Tagged: Social Networking

Don’t expect private messages on Twitter to be private

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Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization. How disappointing. This is like the Facebook leak where they said they “accidentally” allowed advertisers to see information that they promised the privacy settings didn’t allow. It is things like this that ruin and don’t allow people to build trust in the integrity of the cloud.

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Twitter users are educated intellectuals

That is what NPR Social Media expert said in a recent podcast. I was surprised. According to the below info-graphic from 2010 this doesn’t seem to be true. Perhaps there are very intelligent people on Twitter, but I don’t think you can classify them as the majority. Have you found this to be true in your Twitter friends?

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Janrain: Facebook Has Eclipsed Google As Most Popular Sign-In Choice (via TechCrunch)

Facebook has really accomplished something hasn’t it? It took MySpace’s spot and looks like it might even muscle out Google/Microsoft as well. I don’t know if that is a helpful thing.

Janrain: Facebook Has Eclipsed Google As Most Popular Sign-In Choice Janrain, a user management platform that enables third party sign-in with 18 different providers, including Facebook, Google, and Twitter; is releasing its Q1 2011 report today. Janrain’s report analyzes data from networks for social login and social sharing across the 350,000 websites worldwide that use Janrain sign-in product, Engage. For the first time in a year, Facebook has surpassed Google as the consumer preference for signing into Interne … Read More

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Has Facebook Jumped the Shark? (via )

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I’m no Facebook defender but it seems that people like variety more than anything else. Perhaps too many clone applications like Farmville have bored people so they are starting to look elsewhere.

Has Facebook Jumped the Shark? Over the last year I have been saying that it feels as though Facebook has jumped the shark. I know the enrollment numbers to continue to climb, and they have over 650 million users world-wide, but it seems like most of the people I know use it far less than they did a year ago. The white-hot excitement about the social networking site seems to be, well… flat. I thought it was just me, but the folks over at Ars Technica have a poll running that … Read More

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ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Cleanup (via Teknophilia)

I am going to use this tool next. What a nice way to help curate the people who are actually going to benefit from you. On Twitter you get lots of followers who don’t have the best motivation. For example, sometimes you get spam/porn related people who you may not want.

ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Cleanup If you have a lot of people who you follow on Twitter, it can get pretty confusing. ManageFlitter is a simple tool that helps you figure out who to follow, and who you should get rid of. ManageFlitter also tells you: who’s following you that you don’t follow back people you follow and don’t follow you back persons that tweets a lot who barely tweets inactive accounts To start, simply visit ManageFlitter, and you’ll be able to sign up with your Tw … Read More

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