I've been on Twitter now for about three years, and even now I come across little tidbits, tips and tricks about the microblogging site that surprise me or astonish me when I learn they've been around forever.

One such item is the 'modified tweet,' or MT. Many of us, myself included, have glossed over an MT notice in a tweet and just assumed it was a mistype. Actually, this is a very useful tool when you want to retweet someone but have to make a major edit to an original tweet and wish to retain credit.

Here are the basics: Nowadays if you want to retweet someone you have a very helpful button underneath the tweet in question, and in other people's timelines you will see a green tab in the corner of the tweet with your screen name beside it, then the original tweet verbatim below it.

MORGAN COUNTY, AL (WAFF)- Sheriff Ana Franklin said a months-long investigation at a home on Morrow Mountain Road in Somerville resulted in the arrest of a man allegedly selling crystal meth, or "ice."

Franklin said her agents actually made two arrests.

James Reid Sharpe, 43, was arrested and faces several charges, including manufacturing meth. Timothy Dean Neal was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of meth and loitering in a drug house.

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DECATUR, AL (WAFF)- Decatur Police arrested Jose Luis Rodriguez Solis, accused of raping a 9-year-old girl.

Authorities said Solis had fled his home and was living under the false name of "Jimmy Duran."

Solis was charged with first degree rape and obstruction of justice using a false identity.

He will be held at the Morgan County jail on a $515,000 bond.

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