Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in and reported spammers over the last [...]
on days like today I hate it with every fibre of my being. I woke this morning, with the rest of the UK, to the sad news that Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, had died from cancer. Steve had been diagnosed in 2004 with pancreatic cancer, from that point he was on a downward spiral, [...]
I wrote this for @talkaboutlocal but have cross posted it here because, I want more people to see it and I am too bone idle today to do a real post so here you go. There seems to have been an increase in Twitter spam over the past week, with people sending out tweets like [...]
….. What would @JackBauer do? You hear the word Twitterthon and you almost want Noel Edmonds, Dave Lee (Hairy Cornflake) Travis et-al to come bounding out in Christmas jumpers, with comedy mobile phones for 24 hours of furious tweeting induced RSI. But alas no, today it is @tamesidecouncil who are tweeting about the calls they [...]
Take a village in rural Lancaster, a village that happens to have a 30mbps symmetrical broadband connection, a village cricket match & throw in the micro blogging, social networking site (or whatever the media call it this week) Twitter and you get #Twicket. The idea was simple, get a group of people together to show [...]