Tag Archives: Twitter
My Take on #BanglaSpring: #MangoDown
I checked out the #BanglaSpring tag on Twitter yesterday. First impression was yet another social media engineering event using realistic looking but fake accounts. A lot of the information being posted is hard to verify – Conflicting reports on #Bangladesh death toll – Between 28 and 3500 ciibroadcasting.com/2013/05/06/con… #BanglaSpring @channelislam— Azhar Vadi (@AzharVadi) May 06, […]
Posterous is closing down
Having been bought by Twitter a year ago, this was always on the cards; posterous.com is closing down and my lissping blog will no longer be accessible as of 30 April 2013. Old links will just die.. no redirects, nothing. I noticed today that the posterous site has developed technical problems which prevent me from editing […]
Misinformation: Oops, sorry! Then what?
By taking up the challenge of internet activism, we are battling an unstable and ruthless regime in a hostile environment with many security risks. We are using information as our weapon, even though we can never guarantee that what we say won’t blow up in our faces. Our resolve is not in question, but what should we do to strengthen our defences?
Are you Being Squeezed by Social Media?
Facebook has made several radical changes to support its drive to increase revenue. Twitter is on the same path. But have they tipped the balance and found your breaking point yet? Dangerous Minds has written a lengthy and eloquent complaint about how Facebook is deliberately “broken” so that your posts are held hostage unless you […]
Tweeting from WordPress again..
Just so I don’t have to mess around with the ever-changing and so frustratingly over-complicated Twitter API.
