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Conan O’Brien On Twitter: Sarah Killen, Your Life Is About To Change

March 5, 2010

Conan O’Brien, you might have heard of him in relation to Jay Leno and The Tonight Show. Long story short, he has over 500,000 followers on Twitter – and he doesn’t follow anybody himself. Until 1 hour ago, where he wrote this tweet:

Sarah Killen, who is @LovelyButton, up until a few hours ago had just [...]

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Twitter as DDoS Tool To Crash Websites – You’re Guilty!

March 4, 2010

If you’re a Twitter user and you follow one of the really big guys with like a million other followers, you could – without knowing it – actually be part of a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for “Distributed Denial of Service” and is used to describe what happens when a website receives so many requests [...]

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Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!

March 1, 2010

The micro-blogging social network, Twitter, recently reached 50 million daily tweets, so it’s safe to say that Twitter is getting more and more popular as time goes by.
Just like anything else popular, some people will try to exploit for. For Twitter, it’s often spammers. For instance, I follow many Twitter users because of TweetAdder (and [...]

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Twitter: 50 Million Tweets Per Day

February 25, 2010

Take a good look at the graph to the right (click it to enlarge). Go back to the summer of 2009 and Twitter had 10 million tweets a day. Fast forward to January 2010 and they’re at 50 million tweets per day. That’s a lot of tweets and a new milestone just reached by Twitter.
That [...]

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“EgoTweeting” Review: An eBook On Ego- And Business Marketing Using Twitter

February 24, 2010

This is a brand new eBook, just released. Written by my good friend over at BlogInTheBag.com – and because I’m lucky enough to know him, I was allowed to read and review it, before it was released, which is why I’m very excited to finally be able to tell you about it, now that it’s [...]

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TechPatio Reaches 1000 Tweets on Twitter & 200 RSS Subscribers

February 23, 2010

Who would have thought it could take me around 6 months to reach a 1000 tweets on Twitter? That comes down to just about 5 tweets per day. Well, I’m not sure my @TechPatio account has been active for exactly 6 months, but it’s plus/minus a few months at the most, so no big deal.
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Google Goes Social With Buzz. GooBook? Gwitter?

February 10, 2010

Google Buzz is fresh out of Mountain View, California, where Google announced this new service just yesterday. Google Buzz combines Gmail with status updates and the ability to share links, pictures and videos with your friends.
Buzz is available within Gmail (not for all users, yet), where you can see a feed of what your contacts [...]

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Matt Cutts On How PageRank Flows From Twitter & Facebook

January 18, 2010

A new webmaster video has been released from Matt Cutts, where he talks about how Google see links from Twitter and Facebook coming to your site and how the PageRank flows from these sites as well.
If you’re a webmaster or a blogger, it might be a good idea to follow @googlewmc on Twitter to [...]

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Twitter Mashup: 100 Megapixel Profile Picture

January 16, 2010

LarsD from over at BlogInTheBag.com has created a program (still command line based, I believe) that will create a 100 megapixel mosaic picture, based on your Twitter followers and it will eventually look like your own profile picture.
For testing purpose, he used my Twitter profile picture. Here’s a video of how 50,000 profile pictures (45×45 [...]

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Tweet Adder – How To Clean Up Twitter After Gaining 100’s Of Followers

January 14, 2010

Yesterday I told you how I gained 500 Twitter followers in just 5 days. That post came out rather long so here’s the other half of it, which is about “cleaning up after yourself”.
One thing I’ve learned from my experience with Tweet Adder, is that many Twitter users are using some kind of “automation” to [...]

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How I Got 500 Targeted Twitter Followers In 5 Days With Tweet Adder

January 13, 2010

This is a story on how I went from less than 500 followers to over 1,000 followers in just 5 days at a rather low cost. There is a cost, it’s not free. However, this cost is unimportant if you’re serious about Twitter and you’re looking to get targeted Twitter followers that you can connect [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Twatif & Flutter (Twitter Fun Videos)

December 18, 2009

Welcome to another Friday Flick Find – the last one before Christmas! Due to Christmas, I currently don’t have much time on my hands to update TechPatio which is why you probably won’t see more than just a few posts from me for the rest of this year. I hope you’re all enjoying the holidays [...]

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Friday Flick Find: Chase Jarvis’ 5 Tips for Exceptional Photographs

December 4, 2009

A few weeks ago in Friday Flick Find, I featured a video from Justine Ezarik, showing us how she shot a video for the Nikon Festival where you can win $100,000 by showing 140 seconds of your life as seen through the lens of a camera. Justine Ezarik is one of the three judges and [...]

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How To Use Facebook To Fake An Alibi

November 19, 2009

This is a true story, folks!
Robert Bradford, a teenager from New York, can send his regards to Facebook for him not being sent to jail.
On October 17th he wrote a Facebook status update, from his father’s computer in Harlem, “Where’s my pancakes”.
The day later he was arrested, for a robbery commited around noon the day [...]

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“Unfriend” – Word Of The Year 2009

November 18, 2009

“Unfriend”. One of the new buzz words in 2009, thanks to the social media explosion.
We all know what it means to “google it”. It means to go online and search for something (on Google, since I don’t think it’s possible to “google something” on Bing…).
For Twitter users, “unfollow” has also grown to be a well-known [...]

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How To Make Me UnFollow You On Twitter

November 17, 2009

When I decide who to follow on Twitter, it’s usually a mix of some of the following parameters:

Their ratio of following/followers
Their amount of followers
The language they tweet in
What they tweet about (topics)
How often they tweet
How many RT’s
How many useless quotes from “famous people”

And then I also look for “Get a bazillion followers in less than [...]

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Four Reasons Why I <3 Twittley

November 16, 2009

Twittley is a Digg-like Twitter community where users can “vote” on articles by tweeting them. The more tweets doesn’t necessarily mean a post will be made popular. It depends on the weight of those voting (tweeting) them.
On the frontpage of Twittley you will find their Popular section, showing what articles are popular right now. It [...]

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New Twitter Feature (BETA): Retweet To Share Tweets

November 15, 2009

Logging into Twitter.com yesterday, I found this appeared at the top of the page:

Since it says that I’m part of the beta group, I assume not all of you have seen this one before, which is why I decided to share it with you and give a heads up of what you might be seeing [...]

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