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Twitter does give us the ability to know who retweeted us, but what about favourites? They forgot about that one – at least for now. But, that’s why I love 3rd party applications. They add all these nifty little features that the site forgot or didn’t bother looking into.

Right so you wanna know who faved your tweets and what’s your most popular one? Alright I know of two sites, but the one I always use and is my own personal favourite is Favstar.fm.

Not only can you look into the stats of your tweets, but you can also see which tweets are the most popular ones on the timeline right now on Twitter. And to be honest, some of these Tweets on the leaderboard are absolutely hilarious, so no wonder they were faved so many times.

So, head over to Favstar.fm and jump into action by signing into your Twitter via oAuth – no worries, it is safe since oAuth does not give away your password to the 3rd party application, but only allows access to your account.

Pro Tip: If you have a loyal following on Twitter then tweet up something impressive and try to get on Favstar.fm’s leaderboard, and you maybe surprised by the number of new followers you have gained at the end of the day.

I’m sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but your Facebook statuses are probably lame. No we don’t care that your goldfish died or that you had an amazing day at work. You’re lucky that FB didn’t come with a “dislike” button.

The screenshot below is an example of a status fail:

I’m not gonna brag, but man I have the best statuses. It gets everyone “liking” it and commenting on it and everything. They’re like hilarious little attention-grabbing things (most of the time).Seriously check them out.

Don’t worry if you’re not talented enough to have statuses similar to mine. Its alright. It took me years of practice and dedication. Here’s a few small tips to get you started:

• For God’s sake use proper grammar and punctuation. “Kool” is not cool.
• Don’t laugh at your own jokes. You look like a retard. No LOL or haha.
• KISS. Keep it simple, stupid.
• Lie. We don’t need to know that you were bored all day. Act super-cool.
• No weird smileys. Actually no smileys at all! I find them annoying.
• Short and sweet. No need for love stories.
• Don’t tag anyone unless you really have to.
• We don’t need to know what you’re doing every single second.
• No rap lyrics, please.

And the most important tip of all! How often should you update your status? I do it every 3 or 4 days just so I don’t spam people’s timelines or come as an attention-you-know-what.

Alright that’s a good amount of tips for now. Start taking in what I just told you and don’t try too hard. Oh and follow me on Twitter just because.

Yeah you gotta backup your sites and you have to do it properly. You need to do more than just saving it on your computer. I’ll tell you how I do it.

Making the backup

1. I download all the files and databases to your computer.
2. I zip everything and put a password on it. I use WinRAR to do this.
3. Name the .zip file to something like “wr_oct-5.zip”. (Make sure you have the date on it!)
4. I make sure that the .zip file isn’t corrupted by unzipping it and checking if everything is there.

Storing the backup

The biggest mistake I ever made was keeping all the backups on my laptop only and forgetting that someone could steal my laptop or my hard drive could crash. Please don’t do that or else you’ll get fucked! Trust me!

I started putting my backups on three different places. This way I’m safe if something goes wrong.

My server: Yes, my server itself. I make a folder where I just keep all the backups. Make sure you keep this folder at the root of your server where it can’t be accessed by the public.

On a CD: The old school way! I have a bunch of blank disks lying around, so why not burn the backups on it? Plus its not that expensive to buy blank CDs. Or if you want, you can just put them on a pen drive.

Online storage: I put one more copy on Windows Live SkyDrive. Don’t just trust any site with your precious little backups! Meaning don’t use shit like RapidShare and Megaupload.

How often do I backup?

The best way would be to backup everyday. But, that’s not possible. I’m just way too lazy to do that. I try to do it weekly. And sometimes randomly when I feel like doing it.

Some shared hosts back your stuff up daily, so consider yourself lucky if you’re on a shared hosting.

How about YOU?

Tell us how you do it! I wanna know how often you do it, where you store it and if you have any suggestions for us.