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Twitter Status updates
-by Timothy Caron

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s, this is just a quick post to let you know that, Twitter has stated that they are working on the problem of users being locked out of their accounts after changing there username and password.

You can get the updates below.

Researching username, password change problems 1 day ago
We’re currently researching reports from users who are locked out after trying to reset their passwords or change their email address or user names. This seems to affect new users as well as long term users; we do not advise changing your user name, email address, or password at this time. We will update Status with more news as it becomes available.

If you are running into the same problem as many other users after changing your username and password it would be a very good idea to voice your opinion over at their support site.

I’ll do the best I can to keep you up to date on this development.

Until next time, have a wonderful day.
Timothy

Twitter Funny Video Phishing Scam
-by Timothy Caron

Just saw this upon starting up TweetDeck this morning. Looks like some folks are getting a virus which then sends out DMs saying “rofl this you on here?” regarding an alleged funny video featuring the recipient. The link leads to a spoofed Twitter site where unknowing folks may enter their Twitter credentials and where the instigators can then gain access to more Twitter accounts and perpetuate the ploy.

If you get such a DM, don’t enter your Twitter log-in data on the spoofed site! If you’ve already done so, try to change your Twitter password as soon as possible.

This one almost got me, and I am typically wary of such things.

Google results for the spoofed Twitter page address, http://videos.twitter.secure-logins01.com/, are growing quickly.

Don’t get caught in the Phishing Scam.

Until next time, have a wonderful day.

Twitter Tools For Your Blog

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s here’s the next article in our series.

Today I will discuss some of the tools I have found to improve your use of Twitter in relation to your blog and a couple that have been helpful for using Twitter.

First to integrate your Twitter feed on to your blog there are a couple items you can use. Tweet My Blog will allow you to easily add your latest tweets to your sidebar. It will also send your latest blog post out as a tweet to your Twitter account automatically.

A similar plugin with a few more features is Twitter Tools,. This will also allow you to use your tweets as blog posts. Either of these will allow you to automate the process and send tweets when you update your blog along with showing your tweets on your blog.

There is another tool that will allow you to auto post your blog posts to Twitter called Twitter Feed which will monitor your blog’s RSS feed and post to Twitter when it finds new information on a regularly scheduled basis. It also works with other services like Ping.fm. This service allows you to post at one pl;ace and have it update Twitter along with your other social sites like Facebook, Friend Feed, et al.

There are a couple tools that will help you monitor and stay active with Twitter. The two that I have tried are Twhirl and TweetDeck.

Tweet Deck is much more powerful and allows you to search, set up groups and more. Again a reminder this is not a report about using Twitter and these various tools others have covered those extensively but how you can use Twitter to enhance your blogging efforts.

Another plugin that allows you to add a place in your comments for people to leave their Twitter username called WP Twitip ID. This way you can find the people who are commenting on your blog and be able to strengthen the relationship through Twitter conversations too.

It also allows your readers to connect with those leaving valuable comments which is a true win – win and another way for others to want to contribute to the conversation there.

Another tool that I have added to my blogs is Twitter This. Anyone reading my blog can submit there Twitter ID and password and it will automatically tweet to their account about your post with a link back to that post. Think this may help you get more readers?

Next time we’ll talk about “Using Twitter for Research”

Until next time, have a wonderful weekend.

Timothy

Let’s Get Twitter Straight!

Hey Guy’s and Gal’s

I know this may seem like old news but bare with me for a minute and let me explain.

Lets start with a definition from Wikipedia.

“Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.” Read the rest of this entry »

I know this might be old news, but I thought it might be of some interest.

Biz and Evan have some really cool things in mind if you can read between the lines in this video.

In this brief video Biz and Evan give an over view of Twitters growth and some surprising numbers as to what Twitter User’s do and don’t do.

Plus they give a glimpse of what is to come. You can view the video below or go directly to Marketwatch.com and see it there.

Let me know your comments
Until next time have a wonderful day!