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Twitter Hashtag Pranks Prove Trending Topics Aren't Ready for Big-Time

Rob — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:48:01 -0700

Just when you thought it was safe to open Twitter on your work computer...you get hit with #gorillapenis. read more

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Twitter Account Suspension Apocalypse

Rob — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:48:53 -0700

As many as one hundred thousand Twitter users had their Twitter accounts suspended yesterday after a human error caused the Microblogging platform to mistakenly identify them as spam. The affected users spanned the globe and included prominent bloggers, social media mavens and even a few minor...

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Why You Probably Shouldn't Post State Secrets onto Facebook

Rob — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:12:37 -0700

You've probably heard in the past about the importance of Facebook's extensive privacy features; the social network has distinguished itself from the crowd by offering the most granular and powerful privacy controls out there. Facebook users can control, down to specific users, who sees their...

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TwitPwn Takes Twitter Applications to Task, One Day at a Time

Rob — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:03:41 -0700

Twitter does a pretty good job locking things down. With the exception of the (embarrassing) brute-force password hack of one of their admin accounts earlier this year, the fledgling micro-blogging platform has a remarkably good history, with only a few exceptions. The same cannot be said, however,...

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Twitter Responds to "Tweet" Trademark Issue

Rob — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:27 -0700

Earlier this week we came across an interesting article on TechCrunch about the use of the word "Tweet" by Twitter application designers. The post seemed to imply that Twitter has grown increasingly concerned with the use of the word "Tweet" in applications and websites. The conversation centered...

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Twitter Tweaks Web-Based UI, With Generally Positive Response

Rob — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:59:21 -0700

For a service that seems to take pride in being adamantly inflexible, Twitter's had some big changes this week. The microblogging service unveiled a re-amped "Following" and "Friends" view, designed to make the web-based interface more friendly and emulate some of the most popular Twitter client's...

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If You See Your Name on Twitter This Week, You're Probably Dead

Rob — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:03:15 -0700

It's been a rough week for celebrities. With last week's passing of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and Billy Mays, Twitter has been slammed with RIP messages and general discussion about the life and times of some of the world's most famous celebrities. Sprinkled in with the...

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Bad Behavior - How NOT to Use Twitter

Rob — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:16 -0700

Lately, it seems like just about everyone wants to tell you the RIGHT way to use Twitter. They want to tell you how often you should tweet, what services and applications you should use, what kinds of people you should follow and how you should go about getting your own Twitter followers. Thing...

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Twitter FINALLY Announces a Firm(ish) Plan to Monetize

Rob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:44 -0700

After long years of speculation, it seems that Twitter has FINALLY given some details on how they plan to make money from what has become arguably the world's second-largest social network. As more and more third-party services have cropped up to fill in the blanks between the demands of Twitter...

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WhatTheTrend Sheds Needed Light on Twitter Trends

Rob — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:53:21 -0700

Trends come and go - that's the nature of them. One of the great things about Twitter is that they show on, on the homepage and accessible through the Twitter API, the top ten "trending" topics on Twitter. Sometimes the trending topics are hashtags, and sometimes they're just words that keep...

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