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I’m looking after my mum’s dogs for the weekend, so I bought along my laptop and I’m using my mum’s connection to post this, which is a little naughty, even though I won’t be doing much and also I have now outed myself as having a laptop, which my mum doesn’t know about.

I had originally purchased this laptop for business purposes, but seeing as that is on the back burner for a while, instead of leaving the laptop to gather dust in the wardrobe, I’m going t be using it a lot more.

I’ll soon be covering up the logo on the lid, with one of the diaspora stickers kindly sent to me by @documentally, I’ve never really thought about stickering up my laptop, but I thought now is the best time to start.

As tweeted and via updates to facebook. I attended my first BSMC event. At first I was like a deer in headlights as I’d never been to one of these events before. That feeling soon dissapated as soon as I started talking to people.

I met some really great people, I didn’t manage to speak to everyone, at the next event I will talk to those I never got a chance to say hello to and speak to.

As I remember twitter names I’ll be following you, so if you receive a follow request from @R_Arblaster then that’s me.

I’m really looking forward to the next event, hope to see you all there.

As you’ve all heard twitter are trialling a new API, called user stream API which should do away with API call limits. I’m not a coder so cannot really go into great detail about it. Other than basically all tweets whether they be in your friends stream, @replies etc., will now be displayed in real time as they are posted instead of having to wait for Tweetdeck to call on the API at set intervals to retrieve new tweets.

It’s fun just sitting there watching there watching the tweets come flooding in, you cannot keep up with the sheer volume if like me you are following over 1,000 people, you are best creating a load of search columns to filter out tweets of interest.

I’m definitely impressed and cannot wait for this to be rolled out to the masses.

I’m going to be embarking on a twitter restucture, trimming my followers down. If you find yourself trimmed from my following list, no offence intended, time for a re-focus of my energies.

You may at some point find yourself re-added, stranger things have happened.

This was posted from @DaveMalby on twitter.

http://twitter.com/DaveMalby/status/15958890651

I couldn’t give a full answer as I wanted to on twitter. I would say at least 18 workers.

6 to figure out how to fill in the hole.

6 to figure out what to fill the hole with.

6 to actually fill the hole.

: Image via CrunchBase

It would seem there’s a new Twitter DM attack going round. I only noticed it this morning when I received 2 identical DMs (Direct Messages) from 2 accounts.

If you receive a DM that starts with “Haha thats you” then delete the DM, do not click the link on the DM. Because I’m having an off day, I clicked the link without thinking, luckily Firefox was alert to the danger and prevented a faux pas on my behalf.

WARNING: Twitter DM Phishing Spam, Haha, This you???? Can Harm You (techie-buzz.com)

Okay I’m calling all of you out that are mocking or grumbling about the DM spam they’ve been getting yesterday and today. Why not be helpful and @reply them, they may not realise that their accounts have been compromised.

It takes about a minute to be helpful in this regard.

Ok, admittedly it may not be a new feature, more like a feature I stumbled across last night.

In tweetdeck if you click on a hastag in a tweet, it will automatically add a new search column and list all the tweets with that hashtag.

Cool or what?

Oh no not yet another person posting about how to use twitter. It’s like teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs, I already know how to use it.

If that’s the case why do you follow me with name123456789? Then spam me your latest get rich quick scheme and because I don’t follow you back you drop me like a sack of potatoes. Well guess what, I’ll never ever follow you back.

If you want me to follow you please use your real name or at least the name of your blog or website (as long as it isn’t a site trying to sell me the latest internet marketing gumpf).

Put up an avatar the default o_O doesn’t instill me with a lot of confidence.

Put up a little bio about yourself.

Most important of all I like to see @ replies, it shows that you are interacting with your followers.

If you are a well known person in the media, then get your account verified by twitter, then I know you are the real deal.

As Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) says it’s not about the numbers.

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