." This is not good: If developers can't make money, they can't eat, and then they can't make games. It's another anecdote to add to the pile that the only way to make money on Android is with ads — which results in crappier experiences all around.

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Who Needs A DSLR Anymore?

Canon is the last to the mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera game — why don't we have a better name for these cameras? — but its shot, the EOS M, looks pretty fantastic: It's got virtually the same guts and video powers as its T4i DSLR, but in a much smaller package. Downside: It's $800. But we may have officially reached a point where, for the aspiring amateur shooter, it's almost questionable if the bulk DSLR is really worth it.

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