Did you get a rather ominous sounding email from Twitter today? If so, you are not alone. Twitter sent out email today to users whom it felt may have been affected by the unauthorized attempts to access Twitter user data. I first heard of this because my husband received one of these scary sounding emails. Shortly after he dealt with
Happy New Year! Now is a time when many people make New Year's Resolutions. This year, instead of making one that you know you won't follow through with, try something that you can easily achieve. Clean up your social media! Social media can be fun, but it can also be a time waster. One way to make it work for
Viz Top Tip... Make identity theft easy by posting a picture of your credit card on Twitter or other social media. (The airbrushing is mine) Quite unbelievably, this young lady posted a picture of her new credit card on Twitter - "Ahhhhh my first credit card buzzing aint the word my friends" - and it was retweeted to me. I was
In the latest podcast, Todd rightly asks about the apparent lack of freedom of speech on social media in the UK. Undoubtedly, it's a complex issue but it is becoming increasingly clear that the right to free speech is under threat here in Britain. In this post, I'll look at some of the issues, but to start with, I am
Twitter and Instagram are getting ready to offer you a few more places to post your photos. Right now, there aren't a whole lot of details that have been released. Those of you who feel that you don't have enough of places to post your photos will probably embrace at least one of these upcoming options. Instagram has announced that
The Google Play Store, formerly known as the Android Marketplace, has finally launched it's own Twitter account. It may sound like a pretty minor event, but it could actually be a fairly big deal for all of the Android device owners out there. Many businesses today have not only taken to Twitter to answer customer questions and handle complaints, but
The other day, a good friend of mine retweeted something that was originally posted by Social Media Team @ShellisPrepared. It caught my attention for two reasons. One, this friend doesn't make a habit of retweeting a lot of things. Two, the original tweet implied that Shell Oil had been the victim of a social media attack. I went to the