Are you backing up your twitter history?

Figure A: Typical Twitter experience /artist’s impression Scoble has a great rant up today on twitter’s failing as a platform. This is similar to Jevon’s epic (and correct) rant on why you shouldn’t build a business on Facebook… or otherwise on someone else’s platform. At least not unless you are prepared to take the risks. [...]

Twittersquatting

http://twitter.com/newyork taken http://twitter.com/losangeles taken http://twitter.com/tokyo taken http://twitter.com/calgary available http://twitter.com/sex taken http://twitter.com/sexy taken http://twitter.com/sexkitten taken http://twitter.com/women available http://twitter.com/men taken http://twitter.com/hotgaynerds available http://twitter.com/snowfurbikinibabes available http://twitter.com/sports taken http://twitter.com/cycling taken http://twitter.com/football taken http://twitter.com/rockpapersisors available http://twitter.com/business taken http://twitter.com/pleasure available http://twitter.com/microsoft taken http://twitter.com/cornflakes taken http://twitter.com/IBM taken (by me) for sale. cheap

Facebook vs Twitter as latest refuge of the nerds

Mark Evans writes that he’s almost done with facebook. He’s not the first or the last to grumble about the blue book (see my post for example on “attention viruses”: Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading?. As Mark says, is the facebook honeymoon ending? A certain schadenfreude [twopointoh-denfreude?] in me would like to claim it so (damn [...]

Toy Spammers Attack Twitter

It’s started. Spam on Twitter. Why do the spammers have to ruin everything good on the internet?