T(w)itter ye not (NOTE: This post was moved from milliontwits.com, posted on June 1st, 2009. For all it’s dated, it’s still valid!) Hypocritical I know, but seriously, go for quality, not quantity. A thousand genuine followers beats a million automated bot scraped followers hands down! Here’s my take on it: if they don’t RT … […]
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Viral images, but not in a good way! I am rather miffed with Twitter for this breach in security. It’s such an old and well-known method of attack that it is beyond forgiveness that it wasn’t stopped at the source. I was going through my latest ‘followers’ and this popped up : I assume it
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Twitter does math! Twitter Status: (read at the times): ‘Correcting follower and following counts’: For some time, the follower and following counts we display have been incorrect for some folks. We’re soon to push a change that will address this issue. This means that the count you see in your sidebar should match what you
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Building followers [Note: this data applies to my milliontwits .com account, which I’m closing. (Since closed). The entry was originally posted there on July 16th, 2009 at 14:08] 3.20am and I’ve still a few things to do tonight so this will be brief. Here’s the latest progress graphs. It is interesting to note this since
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Twitterfail Seems the almighty Twitter have messed up – again – and are purging lots of legitimate accounts* *(while no doubt ignoring the untold millions of spammers!) OYE! @Twitter, what you playing at at all – so far at least two of my friends have been suspended now! Give us back @trinawright ! rt @AndrewTF
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Tweet Spinner and TwitChuck Twitchuck’s Friend Chuck in action: Today I am taking an unusual step – using automated software – namely Tweet Spinner to find followers. If should however be pointed out that each time it adds a few I manually check them! I will only be using the free version but the paid
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<h2raising another ticket to Twitter! I have my account profile protected and accidentally blocked @someusername. Can you please unblocked it for me (and accept). On that point: Why is the ‘block’ right under the ‘Accept’ instead of to the right of the ‘decline’. Also, why is there no confirm? New request message for protected accounts
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Twitter browser changes (2009) After a nights sleep and further examination, this page is being updated – and NOT in Twitters favour! Anyone else noticed that Twitter has revised follower/following for browsers? Still no ‘report spam’ button (POKE). but it’s a start. I particularly like that Twitter offer the expanded / contracted list. Nice touch.
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