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April 1st has been described as the absolute worst day to go on the internet. Pranks abound, and, if they are good enough, you just might find yourself believing them. Personally, I find the plethora of April Fool's Day jokes to be very amusing. Here's a quick review of a couple (just in case you missed them). Twitter posted a
We live in a world where the Pope can Tweet. Pope Benedict XVI was on Twitter. His handle was @Pontifex which sent out Tweets in English. There was also @Pontifex_ es (which was in Spanish and was the one I was following). All told, there were 8 different language versions of @Pontifex on Twitter. Pope Benedict XVI was the first
Poetry is an art form that has been around for centuries. As such, it doesn't easily fit into some forms of social media. This is something I can speak first hand about. My Twitter name is @queenofhaiku, which I selected because I enjoy writing these simple looking (but deceptively complex) three lined poems. Up until recently, I had to resort
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