Well ongoing from my why you need to stop using TwitPic right now post I decided that the safest route to protect my images was to go self-hosting. Read more
It’s pretty straightforward and I advise you untick all the options, definitely if you have a twitter client with push notifications.
- Go to Twitter.com
- Click on Settings
- Click on Notifications
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
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
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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.
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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