...ter changed that bio link to a nofollow link. a few thoughts my guess is that spammers have started to attack twitter more probably at least partially to get linkspagerank. in an august post at httpblog.t witter.com 200808turn ingupheato nspam.html biz stone mentioned that twitter was hiring their first fulltime spam fighter. for a company of 25 people a fulltime spamfighter is a lot of re...
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the nation and even a lot of people outside of the united states were all atwitter last night about vice presidential candidate sarah palins speech at the republican national convention on twitter. in what its calling the palin peak the micro messaging service has a post today outlining how much traffic spiked during her talk. the verdict if you thought googles launch of its new browser chrome wa...
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sometimes if you do something very difficult and you do it really well the end result is that your achievement becomes completely invisible. i mentioned a year and a half ago that i like twitter. that was a little bit less common a position to take back then but in the months since tons of people have taken to the little messaging service so clearly this was no great insight on my part its just ...
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the increasingly popular friendfeed is proposing a new protocol known as simple update protocol sup. the problem friendfeed is encountering is noting new. they monitor a rss feeds over a variety of services for each user. this can really add up. to keep things timely they poll them frequently. generally speaking this is a very wasteful process since the majority of those feeds likely didnt ch...
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a few weeks ago twitter annoyed a lot of european users when they stopped sending sms notifications to their users. i never really used that facility so i didnt miss it but many tweeters did. outrage and blue murder were spoken of in the same sentence. people marched in the streets there were riots. ok maybe not but it annoyed a few prolific tweeters and i wondered aloud if i could make tweet twee...
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over the past few weeks ive received a lot of friend requests on the micromessaging 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 re...
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twitter blog turning up the heat on spam css for bar graphs......
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a isso aa pessoal. depois de um longo e tenebroso inverno sem criar programas eis aqui a mais recente ediaao do backup cast a de namero cinco a bola da vez a o rejaw um site de microblogging que vem chegando pra tentar tomar pra si um pouco dos usuarios do twitter e do plurk. sera que ele realmente consegue a claro que eu tambam falo sobre outras coisas. um pouquinho sobre a participaaao brasileir...
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turning up the heat on spam twitter is turning up the heat on spam accounts great news.......
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twitter wants us to know that they are trying to fight the spam hitting them. in a blog post they outline how they combat spam highlighting three different areas suspended accounts which is really a better internal admin tool community powered alerts which is really better analyzing of spam blocking by users dedicated personnel which is hiring more people to manage the spam problem sure the expl...
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when a friend showed me the twitter app he was building not too long ago i was pretty darned excited. i knew for a fact that this app would greatly appeal to twitter users who would like to keep track of their followers especially in the wake of the great twitter follower drop of 2008 courtesy of twitter themselves. the app is called tweeple twak and it lets you track your twitter followers and k...
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twitter gets the word out and fast twitter can spread news quickly because the news comes first hand from those experiencing it concise 140 characters and directly from their finger tips to a potentially worldwide audience. however the ability to receive that breaking news has much to do with how well you the reader can process the stream of data how many people you follow and what subjectfocus gr...
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twitter reported this week that it is axing its sms service outside india the us and canada causing consternation across the twitter community. almost immediately after this was announced reports emerged of it entrepreneurs taking up the challenge to look for a solution. the editors weblog spoke to we think the first organisation to launch a solution to the twitter sms issue twitsms. the editors...
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in this weeks show ryan and stanton return to talk about the importance of version control and answer your questions on project management and invoicing applications download sizes and page weight. download this show. launch our podcast player news and events twitter cuts uk sms this week the team over at twitter announced that they would no longer be delivering outbound sms over there uk number...
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when twitter announced they were killing sms for anyone located outside the u.s. canada or india for financial reasons many twitter sms users were upset as they had come to rely on that aspect of the service to send and receive tweets. however in only a matter of days numerous services sprung up to fill the void including sites like tweetsms twitsms and zygotweet. today you can add one more to tha...
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the micromessaging service twitter has been remarkably stable over the past several weeks following prolonged periods of downtime and wonkiness. recently as former stalwarts gmail amazon s3 and even netflix have gone down twitter has endured. as such its taken a moment to bestow a new title on one of its top developers alex payne will now be the official api lead. the fact that people are getting ...
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if the first part of twitters summer can be summarized as scalability then the second half is shaping up to be accounting. twitter recently cut sms service in some countries not the u.s. after negotiations stalled with providers there. while the perceived impact was exaggerated the pushback from that decision sees the move as a sign that the microblogging giant is now counting pennies. naturally ...
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xmpp has had a meteoric rise in term of its profile and application over the last two years. part of that is due to the rise of microblogging services such as twitter or identi.ca that leverage the xmpp platform to deliver real time updates to users. however there has been a hiccup in twitters usage of xmpp over the last few months and that hiccup has helped to give more exposure to xmpp instead ...
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twitter is great it really is. even with the downtime the dropping of sms updates in the uk and other places and all the other little irritations with the service it still manages to inspire a considerable loyalty among those that use it. as i have written elsewhere its the fact that twitter works as a service which makes it so cool. rather than try to please everyone all the time through the use ...
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a few days ago egypt woke up to the sad news that twitter is no longer delivering outbound sms to few countries including egypt. according to the twitter blog lets start with the bad news. beginning today twitter is no longer delivering outbound sms over our uk number. if you have been receiving sms updates from twitter via 44 762 480 1423 youll notice that theyve stopped and you may want to expl...
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obviously the guys over at twitter must have been unhappy about all the buzz surrounding cancellation of sms notifications to all the countries but three us canada and india. unhappy to the extent that biz stone decided to publish a separate post on friday to highlight exactly what the fuss is all about. to provide some perspective biz has offered us a chart representing the total volume of sms m...
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