How to quote others on Twitter properly (avoid sending a direct message)

Often people who are not that familiar with Twitter or those who just forget 'Twitter rules' (happened to me , too!) are not aware of the fact, that when they intend to quote another Twitterati, they in fact send just a 'public' direct message to the person.

So when starting a tweet with '@persons_Twitter_handle' (followed by quoted text) only the addressed account & all people following BOTH (the one sending the tweet & recipient) can read this tweet, intended for a wider public (all followers)

This 'public direct messaging' can be avoid once a tweet starts with any other character than '@'. Often a '.' (full stop) is used. 

Since a couple of month however, Twitter provides us with a superb other method of displaying the content of other tweets: embedding !

Once you use this method the entire 'original' tweet will be made available to your audience.

You just have to 'open' the tweet you intend to 're-publish', then right-click on 'Details' (to the right of Date/Time of tweet) and copy the link of this tweet.(method of 'copy&paste' might be different when using MAC OSX or other Operating System)

example:

2013 #NobelPrize recap: Physics to François Englert & Peter W. Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass http://t.co/E4HITGgl62
— Nobelprize_org (@Nobelprize_org) October 12, 2013

          link: https://twitter.com/Nobelprize_org/status/389013387637977088


Then you write your introduction text and you add ('paste') the link to your tweet. By using this method is also possible to 'circumvent' the 140 character limitation of Twitter, which is even less when you try to put all quoted text between quotation marks & provide the author's name.

Cyprus aid package approval German parliament

234. Sitzung, 17. Wahlperiode, 18. April 2013 (Bundestag.de,pdf,3.6MB)(German)
Zypern Debatte & Abstimmung
Cyprus debate & vote
(pdf pages 29154 - 29192 only <= transcript includes all debates of that day)

note: There will be a translation of some parts of the debate of German MPs later

Translation of bail-in template remarks by FinMin Schaeuble

>>After the chairman of the Eurogroup, the Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, now also Wolfgang Schäuble called the rescue of Cyprus a role model for similar crisis cases. Also in future the owners, creditors and depositors of banks must contribute a share to rescue banks, Schäuble said. "The involvement of owners, junior bond holders and unsecured investors must be the norm, if a financial institution gets in trouble", Schäuble reiterated. "Otherwise we can't get a grip on the moral hazard problem, which enables banks to make vast profits with risky businesses, but in case of failure then puts the losses on the community", declares the finance minister. "That must not be" <<

source:
Schäuble: Nicht mehr als zehn Milliarden Euro für Zypern (wiwo.de, Apr 20th 2013)

Approval of aid program for Cyprus

Goedkeuring steunprogramma voor Cyprus (rijksoverheid.nl <=Dutch government website)

Approval of aid program for Cyprus

The finance ministers of the euro countries have reached a political agreement in the night of 15th & 16th of March about an aid program for Cyprus of maximal 10 bn euros. The loan will be provided by the European emergency fund ESM. The troika-parties will during next week further work out the side(?)conditions of the program with the Cypriot government.

Finance minister and Eurogroup chief Dijsselbloem on the program: "By involving the depositors the bill will not entirely be presented to the tax payers. Cyprus will now get a chance for economic recovery and renewed growth again."

Parts of this program are:

- a one time stability charge on savings of 6,75% up to 100.000 euro and 9,9 % above 100.000 euro.

- an increase of the tax deducted at source on interests from 10 to 12,5 percent.

- a restructuring of the banking sector

- privatizations and the sell-off of a part of the Cypriot gold reserves

Cyprus has applied for emergency support of the euro countries in June 2012. The economy and the banks of Cyprus are closely entangled with those of Greece. That makes them vulnerable. The financial  support is intended for governmental finances as well as to fix up the banks.

For the support the same strict conditions apply as for Greece, Ireland and Portugal

Disclaimer: The author isn't a professional translator and is not responsible for any misunderstanding, slightly inaccurate translation of the original text issued by Dutch finance ministry. So please regard translated text as an indication of what is communicated by the ministry. Please ask for confirmation  by Mr Dijsselbloem or his staff. 

Former 'couple' Germany and The Netherlands

Former 'couple' Germany and The Netherlands

as Max Pam of Dutch TV program 'Buitenhof' asks in his column when the Dutch and the German economy have split, and what are the causes for this to happen here are some answers:

First it has to be confirmed that the statements in Max Pam's column where German and Dutch economies once acted like 'northern European twins' are true. 
The one interconnected to the other, not only by their central banks with almost identical emphasis on prize stability, but also by their bilateral trade links, and even by some almost identical parts of infrastructure, like the havens of Rotterdam and Hamburg are for both export oriented countries their gate to the world market.

So some commentators on Twitter argued on their assumption that lack of consumer confidence is the only reason for sluggish consumer spending. One has to know that Dutch people are being subjected to bad economic news concerning housing market, pension cuts and other bad stuff almost on a daily basis, where some economists even started to warn of an negative effect of repeating bad news into a self fulfilling prophecy. 

So people tend to think the split between currently successful  German economy and Dutch economy is because of difference in consumer spending based on lack of 'consumer confidence'. Well, partially yes, but the German retail sector has also its difficulties (Big supermarket chain 'Schlecker' went bust recently), the 2nd and more important fact is, that both economies are heavily export oriented. Although Mathijs Bouman (Dutch economist) recently put up some evidence that 70% figures (Link) for Dutch export part of GDP is largely exaggerated.(CBS data)

So one part of the answer is that Germany put much more effort into investment (the mother of all growth) in its 'green sector' by not only building huge production capacity for its domestic ecopower section but also pumped large chunks of cash into energy preservation by housing insulation etc.
The roughly estimated cost for the buildup of its solar power capacity of some 25 GW was good for some 75bn € only for the 1+ million installed smaller plants between 2000-2011. 

Additional investments in local and national grid summed up also to Billions while the combined installed wind power capacity reached some 23 GW with approx 46 Bn € (taking into account average price per KW peak capacity) (** find and insert exact numbers**)    

The Netherlands <> Germany bilateral trade

CBS: Exports to Germany increased by 20% in 2010 (CBS data) (dut)
         Dutch im/exports targeted on a limited number of countries (CBS data)(dut)

Pinokkio:"Our GDP rose after introduction of Euro" (De Pers) (dut)
"In The Hague there is always today, never tomorrow" (FD) (dut)

source: thomsonreuters.com datastream
Some German economic data:

Germany's economy (Wiki ger)

Trade:
BDI Foreign trade growth 2012: "3 pct +X" (focus) (ger) 
German exports to Greece tumble (handelsblatt) (ger)
Trade balance: German exports first time above 1000 bn (Die Zeit) (ger)
German industry expects export boom (Die Welt) (ger) 

Energy: 
German green industry domestic investments and distributed costs:
(long term projection) Langfristszenarien EEG Auswirkungen (pdf ger)

German power production details and comparison (Wiki ger)
German energy consumption (Wiki ger)
German energy consumption in detail 2011 (AG Energiebilanzen , pdf, ger) 
investment projection renewables Germany 2010-2020: 159,5 bn € (prognos,pdf,ger) 

Power grid in the North Sea to be extended (FAZ, ger) 

Duitsland verslaat Nederland (May 2nd 2013, video, Nieuwsuur, Dutch)
Text above excerpted from greater European solution: Economic policy first, fiscal policy follows

Member states' contributions to EFSF/ESM/Target2

@lindayueh (Twitter: Sept 20th 09.51 CET) :

Target2 claims: Germany lowest as % GDP 24%, Luxembourg 278%, Finland 40%, Dutch 25% 

@mikkoforss (Twittter: Sept 20th 22.12 CET):

Max cost for Finland from full EZ breakup via EFSF/ESM & Target2 now at 47% of GDP, calculates Rehn cabinet ex-advisorhttp://www.eva.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EUn-ajolahto.pdf

Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari: Target2 Redux (pdf,engl,73 pages,)

last updated: Nov 4th 2012

Reasoning behind the demise of European solar industry

Jan	27th	2010	#		Photovoltaik-Industrie fordert Nachbesserungen
May	31st	2010	#		Röttgen verteidigt Kürzung
Mar	20th	2012	#		Interview mit Solarworld-Chef Frank Asbeck: „Kein Unternehmen schreibt schwarze Zahlen“...
Jan	14th	2012	#		Drohende Kürzungen bei Förderung: Solarlobby ringt um Abwehrstrategie
Jan	19th	2010	#		Solarworld-Chef Frank Asbeck "Vielen Herstellern bricht es das Genick"
Feb	13th	2010	#		Über dem «Solarvalley» verdunkelt sich der Himmel
Apr	26th	2010	#		Sonnenenergie: Wolken aus Fernost...
Jun	18th	2010	#		Solarunternehmen: Preisverfall Nagelprobe für Siliziumhersteller
Oct	29th	2008	#		Photovoltaik-Produktionsanlagenhersteller Roth & Rau: Starkes Wachstum in den ersten neun Monaten 2008
		2010	#		Solarworld: WETTBEWERBSPOSITION UND HAUPTABSATZMÄRKTE
Dec	5th	2011	#		Erste Runde im Anti-Dumpingstreit an Solarworld
Nov	14th	2011	#		Warum Deutsche in Amerika gegen Chinesen kämpfen
Jul	5th	2012	#		Kaufsignal: SMA-Solar-Konkurrent Power-One setzt auf China
Apr	27th	2012	#		WIRSOL-VORSTAND RIEL "Der Vertrieb war Solon und Solarworld egal"
Apr	2nd	2012	#		Subventionen: Solarworld kassiert ab
Sep	7th	2012	#		EU-Verfahren gegen Chinas Solarkonzerne
		2011	#		Marktanteile der Hersteller für Photovoltaikmodule weltweit im Jahr 2011
			#		Mar 28th 2012 PHOTON International: Wachstum der Solarzellen-Produktion hat sich 2011 weltweit verlangsamt, ist aber noch immer gigantisch; Marktbeobachtung zeigt, dass chinesische Photovoltaik-Hersteller die Top 10 beherrschen
Apr		2012	#	pdf	Bericht des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie zur Lage der deutschen Photovoltaikindustrie
			#	pdf	Das Jahr des Drachen (Photon,pdf,ger, 27pages)
					EU panel manufacturer's data
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon_SE
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isofot%C3%B3n
					Sharp
					Sharp UK
					Sharp UK
			#		Aleo
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleo_Solar
			#		Aleo korrigiert Jahresumsatz
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-Fabrik
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovello
			#		Geschäftsmodell von Sovello erweist sich als stabil
			#		Scheuten NL
			#		Photovoltaik: Steffen Reusch vorläufiger Insolvenzverwalter bei Scheuten Solar
					Panel production machinery
			#		3S Swiss Solar Systems: Umsatzprognose angehoben
			#		Oerlikon verkauft Solarsparte nach Asien
			#		Photovoltaik-Produktionstechnologie: Oerlikon will Solar-Segment an Tokyo Electron verkaufen
			#		http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roth_%26_Rau
			#		Roth & Rau veröffentlicht Geschäftsbericht 2010
			#		Meyer Burger schreibt erstmals Verlust
					Silicon pricing & availability
Jun	12th	2008	#		Solarbranche fürchtet hohe Silizium-Preise
Jun	19th	2008	#		Am Siliziummarkt geht die Sonne auf
Sep	30th	2011	#		Jetzt bricht Silizium ein: Gute News für Solarworld, Q-Cells, Trina und Co.
Aug	21st	2009	#		Suntech hofft auf fallende Siliziumpreise [Verkauft werden die Solarzellen über Distributoren und Modulehersteller weltweit. Zu den Kunden des Unternehmens zählen namhafte Solarfirmen wie die SolarWorld AG, Conergy AG, Altersa, IBC Solar AG, Ibesolar Engeria S.A..]
Feb	10th	2010	#		„Wir fangen neu an“...
Dec	3rd	2007	#		ersol: Silizium für zusätzliche Produktionsmenge von rund 300 MWp unter Vertrag
Jun	14th	2006	#		Solarbranche sorgt für Siliziumknappheit
Apr	8th	2010	#		Polysiliziumindustrie vor Marktbereinigung
			#		Dünnschicht-Photovoltaik vor dem Durchbruch: kristalline Siliziumzellen weiterhin dominierend
					Marketing solar panels
Jan		2009	#		Der Kunde wird König [Trotzdem ist er seit dem Sommer über einige deutsche Hersteller verärgert: „Nach Solarworld brauchte ich im Juli gar nicht zu fragen, da hieß es immer nur: Wir müssen erst unsere Großkunden in Spanien beliefern.“]
Aug	20th	2009	#		Solaraktien im Schatten
			#	pdf	Facts about German solar energy production Aktuelle Fakten zur Photovoltaik in Deutschland  (Fraunhofer institute , pdf, 47 pages)
					note: It seems that this background blog entry is already attracting some readers. If some of you are interested in immediate expertise from experts in European solar industry, this author can recommend to contact Phillipe Welter, publisher of Photon magazine, or his staff: PHOTON – Das Solarstrom-Magazin online
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					cat=EU, trade
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					last update=Sept 9th 2012