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I’ve never seen that before.
For all the moves Google has made to make YouTube “social,” they overlooked that obvious move — until now.
I’d like to see it across all of YouTube.
Category Archives: Socialtech
What’s Up With Me And Twitter? Part Two
I’ve unProtected my account.
It’s clear to me now that I can get along without Twitter just fine and there’s no danger of me returning there and using it as much as I once did.
From time to time I will tweet a blog post, pop in to ask a question (which usually never gets fucking answered — so much for “the conversation”), or pop in when there’s breaking live news (like the Boston marathon bombing).
Other than that, Twitter is generally irrelevant to me.
Previously here:
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Associated Press Twitter Hacked, Suspended
Within minutes of tweeting a false bombing attack at the White House, The Associated Press Twitter account has been suspended.
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Surreality
Same-day update: This is yet another fake.
The account is filled with tweets about soccer and some tweets seem to be from someone actually British.
A fake account surfaced today. This account, with that tweet, has been around a while. If someone changed their Twitter account to that name and user ID (it is possible to do), that person is a dick. If this is the real account of the suspect, things are just getting even more weird.
Update after the break.
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Twitter Sockpuppetry Confirmed
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business
“Resellers lately haven’t been selling only accounts and followers, but are now getting into the retweet business,” Mr. Stroppa and Mr. De Micheli wrote in a report. They said prices range between five retweets a day for $9 per month to $150 a month for 125 daily retweets.
The Twitter account for someone who claims to be Cilia Poon, for example, includes a bio, in Chinese, a link to a Yahoo health blog with Chinese content and has tweeted over 17,000 times — but each tweet was simply a retweet of a tweet posted by The Next Web, a technology blog (in English), that wrote about the fake Twitter follower phenomenon last December. Each time The Next Web Tweets its content, the Twitter user Cilia Poon retweets its content right away. Digging further they found several more examples of accounts that appear to exist solely to retweet content for The Next Web. (Some more convincing than others.)
Boldfaced emphasis added by me.
This has been happening for years.
How many advertisers are really addressing fake Twitter accounts?
Twitter has to stop this now.
Previously here:
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Facebook Flails For Mobile Relevancy
And it won’t work.
Facebook Home is Zuckerborg trying to fend off all the new, shiny and damned popular chat apps overturning everything in Asia.
He must have seen their adoption rates, compared it to Facebook’s adoption rates in those areas, also seen the Facebook drop off rates in those areas, and went all Steve Ballmer on his team.
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Google Me-Too Minus
As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.”
Boldfaced emphasis added by me.
Google has become the new Microsoft. A Me-Too company.
Google Plus? Hahaha. The Real Names fiasco. The weird Circles that never made any damn sense to me. Having to read too-long shit from people I don’t know and don’t want to read. The bizarre UI that never made any damn sense to me. The “Let’s All Play Nice” policy.
I left and haven’t been back and will probably never go back.
If I want “social,” I’ll go to Twitter.
Being a Me-Too company is death.
And Google Search has turned into shit.
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The Sockpuppets Of Twitter
Rachel Maddow Busted Using Multiple Fake Twitter Accounts To Boost Mentions Of Her Show
I doubt it’s Maddow doing it. More likely this is a “social media PR firm” hired by MSNBC that’s behind it.
But this is all over Twitter. I use Twitter Search a lot. And I’ve come across well-known tech sites that assault Twitter with hundreds of sockpuppet tweets when a post goes live, all under accounts that exist only to blast through their message.
This is something that Twitter needs to stop.
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Twitter Took Our Tweets And Now Takes Our Images
Go past a certain date or an unknown number of images and you can’t get access to your own property any longer!
I had many images that were uploaded before August 17th. Yet this is the last image I now have access to.
What is Twitter playing at here?
We’re being forced to use only Twitter for images — to complete “the Twitter experience” — and now we can’t have access to all of them?
TwitPic never pulled this on me! I still have access to everything there.
The more crap like this Twitter pulls, the more inviting app.net is beginning to seem.
As it is, I’m copying all my remaining images over to TwitPic so I can access them at will. Too bad for users if they’ll have to click through to an URL now to see them.
Same-day update: In the process of copying all my images to move to TwitPic, I now get this:
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Do you really want to trust Twitter with your images?
I will use TwitPic from now on.
Second same-day update: Twitter has a media partnership with WordPress. By reactivating a dormant blog, I can now post a photo there and it will still appear in-column in Twitter. So I have found a backdoor that lets me screw Twitter out of my images. This is so Win.
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