24 May 11

How do I turn off twitter email notifications?

It’s pretty straightforward and I advise you untick all the options, definitely if you have a twitter client with push notifications.

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23 May 11

Why you need to stop using TwitPic right now

Well following on from the TwitPic updates terms of service again post I wrote a couple of weeks ago it looks like the ball has started to roll.

The New York Times has done a piece Fine Print Blurs Who’s in Control of Online Photos which has an interesting comment from a popular TwitPic user who has photos that get on average way over 40,000+ hits each. Read more

 
16 May 11

Unofficial Twitter/Tumblr feed for BBC Formula 1 updates

I was getting really annoyed with the RSS feed the BBC supplies for the Formula 1 section so decided to do something about it.

Problem

The BBC was adding the daily gossip into the RSS feed early in the morning, which meant when I went to check google reader I would need to make sure I didn’t mark it as read because they would add more gossip as the day progressed. Read more

 
10 May 11

Twitpic updates Terms of Service again

How times can change because I wrote a post back in October 2008 about how great this service is for twitter – Twitpic – A great add-on for twitter

TwitPic changes Terms of Service again

Earlier it come to my attention due to a retweet 6 hours ago that not everything is what it used to be. (Thank you @attaboy)

Were you aware that, as of May 4th, by using TwitPic you give them the rights to sell your photos? http://twitpic.com/terms.do I’m out.

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09 May 11

109 Five Letter Twitter Usernames not taken!

Further to yesterdays post regarding finding a short twitter name I decided to have a go at 5 letter user names. In total I tested 8837 user names with the results below.

This time I actually found 109 Twitter user names that are not taken, granted most of them are complete nonsense.
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07 May 11

Want a short twitter screen name? Not a chance!

So was looking for a short twitter name earlier today and after a while I got bored of typing random characters into the Twitter Username checker.

I decided to write a little script to check over 5,000 words starting with 101 two letter usernames, 1015 three letter usernames and finally 4130 4 letter usernames. Here is the results… it don’t look good.
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