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Furniture store used Iran twitter tags to promote store

Published on June 27, 2009 in Behavior and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: false hashtags, Habitat, twitter, U.K..

Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting:

While it’s not a crime per se it is a scummy business practice so I’m going to allow it. Plus it did break one of the unwritten laws of twitter.

Anyway, UK furniture store Habitat got caught using twitter hashtags for the ongoing situation in Iran to hep promote the store. Now allow me to translate.

On twitter some people use what are called hashtags on their posts. Hashtags are keywords people can use so others who are looking for twitter posts on that subject can find them. For instance if you were tweeting about the situation in Iran you would put #iran at the end of your tweet.

What Habitat is accused of doing is using hashtags about Iran at the end of their tweets but the tweets were about promoting their stores.

One of the controversial messages – called tweets – which appeared before being removed by Habitat, read: HabitatUK: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card.

Habitat has removed the offending tweets but has not said who was responsible.

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Twiminals?

Published on June 23, 2009 in Security and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: malware, spyware, twitter.

Twitter message could be cyber criminal at work:

I guess it was only a matter of time since twitter has been accepted by the mainstream. Thanks a lot Oprah.

Now cyber criminals are using twitter to send malicious links to sites that infect youir computer with malware.

According to the article the scammers use popular hashtags which means I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re using the unrest in Iran, which is a hot topic on twitter right now, to carry out their schemes.

That’s unbelievably low.

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Philly riot coordinated through MySpace and Twitter

Published on June 2, 2009 in Criminals, MySpace and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: flash mob, MySpace, riot, South Philly, twitter.

Disruption by teens flocking to S. Broad St.:

Twittering Teens Terrorize the City:

A Philadelphia flash mob turned into an actual mob over this past weekend.

Hundreds of teens ranging in ages from 14 to 17 flooded the area near South Broad St. pre-dawn Sunday morning. In one instance a taxi was hijacked and crashed into a pole. In another two women were pulled from their Jeep and were beaten and robbed. No serious arrests were made.

Personally I think all their parents should be arrested. Seriously where were their parents? Oh wait, this is Philly I’m talking about. I used to live there. In my neighborhood the parents were usually buying lottery tickets or at the tap room. But I’m sure your neighborhood isn’t like that.

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Terrorism on Twitter

Published on October 27, 2008 in Criminals and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: terrorism, twitter.

Terrorist ‘tweets’? US Army warns of Twitter dangers:

Army Intelligence really does live up to its oxymoronic name sometimes. This is one of those times.

They released a report publicly that states Twitter could be used as a possible communication and propaganda tool by terrorists.

Now I’m not saying there’s no such thing as terrorists or that everyone is a terrorist but if the terrorists weren’t using Twitter before I bet they are now.

Some things the military needs to keep to themselves.

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State Dept. on Twitter

Published on October 4, 2008 in Facebook, Law and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: Facebook, State Department, twitter.

State Dept. Information Is Now on Twitter:

Personally I think this is pretty cool.

Not only does the U.S. State Department have a Facebook Profile but they also post updates of their travel advisories to Twitter. Very handy for International traveling twitererers.

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The hot girl on twitter doesn't really want you either

Published on August 5, 2008 in Security and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: spyware, trojans, twitter.

Warning: Hackers Using Sexy Girls to Infect Twitter Users:

It was only a matter of time before twitter became corrupted too.

If some random hot chick starts following you on twitter there’s a good chance it could not only be spam but also a trick to get you download a cubic ass ton of spyware.

Usually they’ll only have one post directing you to a link. If you click the link your computer will explode killing you and everyone in your house. Ok, I made that part up. But it will download a bunch of trojans to your computer and I don’t mean the condoms.

Remember Uncle Trench’s sage advice the hot girl on (insert name of webiste here) doesn’t really want you.

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PSU cops on Twitter

Published on July 21, 2008 in Law and twitter by Trench Reynolds. View Comments Tags: Penn State University, police, twitter.

Twitter allows police to provide info:

Campus police at Penn State University will soon be using Twitter to keep the students informed of such things as parking restrictions, snow emergencies, speed detail enforcement areas, arrest statistics and activity reports.

Now you have no excuse for missing that 8:30AM class.

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