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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Viral magic (sarcasm)? Following a thread on Twitter: problogger Reading: How to Write a Viral-ready Article in 2 Hours Flat Hmm, what Darren got now? Off to read: rt @problogger How to Write a Viral-ready Article in 2 Hours Flat Step 1. Spend 10 minutes studying what has worked before. Hmm, nothing really. That’s saved
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Twitter’s to do list : Built-in system to reduce URLS and – much more so – to expand the address on mouseover – as some apps already do. Too many nasty surprises can be hidden in obfuscated links! Renaming the assignments from “following” and “followers” to something easier and more sensible, like “Friends” and “Followers”,
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Real Twitterers DO exist. I know because my bot found them! Ummm OOops. Sussed. I absolutely refute any claims I used a bot to find the following REAL Twitterers! Appearing on this list in a privilege. I WILL be keeping an eye on it! Clowns that @message me with affiliate links are automatically excluded! (Note:
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Autistic UFO hacker Gary McKinnon Posted this reply (to them) in response to The Inquirer’s story about ‘Autistic petition for UFO hacker’ because some of the replies – and even the writer in one place – didn’t have a clue what they were talking about! (The Inquirer site now redirects to TrustedReviews). For a start,
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Twitter apps to avoid (2009) Dear Gods – anyone that follows – submits – to Tweetfind obviously hasn’t read the agreement. Is this even legal!? You hereby grant us, our affiliates, and our partners a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, transfer, transmit,
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