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• The Chilling Effect of Twitter

  Although the SOPA legislation has been derailed for now, there are still some curious things happening on the net. Yesterday, social networking gurus Twitter released a very interesting blog post. In it they state that, “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold cont...

• How To Enable Mobile Notifications On Twitter For Specific Person

  Tweets from people you've enabled for mobile notifications When on Twitter they provide a free awesome service that allows you to receive mobile notifications when a user tweets, when you receive a DM or when you receive a reply. Setting up for receiving DM and replies is easy (settings > mobile...

• 8 Reasons Why People Unfollow You On Twitter

  I recently introduced a friend to Twitter and since he has complained quite a bit about how no-one follows him back and that people continually unfollow him. I explained that it's normal for this to happen even if you're famous but asides from that I noticed a trait in his tweets that was one I've h...

• How To: Effectively Find Your Friend’s or Specific Twitter Profiles

  Google is still the most powerful search engine in the world and if you want to search Twitter Google is sometimes the only way to do it effectively. It's not that Twitter doesn't have a search function but more so their search feature seems to remove a lot of the tweets and doesn't cover all bases ...

• Rainbow Tweets ‘onmousover’ Exploit Caused by 17 Year Old Australian [@zzap]

  The Rainbow Tweets of yesterday wreaked havoc across the Twitter network and was quickly taken advantage of by hackers who started directing the traffic to Japanese porn sites and other unscrupulous sites. The exploit made it onto many profiles including that of celebrities and even the feed of the ...

• OOPS! Twitter is Under Siege – ‘onmouseover’ Exploit

  Using some external software for using Twitter today would be your best way forward as there is an exploit that has Twitter under seige. It's all based on a simple exploit that are allowing users to post updates that cause links - when hovered - to open links that are irrelevant.It's also causing pe...

• How To: Find Who is on Twitter in Your Area

  Have you ever wondered how many people in your area are on Twitter? How many in your town, city, state or county? I have and I'm sure many of you have too. So I was doing a little bit of research into who was on Twitter in my area and found the most perfect way to narrow down Twitter profiles to jus...

• Twitter is the World’s Most Powerful Realtime Search Engine

  If you've been using Twitter for any amount of time you'll have soon become a Twitter power user and will have found that Twitter is assuredly the new world's most powerful search engine. Of course it doesn't compare to Google or Bing in terms of its search capabilities but it does in terms of it's ...

• Who Sent Twitters 20 Billionth Tweet? The Award Goes To..

  If you've not heard the latest news on Twitter it is that the 20 billionth tweet has been sent. This comes after around 4.5 years of Twitter's existence where it took 4 years to reach 10 billion tweets but only 5 months to double it. Something I think reflects on how much the internet usage has chan...

• Easy Way to Check if Someone is Following You Back on Twitter

  WARNING: This awesome site I found may have been hacked. As last time I checked it led to a malicious site. Please do not click on the link until further notice. We are trying to find a similar service that is as good as this one was. Thank you.One of my biggest frustrations with Twitter is ...