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Posted: Feb 19, 2009 - 8:40am
geordiezimmerman wrote: It's bad for you all this social networking apparently. Report Here And yet, just the other night, we met a bunch of other local Twitter users for face-to-face contact. Imagine that.

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Posted: Feb 19, 2009 - 8:30am
It's bad for you all this social networking apparently. Report Here

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Posted: Feb 19, 2009 - 8:14am
Facebook You WILL be assimilated

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Posted: Feb 19, 2009 - 8:08am

Hope this isn't what you're looking for:

February 4th, 2009
Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market

Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 9:02 am

Last week, a commercial Twitter spamming tool (tweettornado.com) pitching itself as a "fully automated advertising software for Twitter" hit the market, potentially empowering phishers, spammers, malware authors and everyone in between with the ability to generate bogus Twitter accounts and spread their campaigns across the micro-blogging service.

TweetTornado allows users to create unlimited Twitter accounts, add unlimited number of followers, which combined with its ability to automatically update all of bogus accounts through proxy servers with an identical message make it the perfect Twitter spam tool.

TweetTornado's core functionality relies on a simple flaw in Twitter's new user registration process. Tackling it will not render the tool's functionality useless, but will at least ruin the efficiency model. Sadly, Twitter doesn't require you to have a valid email address when registering a new account, so even though a nonexistent@email.com is used, the user is still registered and is allowed to use Twitter.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:49pm

Beaker wrote:

I'm not sure the event invitation app on FB would be a great idea in this case, as the venue serves a number of different publics. I'm also adverse to annoying people with things that demand they make a decision on / respond to. Maybe I need to get over that. That plus I have a FB friend who keeps inviting me to stuff I have no interest in. Of course that's different - person to person versus venue to subscribed fan. Interesting thought though.

I get a lot of invitations to events that I just ignore or say no to immediately. It's no biggie to me.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:47pm

Beaker wrote:

I'm not sure the event invitation app on FB would be a great idea in this case, as the venue serves a number of different publics. I'm also adverse to annoying people with things that demand they make a decision on / respond to. Maybe I need to get over that. That plus I have a FB friend who keeps inviting me to stuff I have no interest in. Of course that's different - person to person versus venue to subscribed fan. Interesting thought though.

With the invite tool I think the respondent has the option to ignore future invitations. I don't have any pending invitations to check.

If the invitee has the calendar app there may be a way to put the event on his/her calendar too. No idea how to do that tho.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:45pm

JustineFromWyoming wrote:

Can you give me a TwitterTutorial? Is it something only used with a mobile phone?
-signed CluelessFromWyoming...

No, you can use it from the web, your phone, or any number of freestanding clients (Tweetdeck, Twitterfox, Twhirl, etc.)

Look at it as microblogging. You have 140 characters to say what you want. People use it for different reasons. For Allan and me it's purely personal and social. For some of our local Twitter peeps, it's about networking and sharing info and links. Last night we went to a Tweetup — 30 local Twitter users in a bourbon bar. It was great fun, and we met some really cool people. So it's a good way to meet people, too.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:44pm
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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:41pm
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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:34pm
JustineFromWyoming wrote: Can you give me a TwitterTutorial? Is it something only used with a mobile phone? -signed CluelessFromWyoming... I've no idea either. Hasn;t caught on here.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:33pm

Beaker wrote:

That's what they're saying about Facebook too...

Geez, I just hope this can of worms doesn't get to be unmanageable. They're already running a website - Facebook is to be relaunched and MySpace, Twitter, and an e-mail newsletter to be probably/eventually added... My job-jar is full. And that's just this one org... Yeesh. Sure would be nice if there was one universal admin utlity to push out updates to FB, MySpace and Twitter all at once.

You can update FB from an email. If you can do the same for MySpace, and Twitter (I believe this is possible) you might be able to do it all in one bulk email. If Twitter was to take the header line "My event happens at *** on *** from ***. Bring Friends" that sorts Twitter and then the message body hits MySpace and FB.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:31pm
AliGator wrote: Sure. 2009 is supposed to be Twitter's year, by the way. Can you give me a TwitterTutorial? Is it something only used with a mobile phone? -signed CluelessFromWyoming...

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:30pm

callum wrote:

Is there a way to track who invited who? You could arrange a discount based on the number of fellow geusts someone brings...
In my experience there are often certain 'key' people within a certain group. If you know some of your audience (the people who always turn up, post on the wall etc) sending them PMs can be quite effective.

Also, is there a way to travel back in time and see who stole my wallet from my locker?

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:26pm

Lazy8 wrote:

I belong to a volunteer organization that puts on concerts and dances. The organization has a Facebook page and schedules its events there. It sends out event invitations to the online membership. This works pretty well.

They've been passing out slips of paper with the Facebook page URL at events and including it in the email newsletters. Every member who RSVPs to an event becomes free advertising for the event, because it goes on his profile page. Joining or becoming a fan of the online organization also winds up in member profiles.

I think it's a great model, especially if there was some incentive to RSVP (a discount on admission, say, or free drinks or hors d'oeuvres). It gets people involved and ripples out from every interested customer.

Is there a way to track who invited who? You could arrange a discount based on the number of fellow geusts someone brings...

In my experience there are often certain 'key' people within a certain group. If you know some of your audience (the people who always turn up, post on the wall etc) sending them PMs can be quite effective.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:21pm
Beaker wrote: Thanks! Sure. 2009 is supposed to be Twitter's year, by the way.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:18pm

Beaker wrote:

I'm busy researching Facebook's various capabilities for a music performance venue as I prepare to rebuild their Facebook page. Does anyone have any comments or experiences you would like to share regarding your experiences with being a fan or member of a group or organization? Any good ideas for pushing the news & info out to FBers - or what not to do or avoid?

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:12pm
Beaker wrote: Tweets are limited in the number of characters per tweet, right? If that's the case, what do the businesses say as a promo - "visit our stores - brand xyz is 20% off this week" ...? 140 characters per tweet, yes. Check out Threadless's page to see how they do stuff.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:06pm
AliGator wrote: Yes, yes, no. I've seen businesses using it. I follow some local businesses and some national ones like Threadless. If any of our venues were on Twitter, I would follow them despite getting their info from Facebook event pages and the like. ditto.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 4:04pm

Beaker wrote:

HI Ali,

Are you a Twitter user? If so, do you get tweets from organizations or entitys other than individuals? Have you seen any venues using Twitter?

Hi Beaker. Yes, yes, no. I've seen businesses using it. I follow some local businesses and some national ones like Threadless. If any of our venues were on Twitter, I would follow them despite getting their info from Facebook event pages and the like.

Regarding MySpace and age: I have always hated MySpace, but I made a profile there anyway a few years ago. I just deleted it that week. Hate MySpace. Hate. But I understand that it's a great thing for musicians.

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009 - 3:07pm

Beaker wrote:

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Hey ...

I'm busy researching Facebook's various capabilities for a music performance venue as I prepare to rebuild their Facebook page. Does anyone have any comments or experiences you would like to share regarding your experiences with being a fan or member of a group or organization? Any good ideas for pushing the news & info out to FBers - or what not to do or avoid?

Eventually, I'll also be creating a MySpace page for them too - so any MySpace experiences good or bad, on getting your org on MySpace, or being a friend of such an org, would also be appreciated.

Essentially, I'm asking what do you like to see / what don't you like to see. Or what you may have learned during the exercise of putting your own organization on either of these services. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Here's a recent article on FB with further food for thought: CNN Money: How Facebook is taking over our lives

BTW - is anyone here using Windows Live for social networking? Any thoughts on it?

From stuff I publicise for uni a good way to go about it is to create an event for anything special - certainly the first few times. You can link it to the venues page, so they can see that, but the event will go out to anyone looking on their news feed - anyone that is a fan of the venue (or group member). They can then invite their friends etc...

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