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Paying followers on Twitter – Ellen offers $1000

August 11th, 2009 · Comments

If you’re thinking about paying to increase your number of Twitter followers, you may have to increase your offer after Ellen DeGeneres announced she would randomly reward one follower with $1000.
The offer came as part of winning ‘Choice Twit’ in the Teen Choice Awards, and was not only hinted at on Twitter, but was also [...]

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Why we fall for ‘Don’t Click This’

February 15th, 2009 · Comments

A recent spam attack on Twitter was entirely based around spreading a link with the words ‘Don’t click this’ – which of course, plenty of people did.
It led quite a lot of people to ask why anyone would click on a link which says ‘Don’t Click This’.
And that reminded me of a programme by Derren [...]

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Listening pleasure and Twitter earnings…

September 2nd, 2008 · Comments

I received a good response after yesterday post on Virgin Radio becoming Absolute Radio…thanks to everyone that Stumbled, Dugg, or Twittered it, or came along and had a look.
I must have audio on my mind, because although I’m not a huge fan of podcasts, there are a couple I felt I should mention.  I’ve never [...]

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MeasurementCamp – and Twitter

August 7th, 2008 · Comments

Wednesday saw the latest meeting of MeasurementCamp (Big thanks to @willmcinnes for setting it all up and @helenium for sorting out the venue at Dare Digital). It was a bit strange, as I made it to the inaugral event, and then missed the next three for various reasons. There were quite a few new faces [...]

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