11 May 10 Twitter’s twists and turns

Twitter’s poor bug “accept” is probably taking its toll on the most popular micro blogging site. It has been so popular with “accept” key people are able to force and make other members of known ID to become their follower with the parameter “accept username” where username is a user who you want his/her to follow you automatically.

At the moment, all concerned members are now resett to zero, which would be a really painful process if you had built your account 3-4 years ago. However, there’s a little light in the tunnel at the moment, but I don’t really know if it is going to be sure. At twitter’s official blog,

“We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we’re aware and this too should shortly be resolved.”

So, hopefully, this thing will be resolved very soon. As a matter of fact, I can see many people will be leaving Twitter for this matter because of easy exploitation in security matter. It was just a coincidence of this bug when an “ACCEPT” fan (German Rock Band from 80s) typed “accept xyz“, and he suddenly had the follower with the login “xyz”, that’s when he posted this strange behavior on his blog and finally come to this as a bug. At the same time, hundreds of people are abusing like, they force and let high profile celebrities to follow them without their consent. Celebrities include Aston Kutcher, Oprah W. and Justin Bieber.

Luckily, I have not practiced that bug and I was not added by force from others, so my account is still working well and not being reset. So, at this moment, if your account following/followers are currently zero (0), don’t panic and give it a few days, I am very hopeful that it will come back to the normal soon.

So, what do you think about this massive bug from Twitter? I definitely they would have prevented this issue because twitter has been using # and @ signs since it is started, I think this “accept” is actually their shortcut to auto-follow when a command is triggered. The question is, for Twitter to find out, who abused the system and who were abused, so that they can differentiate and restore back to normal, if not, there will be heaps of disappointment from honest users, in my opinion.

Tags: accept username, auto follow, bug, turns, twists, twitter

29 Apr 10 Twitter is overloaded

Another overloading time for Twitter today, My time 29th  April, 2010 at 10:09:42 am.

I am pretty upset with twitter lately as I don’t want to use external APIs to connect. It is because there are too many APIs connecting and looks like the site has been overloaded frequently. With the massive amount of messages flying around the net, especially evening time for US will be pretty much a lot of traffic and load balancing machines at Twitter can probably do nothing about it.

At the other hand, it’s fantastic massive traffic flowing in and out of Twitter and I think twitter can actually give you pretty much of SEO advantage over time, because the indexing method with Twitter is not so bad even though first generated TWEET is not necessarily creating massive traffic. So yea, SEO/SEM wise, it’s a great approach, and it is well-used by many others now.

Anyway, another disappointing experience with Twitter this week, AGAIN and I hope they will improve their accessibility soon.

Tags: overload, SEM, SEO, traffic, twitter

20 Nov 09 Trending Topics for Twitter Today 20 November 2009

• Follow FridayPeople tweet suggested users to follow on Friday.
• Google Chrome OSGoogle presented more information about their browser-based operating system this morning and opened-sourced the project as Chromium OS (Nov. 19).
• VoicesTap Tap Tap and MacHeist are giving away Voice Candy for Mac to celebrate the release of Voices on iPhone. The apps allow you to manipulate voice recordings.
• #justbecauseIf one thing is true, it doesn’t mean other things can’t be true.
• Cockermouth
• Team Jacob
• #nottosayonfirstdatePeople are tweeting things you shouldn’t say when making a first impression with a new romantic interest.
• #whatdoyoudo
• #killingenglish
• Edward

Well, today Trending has changed alot compared to yesterday.  But lately, It doesn’t really affect much rather than daily searches.

What are your Twitter searches today? Mine was mostly related to NBA and Individuals.

Tags: Candy, Chrome, Cockermouth, color, course, interest, iPhone, Mac, MacHeist, mak, Mine, NBA, nottosayonfirstdate, online marketing, Trending

20 Nov 09 Twitter Always Follow Back List

Yes, That is right. If you are reading my blog post, that means you want to find Tweeple that will always follow you back. I have been using Twitter for a while and I plan to offer something for my readers by collecting the list of Twitter followers who will actually follow you back. But there is always one trick, you are really supposed to follow them as well.

Twitter is basically a micro-blogging tool that you can have 140 characters to type in and let others share with your thoughts, status, being and news. So, make sure you always follow them while they are willing to follow you back, I don’t want to bore you with long list, because I actually maintain the list who would actually follow you back in return.

So, go get the list http://twitter.com/NandaLinnAung/followers

You won’t be disappointed with the outcome. Especially you are a newbie to Twitter. Enjoy and Leave a comment below with your Twitter account, so that more people can be able to follow you. So would I.

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19 Nov 09 Twitter Trends for Today 19 November 2009

I am now thinking about little bit of documenting about twitter trends…  Because its fun to see how the trend is moving around the net.

So, today’s search and trending topics are currently

• #nottosayonfirstdate
• New MoonNew Moon, the next Twilight movie, will be out in theaters Nov. 20. Fans can’t wait.
• Thierry HenryWorld Cup soccer fans are upset about what many consider a blatant handball violation which led to a French goal and eventual win against Ireland in a qualifying match today (Nov. 18).
• #IReallyLoveTILA
• #FunnyButNOTCOOL
• #svuk
• #openwebawards@mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards, Social Media Edition. Voting on the 5 top nominations in each category takes place Nov. 18 – Dec. 13. Winners to be announced Dec. 15.
• IrelandIreland lost to France 1-2 in a World Cup qualifying soccer match (Nov. 18).
• ThanksgivingIn the United States, people give thanks on the fourth Thursday in November (in 2009, the 26th). People are tweeting their holiday plans, which traditionally include turkey.
• FIFA

It’s actually interesting to see twitter has now global player as you can actually see search such as Thierry Henry is now dominating Twitter as football/soccer is pretty much not the hot topic but the total volume of twitter users are no longer dependent on US population, which is pretty good news for Twitter.

So, what are your thoughts?

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