With my interest in Bitcoin, and Twitter, I found myself over the past couple of days trying to find the very first tweet about Bitcoin. And I found it, along with some of the very earliest tweets on the digital currency. You may be wondering if I am on a quest to find the legend,[…]
Anyone that has ever used Twitter prior to this year, at some point or another, has encountered the infamous Fail Whale. The Twitter Fail Whale is a picture of a whale being carried by a flock of birds; Twitter’s symbol is a bird. The picture is iconic to Twitter, and has been long associated in[…]
Almost one year ago, one of my favorites tools on the web, IFTTT, was forced to remove Twitter as a trigger on their platform due to Twitter API rule changes (which also upset a lot of other people, products and services). Now, Twitter is back on IFTTT, officially. If you aren’t familiar, IFTTT (If This Then[…]
At some point in your online life, someone is going to try to hack an account you have for one reason or another. It will undoubtedly be some malicious program, or person, who could have obtained your username and/or password through some nefarious way. The moment this happens, you have to lock down your accounts. Chances[…]
For at least the past two to three years, I have been using what most everyone else was using to display tweets on my website – Twitter’s API – via a great Javascript plugin for jQuery, which was provided by Sea of Clouds. The problem is, just a few days ago, Twitter stopped support of[…]
Last night as I was getting ready for the upcoming week and getting ready to call it a night, I saw breaking news that President Obama would address the nation. I thought, this must be serious, 10:30pm (EST) on a Sunday night. Strange. Maybe it’s about Libya, but thats not breaking enough to happen late[…]