Tag Archives: Twitter

Feedburner went wrong

It’s the second day people report that Feedburner shows sometimes 400-500 less visitors than usual. I gathered so far almost 100 reports.
After Blogsearch that failed completely, at least the results integrated in WP platforms do, is it the turn of Feedburner? And will Twitter do likewise if they purchase it?

L.E.:Someone says they ckecked and the number of those dissapeared equals, in his case, the number equals those who use Google Reader.

Please leave a comment on how many of your usual readers dissapeared today, i am trying to gather statistics, thank you :)

Why wouldn’t Google own all media?

No really, why wouldn’t Google own all media. I think it would be reliable, a monopole always gives you security. Think of our ancestors, who had to get by whith only one busline, one railway company, telephony company and electricity supplier. They were also reliable in their failures. They were just like a member of the family or a friend, or the dear old lady that you buy your vegetables from.


Now, to be serious, i think you realized i’m talking about the word of the day: Google wants to purchase Twitter. Of course they do. People use it like crazy, we started to search on twitter topics rather than googling things, it’s fast, snappy.

In one word, the best asset of the moment. And if there’s a thing people can’t do without, Google must own it, just like it happened with Feedburner for instance.

I see that readwriteweb published different opinion of media specialists. One says Google could easily reproduce the platform. So what? We do have other platforms, but they’re just not Twitter, as well as other search engines are not Google ;)

I say we prepare for our wonderful weekend and wish them the best of luck if it’s true: the Twitter guys would be getting 20 million, that means twenty cozy islands in the Pacific, and Google would get also what they want: one step closer to controlling all media :)).

Tweetizen.com, create and share Twitter groups


As Twitter becomes more and more popular, lots of new tools, games, add-ons and related sites emerge to make our life easier and more fun.

The newest kid in town is Tweetizen.com, a website that allows you to create groups for your followees, and that’s not it. You can embed the groups with a widget that can be easily added to your website.
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Yes, yes, keep them Twitter related developments coming, but meanwhile don’t forget what Twitter shouldn’t be. You can see that here :)

Twitter security breach


An adult webcam site might be sending tweets from your account.

It seems Twitter is confrunted with another major security break: a program that hacks into accounts and sends out a message like that:

hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com.

A while ago, celebrity accounts have been hacked in the same way, by compromising password, a tactique not quite so common for Twitter hacks but heavily used for breaking down Instant Messaging accounts.

This has not yet been proven, but it is the best time to change your Twitter password.

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Image source: mashable.com

Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl on nytimes.com

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