U.K. Politician’s Twitter Hijacked by Porn Bots

By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 26 2010 at 12:06 pm | No Comments »

The Twitter API makes it incredibly easy for web applications to take all sorts of actions on your account. Following users, unfollowing others, posting tweets and sending direct messages, these apps can be quite useful and innovative, but also quite malicious. Just ask Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy.

Bill Gates Passes 100,000 Twitter Followers In 8 Hours

By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 20 2010 at 10:00 am | No Comments »

In case you were in need of any more validation of the fact that Twitter is extremely active and abuzz and constantly growing, here you go: Bill Gates joined Twitter yesterday at about noon Pacific. Eight hours later, he had over 100,000 followers. That’s around three per second!

President Obama Confesses, “I Have Never Used Twitter”, Publishes First Tweet

By Kym Huynh, posted Jan 18 2010 at 5:00 pm | 1 Comment »

It is often wondered whether the person behind the Twitter account is the actual person sending the tweets. More recently it was revealed that President Obama never actually used his own Twitter account. President Obama makes his own Twitter account history by sending his first tweet. Want to know what it is?

TweetCraft Lets You Tweet While Playing World of Warcraft (WOW)

By Dave Moyer, posted Jan 11 2010 at 10:00 am | 3 Comments »

Avid World of Warcraft players can now easily tweet screenshots, achievements, random thoughts, and more, all within the MMORPG itself. Whether or not this will turn Twitter into something used even more exclusively by geeks is currently unknown.

WordCast 8: Tweet My Thingie

By Dave Moyer, posted Apr 15 2008 at 6:27 pm | No Comments »

It’s not what you think! This week’s show is entirely devoted to Twitter, and our strange inside connections produced this little title gem.
Topics and links from this week’s show:

The official Twitter WordPress account
Twitter Badges
Twitterfeed
Twitter Updater Plugin – Advanced updating features
Twitter Tools Plugin – All in one tool with fewer updating features
Twitter in Plain English

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