Two tools to add cool people on Twitter | Webware - CNET

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter wiki

The first is AutoPack, an offshoot of wiki -based Twitter directory called Twitter Pack. AutoPack is a long list of Twitter user accounts broken into categories (such as Quotations, Lawyers, and Green Building). ... Bhamdining.com, restaurant info for Birmingham, Alabama ... In case you're not familiar with Twitter , Wikipedia describes it as "a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts ...

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Updated: Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked (ReadWriteWeb)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter api

Days after a wave of phishing attacks fooled thousands of Twitter users, it appears that another security hole has been found by...someone. Obama's account, unused since election day, sent out an affiliate link to a survey with a gas card prize, Fox News said that "Bill O'Reily is gay" (not that there's anything wrong with that) and Britney Spears' made a lewd post about her anatomy. Rick ... Oops! Twitter hack snares CNN anchor (CNET) Rick Sanchez is one of the microblogging service's most popular users, so a whole lot of people saw when his account displayed a message about being high on illicit substances.

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Apps – Laconica - Twitter , Facebook, Firefox , Online

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter sms

Updates on the status of the Twitter service. Status per Feature web features SMS user delete/ restore person search pagination badges Facebook app API Related Links Pingdom Uptime Report Official Company Blog Official Help Documents ... No Twitter SMS for You, Canada! | Mark Evans Twitter's troubles with SMS - otherwise known as its a huge expense that it can't really afford - have now seen it eliminate outbound SMS message for users in.

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6 services that help you find, follow friends on Twitter (CNET)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter

Want to find and follow friends on Twitter, but you don't know where to go to do it? Check out this list of six services that will help you do just that. TECHNOLOGY: Twitter falls prey to phishing scam, hackers (The Daily Times) The popular Twitter social messaging service has fallen prey to hackers, who took over accounts of well-known users including President-elect Barack Obama.

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Ajaxian » Detecting twitter users with JavaScript - handy or evil?

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter api

The only problem with the code above is that if the user is not authenticated, Twitter's API will prompt an authentication dialog. You can work around this one by providing an extra parameter called "suppress_response_codes" which is ... Lib Curl, Twitter API & “Expect: 100-continue” PAIN and How To Fix it Lib Curl, Twitter API & “Expect: 100-continue” PAIN and How To Fix it. by Nick on January 1, 2009. *this post will probably not be worthwhile for 99% of the normal shoemoney.com readers. But for those having the same issue it will be ...

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AVWorkz Software Announces its Industry First Integration of Twitter with Office and Residential AV Control Systems. (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter com

AVWorkz Software announced today its plans to release their latest software upgrade integrating with TWITTER.com. This integration massively enhances the ability of Board Rooms, Meeting Spaces and even Homes to communicate to the world its current status. Salesforce.com outage provokes angry response (vnunet.com) Phil Muncaster, vnunet.com , Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 14:19:00 Users turn to Twitter to vent their anger and get more information after yesterday's downtime An outage at software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce.com yesterday has provoked an angry reaction from some customers, and raised further questions about the reliability of the on-demand application delivery model.... ...

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Google Maps For Mobile Simplifies Directions (Search Engine Land)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter mobile

According to the Google Mobile Blog , Google Maps has simplified getting directions on your BlackBerry, Nokia, G1 or iPhone — if you have the Maps client downloaded. Previously if users entered a business name on the Maps client as a directions end point, Google might not recognize it. Hacked off: Britney Spears and Barack Obama among celebrity victims of Twitter account scam (Daily Mail: World News) What do President Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Stephen Fry all have in common? Their accounts on the social networking site Twitter have been hacked into by scammers.

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Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown (ZDNet)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter api

Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a- about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influential—a repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it is also the kind of self-absorbed thinking that attracts scammers and theives who sense people's guard is down. This ... Twitter Warns Users About Phishing Scam (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance) This weekend, Twitter admitted that it is the most recent target of a phishing scam, and warned users to be wary of messages that redirect them to a look-alike sites and ask them to login using their username and password.

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Data Security - Targeted: Twitter Hit with Phishing Attack

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter mobile

Twitter has joined e-mail, cell phones and Facebook as a new favorite target of phishing scams. Twitter is warning users of the microblogging site to beware of scam e-mails that take them to a phishing site masquerading as Twitter . Update: accuses celebrities hack on the individual ... Posted by admin under Mobile & wireless. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was not very high on crack the morning, and the reason for his twitter feed, said it is not phishing fraud that is happening around - it was a lone attacker, ...

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Follow ComingSoon.net on Twitter! (Coming Soon)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter rss

You can now follow ComingSoon.net movie and TV updates on Twitter, the micro-blogging service. Users can receive updates via the Twitter website , SMS, RSS, or email, or through an application such as Tweetie, TwitterFon, Twitterific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and TwitterBerry. Do you ? (SD Times) Social Media! You can love it or hate it, but it's revolutionizing communications. People don't send e-mails, they text. Oh, sorry, that's so two-weeks-ago. Now, instead of texting, they twitter. Visit website for full story...

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Twitter Users Can Now Promote Their Profile with TwitBacks (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter search

GROVER BEACH, Calif.----With the release of the “Promote Your Profile” feature, TwitBacks.com enables Twitter members to increase the exposure to their profile. After creating a free branded Twitter background on www.Twitbacks.com, users are given the option to promote their Twitter profile throughout the web by filling in some basic information. Follow Action News On Twitter! (KSFY Sioux Falls) You can now keep up to date with Action News by following us on Twitter.com .

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Bhamdining.com, restaurant info for Birmingham, Alabama ...

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter wiki

In case you're not familiar with Twitter , Wikipedia describes it as "a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts ... Two tools to add cool people on Twitter | Internet Business The first is AutoPack, an offshoot of wiki -based Twitter directory called Twitter Pack. AutoPack is a long list of Twitter user accounts broken into categories (such as Quotations, Lawyers, and Green Building). ...

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Twitter phishing scam may be spreading (cnet.com.au)

Posted on January 08, 2009 in Twitter windows

Twitter users beware: this bogus direct message: "Hey! check out this funny blog about you..." is a scam. New Year rings in better VoIP for all (The Register) More VoIP options come to Windows Mobile and iPhone It seems that January is when VoIP clients get spruced up with new features and capabilities, with both Truphone and Fring launching new versions ready for punters wanting to do more than save a few quid on phone calls.…

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Sony Ericsson Offers Massive Update to C905 (Phone Scoop)

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter sms

Sony Ericsson announced an update for the C905 Cyber-shot that brings with it a host of new features. The new capabilities include Shutter Smile, YouTube, Wayfinder 8, Snapfish by HP and threaded SMS/MMS. The new applications will be available ... (follow link to read) Netbytes: Small talk is the next big thing for the twittering classes (Guardian Unlimited) When a plane slid off the runway in Denver on Sunday, Twitter users were among the first to hear about it, because someone who was on the plane sent a tweet – a Twitter message – that said: " Holy fucking shit I was just in a plane crash! " Twitter users were also among the first to hear about terrorist attacks in Mumbai, earthquakes in California, and Heath Ledger's death. And as more ...

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Natalie Gulbis is on Twitter. Oh, this could end badly. (Yahoo! Canada Sports)

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter

Everybody's favorite LPGA golfer-slash-celebrity in waiting, Natalie Gulbis, is now on Twitter , joining The Real Shaq and other big names who are bringing the world in on the minutiae of their lives. So far, she's already replied to several fans, including our pal Ryan over at Waggle Room . She's also invited the entire planet to come party with her at the Wynn in January for her ... Twitter Users Can Now Promote Their Profile with TwitBacks (Centre Daily Times) With the release of the “Promote Your Profile” feature, TwitBacks.com enables Twitter members to increase the exposure to their profile. After creating a free branded Twitter background on www.Twitbacks.com , users are given the option to promote their Twitter profile throughout the web by filling in some basic information. The information, which includes links to the user’s Twitter profile ...

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Turning Twitter into my friend-feed (Scripting News)

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter com

I was doing a little work on a tool I wrote in April 2007 that pushed RSS content to Twitter , and made a simple enhancement: instead of having a Twitter account reflect the content of a single feed, I made it reflect the content of an ... Ajaxian » Detecting users with JavaScript - handy or evil? Earlier this week I blogged about a proof of concept that you can detect if a user is logged in to twitter and display their data with a few lines of JavaScript. This could be used to show for example "tweet this" buttons in a blog ...

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Truphone Adds Skype Features, Twitter, MSN Messenger, and more

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter mobile

Truphone Adds Skype Features, Twitter , MSN Messenger, and more Truphone has added a new Skype feature that will allow iPhone and iPod Touch apple, google talk, im, instant message, iphone, ipod touch, mobile phone, skype, truphone, ... Hackers day at twitter « All About Mobile …. Just yesterday we warened our users for the Twitters phishing scam growing rapidly, and now there are reports that Over 33 Twitter accounts have been hacked but this is separate incident than the phishing scam. ...

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Microsoft Wins Verizon Mobile Search Derby (Search Engine Land)

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter search

Reuters is reporting that Verizon has chosen Microsoft to be its mobile search partner. The rumor, based on an initial Wall Street Journal report in November , was that Google and Microsoft were in tight competition for the relationship. Twitter Users Can Now Promote Their Profile with TwitBacks (Centre Daily Times) With the release of the “Promote Your Profile” feature, TwitBacks.com enables Twitter members to increase the exposure to their profile. After creating a free branded Twitter background on www.Twitbacks.com , users are given the option to promote their Twitter profile throughout the web by filling in some basic information. The information, which includes links to the user’s Twitter profile ...

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Twitter Users Can Now Promote Their Profile with TwitBacks (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter search

Following up on the popularity of their free branded Twitter backgrounds, TwitBacks.com has added another tool for members to get the most out of their Twitter profile. The "Promote Your Profile" feature allows Twitter users to gain exposure for their profile via web directories, feeds, and search engines. 6 services that help you find, follow friends on Twitter (CNET) Want to find and follow friends on Twitter, but you don't know where to go to do it? Check out this list of six services that will help you do just that.

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6 services that help you find, follow friends on Twitter | Blogging

Posted on January 07, 2009 in Twitter wiki

For anyone to find people who share interests on Twitter , they first need to join the wiki and place their Twitter profile under one topic, interest, or company. If the millions of Twitter users actually used TwitterPacks, ... iWork.com: Apple’s Answer to Google Docs & Office Live? Twitter Updates. Follow me on Twitter . Grow Your Wiki - Books ... Using Wiki in Education 10 case studies from education show how to collaboratively build curriculum, guide students' teamwork, and manage research projects. ...

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