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People are bitching up a storm about Twitter dropping followers. Witness: Julia Roy: I am so pissed at twitter. why cant you get your act together? and we are all still loyal. twittering away. amazing. Joseph Jaffe: wow, Twitter messes up again....big time....they've somehow lost hundreds of followers for various people including me. COMMUNICATE IDIOTS!! Sarah Lane: Dear Twitter, give me my friends back, or I WILL …

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Jeffrey Zeldman is the founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog, a web design agency with offices in New York City and Philadelphia. Clients include Advertising Age, AIGA, and Amnesty International USA. …

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Susan Bratton is CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media. …

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Ian Schafer has figured out a way to monetize his Twitter feed. He's conducting an eBay auction, where the winning bidder will be allowed to co-opt the background on his Twitter page and turn it into ad space. This one-month sponsorship includes replacing of the existing background image with the image(s) of your choice, as well as replacement of my handsome photo with another image of your choice (ie. brand logo). I …

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Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus points out that Avenue A has no business claiming legal rights to the term "social influence marketing." Brian Morrissey of Adweek, in response to this says, "i must TM 'digitalia' before someone else gets to it." …

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Ariel Waldman has a problem with Twitter. The reality of Twitter is that they refuse to warn and/or ban people who use their service to “abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users” (to quote their forth line item on their TOS page). What does this mean? In short, anyone can use Twitter to consistently harass you and ruin search results for your identity and Twitter won’t execute any means …

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Stowe Boyd can't be bothered with long form come ons. So he invented the micro pitch, which he calls Twitpitch after Twitter, of course. I can't believe what a pain in the ass it still is to do something as basic as trying to schedule meetings with startups at a conference. All companies who would like to have a meeting with me, need to send me a Twittered description of the product. Yes, please Twitter it to me at …

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IsTwitterDown.com is a site with a singular purpose—to tell Twitterholics whether the service is down, or not. Right now, the answer is, "Yes," Twitter's down. …

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