Tag Archives: twitter

Fry Cocks up again

By 6000 | 6000 | November 20, 2009

With at least eleven people including a police officer currently missing and livelihoods, houses and belongings lost in the floods in Cumbria, Stephen Fry feels that it’s a good time to make a cheap and smutty gag about the worst hit area: I’m sure this will be lauded by his legion of 1,000,000+ automatons followers as hugely amusing, [...]

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“OMG! That’s disgusting!” Twitter and Stephen Fry’s ‘free speech’ hypocrisy

By 6000 | 6000 | October 20, 2009

Compare and contrast: Tuesday last week: The Trafiguragate scandal, whereby the multinational company, through solicitors Carter-Ruck, succeeded in blocking The Guardian newspaper from reporting on parliamentary goings-on, only to be forced into retreat when thousands of Twitter users (including Stephen Fry) got hold of the story and blew it wide open – effectively negating the [...]

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Twitter and Facebook attacked

By 6000 | 6000 | August 6, 2009

Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook were both unavailable for long periods this afternoon (Central African Time) due to a Distributed Denial of Service attack or DDoS, a process whereby huge numbers of infected computers, controlled by a single “master computer” besiege the servers of a site with demands for data until the servers – and the site - breaks. [...]

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The importance of twitter explained

By 6000 | 6000 | June 15, 2009

A common complaint of Twitter users is the assumptions made about Twitter and Twitter users by non-Twitter users. Twitter does have many different uses depending on what you want to get out of it, whether it is organising get-togethers, discussing or seeking solutions to technical problems, sharing photos and news stories in real time, promoting [...]

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Baby Admin post

By 6000 | 6000 | May 8, 2009

Do these count? Of course they do. I have added the tweetmeme plugin to my vast range of WordPress plugins which make my life easier and make your reading enjoyment all the more… enjoyable. If you’re active on twitter (and let’s face it, these days, who isn’t?) you can now retweet the content that you see [...]

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