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Is Your Twitter Account Hacked?
Feb 22nd
Over the last 24-48 hours we are [again] seeing a DM phishing attack blowing through Twitter accounts. Are you spamming your Twitter followers with Direct Messages (DM) that contain links leading to phishing websites? Have you received a Twitter DM to a Twitter login page that isn’t the actual Twitter login page?
How would you know?
One quick way is to filter tweets on yourself by using the @’youaccountname’ link to the right on Twitter’s home page. Do you see tweets from you, but in fact not from you? If you answered yes, your Twitter account may likely be compromised.
Being Safe On Social Networks
Jul 21st
Being safe and smart when using the Internet is an issue that has been around since the rise of chatrooms and the exploitation of naive individuals by social predators. In other words, forever. The emphasis on being safe and not giving away details has always been young children or teenagers, since they’ve always been regarded as more trusting and the natural prey of social predators. It was assumed, of course, that adults would be more practical and less naive. As usual, we took for granted the processing power of the human brain.
While social networks like Facebook can give you access to invitations to parties and special online contests, it also opens you up to other things, such as:
Somewhere Over The #moonfruit
Jul 5th
As of the past 96 hours (give or take a few hours), Twitter has been in full-blown #moonfruit mania, giving rise to a frequently asked question common to many Twitter trends: what the hell is #moonfruit?
Desktop Twitter Clients Suck Unless They Are Named Tweetie
May 28th
A few months back I wrote about how desktop Twitter clients are pointless, especially when they offer no benefit to the user. For the most part I still today hold the same contempt for desktop twitter clients I had back in early March 2009 with one exception: Tweetie for Mac by atebits. This is the one and only desktop Twitter client I have found worth using on a regular basis, and the one client offering many advantages unlike its competition. I continue to find the focused reliance on using a desktop client to access Twitter quite fascinating, but at the same time understandable, especially after having used Tweetie for Mac since its debut.
RSS is Not Dead Yet and Twitter is Not Our Savior
May 6th
As I was surfing through Google Reader in preparation of writing a post on a completely unrelated subject I happened across this craptastic piece of editorial bologna by Steve Gillmor at TechCrunchIT on the ostensible death of RSS. In his infinite wisdom Gillmor claims to have completely given up on his RSS reader in favor of Twitter. Whatever it is Steve is smoking it sure must be some good stuff because his barely coherent rant against RSS makes no sense at all.
Observation of Facebook vs. Twitter Users
May 5th
Facebook and Twitter are two completely different types of web sites. Facebook is a full-featured web-based service, offering a wide ranging set of capabilities – it is the epitome of a social networking service. On the other hand, Twitter merely offers the ability to update your status and nothing else. It seems each site appeals to a specific subset of users and for particular reasons. What is it about each site that makes it appealing and what types of users engage each site?
Why is Twitter A Beneficial Service for the Average User?
Apr 20th
Over this weekend CNN was running one of their “Quick Vote” polls and the question was, “Do you use Twitter?” The overwhelming majority of respondents, approximately 94%, answered either “No” or “What’s Twitter?” compared to the meager 6% who stated they do use the micro-blogging service. The CNN audience reflects the average user, most of whom have no clue what the service is all about. So this begs the question, what benefits can the average user appreciate from using Twitter?
Ashton Kutcher – Ascent To ‘Twitter’ Stardom – 1 Million And Rising
Apr 18th
While the rest trudge through Following and being Followed on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher rolled out a full-on Tweet assault and became the first Twitterer ever to rack up 1 million Followers.
Kutcher attained his coveted Twitter status just a few thousand Followers ahead of runner-up @CNNBrk who [even with Larry King] couldn’t rally the Twitter world to a million in time.
Did Kutcher (known as @aplusk on Twitter) pull off a rerun of President Obama’s grassroots campaign?
Desktop Twitter Clients Are Pointless
Mar 9th
One of the driving forces behind Twitter’s popularity is access to their API. This openness has allowed users to access Twitter via a variety of third-party clients rather than the standard method of accessing a web-based service solely in a browser. A number of clients and services thrive as a result of this rather unorthodox approach to the service. What I find fascinating, and at the same time quite unappealing, is this focused reliance on using a desktop client to access Twitter.
Facebook And Twitter Harming Our Brains?
Feb 28th
Not quite your brain on crack cocaine, but it may come close. As David Derbyshire’s coverage points out on research by neuroscientist [and Baroness] Susan Greenfield — Ms. Greenfield would have you believe social networking is “infantilizing” the human brain.
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