No need to check your internet connection and for many a surprise not even to see the twitter ‘fail whale’ when this happens, but twitter is down.
It is currently suffering an ‘ongoing denial of service attack’. Which unfortunately I’ve seen too often with other services recently. Whatever your reasons for using twitter, be it personal [...]
This post is a bit of a change from my usual discussion of Apple technology, but bear with me on this one. I’ve been a member (and a largescale user as well) of the extremely popular micro-blogging site Twitter for over a year now. In that time I have enormously expanded my audience and discovered [...]
It is no secret that the newspaper world is undergoing radical changes, forced by delivery of data content to your door faster than the local newspaper person can deliver. Not just anybody can look at an old dying industry and create a fresh business model. One such person is James McIvor of Scooped!, ex sub [...]
Use the ‘bio’ section of your twitter profile
Fill with relevant keywords and a decent overview of yourself or business. Examples: ‘I design book covers’ isn’t as good as ‘Apple Mac Graphic designer in UK who specialises in book covers’. This is useful for people searching for others to follow.
Don’t speak at people, communicate with them
If [...]