Lady Gaga on Twitter
Lady Gaga is a regular Twitter user and constantly updates her page. She has really embraced Twitter and shares her thoughts with her fans on a regular basis. If you are fan of Lady Gaga, you will probably want to check out Gaga Quotes, which diplays her sayings and quotes, many of them from her Twitter page.
Twitter Friend Follower Will Increase Your Twitter Success
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In his first month, Ryan earned over $2957.66 using Twitter Friend Follower 2009 to grow his Twitter Followers on auto-pilot.
Now for the first time ever he has decided to release this software to the public!
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Twitter Starts Suspending Accounts of Torrent Sites
Twitter has suspended the accounts of at least two torrent sites and removed all of their followers. No reason for the suspension has been given other than that the sites in question “abused” Twitter’s service. Both sites were updating their accounts with newly published torrents daily.
Although it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that the sites have been suspended for copyright related issues, another plausible explanation is that the mass tweets of links to torrent files were seen as a violation of Twitter’s terms of service.
“If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates,” say Twitter, your account could be suspended for spamming. Since both sites were doing just this, this mass posting might have triggered the suspension. If this is indeed the case, other accounts including nearly all popular news feeds are at risk as well.
Chavez Hires 200 People to Manage His Twitter Account
Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, who only recently signed up to Twitter, has hired hundreds of staff to reply to tweets.
Chavez has, at the time of this writing 239,999 followers and enjoys inclusion on 7,539 lists.
With “Verified Account” status on the service, Chavez follows just five others, but it’s unlikely the majority in Venezuela follow him — recent estimates put the percentage of the population that boast internet access at just 31%, although this figure has risen under Chavez’s rule.
However, it seems public engagement with the president’s new online presence has been high with over 50,000 messages reported in the two weeks since he’s been tweeting. So how does Chavez find time to tweet to the people? A newly appointed team of 200 Twitter aides will help to lighten that load, reports the AP. Chavez said of the new hires, “I’m creating a team due to the avalanche of requests, and some grievances”.
Chavez has also changed his tune on Twitter since he joined and rose to become the number one user in Venezuela. He now calls the service “a weapon that also needs to be used by the revolution.”
Over 6 Billion Tweets Predicted for Twitter
Over 6 billion tweets are predicted for Twitter by 2011. Pingdom predicts that if tweets grow at the rate of 16% each month, then by January 2011 we should be seeing over 6 billion tweets. While this number appears high, it will likely be a reality with the popularity of Twitter continuing to grow.
Perhaps we’ll see over 10 billion tweets by 2012 if Twitters popularity continues to grow. With growth like this, you really need to start paying attention to this whole Twitter thing. Like with any viral application, getting in early will pay huge dividends.
Use Your Twitter Account To Have Some Fun
Have fun with your Twitter account by checking out some of these Twitter related links that are all about having fun. Take a quiz, start doodling, or share your music. Discover the lighter side of Twittering!
Twrivia: The daily trivia quiz on Twitter!
TwitterLit: It’s a site that serves up literary teasers twice daily. At 9:00 AM and 9:00PM Eastern Time I post the first line of a book, without the author’s name or book title, but with a link to Amazon so readers can see what book the line is from. Why? Because it’s fun! The posts are also available for subscription via RSS, Twitter, Identi.ca, and email.
Twitbrain: There are two twitbrain “challenge problems” each hour. The first person to reply with the correct answer is the winner. Each win is worth one point.
Tweekly.fm: Tweekly.fm provides Twitter users with the ability to post their Last.fm statistics automatically once per week or ad-hoc. You also get a Tweekly.fm profile showing you how many other users share your taste in music.
Penolo: Create a sketch to share on Twitter. If you like to doodle, then this site is for you!
Chavez Invites Fidel Castro to Join Twitter
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that he would like to invite Bolivian President Evo Morales and Cuban political leader Fidel Castro to join him on Twitter. Now wouldn’t that be nice, presidents twittering each other about such things as political tactics and world domination.
Chavez joined Twitter on Tuesday, taking the username @chavezcandaga. His arrival on Twitter was a surprise, partly because only 30% of his country has Internet access (though that figure is far higher than it was before he took office) and partly because he called Twitter a potential “tool of terror” just two months ago.
Chavez — who describes himself as a Bolivarian soldier, a socialist and an anti-Imperialist — said he would use the site to spread Bolivarian revolution. Castro and Morales are two of his strongest allies in anti-American sentiment.
Chavez has acquired more than 100,000 followers since signing up. “This has been an explosion,” he said. Of Twitter in general, he said, “The potential this has … it’s not capitalist, it’s not socialist, it depends on how it is used.”
So sit tight and you might soon see the South and Central American political leaders retweeting one another. Maybe they will even start a MySpace page or Facebook account!
Twitter Developing Tools to Rival Facebook Connect
Twitter developers are coming up with new functionality that will rival the recently popular Facebook Connect. Twitter is preparing to launch a new set of tools that will let third party websites easily integrate Twitter features directly into their web sites and services, multiple sources have confirmed.
Facebook Connect became generally available later in 2008, and it hasn’t looked back since. Today, Facebook says 80,000 websites have added Facebook Connect, and 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook connect on these third party websites each month. For many sites, like our own CrunchBase, it’s the only way to create an account and log in.
Facebook Connect is attractive to a lot of smaller sites simply because it’s so easy to implement. They’ve created a number of widgets that bring Facebook features directly to third party sites, and integration is easy. You can find some of these here on TechCrunch.
Last year Twitter released simply buttons to let users on third party sites sign in to Twitter and identify themselves (we use it in our commenting system).
The new Twitter product will allow sites to authenticate users, pull data and then publish back to Twitter, we’ve heard. All of these features exist today via the Twitter API, but the slick Facebook Connect-like packaging and easy-to-use widgets don’t exist yet.
Twitter is also taking an open, standards based approach. They use OAuth, for example, for authentication and data sharing. Facebook uses proprietary protocols for Facebook Connect.
Stay tuned to Twitter Traffic Stats as we follow how Twitter releases its new tool.
Lindsay Lohan’s Relationship with her Father Hits Rock Bottom As She Tweets Details on Twitter
Lindsay Lohan’s relationship with her father hit rock bottom as she called the man a pathological liar on the website Twitter following his attempt to stage an intervention in her life.
The 23-year-old actress called Michael Lohan her ex-dad and denied his allegations that she is addicted to prescription drugs, reported New York Daily News.
On Thursday, Lohan and her estranged dad, had a chaotic showdown outside her LA apartment. It ended with him threatening to seek a Britney Spears-style conservatorship over worries she’s in a downward spiral of late-night partying and prescription drugs.
He then arrived back at her home with sheriff’s deputies to conduct a”welfare check” on his younger daughter, 16-year-old daughter Ali, who too was at the apartment.
The’Mean Girls’ star then took to Twitter to vent her anger. pathological liar – a person who lies to the point of it being considered a disease or condition, an abnormally habitual liar = MY FATHER.(sic)”Lohan tweeted.
New Phishing Scam Hits Twitter
Twitter issued a warning about phishing e-mails that tell users they have unread messages on the micro-blogging site. The warning was published on Friday, April 23, 2010.
The e-mails, coming from a support@twitter.com e-mail address, tell members that they have unread, delayed, or undelivered messages on Twitter, and ask them to click a link in the e-mail to view the mystery messages. These e-mails are indeed spam, but they are difficult to identify for most Twitter users because of the apparent source of the e-mail.
Twitter denied sending out the e-mails.
“Twitter does not send any messages of this type; support@twitter.com does not send notifications in general,” the company wrote on its status blog.
The e-mail itself does not appear to contain malware, Twitter said. The link in the e-mail actually takes users to a pharmaceutical site, though to get to that site, users are re-routed through several other sites, which could contain malware.
“We’re actively pursuing measures to get these sites shut down; in the meantime, we recommend that you not click on the link and instead just delete any such e-mails you receive,” Twitter said.
If you identify any of these e-mails, please delete them immediately to protect your account.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is described as the “SMS of the Internet,” in that the site provides the functionality via its API