I'm not trying to make light of anyone who got caught in the scam, but it seems that Twitter caught the wave of some "phishy" business over the weekend. A lot of people were affected, including Fox News, Britney Spears and CNN's Rick Sanchez. If you got a random direct message from someone and clicked a link that redirected you to twitter.access-logins.com/login/, DO NOT FILL OUT YOUR INFORMATION. I haven't been personally affected by phishing on the social sites, but my wife has ...
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Twitter made a change yesterday that removed deleted and suspended accounts from your list of followers. Twitter Status had the real scoop. And don't worry, it wasn't just you who lost a few followers. Check out the numbers of followers for the Top 100 Tweeps - even @barackobama lost 789. I'm not as cool as everyone else - I only lost 10. How many did you lose?
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It's been a while since my last post and I've started gathering a ton of information about Twitter. Call this a case study if you will. I love trying to figure out how people are going to react / respond to certain ideas.So far 1,350+ tweeps have watched the video I made last month to say “Hi, and thanks for following me.” I knew it would work beautifully because the idea was just so simple... I think the results speak for ...
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We e-mail. We search. We blog, txt, & tweet. For the first time, a person running for the most powerful position on earth did, too. Now that the race to the White House is complete, what happens to Barack Obama's immense social media presence? Most of those who follow @barackobama know that the information provided by his Twitter account was never earth shattering. There was never a tweet about how bad he needed some Starbucks or rants about how frustrating it is ...
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I am pleased to be here writing my first 'official' ProspectMX blog post on a subject that I truly love - Twitter! If you're not quite sure what I'm talking about, maybe we should start with a brief explanation. Twitter is a 'Micro-Blogging' / Social Media, kinda thing. You can follow people that interest you... and "Tweeple" can follow you. I know that's a pretty basic explanation... but I have lots to cover so moving along.  I've been using Twitter since March ...
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