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Zero Guy: Unfollowing ALL Your Twitter Followers
Zero Guy. He’s the one who pops up in your Unfollowers tab on Crowdfire. He followed you, then you followed him back, and then he unfollow...
Microsoft Caught Using Aggressive Churn Tactics on Twitter
Churn. It's the practice of calculatedly following and then unfollowing on Twitter - purely to build an audience. Churn is something in ...
Ten Signs That a Twitter User Has Bought Followers
You don't want speculation, rumours and tales. You want answers. Which is good, because that's exactly what you're going to ge...
Music Promotion on Twitter: From Soundcloud Spam to Success
Over on Twirpz , I’ve done quite a few articles about Twitter and its out-of-control ‘marketing’, and Twirpz is where I normally keep my Twi...
Why Twiends Doesn't Work
Twiends. It’s a popular and generally well regarded site for people who want to gain Twitter followers fast. It’s free, and it’s easy to use...
Storify: Good, Bad and Ugly
I’ve poked fun in the past at ‘ convenience blogging ’, and I’ve never before felt much impetus to try out Storify , with its staggeringly s...
Twitter Celebrity Worship: The Modern Day Idolatry
Photo by Francisco Moreno on Unsplash . People tend to associate the most shocking behaviour on Twitter and other social networking si...
Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Accounts on Twitter (Part 2)
If you've missed the first instalment of this two-parter, you can find it via the link below... Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Twit...
Ten Ways to Spot Fake and Catfish Accounts on Twitter
Fake Twitter accounts, also commonly known as ‘catfish’, can be dangerous entities. Before you even examine the motives, the desire to fake...
Are You Posting into a Black Hole?
How do you feel about posting on the Internet?... If you walk away for a month, will you still be in the limelight when you come back? If n...
Using Twitter Lists to Follow Without Being Seen
Back in 2009, Twitter effectively acknowledged that there were two types of following. The kind of following users want everyone to know ab...
How to Correctly Add Your Own Comment to a Retweet on Twitter (An Original 'Quote Tweet' - Before 'Quote Tweets' Were a Thing)
It seems at present that very few people know the professional way to add their own comment to a retweet . Indeed, the mighty Yahoo! Answers...
Following Anonymously on Twitter 2013
Before Twitter completely withdrew their RSS feeds on 11th June 2013, ‘following’ and probing a load of Twitter accounts with complete anony...
Top Ten Most Stupid Things People Do on Twitter
One of the best things about Twitter is its ability to reveal just how stupid some people really are. In fact, there are so many stupid thi...
Has Twitter Deleted My Account?
I said in a previous article on this site, that Twitter doesn’t always stick to the precise 30-day period for account deletion after you de...
Protected Twitter - I Read You Loud and Clear!
So you’ve set yourself up on Twitter , and you want some privacy . What do you do? Well, if you really need to shut out the world, it’s obvi...
Back From The Dead Twitter Accounts
Just a short post here, on the subject of supposedly deleted Twitter accounts . Or, more specifically, my supposedly deleted Twitter accou...
Is The Forum Dying?
Are you a member of a forum or message board ? Have you noticed it getting quieter ? Have you noticed the administration getting evermore d...
How to Follow Anonymously on Twitter
If you’re interested in the background to this piece (which includes info about Twitter many may not know), please read the whole thing. If...
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