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Opinion

Fake Twitter Profiles A Serious Problem

by Philip on February 25, 2009

I’ve found that, on Twitter, I’ve been befriended by people who claim to be either well-known (like Barack Obama) or people I know.  Problem is, they are fake profiles.  Even the Dalai Lama had his profile faked.  Often, the only thing that’s changed is the addition of an underscore or a middle initial.
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I set up a trial account on TypePad recently and tried to port my blog over there.  Unfortunately I failed; there were some serious flaws that made porting difficult or impossible.  So, I’ve decided to stick it out with WordPress hosted on my own server after all.  It all started when I decided to restart [...]

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Rel=”nofollow” was first introduced by the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) in May 2005 as an answer to blog comment spam and other spamdexing techniques utilizing unauthorized link dropping. Since then, Google has tried to repurpose the rel=”nofollow” as a way to identify and de-influence the effects of paid links.
Paid links [...]

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So did you hear about DMOZ founder Rich Skrenta’s Topix.net purchasing the Topix.com domain name from a Canadian company for a cool USD 1,000,000?  I guess too many people were being lost in the type-in traffic going to the dot-com.
So, think about that when you choose a domain name.  If it’s a dot-net (or something [...]

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