Twitter lock bug Filed this following request to Twitter support – and it was resolved within an hour! Yay! This request has been deemed solved Jun 29 delbius was assigned to your request. Having the devil’s own job with adding followers, been like this for the past 8 days, (noting the issues on your status […]
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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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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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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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<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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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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