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Migros Adventskalender auf Twitter

Es ist vollbracht. Der erste Adventskalender, der auch twittert. Dank eine Idee am Sonntag war es gestern, 1.12.2009 soweit: Der Migros Adventskalender twittert unter @MigrosAktion. Jeden Tag bis am 24. Dezember twittert der Kalender also das jeweils gültige Angebot an alle Followers. Heute gibt es zum Beispiel 20% Rabatt auf alle Spielwaren! Wichtiger Hinweis: Der Bot […]

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“New Moon” Trending Topic on Twitter

New Moon The next New Moon is tomorrow, November 16th. For a schedule of the moon cycles for the the rest of 2009, see the following website: http://www.new-age.co.uk/moon-dates.htm ^I really hope the person who wrote this is not serious. ^^ he isn’t haha Currently, “New Moon” is a trending topic on Twitter. And thanks to […]

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STIS Update and News

In case you are familiar with my projects or are a Swiss public transportation traveler with a Twitter account, you might have heard of my SBB Train Information System on Twitter. In the past couple of weeks a lot of changed behind the scenes. Jürg Stuker from namics mentioned the system to some employees at […]

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Twitter @reply is Broken by Bots

Twitter is popular. Twitter has a simple and powerful API. Twitter displays @cocaman on a special page. These three points are enough to make the @reply option vulnerable. Chris Messina, Chief Open Source Advocate and BarCamp co-inventor, recently updated his “my-name-is” homepage. My camichel.com site is very much influenced by his old design. I had […]

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