It’s all over the blogosphere, so rather than rewriting what has already been written, here are some links to news about the recent Twitter phishing attack - in short, it’s wise to change your password NOW if you’ve inadvertently clicked on the links.
Another pointless but funny measure of your Tweets.
They say:
Twitemperature is a gauge telling you whether you’re hot or cold on today’s topics of concern.
Twitemperature ignores meaningless points of measure like number of followers and number of people you are following, and instead focuses on what you’re actually saying, now. We poll your last several hundred tweets and score what you’re saying against what everyone else is saying in current hot conversations on Twitter and elsewhere.
I’m not saying it’s the best way or even that it’s the right way, but it’s the way that I use it and will continue to.
Firstly be aware, I tweet a lot. A LOT. If you don’t follow many people, then it could seem at times that I’m the only one tweeting. And it could get annoying.
Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He created a waistband for his wife which sends a Tweet everytime the baby kicks, naming the project “Kickbee”.
Although I can easily think of several individuals I’d like to place on this list, I figured it would be too mean to actually call them out by name (and possibly result in a libel suit). So the list below contains ten archetypes that I’ve noticed on Twitter. I’m sure there are many others, so feel free to add your own in the comments section.
1) The Pimp - The pimp is always looking for avenues of self-promotion. If almost every tweet is a reference to a blog post and even conversations end in links to posts, you’re following The Pimp.
Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.
SecretTweet was created to allow Twitter users to share secrets anonymously. There are currently 1,000+ loyal followers of @secrettweet and many more readers via SecretTweet.com.
admin | Twitter Fun | Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Shaquille O’Neal had a problem. An Internet impostor using his name was sending messages to unsuspecting Shaq fans. So O’Neal did what any sensible, 7-foot-1, muscle-bound mammoth would do. He started tweeting.
