Twitter spammers – @johngoogle and ‘friends’ You might have seen this guy. He is so prolific it’s ridiculous! As fast as these accounts are banned he’ll spawn hundreds more, but it gives you an insight into these people. Sadly, but undoubtedly a select few of these are getting very wealthy from scamming the gullible. There […]
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Analysis of Twitter (June 2009) This data is largely compiled from over 4.5million users from the excellent work done by Hubspot (@Hubspot) and graciously shared in this .pdf document : State of the Twittersphere June 2009 (To discuss their report on Twitter use hashtag: #SOTwitter) Initial Stats (rounded): 80% failed to provide a homepage URL
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WordPress 2.8 editor bug Not wholly sure this is a bug as it doesn’t affect everyone. Far as I can tell it’s caused by WordPress not completely upgrading from earlier versions. It is also affect by the theme you use. For instance on this blog I have no problems, on another, I’ve lost images. Same
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Mocking Twitter ‘follows’ Not sure where I’m up to on a day by day basis but for the past few weeks I’ve just limited myself to adding a few of those that follow me, rather than actively trying to build up the numbers. I’m at about 3,700 now, without trying hard and know that without
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The Home Project I would have missed this but for a chance link on Twitter, just a short clip with relaxing music and a haunting theme. The full feature, which I’ve listened to in several languages now, is full of wonderful views – and stark warning. If you are concerned about the planet, you should
Twitter has worms! As we are unfortunately aware, some spam on Twitter carries payloads, with links (re)directing you to phishing sites, as this current CRN news warns: [ Scary Scareware: New Twitter Worm Strikes ] (Dead link now). Hardly the first and certainly won’t be the last and Twitters solution is to warn people in
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Vista? Or eyesore? Windows 7 backtracking In an article of the same heading by VNUNet, the laughable reason given being that nearly everyone who buys and installs Windows 7 will be doing so from a Vista machine. Clearly Microsoft are still in denial about just how naff Vista is and how many people hate the
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<h2?Quantity or Quality A guest poster at Darren Rowse’s TwiTip site (since gone) posed just this question: [ Twitter Followers: Quantity or Quality? ] in January gone. I answered the question as a comment and have decided to copy it here as I feel it fits, and sums up this site too. For me it’s
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