MOVED

"Moving Light" by Flag75* via Flickr

This Blog has moved to it’s own (shorter) domain name.

You can find it here, from now.
Thank you!

Mobile Apps to Twitter

Birds on the Wire by Billie via Flickr

Twitter suffered a Denial Of Service Attack today (you can read what I think about it here).

I have been following the flow of information, coming from Venezuela very closely and I was somehow worried that, after Twitter was back, even if the Tweets started to come in, there weren’t coming enough.

Then I spotted two or 3 Tweets of people complaining about that ubertwitter was still not working.

Apparently ubertwitter is the application of choice in Venezuela to Tweet from a mobile phone.

But there are other free applications that you can use, in Venezuela and everywhere else.

Exclusive for the BlackBerry: TwitterBerry

Apps that work in several mobiles including the BlackBerry:

TinyTwitter; Twibble; Snaptu; Tweets60

So now you have no more excuses to not be Tweeting all the events that you see! Remember to take pictures even if you don’t upload them immediately. Better later than never!

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Written by Fernando Fonseca (a member of Artists for Freedom)

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PS: At the time that this post went live ubertwitter’s site was still down:
“Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.”

How to make a Twitter Revolution

Freedom of Speech by Joachim Game

Recent and ongoing events,  in Venezuela, regarding the crackdown on Radio Stations that are critic to the the Chávez’s Regime have got me thinking about what strategies, should be known by all involved, in order to get a message across using Twitter.

How to spot a Spam/Fake Account on Twitter

"Spam" by Christophe Stoll via Flickr

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Twitter is full of Spammers. In the last hour I received up to 21 notifications telling me I had new followers. 17 of those were spammers, 3 of those legitimate accounts and the last one was @SookieBontemps that mentioned my blog post regarding True Blood.

(If you are new to this blog I will tell you one important  thing: I like to have a clean followers list. I have declared a war on spammers since my account was wrongfully suspended. I also call them out on Twitter before blocking them using the #nomercy hashtag. @ShellyKramer is doing it as well. If you don’t follow her, you should)

That said here is a crash course on how to identify the new Spam accounts showing up on Twitter.

“Follow me and I will follow you back”? Hell NO!

Picture by Mr. Smashy

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One of the biggest misconceptions, in my opinion, about Twitter, is the fact that you should follow back everyone that follows you. Worse than that is to use one of those services that does it for you and DMs people back with auto-DMs.

How to survive one week without a new True Blood episode (A Geek’s Guide)

"Nose Bleed" by Steve KouKoulas

There are always two kinds of reactions when a new episode of True Blood ends:

The first is: “I’m never watching this like this again. I will just wait for the season to end and then see them all in a row. Can’t take so much suspense, thrill and adrenaline all in one.”

The second involves a secret plan to sneak into the Pentagon and get hold of that time machine, that everyone knows that they have, in order to time jump into the future, watch all episodes and then go and cacth Lost’s new season.

Using a CC License? Then this is for you!

CC Logo

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If you have a website and and you are using a CC License there is a new tool, still on Beta,  that helps you keep track of what was copied from your website plus something that I find really great:

Try going here and copy some text and then paste into a text editor.

Neat no?

Worried about lost followers? Don’t worry, you never had them.

Spooky Girl by Megan Ann

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The talk at Twitter today was “Oh god, I lost 20 followers“; “20?! I lost 700 followers, how am I going to get them back now?“; “Just lost 345 followers. Twitter is acting up on me again #fail!” and so on, and so on.

Funny enough, the higher number of followers any given user had, bigger was their silence about loosing followers: Twitter vanity doesn’t allow it, I guess.

The Return of the Fail Whale

When Twitter is gone

Previously on “When Twitter is gone”

It is now 00:36am and still no response from Delbius to this very important question.

In the meanwhile I am still getting DMs from people that I have followed in the past that have automatic replies setup.

Delbius answered to me about this:

When you were suspended, you’d disappeared; when restored, their service thinks you’re following for the first time.

I really love it when computer systems “think”.

And I am still getting DMs from people i started to follow in February.

And Delbius is probably sleeping.

But I was wrong.(Something that came as a surprised since everyone knows that I am never wrong)

I had sent a Twitter to Delbius with a link to my previous post as a peace offer. She read it. And she tweeted me back:

I’ve supplied the text that got you suspended in the ticket. Thanks.

I would note that the variant was trend hashtag spamming, not the spamming of a hashtag. There’s a difference.

My heart started to race! Really! I was finally going to  know what I had done that got me a suspended account, a serious warning and a very very very (really!) unpleasant sensation.

The Ultimate Fail Whale

When Twitter is gone

It happened yesterday around this time. I was not even Tweeting. The “Artists for Freedom” project, the upcoming releases on PublicSpaces Lab (did you check the new site already? It rocks!!)  and the day to day of stuff happening at PublicSpaces Sonic Environments have kept me really busy and pushing my limits in what comes to Zs-time and yesterday was one of those days.

When I went to login into Twitter (See how busy I was that I was not even logged in?) Destroy Twitter wouldn’t accept my credentials.

Went to the web interface, got logged in and ….. BOOOM!!!