Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
MTAMO – My Tweets Are My Own
Posted on November 21, 2011 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
This is just a quickie note to let you know about a new site I’ve published, called My Tweets Are My Own, or MTAMO.
Know Your Social Media Scams & Rogue Apps
Posted on March 3, 2011 by snipe in Featured, Life Tools, Tips & Tricks
As the number of scams and malware threats increase on Facebook and Twitter, it can be hard to keep track of what’s legitimate and what’s not anymore in a way that is in plain-English for non-techies, who are arguably the ones who need this information the most.
Death in the Digital Age
Posted on December 31, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools, Web Development
Because it’s New Years Eve, and I’m kind of a morbid asshole, I thought I’d harsh your alcohol-induced buzz with some grim reality by asking the question: What happens to your online content when die?
Twitter Retweet Contests: Viral Marketing or Social Media Spam?
Posted on December 22, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Those of us who eat, sleep (and occasionally — oh nevermind) on Twitter have noticed an increase in the Twitter “RT Contests” being promoted by companies in an effort to leverage folks who want free shwag to whore out their promotion.
Twitter Gets Down to Business
Posted on December 15, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
Twitter has taken the first steps of what will no doubt be a long journey towards providing more native support for businesses using their micro-blogging platform by introducing the new (beta) Contributors feature.
Trying Out Disqus
Posted on October 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I’ve decided to move the comment system on Snipe.Net over to Disqus. I like it so far, but I’ve run into a few glitches and challenges that I thought I’d share with you. (Also, it explains why things may look funny here for a few days while I work out the display kinks.)
Twitter launches groups in BETA for some users
Posted on October 18, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools
In what seemed out-of-left field, when I logged onto the Twitter website early this morning, I was greeted with a notification of new list functionality being introduced in beta.
PHP Regex to Make Twitter Links Clickable
Posted on September 10, 2009 by snipe in PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is just a quicky post, not one of my usual long, rambling diatribes. This week is madness, even by my own absurd standards, but I didn’t want to miss jotting this down in case it might be helpful to others.
Writing Your First Twitter Application with OAuth
Posted on July 23, 2009 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
If you’re interested in writing a web-based Twitter application but aren’t sure where to start, the Twitter OAuth library from Abraham Wiliams makes authenticating with OAuth and Twitter a breeze.
Why I Won’t Follow You Back on Twitter
Posted on June 7, 2009 by snipe in Geek Life
In a recent post, you learned a little more about what it’s like to follow me on Twitter, warnings and all. In this post – one that I hope will be the last Twitter-related post for a while – I’m going to tell you why I didn’t – and won’t – follow you back, if [...]
There is NO SUCH THING as a Social Media Marketer
Posted on June 2, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
That’s right. I said it. If your job title is “Social Media Marketer” for a company, your job isn’t real, your life is a lie, and you’d damned well better have a backup career plan for when corporate America catches on. Here’s why.
