Smart and not so smart uses of Twitter

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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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  1. hair loss
    September 8, 2009 at 6:13 am

    Twitter always create new things for there subscribers. Like this one.

  2. The Web Product Manager
    September 8, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Actually it is a cool idea :-) it reminds me a bit of the digg-screensaver.

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