Tag Archives: Twitter
What I’ve been up to
I apologize for the lack of posts over the past few days. Things have been crazy with work. I’ve been pulling those 12 hour days. Unfortunately when the weekend came I didn’t find much comfort in relaxation. Instead I spent money on buying Twittersort.com. I’ve proceeded to spend almost my entire weekend coding the website [...]
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Note to my Twitter followers/followings
I was about to clean up the list of people that I’m following on Twitter today. My criteria were simple: If you haven’t said anything interesting or posted a link to anything interesting in your most recent page of tweets, then I’m going to stop following you. After searching through a whole bunch of people [...]
How I use Twitter and why I love it
I’ve been using Twitter for a few months now, and in these few months I’ve made a couple discoveries. The first thing I love about Twitter is that it has different uses. Some use it as a place to congregate with their friends or connect with new people. Others want to promote their business or [...]
Prove them wrong: Twitter is strong | Super Bowl Twitter feed
The Super Bowl is now embracing Twitter, as CNET points out. However, CNET writes that Twitter is still a new technology and the Super Bowl Twitter feed only had a mere 1900 followers as of Thursday morning. Yet there were just 1,940 followers for the Super Bowl Twitter feed as of Thursday afternoon, a tiny [...]
Jeff Atwood on limited login attempts: Dictionary Hacks 101
Jeff Atwood over at his blog, Coding Horror, gives a little lesson in the reasons why websites should limit their number of login attempts. He uses the recent hacking of Twitter as an example. “Clearly, the last thing you want to do is give attackers carte blanche to run unlimited login attempts. All it takes [...]
Weird font bug in TweetDeck
Just noticed this last night and thought my eyes were going bad. The weird thing is that scrolling through the Tweets fixes the error. It must be some font rendering bug for this specific font in Adobe Air. I’m running TweetDeck on Leopard. It seems to only happen with the capital ‘S’. Here are the [...]
Rands on Twitter