Twitter User underdog100 gets 300% increase in followers – in 10 minutes

At 23:00, Jo Combs (twitter.com/underdog100) had just 37 followers
5 minutes later, Graham Norton had featured her tweets on his show, albeit poking fun at them, but, now, her followers had swelled to 110!

Every time I hit F5, her number of followers increases

By 23:10 the count had grown to 130… around a 300% increase in 10 minutes!

I got bored at about 23:20, but by then, the follower count had grown to 140!
Not bad!

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How to turn off emoticons in Windows Live / MSN Messenger

Emoticons are ok, when used sparingly, or not talking to your boss.
The last thing you need in the latter situation is for your conversation to be littered with

or or even worse

To disable them, first click the icon circled in red below.
Alternatively, you can press the Alt key.

Either way, you need to select Tools –> Options.

In the resulting dialog, you need to select Messages, then untick Show emoticons.

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