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My Twitter Account Was Hacked

by Martin on 25 February, 2010

in Online Home Business

Twitter

My Twitter account was hacked yesterday. It started sending out the ‘This You..??’ Direct Message to people I’m following.
The DM has a link and, out of curiosity (and with bated breath), I decided to see where it went.
I closed everything else down so I could invoke AVG quickly and get rid of nasties if I [...]

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I’ve been using the Seesmic Twitter desktop application for a couple of weeks now and I like it.
Mostly because I can read its screen easily.
Its closest competitor is probably TweetDeck, which I reviewed here.
Seesmic and TweetDeck have a lot of similarities, but also some important differences.
Here are some thoughts on Seesmic.  

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A while ago I wrote a review of Tweet Deck, one of the many Twitter desk top applications that help you manage the enormous flow of information more effectively.
I liked Tweet Deck a lot, especially the ability to create groups so you can follow particular people more closely.
But one of the things that was missing [...]

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Is Twitter The New List?

by Martin on 27 February, 2009

in Internet Marketing

A couple of years ago the mantra in Internet Marketing circles was ‘build your list’.
It made a lot of sense to build a list (a warm market you could promote to for free), but it kind of overlooked the fact that in order to get a list you first had to get people to your [...]

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I’ve been a Twitter user for a while now, but I’d always been conscious that I wasn’t getting as much out of it as I should have been.
There was simply too much information to manage.
So this last weekend I installed TweetDeck as a means of rationalizing and organizing this constant flow of information into something [...]

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How Do You Use Twitter?

by Martin on 10 January, 2009

in Internet Marketing

I saw this question in a Twitter Group on What’s This Web Thing today:  How do you use Twitter in your business?
I’m now using Twitter regularly and it’s bringing me new traffic and building up my list of followers very nicely.
So what turned me onto it?
A while ago I read this post from Michael Stelzner [...]

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