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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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Obligatory Swine Flu post

By 6000 | 6000 | April 28, 2009

Already, people are starting to come up to me in the street and ask me what they should do about Swine Flu. I’m not sure if this is because I look like a pig or because I had my “Trust me, I’m a Microbiologist” t-shirt on. I’m guessing the latter, since no-one in their right mind [...]

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Twitter ye not

By 6000 | 6000 | April 9, 2009

Incoming DM (direct message) on twitter: You doing alright? If I’m not mistaken, you and I had a romantic moment some years ago. Can’t remember it, but hope all is forgiven. Jeremy Nell / JeremyTNell Erm… no. You are mistaken. Really. And why would I be forgiving you? Do you usually expect forgiveness when you [...]

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