If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?
The answer might surprise you!
I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
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This investment, plus a number of essential upgrades and changes will help us to get the blog to you faster and more reliably than ever before.
Remember how Google came form nowhere to pretty-much own online search and Internet advertising? Well, it seems Twitter is planning a similar move; according to comments made this week by Twitter’s own Santosh Jayaram (a Google Search Quality Manager until recently.)
Here’s why this may not be good news for Twitter users…..
Today, the 4 founders of the Pirate Bay torrent search site were given jail sentences and massive multi-million dollar fines. Are Google next? No – And here’s why…
For the 2nd time in just 24 hours, Twitter has been hit with a spam worm! This time, it’s not the stalkdaily worm but a new worm called mickeyy. Read on…
Yes, Twitter has been hacked again! This time by a spam worm, known as stalkdaily. The ‘stalkdaily’ Twitter worm carried a pretty harmless payload, yet the security black hole it exploited COULD have been used more maliciously! This is yet another security blunder, for the world’s favourite micro-blogging service.
As a relatively new tech news blog, it was great to see both Leo Laporte’s twit.tv and the guys over at ReadWriteWeb referencing us as the news source for the recent ‘Twitter accounts hacked’ story…
Twitter’s user numbers might be growing super-fast, but so is its reputation for hack attacks! The latest Twitter account hack, (which is about an hour old as I write this), is sending the following message; “hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me….
I recently posted an article about Jason Calacanis and Loic Le Meur unfollowing the people who were following them on Twitter. One of the most common comments on that post was a variation of; “no one can really say for certain what’s the right or wrong way to follow people on Twitter.”
Well, at least we all know now what Twitter fonder Biz Stone thinks, about auto-following; “following should be done by a person….”
