So there has been a lot of buzz this week revolving around the launch of the new Twitter home page, which features trending topics that are hot at the moment, hot for that current day, and hot this week, as well as a hot this month. But more importantly Twitter’s home page is now dominated by a search feature. The new focus on search has people talking about Twitter being the next big thing in search when it comes to…
There are a number of celebrities using twitter and social media these days. Some of them have their people do all the updates, some of them only update occasionally and others update regularly and interact with their fans on a regular basis. However last night I saw a level of interaction from a celebrity that I hadn’t seen previously. Hannah Montana star and pop music starlet Miley Cyrus spent a good chunk of her night interacting with female fans on…
I’ve been giving a lot of thought lately on how to make my online blog and article reading more efficient. I am subscribed to over 200 blogs in Google Reader and what used to be easy to skim on a daily basis is becoming next to impossible. I used to have more time at the last company to catch up on blog reading throughout the day, but since the switch to PlasticSurgery.com I just can’t dedicate the kind of time…
A few weeks back I did a post about a Twitter exploit that could hurt you. Many argued the exploit was more on Google’s end than Twitter’s, but that it was a valid concern nonetheless. Today when I returned from my weekend long camping trip I of course had a plethora of e-mails waiting for me, one of which was a twitter follow notification for WeaponMasters.com. I was happy to see that in the e-mail the usename was not a…
This isn’t the first time I’ve brought up this potential exploit. I mentioned it briefly in my post The Rise and Fall of Twitter, but this is the first time I’ve seen the concern since, and because I so blindly fell into the trap again I feltt it was worthy enough to write about. With Twitter going more mainstream it seems that everyone is jumping on the twitter bandwagon. The problem with this is more users means a greater opportunity…