Saw this one today while keeping an eye on tweets from ABA Techshow, proof positive that popular hashtags are easy targets. I suspect this will continue, and if it works for the spammers at all, it’ll be out of control fairly soon!
There was much talk about Skittles redesigning their homepage to be more “social media” friendly and transparent. They certainly accomplished that, and generated a lot of buzz. They decided the best way to market their product was to simply show you what other people were saying about it, so their homepage was now simply showing…
Today, I’ve learned how to use Tweetdeck’s filter feature. That’s the little option at the bottom of each column that lets you filter out certain tweets based on any word. I was filtering out everything with MVDAY, a hash tag being used to enter a local contest. The contest gives you a chance to “Tweet”…
Our CIO today decided to send the IT department the monthly statistics for our Postini spam filters. It’s been a few years since I worked in a place where I was the Postini Administrator, so I haven’t seen the percentages of mail that actually gets delivered in a while. It was around 30% at the…
I knew it was just a matter of time. Today I saw a couple of weird referrers in my Flickr stats, a deal of the day tracker website, and a random hotel page from Expedia that I’ve never been to, let alone have photos of. A quick look showed me that there are, in fact,…
I noticed the other day, just before I was getting ready to leave town, that every time I opened Outlook at home, instead of having all my junk mail marked as junk, suddenly more of it was showing up in the inbox, and what didn’t show up there always wound up in Junk Suspects as…