Posts about Social Media as of August 7, 2009

INQ has just announced not one but two new devices; the INQ Chat 3G and INQ Mini 3G. These phones are described as “affordable 3G social mobiles with Twitter and iTunes media sync”. All I have to say is entertainment and social networking here we come! DoubleTwist has created software for these devices that make it [...]

Users looking to update their Twitter feeds or Facebook pages were likely disappointed Thursday morning, as a denial-of-service attack made both services hard to reach. Around 9 a.m. Eastern Time, the number of responses from micro-blogging service Twitter fell precipitously, reaching a bandwidth of 60 Mbps by 10:40 a.m. ET, according to Arbor Networks, a networking services firm. Twitter had reached nearly 200 Mbps prior to the drop.

RT: @usweekly: Twitter is back! Now we can gossip. So what do you think of rumors that @PaulaAbdul will return to #AmericanIdol? Producers are denying RT: @TIME: How did hackers bring down Twitter? |  http://tr.im/vLxb #DDoS RT: @BreakingNews: The social networking site Twitter says it is recovering from a major cyber attack, offline for more than 3 hours.

The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook…. is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom. The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away….. Its SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites | Media | The Guardian .

If you’re new here and find this article useful, please consider subcribing to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting! Koobface, a virus that targets computers via social networking sites, is apparently back and with added sophistication. A typical Koobface attack – like the one that surfaced on Twitter last month – comes via a link that purports to be an interesting video (i.e. – someone tweets “my home video” with a link to what looks like a YouTube page).

Ha, Rome’s take on Twitter including his Urban Dictionary take.. “A stupid site for stupid people with no friends, who think everyone else gives a shit what they’re doing at any given time. Also lacks the functionality of other social networking sites, not that it matters because just like Twitter all those sites suck anyway.” – Urban Dictionary

As we learn more about the Denial of Service Attacks that took down Twitter and other social media sites earlier today, yet another wave of spam is invading the microblogging service. Thousands of tweets are currently being spread around the network pointing to a website promoting a dubious money making scheme: ThursdayProfit.org. It appears that this is the exact same scam as yesterday , where links to the same style of site with a different domain name flooded Twitter.

I’ve just spent the last day submitting my blog to several blog directories. Ok, it didn’t take up a full 24 hours, but I’m already sick of the process (it’s sooo boring). It is, however, a necessary step to take when you want to increase the exposure of your blog , form new relationships with fellow bloggers and increase your traffic ! There are several resources online for finding links to the top blog directories. My post is meant to explain to you which directories I chose to submit to and why.

Denial-of-service got Twitter. Is your network next? | Software, Interrupted – CNET News

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