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55,000 Twitter Accounts Have Been Hacked

An anonymous source, (but not the hacker group that goes by the name “Anonymous”) has hacked more than 55,000 Twitter accounts. This includes the username and password of each of the compromised Twitter accounts. Was yours one of the thousands that were hacked? There is a huge list of the Twitter accounts that were affected that you can sort through.

Why Cable TV Subscribers Are Making It Miserable To Cut The Cord

This is what I look like waiting for TV shows to be released on Netflix. Not really - this is what I look like all the time. Image Credit - BigStockThere’s a new report out this week (to be filed in the “Duh” folder…right next to “No Kidding”) showing that some 2.6 million cable television subscribers cancelled their service in

What Social Media Really Deserves

Here at GNC, we pride ourselves on the quality and integrity of our writing, but for one article only, it's going to go down the pan....literally. Much of the Internet is full of crap and Twitter is responsible for its fair share. Put the two together and you get Shitter, toilet paper printed with a Twitter feed of your choice.

Twitter – A School Playground

Twitter has always come in for criticism over the inanity of some messages; people describing what they're having for breakfast or other mundane activities that are of no interest except to their own ego. However, the Internet and Twitter will always reflect the composition of the real world so it's irrational to expect every tweet to be worthy of the

Contest Post-Tweeting: How People Don’t Read Contest Info

Next week I'll be headed to San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. Naturally, I added the hashtag #tcdisrupt in my Tweet deck. I went through the posts, and one seems to keep coming up: TechCrunch Giveaway: White iPad 2 and Nook Color #TCDisrupt {link removed} via @techcrunch I went to the page in question and they gave away a

Where Do They Find the Time?

I am not a Twitter user.  I have a Twitter account but I don't remember the last time I logged into it.  Even with just a handful of friends, I felt overwhelmed in trying to keep up with it, and as a rather wordy person, typing what I wanted to say in 140 characters is pretty difficult.  For the short

New Infographic – The Demographics of Social Media

The website Advertising Age released a cool new infographic comparing various social media - namely Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter.  There are some interesting facts revealed here.  For instance the Social Media space is lead by the 35-54 age group, the leading country for Facebook is the US, but the second is Indonesia, the leading country for LinkedIn is also