Archive for the 'twitter' Category

I was not surprised by the recent phishing scam that hit twitter over the weekend, were you?

We have hit 2009 and some people started their case for world dominance before me, damn you. Over the past couple of days twitter has been all a buzz over a phishing scam that someone is using. While the scam seem to only be a way to send out spam to your followers [...]

Identi.ca according to one site has implemented the twitter API

Wow the internet is a buzz today with so many stories from godaddys meltdown to the apology from apple’s mobileme service.
I found a post from www.scripting.com’s Dave Winer titled “Identi.ca implements the Twitter API” Identi.ca is another twitter clone that has come along recently that looks and feels very much like twitter.
I gather this [...]

Learn how to tell if someone is really following you on twitter.

Twitter the social micro-blogging site that helps you make online friends, promote your business or just have fun has a new helper service. Less friends is a cool little site that helps you find out who’s following you. When you first start using twitter it’s easy to know who follows you all you [...]

Why my fascination with twitter?

It seems that lately I have written more stories about twitter then my normal technical subjects. As I noticed this I had to ask myself why have I been so eager to blog about twitter. Could it be the fact that it’s slow, or the fact that it’s rated the worst social site [...]

Not like you didn’t know this but, another story of Twitter’s slow demise…

I got wind of a story about twitter today while I was viewing some articles in my google reader (da bomb btw). The story stated that the company Pingdom.com has been monitoring the up-time of social networking sites. Well it should come to no one’s surprise that Twitter.com is the worst out of [...]