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		<title>Happy Cinco De Mayo &#8211; and My New Twitter Use</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off &#8211; Happy Cinco De Mayo! Kind of cool that it falls on a Tuesday this year. &#62;:-? If you didn&#8217;t know, a little while back a twitter friend of mine said something to the effect of &#8220;I guess my sarcasm didn&#8217;t come through on twitter?&#8221; It didn&#8217;t. So I stated, &#8220;You should have an emoticon that depicts sarcasm!&#8221; That is when I came up with &#62;:-? for her. I now use it all the time when I&#8217;m being sarcastic. What is this new twitter use? For quite a bit now, I have had a contact form on this blog&#8217;s contact page. I have also had it on another page which I call Advertise. Both have been great annoying harbors of stupid ridiculous spammers. I tried another form this morning, which just had more spammers hit it almost immediately. That is when the tweet-god went off in my head. &#8220;Why not just tell people to connect with me via an @ or DM on twitter? Technically Speaking, the above isn&#8217;t a ground breaking twitter use idea, but for me &#8211; at least with twitter I have more control over who follows, who I follow, who I can outright block, [...]]]></description>
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<p>First off &#8211; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_De_Mayo">Happy Cinco De Mayo</a>! Kind of cool that it falls on a Tuesday this year. <strong>&gt;:-?</strong> If you didn&#8217;t know, a little while back a <a href="http://twitter.com/susanisk/">twitter friend </a>of mine said something to the effect of &#8220;<em>I guess my sarcasm didn&#8217;t come through on twitter</em>?&#8221; <strong>It didn&#8217;t</strong>. So I stated, &#8220;<strong>You should have an emoticon that depicts sarcasm</strong>!&#8221; That is when I came up with <strong>&gt;:-?</strong> for her. I now use it all the time when I&#8217;m being sarcastic. </p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/RexDixon"><img src="http://www.rexduffdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/rex-dixon-on-twitter.jpg" alt="rex-dixon-on-twitter" title="rex-dixon-on-twitter" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3661" align="right" height="172" width="276"></a>What is this new twitter use? For quite a bit now, I have had a contact form on this blog&#8217;s <a href="http://www.rexduffdixon.com/contact/">contact page</a>. I have also had it on another page which I call <a href="http://www.rexduffdixon.com/advertise/">Advertise</a>. Both have been great annoying harbors of <strong>stupid ridiculous spammers</strong>. I tried another form this morning, which just had more spammers hit it almost immediately. That is when the <strong>tweet-god</strong> went off in my head. &#8220;<em>Why not just tell people to connect with me via an <strong>@</strong> or <strong>DM</strong> on twitter</em>?</p>
<p>Technically Speaking, the above isn&#8217;t a ground breaking twitter use idea, <strong>but for me</strong> &#8211; at least with <a href="http://twitter.com/RexDixon">twitter</a> I have more control over who follows, who I follow, who I can outright <em>block</em>, and who I converse with via <strong>@</strong> or <strong>DM</strong>. While <em>not</em> ground breaking, twitter just solved a spam problem for me. Feel free to share this idea with others!</p>
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