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Twitter

I’m not the first to talk about the problem with knowing whether a “real person” is behind an account on Twitter. I’m probably not the first to suggest this solution, either. But I’ll add another voice to hoping Twitter makes account verification possible. It would help. I was struck when reading the blog of LeVar [...]

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It’s confession time. I’m a Twitter dealer, a pusher — a guy who wants to hook you on the Big T, as it’s known on the street. Need some Tweet? I think you do. I’ve corrupted two notable people and just scored a third this week. Got him hooked not two minutes after swearing Twitter [...]

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I’ve been without business cards for about seven months now, and I’m finally gotten around to getting new ones printed. In doing so, I realized I wanted my Twitter address on my card. Last time I had some printed, at the end of 2005, I don’t even think I had a Twitter account! But now, [...]

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I recently had a go at live twittering a conference and what a pain! First, I was flooding my followers with constant updates. Second, trying to recreate what I live twittered into a blog post was a nightmare, with me literally having to cut-and-paste newer twits above the older ones to reconstruct the proper chronology. [...]

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I was intrigued to read on TechCrunch that Twitter has started blacklisting spammers. Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It’s like bitching that your Facebook “friends” are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then. OK, there are people who will try to [...]

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