It’s been said and said again: be careful of what you post on the internet! According to Social Media Today, in a ruling by the Federal Trade Commission, entitles such as the Social Intelligence Corporation can keep an archive of your social media activities for up to seven years! This means that any information, no [...]
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Posted in Around the Web, Social Media on Jan 28th, 2011
In the face of major protests in Cairo, Egypt has blocked Twitter. After protesters responded to the block by turning to other social media platforms, access to the Internet (and therefore Facebook, YouTube, etc.) has also been severely limited. The official announcement about shutdown of Twitter access came from the micro blogging site itself, via [...]
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The story that has been, if not blowing up the Twittersphere and Facebook this morning, definitely causing a ripple is one about blogger/website owner, Monica Gaudio and an article she wrote a few years back. You would not typically find a story about a brief history of apple pie to be at the centre of [...]
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Here’s an interesting story at abc.com about how Mythbuster star Adam Savage used Twitter to successfully challenge a cell phone bill he received from AT&T for over 11K dollars. The excessive charge came from using a cellular internet data plan meant for the United States while in Canada. From the article: The culprit, he tweeted, [...]
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