Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in and reported spammers over the last [...]
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How homeless charities and groups are using social media
Last week Nicky and myself delivered a training workshop with St Basils, a Birmingham-based charity that supports homeless young people. They wanted to know how they could use the free social media tools on offer to raise awareness of the work they are doing and increase engagement. As part of the preparation for the [...]
Adding tweets to your WordPress blog post
How many times have you seen something on Twitter that you wanted to add to a blog post and had to spend 5 minutes doign a screen grab of the tweet to add to your post as an image like this? Well you might not know it but you can actually embed a tweet directly [...]
Twitter Spam
There seems to have been an increase in Twitter spam over the past week, with people sending out tweets like ‘Is this you in this photo [link]‘ or ‘I’m sure this is you in this video [link]‘ and ‘Want to make between $3000 & $8000 a month click here [link]‘. The first and most important [...]
Leave Comments On WordPress Using Your Facebook Or Twitter User Name
We all know that using WordPress is a snip, it is one of the best CMS / publishing tools out there, even for total novices like the people we often train here at Talk About Local. Last night WordPress announced that they have improved things again by adding, what some might say was a lacking [...]