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Flight Update Tweets While You’re Flying

October 8, 2009

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 [...]

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When Did You Joined Twitter?

October 6, 2009

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 early adopter, maybe [...]

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Click Bots on Twitter

July 23, 2009

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 struck me [...]

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Spit: Spam on Twitter

July 4, 2009

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 study [...]

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Tweetmeme River

May 6, 2009

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

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 friend [...]

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CNN #1 biggest Twitter Tribe

March 4, 2009

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 people [...]

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TwitterRemote trying out a new widget

February 27, 2009

I just installed the Twitter remote widget. It’s a new widget from the same guys who brought you TwitterCounter. As they describe it: Put a TwitterRemote on your site and see who visites you. TwitterRemote also gives visitors a chance to easily Tweet your address or reply to you, or chat with other visitors. Installation [...]

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Twitter Rolodex for Journalists

February 25, 2009

What a plane crashed in the Hudson river and the famous picture was published on Twitpic, the phone didn’t stop ringing for the maker of that picture Janis Krums. All the news agencies were trying to get an interview, and their main source of contacting the maker was through Twitter. Today another horrible plane crash [...]

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Picture of Dutch government meeting ends up on Twitter

February 13, 2009

Dutch minister of foreign affairs got into trouble for posting a picture taken during an ministerial meeting.  Maxime Verhagen posted the picture of a secret meeting on Twitpic. Above is the picture of the secret meeting Verhagen made in the Trêveszaal The Prime Minister, J.P. Balkenende, of The Netherlands was obviously not happy with the fact one [...]

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