WARNING: Juste is Latest Twitter Scam to Avoid

May 30th, 2009 | by Pete Cashmore

If you see a link to “juste (dot) ru” on Twitter today, don’t click it.

The flipside of social media’s ability to rapidly spread content is that scams, viruses and malware spread at a much faster rate: from the trusted connections that allow Facebook scams to propagate, to the abundance of Twitter (Twitter reviews) issues in recent months.

Today’s scam: a video site called “Juste.ru” (do not visit this site) has successfully spread thousands of spam links through Twitter. The messages read: “Best video:” followed by a link to juste.ru. Users who clicked this link are reporting that their accounts are then used to Tweet the link without their knowledge, implying that the site steals Twitter credentials. Twitter itself has just put out a warning to avoid the links, which are malicious.

Bottom line: avoid clicking any links on Twitter to “juste (dot) ru”, and if you find your account posting these links, run a full virus/malware/spyware scan, change your Twitter password and clear your browser cookies

Alert: TwitterCut Scam on Twitter

ALERT: Twittercut Scam Loose

May 26th, 2009 | by Pete Cashmore

Another Twitter scam is on the loose tonight: hundreds of affected users are unwillingly posting the message “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from Twittercut”, with a link to the aforementioned site.

This appears to be a scam of the simplest type: users click the link, enter their Twitter username and password on the landing page and suddenly find their own accounts Tweeting out the same spam message…and of course those “1000 followers” are nowhere to be seen. It’s proving extremely effective, especially with new users who aren’t aware of such blatant ploys.

As with the recent spate of Facebook scams, keep your wits about you and avoid entering your login details on suspect sites. According to the Twitter status blog, Twitter is currently working to reset passwords on all affected accounts, although the Tweets are still coming at a fast rate at the time of writing.

Also note that if Twitter resets your password, you may also need to update it in 3rd party applications that use those details to access your account.

Twitter Following Limits And How To Get Around Them

Ok, what do you do when you hit 2000 followers and get this message?



Here is a quick Breakdown of the Follow Limits

• 1,000 updates per day
  
• 1,000 direct messages per day
  
• 100 API requests per hour
• Follow limit Starts At 2000

BreakDown:

• 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile web, phone, API, etc. )
  
• 1,000 total direct messages per day, on any and all devices
  
• 100 API requests per hour

If you hit a follow limit, you must balance your follower/following ratio in order to follow more people- basically, you can't follow 50,000 people if only 23 people follow you and this all starts at 2000 followers

If you follow 2100 people and you have 2000 followers then what you have to do is start deleting people you follow in order to follow any more new people. This way you will get new followers and your ratio will go up.

This is how it works

Approximate estimate:
Followers You can Follow
2000------2100
2500------2750
3000------3300 - 3600?
4000------4400 - 4900?

so when you finally hit around 4000 plus people, you can add the 1000 per day limit with no problems.

So,, My suggestion is to use a service such as TwitterKarma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ to delete unwanted people you follow, EG: if you follow 2100 people, i would delete 1000 of them and then you can follow 1000 more the next day without hitting the limit,, this will probably give you an extra 500 to 700 followers making your follower count 2700 - do that again EG: now that you have 2700 followers and your probably following 3000 something, go and delete another 1000 and then follow 1000 new people and the next day you will probably have 3500 something followers.

Hope this explains how to get past that dreadful twitter 2000 initial cap.


Mike.

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Over 2000 Twitter Quotes And Jokes

K,, this is a request i get all the time
Where do you get all those jokes and quotes.

well,, i scoured the net for them and then had to go through thousands to build my list and parse all the ones which are longer then 140 characters.

here is the result available for anyone to twit with. hope you like it cause it took me a long time to put together.

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcqqt2j3_47d74ff9zf

Hint: the more you post (updates) the higher you will rank on TwitterGrader.

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Hmm, Setting up My Blog

Well, hope all you twitter friends are happy, i received soooooo many requests on how to do this, how to do that,, that i have to set up this blog just to keep up.

Not a bad idea anyways. What i'm gong to try and do is basically spill what little i know about twitter, twitter products such as TwitterGrader, twitter karma, you name it, i tested it.

what works, what doesn't, all the make money this , make money that - ill explain what does and what i think is a waste of time, which is pretty much anything that say's i got 19000 users, yada yada,, all crap, lol.

Anyways, hope to get this up and going as quickly as possable.

you can always email me directly at Executive@Gmail.com

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