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Posts tagged Twitter
Phising Attack on My Twitter Account
Jun 25th
This morning I received an email from Twitter stated …” Yor Twitter account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter…” and ask me to reset my password.
I quickly log on to Twitter and true enough, I can’t enter with my existing password, so I have no choice but to click at the link on the email. Initially I’m a bit skeptical on all these ask to reset password emails, but in this case, it could be genuine as I really can’t log in.
So I click to reset and get a new password, luckily it is ok now. Otherwise I’ll be crying for losing all my almost touching 2500 followers…
Now I remember that 2 days back I accidentally clicked on a link from a friend’s feed in Facebook that said “I just become a member of this AWESOME site that gets you TONS of followers: http://1kfollowers.net” , I registered on the site and get all this problem. In fact, after I registered at the site, I was really regretted as the site didn’t really look good, so I quickly changed my Twitter Password, still, is too late.
But I just wonder how Twitter realize this phising activities, they must be quite efficient.
How I Use Twitter
May 29th
From my last blog post, I didn’t really mentioned what I use Twitter for. In fact, many people have wrong perception about Twitter, they think they need to update their friends (followers) on what they are doing every now and then, though this can be one of the purpose, I don’t think many people are so interested in learning what you are doing every hour… or about your personal life, unless you are a celebrity.
I use Twitter mainly for sharing and bookmarking at the same time. For example, sharing some interesting videos or articles. It is also very much depends on my interest. I believed my followers are mainly people who are interested in Internet Marketing, so whenever I have read articles or news about SEO, SEM, etc, I would then shared them on Twitter. After sometimes, I can refer the links that I’ve shared in my updates box, so it become a bookmarking site for me as well.
Another purpose I use Twitter is to pull some traffics to my websites. But using Twitter for “link juice” is a lost battle in Google’s ranking methodology. Twitter adds a “nofollow” attribute to links submitted by its users. The “nofollow” attribute advises Google, and a few other search engines (Yahoo, MSN, except Ask.com), to ignore the link.
So Twitter is not a good place for creating backlinks to achieve higher Page Rank. However, it do have offsite SEO value where your followers will see your tweets and click on the links, thus it brings some traffics back to the site hence improve the Alexa ranking. The more followers you have, the better traffics you will get.
Do You Tweet?
May 28th
I have been too engross in this twitter thing lately until I forgot about my blog site! Sooner or later if I don’t update my blog here, it is going to be like annual report, that’s really bad, can’t let this happen…
Ok, back to this Twitter frenzy. I think it has been in the market for quite a while, I remember registering twitter in 2007 with a fake identity and use that to bookmark affiliate sites then don’t see any improvement on the traffic thus stop doing it. Until last year, I read through John Reese’s Traffic Secret 2.0 and he actually highly recommended this site, so I think it is time to go back to Twitter to take a serious look at it.
Twitter is microblogging on a whole new level and in real time. This is what Wikipedia define Twitter : “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications”
Ok, if you think is too wordy, just take a look a this video, I found that on Youtube and it can explain what Twitter initially intend to be I guess…
So, that is what many people thought about Twitter, something only for you to update about what are you doing to your friends. Then, many get confuse with the Facebook status, and wonder why they need Twitter.
Let me share with you my own personal feeling towards these two social media platforms. For Facebook, I would prefer to confine it with the people that I know or my cycle of friends. Normal people like me won’t have thousands of friends on Facebook. However, for Twitter, I don’t mind people that I don’t know following me and I don’t mind following unknown people, what matter me is the quality of the Tweets. Of course, that also seems to be a culture of You Follow Me and I will Follow You Back. So I’m now having more than 1500 followers in quite a short time.
To make life more exciting, I’m linking my Twitter to Facebook. So whenever I tweet, my tweets will appear on my Facebook status.
There are many kinds of application out there that you need when you tweet. For example, Twitter Karma, it is a real good application to help to manage the followers and followings. You can do bulk follow to the people following you and also can bulk unfollow people that not following you.
Another application that I like is TweetLater, with this application, I can put in 10 – 20 tweets and schedule them to distribute the tweets a long the day, very useful, it can let me have my tweets up even when I’m sleeping.
There are many more applications and I will update you as and when I have time. At the mean time, feel free to follow me on my twitter – http://twitter.com/vandachan. Start tweeting now!
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