Over the past few weeks, I’ve received a lot of friend requests on the micro-messaging service Twitter that were either accounts with icons of scantily clad women, or had usernames eerily similar to other accounts that had also just requested a connection with me. More than likely these are spam accounts, Twitter profiles set up simply to mass promote something without adding any real value. Twitter realized this and promised to work on the situation . True to its word, it’s now begun suspending accounts.
Of the dozens of friend requests I’ve gotten this weekend, a significant number of those account have had the following statement on their profile pages:
“This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity.”
Twitter had previously removed accounts for “spammy” activity, but its policy for doing so was a bit vague. Now it has a page explaining the rationale for suspending certain accounts, and more ...
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Welcome back all you BBGeeks to our monthly roundup of the BBGeeks Twitter Help activities. If you have been following us for a while now you no doubt know about our account on Twitter.com . Each and every Friday we reach out to other Twitter users and ask them what kind of problems they are experiencing...... more
Facebook , the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, can’t stay out of controversy. The latest one may blow over sooner than later.
Today, a Media Week article said Facebook would unveil a new ad feature that sounded pretty far out and gutsy, even for a company that is trying to run a business: A sponsored advertisement on a person’s profile updates (Facebook calls these updates a “news feed”) which, when a person clicked on it, “their enti... more
Podshow , a company that promotes podcasts and finds sponsors for them, has raised $15 million more in a second round of venture capital from its big-name investors, following up on $8.85 million in a first round last summer.
Dan Primack has the scoop .
This is, frankly, surprising, because the business model still hasn’t been proven for this medium. This is a lot of money. There are other players out there, too, like Odeo ( funding from Charles River & others &#... more
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San Francisco start-up BuzzLogic is trying to help you sort through the blog clutter. If you’re a marketer or PR person, how do you really know who is an influential blogger and who is not?
BuzzLogic just launched at the DEMO conference, and is homing in on this “influencer” question.
The company seeks to define who is shaping specific conversations in blogs with “algorithms” that analyze relationships, based on four criteria :
–overa... more
FBI investigators want to charge two men for spying in Silicon Valley to benefit China, and they say it is just the tip of a massive effort by the Chinese government to set up front companies to do this sort of thing.
In the latest case, they say Lan Lee, an American citizen, and Yoefei Ge, a Chinese national, stole chip designs and software from their employers NetLogic Microsystems of Mountain View and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in San Jose, and planned to go into business wi... more
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