21.03.2011 20:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Use TextExpander and Twitterrific to avoid Twitter spam

If you post to Twitter and say the word "iPhone" or "iPad" you are likely to get hit with one of the rash of Twitter spammers who search through Twitter for people who post about those terms and @reply to them with some "deal" (usually offering you a chance to "win" a "free" iPad or iPhone). I have been trying to remember to not say those words on Twitter, or to spell them differently, such as "iPxd" or "iPhxne" or using "lookalike" characters such as "¡Phone" (that's an inverted "!" instead of an "i") but I keep forgetting, and every time I do wham! more spam. So I finally decided to let my computer do the thinking for me. I created a new "Group" in TextExpander, and told it to only expand in

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