Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

If you want to see Lady Gaga tweeting and posting Facebook messages again, you may want to consider a donation. In an unprecedented awareness campaign that aims to leverage the popularity of superstars, several celebrities said they will not be updating their social network pages beginning December 1 until fans donate a total of $1 million.

Common sense suggests that we should be aware of the lack of privacy in social networks. However, there is a consistent string of reports that suggests we don’t follow that notion and chat about topics that get us in trouble, especially with employers and spouses. The W3C and IBM are working on a Firefox extension that could help social networks such as Facebook to protect the privacy of its users and control the flow of information.

A Twitterverse in shock: All your followers have vanished. Whether you are just you, Ashton Kutcher or Conan O’Brien – you are follower count is at Zero. Twitter said it is currently correcting a bug, which required the company to set the count of followers and those you are following to 0.

Have you ever wondered how much time you are spending on your favorite social networking site? I did and decided to run a casual poll, without any claims of scientific value, and found that those who responded to my inquiry were likely to spend about as much time facebooking or twittering as they spend shopping.

What is the worst that can happen to you if you simply ignore those terms of use on websites you use every day? I know, you have been lectured often enough about the significance of terms of use (just as often as you have been told to back up your hard drive, which I am sure you do diligently once a week) and you have heard enough horror stories. But there have been at least 7500 people in the UK who did not read the terms of use and gave their souls away.

Read elsewhere this morning: Bing gets a view to the stars, Sprint  has a 4G iPhone and an eco-friendly LG cellphone, and Facebook and Twitter users are prone to burglaries (surprise).