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.
Risks being: [...]

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 that [...]

Toy Spammers Attack Twitter

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