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Wow, how can you piss me off more than sending me a direct spam message on Twitter directly after I returned the favor of following you. Resulting in being followed and un-followed within 5 minutes. New record for me! Follow Un-Follow Within 5 Minutes.

image thumb79 You only lasted 5 Minutes; So Disappointing!

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Today all of a sudden  I encountered some problems whenever I tried to load my website. See screenshot below.

image thumb77 Using Twitter as QA and Testing

I didn’t change anything to the set up of plug ins which were installed and activated. So I was wondering if others would see the same thing as I was seeing. The only problem when you are working in the middle of the night is that you cannot call anybody, as they probably are sleeping.

So what do you do… you post a message on Twitter…

anybody seeing a error message popping up when loading my site? http://thenextcorner.net/ message

It didn’t even take 2 minutes or I already had 5 replies back, with the first one within 30 seconds reporting nothing was wrong.

After the fast feedback I realized it could be the updated Y!slow Firefox plugin which was causing trouble. I immediately de-activated the plugin and tried again. Result: Error gone!

Nice, now can I go to sleep. Thanks to @Cifip, @cianW, @astrid0210, @suzannepronk and @martijndevrieze

Update: error message is still persistent. Seems to be an image I pull of the DIYthemes server for the affiliate program. I have removed the little banner in the footer, the site just needs some time to clean it's cache.

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Twitter Fake Profiles

October 19, 2009

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And once again, a social media scam is breaking out. I now get messages from Twitter profiles that only include a short URL with a sexy looking girl as a profile picture.

image thumb22 Twitter Fake Profiles

I’m not going to click on the link, as I suspect it will either take me to a Made for Adsense site, or to a site that will install some malware.

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Let those friends or family members know you’re coming and your plane is on time. A cool innovation and usage of social media by Lufthansa. The German airline has just launched their new Twitter/Facebook application called: MySkyStatus.

If you are planning to take a flight with Lufthansa, you might as well try out this new service.

While you're in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. It's travel made social and it's easy to set up. Let's get started.

Automatic updates to your network of followers where you are, or updating your family what your expected arrival time will be.

myskystatus thumb Flight Update Tweets While You’re Flying

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When Did You Joined Twitter?

October 6, 2009

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An interesting analytical view on Twitter today on Techcrunch by Robert J. Moore of RJmetrics. Most interesting graph, at least when my brains started to work again… hey give me a break, it’s already midnight, was the cumulative twitter users per month.

Finally I can say for once that I’ve been an [...]

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Click Bots on Twitter

July 23, 2009

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How many click bots are present on Twitter?
Today I shared a link through su.pr; the new StumbleUpon URL shortner, which is awesome btw! You can easily track the number of clicks your shared link generated through the people who follow you.
However, today I checked immediately after I shared a link. It [...]

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Spit: Spam on Twitter

July 4, 2009

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How do you call Spam on Twitter? Right Spit. And how do you call a Spammer on Twitter, right a Spitter.
Spit is becoming worse on Twitter the more popular Twitter is becoming. Just check the Tweet below here, your typical form of Spit.

Please Help! I need lot of $ to maintain my [...]

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Tweetmeme River

May 6, 2009

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Can you follow this…

Links shared on Twitter follow up each other so fast, that it is hard to keep up and click on something interesting.

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Hummingbird The Next Twitter Scam

March 23, 2009

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And yes, we are there. Twitter just landed its first one page marketing selling program scam. Hummingbird is offering you the “tools” the big brands are using. For a mere $197 you can purchase this program how to become popular on Twitter, and spam away.
 The producers of this piece of shit claim you can [...]

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CNN #1 biggest Twitter Tribe

March 4, 2009

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Barack Obama has lost the #1 position in Twitter followers. Officially CNN Breaking News has the biggest entourage of the Twitter scene; (measured through Twittercounter)

And it’s impressive how fast their posse has grown in the last couple of days. 

Wow, this is really showing how fast Twitter is becoming mainstream. Now almost 380K [...]

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