Archive for the ‘Twitter News’ Category

LovelyButton, Lone Conan Twitter Followee, Says Life Has Become ‘Totally Nuts’ (The Huffington Post)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
What's Your Reaction? Sarah Killen, the only person Conan O'Brien follows on Twitter.

Conan’s lone Twitter followee: ‘It’s totally nuts … – Corpus Christi Caller

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one ...

Twitter launches its own URL service as a security … – Thetech Herald

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
In an effort to battle Phishing attacks and other malicious messages on their service, Twitter has beefed up security measures and introduced a shortened URL, twt.tl. This new service routes all links through their own systems, and hopes to screen ...

Power Of Twitter: Now It Stops Thieves – CBS 2

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Social networking is still a mystery to some. Others may think it's frivolous. But this story may have them rethinking that. It's about some friends who used Twitter to foil a thief. CBS 2 HD recently met Austin Horse, and saw his bike. Last week ...

Power Of Twitter: Now It Stops Thieves (WCBS-TV New York)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Social networking is still a mystery to some. Others may think it's frivolous. But this story may have them rethinking that. It's about some friends who used Twitter to foil a thief. CBS 2 HD recently met Austin Horse, and saw his bike. Last week this messenger's worst nightmare came true -- his bike was stolen on a routine delivery.

How to use Twitter to find the best green blogs and … – Examiner

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Get alerts when there is a new article from the Green Celebrity Examiner. Read Examiner.com's terms of use. Look no further. Subscribe to the Green Celebrity Examiner and each week, we will share news about green celebrities and the eco celebs from ...

ACC trash talk showing up on twitter – Greensboro News & Record

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
GREENSBORO — Coaches can’t govern every aspect of their players’ lives, even when a basketball player blows a stack. After a loss Feb. 21 at Duke, Virginia Tech forward Terrell Bell unloaded in a partially punctuated rant via Twitter. “Ill ...

How Twitter makes us more productive – Computer Weekly

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Last year, Nucleus Research warned that Facebook shaves 1.5 percent off total office productivity; a Morse survey estimated that on-the-job social networking costs British companies $2.2 billion a year. But for knowledge workers charged with ...

Twitter to add phishing filter service – ZDNet UK

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Twitter to add phishing filter service Tags: Filtering, Phishing, Spam, Twitter Elinor Mills CNET News Published: 11 Mar 2010 10:34 GMT Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social media site from getting duped by phishing ...

China’s First Twitter Novel – Wall Street Journal

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
While Twitter remains generally blocked in China, that hasn’t stopped tech-savvy Chinese from putting the microblog platform to creative uses. This week, influential blogger Lian Yue started publishing a novel on Twitter, believed to be the first ...

Conan O’Brien’s lone Twitter followee: ‘It’s totally … – MLive.com

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
AP photo Sarah Killen, left, and fiancee, John Slowik Jr., stand together at their home in Conway Township, Michigan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. CONWAY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20 ...

Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing (Network World)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced its own anti-phishing service designed to protect its users from these types of attacks. The new security measures will focus on Twitter direct messages (DMs) -- private tweets addressed to a specific user -- and corresponding ...

10 People Who Got Famous Through Twitter – The Frisky

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Twitter has done some crazy things to our world. Nerds have become popular and we know more about strangers than our closest friends thanks to the constant updates of their mundane thoughts. And it’s also set the celebrity world a bit topsy-turvy ...

Jemima posts passport details on Twitter – Hindustan Times

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Jemima Khan, the former wife of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, put out her passports details on Twitter recently in a desperate bid to prove that she is not a fake! Jemima, currently working on a book on Pakistan and quite active on Twitter ...

Looking for 20,000 friends? Have Conan O’Brien follow … – New Orleans Times-Picayune

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she over has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. The unsuspecting rural Michigan woman has one out-of-work late-night ...

O’Brien turns Mich. woman into Twitter star – Lansing State Journal

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
CONWAY TWP. - Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 - as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for her wedding. Killen, of Conway Township, near Fowlerville, has one out-of ...

Get Breaking News Alerts – Huffingtonpost.com

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
I must confess that until recently I had no idea what Twitter was. Even now, I'm not completely sure how it's best used. When I want to post something, the younger, more tech-savvy people in my office help me out. But I do know this: if you searched ...

Trash talk showing up on twitter – Greensboro News & Record

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
GREENSBORO — Coaches can’t govern every aspect of their players’ lives, even when a basketball player blows a stack. After a loss Feb. 21 at Duke , Virginia Tech forward Terrell Bell unloaded in a partially punctuated rant via Twitter. “Ill ...

Twitter Takes On Malware With Link Scanning Tools – eWeek Europe

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Twitter has announced plans to route all links through a scanner in a bid to boost security and weed out malicious activity . The move follows a partnership announced in November between URL shortening service Bit.ly and security companies VeriSign ...

The Trick Is This: How To Get More Twitter Followers … – PRLog (free press release)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 11, 2010 – Twitter is a great way to update your friends and family about what’s going on in your life, and it’s also a great way to channel your inner voyeur when you need to find out what your favorite celebs ...