I just came across this strange thing on twitter: Received a notification that some “Virginia A. Osborn” liked a tweet of mine that was a) in Greek b) totally of a subset of Greek residents interest, highly unlikely it would have meant anything to a person with a foreign name. Then I saw that twitter […]

While I was trying to visit twitter I suddenly was faced with this page, which although very well designed looked immediately suspicious to me, first of all because of the redirects I noticed happening at the address bar and also because the landing URL was using the word “rewardz”. Moreover the page seems to be [...]

Now who has to be more clever? Me or the Twitter programmers who apart from not being polite have managed to fail in simple character counting? They have added automatic link shortening if your message exceeds 140 chars, but fail to count the resulting chars correctly and allow you to press the Tweet button which [...]

Sometime ago I got the above error screen (after clicking on the error notice at the statusbar) on IE8/Vista at the new Twitter UI (aka #NewTwitter). Exactly what does “The disk is full.” error mean to say? Wonder if twimg.com (probably used to host images served by Twitter like avatar images) was itself running out [...]

Just ran into a post from Shed - a guy exploring Enterprise 2.0 tips and tricks - explaining why he loves microblogging and realized that I am using it in a very similar way From his post : "So why do I love microblogging?  Well it’s nothing more than just presence detection with bells and whistles on.  People not only get ...

I just discovered a really valuable and complete guide to twitter and microblogging in general. It has everything : - Why you should use it - How to use it - What mashups exist out there that complement it If you haven't read it, go ahead and have a look