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UK Prime Minister's Anti-Tech Crackdown: Stupid, Useless, Wrong If you’ve ever wanted a Twitter account that has around 10 followers, a randomly generated username and is following thousands of random people, today is your lucky day. Earlier today, an anonymous hacker dumped 55000 usernames and passwords onto Pastebin. Normally, this would be a real inconvenience — and a worrisome breach — but all the affected appear to be spambots with randomly generated passwords and email addresses.
Supposedly inspired by that party movie Project X, and probably more influenced by their own impressionable roller coaster hormones, teenagers are doing teenage things, only bigger, badder and from the sounds of it, a lot more fun… and illegal. Hundreds of teenagers are flocking to parties at vacant mansions planned using Google and Twitter.
You know Klout. It gathers your social media data to measure your influence. But Klout is dumb. Klout makes people think I am a good mum. But what if you could mine social data to tell you how insufferable any given person is on Twitter? That sounds a good deal more fun.
Everyone screws up and occasionally tweets something they shouldn’t. Thanks to services like Topsy, deleting your 140-character flub has never been a foolproof way of erasing your misdeed, but we always thought it was good enough to keep us from getting busted. Now a judge says even deleted tweets can be used against you in court. Stop tweeting illegal stuff people!
The hype machine behind Nike shoe releases is only rivalled by Apple product releases, which is usually a good thing! But, recently, riots on shoe release days have caused The Swoosh to re-think its launch strategy. So much so that Nike has killed off midnight releases at its stores and will be using Twitter to sell its shoes.
Twitter is calling for an industry-wide armistice in the intellectual property wars. Today it announced the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), a pact that it will not use employees’ patents for offensive measures, but rather to protect itself when it is necessary.
Mike Duerksen from Winnipeg, Canada, had a lovely idea: he would take his girlfriend on a carefully orchestrated, 12-hour marathon date, visiting their special places all day — ending in an engagement ring. Adorable. What’s not adorable? Constantly tweeting throughout.
In a wonderfully clever way of drawing attention to themselves, Smart — the company responsible for those silly-looking pygmy cars — turned their Argentinian twitter page into an animated flip book. Wanna check it out? Just click here and then hold down the J key once the page loads.
A South African man (whose name has not been released) got a lucky break on Sunday when his kidnappers stuffed him into the boot of his car with his mobile phone, which he used to send a text to his girlfriend, Lynn Peters. What Peters did next ended up saving his life.
