(With apologies to those not on Twitter) I followed back a lot of people this weekend, and received several auto- direct messages in return. They say things like “thanks for the follow – look at me/my website/my company.” These messages are rude and make me annoyed, and here is why: They waste time as they …
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Increasing interconnectiveness of the mediasphere
WordPress.com has just added another link to the increasingly interconnected mediasphere. They’ve added the ability to login, read and post to WordPress blogs using the Twitter API. What that specifically means is that we can now post blog entries using apps like Tweetie 2.0 for the iPhone, which I am doing for this. * However …
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Phishing on Twitter
I received this DM from Wellington’s @andrewfantastic this morning: Given the state of affairs with the NBR and so forth, I clicked on the link – hoping to see a lovely rant. T’was not to be – instead Safari gave me this: The URL is and if you click through the warnings then you will …
How NOT to Twitter if you are a corporation
A little while back I praised Vodafone New Zealand for their excellent Twittering, inside an article on How to Twitter if you are a Corporation. They reached out to customers, solved problems, gently nudged opinion their way and generally were liked by everybody. The account was run by Paul Brislen – who let his own …
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How to twitter if you are a corporation
Twitter, for members of my family and those other 4 people that read blogs and have not yet discovered it, is a microblogging service that has just hit the main stream media. By definition it is therefore passé, but in the meantime we may as well use it well. Examples: How not to twitter. @NZStuff …
Lance Wiggs 