Tag Archives: twitter

News Limited Seeks Excess Access To Your Social Media Accounts

With the News Limited mastheads moving to the “metered paywall” model for their online activities, I curiously checked out what sort of information they might want to sign-up as a registered user. I was a bit surprised. When signing up using your Twitter account, they want access to “read tweets from your timeline”, “see who […]

Why Is The CSIRO Analysing Millions Of Tweets?

It seems that “AC” and “DC” over at the CSIRO didn’t get together and discuss the very similar tweets they sent out today. Here’s the first: And here’s the second: How does one analysis come up with 12.5 million tweets about the bushfires in a week, yet another finds only 55,000 out of 6.6 million […]

Online Abuse and Feeding The Trolls

The recent online incident where model and television personality Charlotte Dawson was systematically and relentlessly hassled on Twitter, until she attempted suicide, has again highlighted the dangers one can face when interacting online. Attacks from so-called internet trolls can come for little or no reason, or as part of a targeted and specific campaign against […]

Trending Topics on Facebook Now?

Midst the unfolding drama that is the sudden grounding of Qantas, I noticed that Facebook appears to be analysing posts for trending topics now: “…and 4 other friends posted about Qantas.” Another move towards being Twitter?

Important Twitter Security Enhancement

Twitter today announced a new security feature enabling HTTPS for all web connections to the service. HTTPS is a secure/encrypted version of the standard web protocol, HTTP. This follows similar recent changes by Facebook. Using HTTPS where possible/available is important – it means that all your communications with the Twitter site are encrypted end-to-end from […]

Twitter: Copyright and Etiquette

While there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to what you do – (or don’t) – post on Twitter, I think it would be a reasonable point of etiquette not to modify something someone has posted to suit your own view, and infer that the original person is responsible for the comment. […]

Twitter Advertising Model Appears

Seems that the much-anticipated – (yeah, well) – advertising model for Twitter is finally showing its face to the world. The model calls for the ability for advertisers to pay for their tweets to be inserted into your Twitter stream, and for promoted topics to appear in the list of “trending topics”. I was sceptical […]

Twitter SSL Certificate Expires!

Looks like someone at Twitter headquarters hasn’t been paying attention to basic infrastructure while they’ve been looking at major infrastructure issues. I keep calendar reminders for whenever SSL certificates I handle are about to expire, to make sure I renew them. How about it Twitter?