It has that friendly bird mascot and even when the server is 'down' the whale being hoisted over the ocean is happy you dropped in for a visit.
Unfortunately his name is the Twitter Fail Whale so he's a bit of a Debbie downer.
Twitter is a great tool! It connects you with people and businesses and interests and all the rest in a tidy 140 characters. Send and receive messages, share links, participate in PR2.0.
But OH NO!! Youve got . . . . SPAM!!!!!
In recent weeks tweeters everywhere have been accosted with naughty messages. Suddenly everyone was a horny 23 year old, or on some video somewhere and the variations go on. Generally it was just irritating.
And if you were absent minded enough to open the message then it was all over for you. Your followers got the message and if they opened it their followers got the message and on and on and on.
Thankfully there were people out there nice enough to send instruction on how to rid yourself of this terrible little thing.
Overall it was simple. Delete the offending messages and then change your password.
That's all I had to do? Really?!?!
Its no wonder people and corporations remain resistant to Twitter. If you were one of the unfortunate ones who opened the message and you propositioned all your twitter friends how does that make you look? Not so great!
How can you tell your business they can protect themselves and still access this fantastic tool? Well first of all, don't be a dunce and open fishy messages (oops!), change your password once in a while and other do's and dont's. That's all it takes my friends.
Happy Tweeting!!
In recent weeks tweeters everywhere have been accosted with naughty messages. Suddenly everyone was a horny 23 year old, or on some video somewhere and the variations go on. Generally it was just irritating.
And if you were absent minded enough to open the message then it was all over for you. Your followers got the message and if they opened it their followers got the message and on and on and on.
Thankfully there were people out there nice enough to send instruction on how to rid yourself of this terrible little thing.
Overall it was simple. Delete the offending messages and then change your password.
That's all I had to do? Really?!?!
Its no wonder people and corporations remain resistant to Twitter. If you were one of the unfortunate ones who opened the message and you propositioned all your twitter friends how does that make you look? Not so great!
How can you tell your business they can protect themselves and still access this fantastic tool? Well first of all, don't be a dunce and open fishy messages (oops!), change your password once in a while and other do's and dont's. That's all it takes my friends.
Happy Tweeting!!
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