Tag Archives: Twitter

How to deal with #Twifakes

Twifakes is a spam website created by Cairo Noleto @caironoleto and Cleiton Francisco @cleitonfco. I’m sure they’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have about it. You may have seen the website at http://twifakes.heroku.com/ which promises to tell … Continue reading

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It’s easier to mash than to filter

A common social media dilemma solved: Imagine you’re running social media for a public library service. You’ve got ten libraries in the service and you want to use Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. How many accounts do you need?

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What’s the point of a tweeting mobile library?

Last week I launched @SutMobLib, a Twitter account that tweets the location of Sutton’s mobile library in real time. No, I’m not sitting here all day sending messages. A program does that automatically. Every time the library gets to a … Continue reading

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Adding Twitter autodiscovery to your website

There are various lists of UK councils which use Twitter floating around. I assume that some are compiled manually and others by screen scrapers. Given that the rel=”alternate” attribute of (X)HTML’s <link> element is already semantically broken by the widely-adopted … Continue reading

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Francis Maude is wrong about Twitter and Flickr

Photo from Francis Maude, Creative Commons by-nc-nd UK licence. As news reaches us that Gordon Brown has shut down his public email address, Conservative chairman Francis Maude goes on the offensive: Gordon Brown is spending taxpayers’ money on the latest … Continue reading

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Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS

(Click on the image to download the PDF, 19KB, opens in new window/tab.) Like this? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adrianshort I’m a self-confessed and unashamed news junkie and this is how I’m starting to mash up news in my local … Continue reading

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Twittering Sutton

Introducing my new Twitter feed for the Sutton news that matters. Continue reading

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