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5 Ways To Give Your PPC Account A Kick In The Butt
Feb 27th
So you’ve set up your PPC account, have been monitoring it for a while, and things are going swimmingly. But now what? You feel you’ve done everything you think you can do to the PPC account. Not so! There’s always more to do! In this article, I’ll discuss some ideas you can use to give [...]
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SEO Positive Twitter Account Hits Record High – PR Web (press release)
Feb 15th
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SEO Positive Twitter Account Hits Record High
PR Web (press release) After directing an aggressive social media campaign for several months, SEO Positive is now proud to announce that it has achieved a record Twitter Following. Thanks to the scope and commitment of its social media team, SEO Positive is now proud to … |
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Daily Wrap: A Verified Twitter Account Turns Out To Be Bogus and More
Jan 3rd
Wendi Deng, the wife of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, is impersonated with a verified Twitter account. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well.
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The Verified Twitter Account for Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Was Fake [Updated]
Twitter verified the account of @Wendi_Deng but it turned out to be a fake account. While the account was only verified for a short time, the Twitter account garnered significant attention based on tweets that fake-Wendi sent to Ricky Gervais and real-Wendi’s husband, Rupert Murdoch.
@rupertmurdoch RUPERT!!! delete tweet!
— Wendi Deng Murdoch (@Wendi_Deng) January 1, 2012
No word on how or why the account was verified, but since verification carries with it the guaranteed ring of authenticity, removing the potential for error is important. Some even question whether private verification can be carried out without some level of oversight.
From the comments:
Doran – “Because use of Twitter is being referenced more and more in courts. In this case, ‘Wendi_Deng’ may have tweeted something which might bring legal action by shareholders if they thought it really was Rupert’s wife.”
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The Other 1%: People Who Still Use IE6
Today the Internet bids another goodbye to Internet Explorer 6, whose U.S. death is inevitable. New data from Net Applications shows that less than 1% of U.S. Internet users choose IE6 as their browser of choice. And when it comes to the mobile/tablet browser market share, only 0.41% use some variation of Internet Explorer, period. iOS devices come with pre-installed Safari browsers, which make for 53.3% of the mobile browser market. Meanwhile, Opera Mini and an Android browser account for 21.66% and 15.87% of the mobile market, respectively. (more)
Researchers Identify Notorious Botnet Operator Codenamed “Google”
Security researchers have identified the person responsible for about 22% of all spam on the Internet. Ironically, the individual responsible for running the operation through the so-called “Cutwail” botnet goes by the codename “Google.” Krebs On Security cracked the case on the malicious hacker responsible for much of the spam that cripples inboxes across the Internet. (more)
New Year’s Resolution: Get Better At Email
So, how do you feel about email? It’s a rough question to ponder on the first no-excuses work day of 2012. Email is like a treadmill. If we don’t keep running, we’re going to fall down. Maybe email would feel better if we started the new year off with some better practices for managing it. (more)
Android Siri Competitor Iris Takes Step Towards Legitimacy With ChaCha
Maybe there is a chance for Android competitors to Apple’s Siri voice-powered search. The first Siri clone was the cleverly-named anagram Iris and has been something of an amusing joke since it launched shortly after Siri was announced. The builders behind Iris, India-based development studio Dexetera, have made a partnership that will give Iris Siri-like capabilities without directly copying Apple’s approach. (more)
Turn Your WiFi Network Into A Twitter-Like Private Messaging Platform
Internet users usually think of Wi-Fi networks as either open (hey, let’s steal Internet from our neighbor instead of paying for it!) or closed (only those with a password can access the Internet). If you leave your network open, how often do you actually know the people who are also logged on? (more)
What Will It Take For Mobile Payments to Be Embraced By Consumers?
We may still be a few years away from the mainstream adoption of mobile payments, but that hasn’t stopped a whirlwind of buzz and product development from going on in the space. Some of the biggest players in tech, telecommunications and finance are all working on solutions that will enable people to pay for everyday items using only their phones. (more)
In the Real Fourth Reich, You’ll Be the First to Go: Anonymous Goes After Neo-Nazis
Der Spiegel reports the hacktivist collective Anonymous is actively targeting neo-Nazis in Germany in a campaign called Operation Blitzkrieg.
The group has launched a WikiLeaks-style website, Nazi-Leaks, to support the operation. They are publishing materials hacked from Germany’s extreme right-wing party, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or National Democratic Party of Germany (NDP). (more)
Lessons Learned From Noisetrade: Free and Legal Music Downloads
When it comes to downloading digital music, there is free and then there is legal, but seldom can you have both from the same site, and make money too. Noisetrade.com has been doing this for the past three years.
Certainly, there are lots of other music download sites, and we have written most recently about Soundcloud, as one example. But it is worth looking at what Noisetrade is doing to see what could be the ideal small-business content download site. (more)
Hackers Propose Out-Of-This-World Way To Circumvent SOPA
Hackers are looking to circumvent Internet censorship laws like the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act in the U.S. by building their own, satellite-based Internet.
“The first goal is an uncensorable Internet in space. Let’s take the Internet out of the control of terrestrial entities,” Nick Farr, a hacker activist who first proposed the project in August, told the BBC. (more)
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The Verified Twitter Account for Rupert Murdoch’s Wife Was Fake
Jan 3rd
Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. “Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital adventure on Twitter,” reads her bio. Cute, right? Rupert was verified, Wendi was verified, and so began another cute chapter of celebrities figuring out how to use Twitter.
Much to the world’s surprise – and inability to cope – Rupert turns out to be pretty good at Twitter. You know who’s even better, though? Wendi. She’s so good, she convinced Twitter and News International to verify her account, even though, as she admitted today, she is a fake. Twitter didn’t even ask her, and News International thought it was legit. The account is no longer verified, but it was for a whole day.
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Hello Twitter. As News International has finally come to their senses, it’s time to confirm that yes, this is a fake account. I’m not Wendi.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch (@Wendi_Deng) January 3, 2012
Yes, that’s right. For an entire day, the account purporting to be Rupert Murdoch’s wife was verified, even though it was fake. The verification process is supposed to guarantee to Twitter users that this person is who they say they are. But, as fake-Wendi herself says, “you have to wonder… why Twitter verified this account for a full day. I never received any communication from them about this.”
Remember this cute exchange between Rupert and fake-Wendi, when Rupert said something politically prickly, and fake-Wendi hollered at him to delete the tweet?
@rupertmurdoch RUPERT!!! delete tweet!
— Wendi Deng Murdoch (@Wendi_Deng) January 1, 2012
People blogged about that. They thought it was real. It wasn’t. What is up with this? Expect to hear from Twitter later today about how this fake account got verified. We’ll keep you posted.
To those of you who kept maintaining the account was fake, even after being verified, good on you for being suspicious.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch (@Wendi_Deng) January 3, 2012
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How Savvy Is Your AdWords Account? 7 Areas To Audit
Jan 2nd
When you do AdWords account audits, you need to go beyond the data to see how savvy the AdWords account is overall. If the account is well put together, then the account manager generally knows what they are doing and you will end up talking quite a bit about the data and the account’s strategy….
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Sweden Turns Its Twitter Account Over to the Great Unwashed
Dec 27th
Sweden has surrendered its official Twitter account, @sweden, to the hoi polloi. The project, Curators of Sweden, signs up Swedes to tweet a week at a time. It started December 10 with Jack Wermer, a writer and marketing specialist. The second tweeter was Hasan Ramic, a Bosnian immigrant
Currently, the position is filled by the moose-hunting, oral tobacco product enthusiast Anders Dalenius.
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According to psfk, “The campaign was conceived by the Stockholm agency Volontaire for the tourism group Visit Sweden and then green lit by the government.”
The idea seems to be that normal Swedes will do a better job at representing their country to the outside world (the tweets are in English… or variants thereof) than either their government or an advertising campaign.
However, the “curation” is hardly random. Upcoming participants include a teacher, a priest and a lady truck driver. No doubt an attempt is being made to show a wide-spectrum picture of the country. (Most Swedes are neither Bosnian nor non-traditional laborers.)
So it might be more accurate to say the experiment is to use social media to present a picture of Sweden at its best and most diverse. There’s nothing wrong with that – social media allows us to present a picture of ourselves of our own choosing. It has the immediacy of voice, but that doesn’t mean it has unmediated authenticity.
Still, the dude is tweeting about moose hunting. That strikes me as full-bore whole-cloth Swedish weirdness. So, mission accomplished.
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US Government Wants To Shut Down Terrorist Twitter Account
Dec 20th
The New York Times is reporting that U.S. officials are considering legal actions to shut down the Twitter account of the Shabab militant group of Somalia.
Noted for its brutality, the Islamic group is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. The group has been using its Twitter account to taunt the Kenyan military, which was dispatched to Somalia in October to combat the Shabab.
Any such move to pressure Twitter to close the account, however, would pit free speech concerns against anti-terrorism efforts. “I was kind of shocked by the statement that story was making – I honestly thought it was a joke when I first saw it,” said Joshua King, general counsel at Avvo.com. “There’s really no legal authority they can use in this instance.”
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The State Department is arguing that such a move would be similar to past efforts in which it used Web hosting and related services to target terrorist groups.
A Twitter spokesperson declined comment to the newspaper. The company’s Web site does not specifically address law enforcement and government requests to shut down user accounts, but the law enforcement policy section on its help site does say it will only turn over private user information if subpoenaed.
American officials told the newspaper that they fear the group is using its Twitter account – which is mostly written in English – to reach recruits in the West. The officials said they were exploring legal options for closing down the account out of fear that Americans would travel to Somali to train with the Shabad then return to the U.S. to commit acts of domestic terrorism.
The U.S. government “can certainly put pressure on companies like Twitter to do what they want, as we saw with WikiLeaks,” King said. “But Twitter has generally shown themselves to be a staunch defender of the First Amendment, so I doubt they’d be pressured in this case.”
The account was opened earlier this month and already has more than 5,000 followers. Many of the Tweets boast of military victories in ongoing skirmishes with the Kenyan army.
It’s not much of a stretch to see the messages are being targeted at outsiders, given how few Somali’s have access to the Internet. The Shabab operate in an area where many people live in poverty, and they have banned Western practices, including Western haircuts, music and bras. The group has blocked Western famine aid as well, and is perhaps best known for chopping off the hands of dissidents.
While some Twitter posters likened it to Tokyo Rose and wondered how the famed voice of Japanese propaganda during World War IOI would have fared in the age of Twitter, there are stark differences. Most notably, Tokyo Rose broadcast on Japanese airwaves; in the case of the Shabad, the group is using a means of communication owned and operated by a U.S.-based company.
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You Can Now Create a Google Account From a Feature Phone
Dec 20th
Google+ just announced that feature phone users can now create a Google account. Googler Mohamed Fouad describes this as an effort to enable the hundreds of millions of people with feature phones but no computer access to create an account.
By visiting plus.google.com from a feature phone browser, users can now create a Gmail and Google+ account. This month, Google has extended features of the Web versions of Gmail and Google+ to allow free voice calls to any phone number. Building features for basic mobile phones helps Google extend its reach to a huge, untapped market for Web services.
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It looks from Google’s screenshots like there will be basic functionality available from feature phones, not just the ability to sign up. It’s hard to imagine using Gmail or Google+ in any meaningful way on a feature phone. But it’s clear why Google wants to make it possible. Just like with free voice calling from Gmail and Google+ to any phone number, now millions more people are within Google’s reach.
See more feature phone screenshots from Mohamed Fouad on Google+.
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Extreme Makeover – PPC Account Edition
Dec 16th
If you own your own home, you’re probably already used to things not working (as efficiently or at all) and everything needing constant updates and repairs. Well, your PPC account is no different from a home. Sometimes you need to remodel an…
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Did A Twitter-Fueled Latvian Bank Run Start With One Account? [UPDATED]
Dec 13th
Analysis by the social network analytics company Orgnet.com shows how rumors fueled a run on Swedish-owned banks in Latvia over the weekend.
Banking officials are calling it the world’s first ever social media-fueled run on banks, and officials say that the misinformation campaign may have been a deliberate attempt to destabilize Latvia amidst the ongoing European debt crisis.
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The doomsday messages, which were quickly re-tweeted and shared on social networks, targeted Swedish banks operating in Latvia. None of them, which ranged from closed branches to the arrest of a bank executive, were true, according to bank officials and regulators. Latvian officials said they are still trying to piece together what happened over the weekend.
Typically, news stories originate from several different information sources when they spread among social network users, but Orgnet.com’s graphic of the Swedbank run shows all the information going back to one main source. Update: Orgnet.com has identified the main source in the graphic as Swedbank and its efforts to quell rumors on Twitter.
From the graphic: “The nodes are Twitter users, mostly in Latvia. Links are drawn between two nodes who RT’ed or @ messaged each other. The time period is December 6-12, 2011.”
Twitter’s rumor mill spinning out of control isn’t a new story. But this appears to be the first time it disrupted a financial institution, which could result in serious consequences. According to a Swedebank representative quoted by Marketwatch, “authorities may bring legal charges against the persons spreading the rumors, as such activity is illegal in the country.”
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