Archive for the 'social media' Category

17
Mar

How to create groups on Twitter and follow threaded streams of twitter updates

By lucaP 1 Comment
Categories: social media, tagging and Uncategorized

It’s very easy to miss updates in twitter due to the amount of stuff that keeps coming in; and it is just a pain to read your friends’ random jokes, your colleagues rants and world news all intermixed in a single stream.

People keep bragging about this and Facebook (not Twitter) did listen and reacted! but there’s a very Zen ‘act-without-doing’ solution, you don’t need to install an extra twitter client, nor to share your twitter password with yet another site; actually you don’t even need to have a Twitter account, nor to follow people explicitly!

Just notice that each user page (http://twitter.com/username) generates an rss feed, then:

  1. Aggregate users rss’ in groups/labels as you like in your preferred rss reader
  2. done! click your personal labels and read threaded twitter discussions

Bonus: this also works with the feeds created by twitterSearch (i.e. keywords monitoring), with other users’ favourites pages and on and on.

12
Mar

Aggiornare Facebook da Twitter

By lucaP 0 Comments
Categories: social media

Visto che nessuno sembra quasi averne mai parlato sul web italiano, segnalo Selective Twitter Status una semplice applicazione che permette di aggiornare il proprio status Facebook attraverso Twitter.

Requisiti: un account su Twitter ed uno su Facebook, massimo 60 secondi tra installazione e configurazione.

Esisteva già una applicazione simile rilasciata da Facebook stessa, la particolarità e la novità di Selective Twitter Status stà nel poter scegliere se un messaggio dovrà o meno apparire anche su Facebook, semplicemente terminandolo con ‘#fb’.

Visto che spesso i due gruppi di persone che ci seguono sulle due piattaforme sono alquanto diversi, tale funzionalità è piuttosto importante!

Complimenti ad Andy (lo sviluppatore) e anche a Facebook, che malgrado le battaglie strategiche e i recenti aggiornamenti di interfaccia ‘ispirati’ da Twitter stesso, non ha voluto bloccare questa apertura verso la concorrenza.

03
Mar

Una guida per nuovi utenti Twitter, in stile Twitter

By lucaP 2 Comments
Categories: social media

A seguito dell’articolo su Repubblica riguardo Twitter, e per i tanti altri in fuga da Facebook, ecco una piccola guida per nuovi utenti, in 140 caratteri (x24).

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12
Feb

TweeterGetter: a major multi-level pyramidal scheme (scam) hits Twitter!

By lucaP 3 Comments
Categories: social media

UpsetTwitterAs many Twitter users I do check Retweetist regularly to check out what’s hot; this morning I sadly discovered TweeterGetter (by @garymccaffrey) at the top of the list, just another multi-level pyramidal scam, asking full access to your account in exchange for thousand of unknown @followers.

The site consist of a single page full of the usual multi-level jargon, ending in a form where you are supposed to enter your Twitter username and password (you really trust them right?!) and submit, this will send a canned message through the Twitter API and automatically force you to follow 5 or 6 people that already entered the multi-level scheme; your followers are then supposed to click the link and also expose their full credentials to TwitterGetter.

Aside from the general, theoretical unsustainability of such schemes, I believe this can really trash the Twitter platform in no time! first the whole value of your Twitter account is in the fine-tuning of your following/follower population, moreover adding people at random results into an immense amount of noise flowing around the Web for no reason.

I really hope Twitter headquarters will react promptly; please contact them about this, and do retweet a warning instead of TweeterGetter message, let’s get viral too!