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How Vodafone lost Twitter control
- 05 Feb 10
From the "You couldn't make this up if you tried" pile Vodafone have had to issue multiple apologies after what appears to be a rogue employee tweeted out the following on Vodafone's Twitter account.
"is fed up with dirty homo's and is going after beaver"
This is a massive backfire for Vodafone on just about every level you could imagine, they tweeted the following apology:
"A severe breach of rules by staff in our building, dealing with that internally" "We're very sorry"
It remains to be seen what further fall out there may be from this, here are my theories on what exactly happend:
Twitter details another Phishing attack
- 03 Feb 10
Twitter have let everyone know of another attempt to compromised accounts of Twitter users, this one however was an attack of a different nature. If you got a warning yesterday to change your password you should do so and it's always wise to change your passwords every few months.
Here is what Twitter had to say it's long:
Free Twitter Profile Background Template
- 16 Jan 10
Having a unique Twitter profile background is the hallmark of a charity really looking to get the most from Twitter, problem is how to get it just right so it looks great on a wide range of screens.
Drew over at 38Pages has created a really awesome Twitter Profile Template that includes a complete set of layers and guides marking out all the screen sizes and dimensions you need to make your Twitter Profile Background.
Using Google Real Time Search for marketing your website
- 28 Dec 09
When Google launched Real Time Search it herald the start of the Real Time Social Age where the knowledge and actions of people across the world could be indexed, categorised and relayed to others in as close to Real Time as possible.
You see one of the biggest drags on finding information online was how current or relevant it is at any moment in time, a hot news story might take days or weeks to appear in an organic search result like Google Search, not much use if you want to know what's happening in Iran in the last hour.
Google does have a few tricks to help get upto date news into a prime position but that's only good for the Newspapers and TV stations, what about the rest of us!?Tweetspinner Automate your Twitter account
- 28 Dec 09
Tweetspinner is a very useful service for those of you that have a lot of tweeting to do but only limited time to do it all in. Tweetspinner is feature packed they provide a free services that is more limited or a Pro account that allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts and schedule every service they provide.
