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Twittersheep. Send any media or content you want to all your twitter followers. Tweets in Perpetuity. Sign petitions using twitter. Terrorists may use Google Earth, but fear is no reason to ban it. It regularly comes as a surprise to people that our own infrastructure can be used against us. And in the wake of terrorist attacks or plots, there are fear-induced calls to ban, disrupt or control that infrastructure. According to officials investigating the Mumbai attacks, the terrorists used images from Google Earth to help learn their way around. This isn't the first time Google Earth has been charged with helping terrorists: in 2007, Google Earth images of British military bases were found in the homes of Iraqi insurgents. Incidents such as these have led many governments to demand that Google removes or blurs images of sensitive locations: military bases, nuclear reactors, government buildings, and so on.

An Indian court has been asked to ban Google Earth entirely. This isn't the only way our information technology helps terrorists. Mobile phone networks help terrorists, too. Let's all stop and take a deep breath. None of this is new. Technology Twitter. Cogdoghouse - TwitterCycle. TwittBot. Real time search – Google launch today « Lucacept – intercepting the Web. Farmers turn to Twitter to market their produce - 22/09/2010. Twtcard :: a simple greeting card twitter app. Advanced Twitter Tips, Tricks and Tools. Twitter in Higher Education. Twitter Tips Ultimate Guide | Using social media to guide and help you connect to social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, YouTube using social media. By admin Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Social media has become one of the popular platforms for any company to advertise their products and services.

Facebook provides ample of opportunities for such people who want to reach the masses quickly and efficiently. Various strategies are incorporated within the Facebook website that lets you attract attention of the potential buyers of your services and products. Firstly you need to grow a fan base of around thousand potential customers who might be interested in doing business with you. There are plenty of reasons why a normal Facebook ad fails. There are few basic ways by which the ads can get working for you. All you need to do is be laser focused and make it very sure that the people should know what to do when they encounter your website.

The Ultimate Twitter Toolkit - Reviews by PC Magazine. Familiarize yourself with these powerful Twitter tools to become a Master Tweeter. Want to be a Twitter ninja? Hordes of new users are joining and dreaming up new uses for it. As they do so, Twitter is maturing into a viable alternative not just to blog platforms but to RSS readers, news aggregators, media-sharing services, and communication tools.

All you have to do to unleash the full power of Twitter is follow the right users and have the right tools handy. A whole ecosystem of companies and apps has sprung up around the Twitter API, and while some of them are utterly stupid, others are incredibly useful and help you get more out of the microblogging service. Familiarize yourself with the powerful Twitter tools below and add the relevant ones to your arsenal to become a Master Tweeter.

Twitter Clients by Platform: Windows: This robust Twitter client integrates with Facebook and offers a customizable dashboard with multicolumn view. Mac: iPhone: Windows Mobile: BlackBerry OS: Symbian: The Top 7 types of Twitter avatars :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews. Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom - Chronicle.com. Telstra lays down the law on Twitter - Technology - smh.com.au. Top Tips for Twitter Newbs « Phil Wain. Being a Twitter newb myself, I might be better or worse placed to give tips. I have been using Twitter since the beginning of February about 8 weeks ago: so maybe ideally placed to remember the pitfalls and have used it long enough to get something out of it. Please leave comments if you disagree – Twitter has an evolving social etiquette.

Take it slow! It takes a few weeks to build up enough people to follow to make it really interesting. Don’t try to rush it – unless you already know a lot of people that are on Twitter, you will look like a spammer. Don’t rush to follow everybody – think carefully and check out people’s tweetflow before you decide whether to follow. Just because some one follows you, it is not de rigeur that you have to reciprocate. Enjoy! What it’s good for is up to you! Like this: Like Loading... Top 13 Twitter Don'ts - Features by PC Magazine.

Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less - Technotica - MSNBC.com. Why waste valuable social networking hours getting yourself "Facebook fired," when Twitter allows you to humiliate yourself quickly, and in 140 characters or less? A recent tweet by one would-be Cisco employee proves that when it comes to placing a permanent black mark on your resume via the Internet, Twitter is now the tool of choice. To illustrate, here’s the tweet the now Web-infamous "theconnor" shared with the world: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.” It wasn’t long before Tim Levad, a "channel partner advocate" for Cisco Alert, shared this open response: "Who is the hiring manager. Was "theconnor’s" job offer rescinded? This social networking comedy of errors spread like dancing hamsters across Twitter.

Even if the good folks at Cisco somehow see their way past "theconnor’s" monolithic lack of inner monologue, there’s a lesson here: The Internet can get you fired. Why you should use Twitter, and how best to use it. Video Tutorial: Basics of How to Use Twitter. Five Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom. Twitter - little conversations across the globe. If Twitter was an animal it would be a honey bee. i.e. shows up everywhere, busily pollinating as it goes. Twitter is an extraordinary free service that allows use to share short messages (limited to 140 characters) from your computer or by SMS from your mobile phone.

The platform allows you to follow or subscribe to messages (called tweets) from other twitter users. By searching Twitter for keywords in your areas of interested. It might be Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, and Bio-control you can find other Tweeps (a nickname for twitter users) to follow who are interested in the same things. Before long your network will grow around the globe putting you in touch with people you might never otherwise meet and giving you access to a very rich stream of knowledge. There are a burgeoning range of 3rd party Twitter applications sprouting up that make it a real power tool. Twitter took off from simple to 'tweet' success.

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — "What are you doing? " That question is the rocket fuel for Twitter — a hot social-network service that lets you tell people what you are up to at any given moment of the day — via cellphone, instant messenger, or the Web. Never heard of it, you say? "What are you doing? " is the question Twitter asks "Twitterers" to answer in a simple text message as they connect with friends, co-workers or the wider world. Twitterers "tweet" about everything from what they had for lunch to how much they enjoyed their latest Netflix DVD. "When people hear about Twitter, their immediate reaction is that it's the simplest and stupidest idea in the world," says co-founder Biz Stone.

"They do not want to know that their brother is eating a hot dog right now," he says. Boy, do they. Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. That could be about to change. Tweets of gold Getting beyond the tech crowd. Twitter in plain english.