Matt Bernier

These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app.  If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app.  I would love it if this could happen. Twitter Features Following/Unfollowing Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature. Search Yep, I want to be able to search. Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed Yep, I would like to have multiple searches Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at… » Read More

I have been doing quite a bit of marketing via Twitter recently.  During this effort, I have noticed a couple of trends in the automatic Direct Messages I am getting when I follow people. (I am assuming that most people have an automatic Direct Message).  Some of them I don’t like, some I understand, and some I feel are inappropriate.  You make the call, I just listed them in generic groups below. Excited You’re following me?  FABULOUS!  U Rock!  Let the tweets begin. Thanks for the follow! You rock Please check out my Young Internet Entrepreneur blog ****** You totally ROCK, thanks for the follow! Please @me anytime. Seen ***** yet? How can I help U? FaceBook What I don’t… » Read More

This post is a continuation of my post about managing my tasks, projects, and responsibilities.  There are links to the other posts at the bottom of this post. Email I have clients that insist on using just email to communicate, which is fine with me because I use GMail, which lets me keep emails in threads instead of as individual emails.  This makes keeping a conversation in control very easy.  However, my inbox is constantly full.  For the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that when I empty my inbox out before bed I have between 20 and 50 emails waiting for me in the morning.  Most of them are status updates, automated messages, or twitter messages but it… » Read More

I ran into a problem with one of the blogs that I manage, there was no way to upgrade a plugin. It just wouldn’t get past the FTP information form.  I put the correct FTP information in, and that failed too. I was out of options, so I went searching and found a plugin called “One Click Plugin Updater“. This plugin actually saved me a ton of work, and trouble in the future because it has some amazing features.  First of which, is that if you have any plugins that need to be upgraded, it will upgrade all of them at the same time.  Secondly, it bypasses the craziness that WordPress runs into, which would cause you to have to… » Read More