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More Twitter Phishing messages – June 2013

3 June 2013

This morning I’ve checked twitter and see that half a dozen people I follow have sent me direct messages (DMs – the private messages) containing the same message: “OMG, who the f*ck shared this of me. I am so p*ssed.” As you know I’ve written about phishing messages before. Other recent messages include: “Want to [...]

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2013 Training Programme Update: Strategy, Linkedin, Twitter

4 March 2013

Here are the dates and details of further training sessions this year. Social Media Strategy in a (half) Day Monday 11 March – As the February session went so well we’ve squeezed in another date at Herman Miller. More Information and Booking Here: Linkedin for Professionals Workshops Thursdays 21 March, 16 May, 11 July at Herman Miller [...]

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Twitter introduces an Archive of your Tweets

24 December 2012

I note that Twitter has introduced an option to access an archive of your tweets. This will be interesting for people who want to keep a record of what they have done in the past and compare it to their goal achievements, for example. On the blog post Twitter has written about the archiving tool, [...]

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Why Linkedin turning off Twitter updates is a good thing

2 July 2012

It has been interesting to see the discussions about the big Twitter-to-Linkedin switch off over the last few days since the announcements on Friday. I see the decision, whoever was behind it, to be great for users of each platform. There are a couple of reasons why this change is good for twitter users: If [...]

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Linkedin shuts down Tweets Application – but what about Connections?

30 January 2012

Last week Linkedin announced that it “will be shutting off the Tweets application on January 31, 2012”. Here is the announcement: I found out about Tweets in May 2010 from this post on the Linkedin Blog and have blogged about Linkedin and Twitter integration on and off since. Integration has some downsides, in particular the [...]

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After a lull of a few months, new Twitter Phishing Scam phrases appear

16 January 2012

On Friday morning I started to get some new Direct Messages on my account (see examples in image) with phrases like: “Want to lose any weight? go here: [link removed] best product for losing weight” And then later, “You seen what this person is saying about you? [link removed] terrible things..” The first one of [...]

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Some practical ideas for filtering leads out of Twitter

13 January 2012

Here is a conversation some of my friends had yesterday on Facebook. Thought it might be useful to some of you twitter people. Peter Syme Twitter ? I really need to nail this. Background. I have various twitter streams running and when we do answer them they are driving business however, is their anyway to [...]

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Architecture Student uses Social Media to be a part of the AEC community of construction professionals

5 January 2012

People who don’t use ‘Social Media’ often ask me why those who do use it, go on about it so much. One reason why this is such a concern is that there isn’t enough exposure for the good that it does. Like any other tool, social tools on the internet can be used for useful [...]

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Who should I follow on Twitter to get followers?

15 September 2011

The important thing to realise with Twitter is that it is assymetric. You don’t have to follow back and people you follow don’t have to follow you. This is an advantage to you, but you need to take that advantage. Because there is no absolute requirement for reciprocal following on twitter, it means following and [...]

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New twitter phishing scam preys on curiosity about criticism

23 July 2011
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I had a direct message from a friend on twitter today asking about a direct message she’d had from someone she followed. The direct message said, “Someone said this real bad thing about you in a blog….[link removed]” If you click the link it takes you to a website at tnijurl.com and then a ‘twitter [...]

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