07Sep

Smart and not so smart uses of Twitter

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

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More and more companies are using Twitter as an infrastructure to built new services on, most focussed on marketing related issues.

The latest one I stumbled upon is The Symbian Foundation’s Screen Saver that seems to pull in mentions of the word “symbian” from twitter and displays them on users screens.

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I can think of soooo many ways how this could backfire – I guess being a security consultant just makes me think in weird ways sometimes ;)

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  • Actually it is a cool idea :-) it reminds me a bit of the digg-screensaver.
  • Twitter always create new things for there subscribers. Like this one.
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