I like to keep a few Twitter feeds in my RSS reader, but can never remember how to get them from Twitter. I found “Creating an RSS feed of a users Twitter timeline“… However, I found there is a simpler method (for now)–replace USERNAME with the twitter name. This probably fails when a user changes [...]
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All Twitter clients are worthless
That was my thought today as I was looking at the wonderfully developed, yet totally worthless, TweetDeck. Tweetdeck is so far my favorite, despite playing with Seesmic Desktop, and sobees bDule. It seems like everyone has their own Twitter client: there are Excel clients, shell script clients, Perl clients, and many online Twitter interfaces. What [...]
Is the #Twitpocalypse overhyped?
Initially heard through Programmable Web: The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?, twitter is rapidly approaching the maximum for a 32-bit signed int. You can view the countdown here. This got a also mention at GigaOM: Today, We Think Think Twitter is Dead (for now). While the Twitpocalypse was not the primary topic [...]
History repeats itself, affiliate naughtiness and twitter spam
Looking at the updates to How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who’s Buying – ReadWriteWeb, it looks like all the “funding” for BeAMagpie is drying up. Box.net and StubHub have booted BeAMagpie from their affialiate programs, and I suspect the rest of the companies will too, once it gets on their PR radar [...]
Breaking down Tweetdeck configuration and storage.
I decided to look at the possibility of eventually exporting the configuration data contained in TweetDeck: You can find the groups, friends, and columns settings in a SQLite database file in a path like: C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.{some hideously long hex string}\Local Store\td_{version?}_{twitter username}.db I used SQLite database browser to look at this file. (I [...]
Thoughts on “Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media”
Mashable: Why Big Brands Struggle With Social Media. The reference example in this article is Twitter, but discussion boards, blogs, and social networking sites count, too. Understating social media as “just another marketing channel” instead of building a long term relationship with consumers. Social media does not fit in the existing corporate structure–it falls somewhere [...]
twibs : find the businesses on twitter – 4,396 businesses and counting!
twibs : find the businesses on twitter – 4,396 businesses and counting!.
Clearly I missed out on all the fun.
Apparently, there was another exploit on Twitter today? #dontclick Those exploited would end up tweeting the following message: Don’t Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6 So, it was a Twitter worm by way of clickjacking. Though I missed out on the fun, I learned a new security term: CSRF (Cross-site request forgery). I tell you, security geeks get to [...]
Twitter Game #stucksonggame
I think I’ve just invented a new Twitter game. Reference a song that will get stuck in people’s heads until they expel the demons by listening to the song, or replacing the song with another “catchy” song. When you’re caught by a “stuck song”, you have to either pass that song on, or replacement song. [...]
Direct Message Phishing to Spam
I received a Twitter DM from one of the accounts that was a victim of Twitter phishing this weekend. Hey! I just got a FREE iphone from this website.. here http://helloiphones.com The culprit is a follower known to me, and not a random spam follower this time. Looks like some other people are experiencing the [...]
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