Tag: Twitter
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Security vs Security Theatre; A Lesson for Abbott
Security theater, as defined by Wikipedia, “is the practice of implementing security measures that are considered to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to achieve it.” This is a common term used by information security professionals and has been a concept for a long, long time. I recently pointed it…
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Twitter, Companies, and your Complaints
The rise of social media has been interesting to say the least. Many on twitter have found it to give them a type of power as they can voice their complaints directly to a company that has wronged them. Everything from bad customer service, bad prices, minor inconvenience, or even perceived slights that likely never…
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Ad-hoc Charity Type Things
Last month, I decided to an ad-hoc charity drive via Twitter. I did it figuring I might get a handful of donations between $5 and $25 dollars and would help out some animal charities. Boy was I shocked. Right out of the gate, Steve Syfuhs donated $35 to the ASPCA for directly helping them previously.…
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Twitter’s crowd-sourced blocking idea good, implementation bad…
Yesterday I saw a few mentions of Twitter’s new method for “crowd-sourcing” user blocks. The idea is that one person may have blocked dozens of trolls, and you want to do the same without having to dig through a lot of Tweets. I read about how it was implemented, sighed, and moved on. Last night,…
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An Open Letter to @Twitter
Dear Twitter, You run one of the largest and most visible social network sites on the Internet, highly visible to millions that don’t even have Internet access due to media saturation and today’s lexicon. And you suck at it. Despite your recent IPO and suggestions that you finally figured out how to make money off…
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Twitter, the Ultimate Better Business Bureau
Over the last year, I have learned that Twitter has become the ultimate medium for getting a company’s attention. When you complain about a company and include their @ name, the potential for a lot of people to see it is there. As such, companies have quickly figured out to be very responsive, and very…
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Selling out one more notch…
over a year ago, i created a twitter account under ‘attritionorg‘. it is shared with others on the system, but i do most of the tweets. it was a break down from my previous notion of avoiding social media. i figured out how to use twitter for my own benefit; not only as a source…