I need to say to you sorry. Yesterday you noticed on my Twitter Account a spam of “[Just Published]” tweets. It happened, indeed, that I imported old posts from former blog to this one. Doing this, the WP-to-Twitter plug-in reconized the imported post as new ones and sent out a notification for each imported post. Why did it happen? Simply because when you import posts on wordpress they are loaded in the database and flagged as “published” in order to be shown on your blog. Changing the status, WP-To-Twitter recognizes them as new posts and create the related tweet. I’ve been lucky (if you want to say like that) because my Twitter account is not deep linked to other social networks (except for LinkedIN :(() so the spam-propagation has been limited. Another reason-why for paying attention to social media syndacation. So if you use a plug-in or some features to push your blog updating consider to deactivate the plug-in/feature before importing posts. Once again, sorry for having flooded you. Regards Simone
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Uno stralcio di netiquette 2.o in pillole proposto da B.L. Ochman su AdvertisingAge. Non c’è sicuramente la scoperta dell’acqua calda, ma a qualcuno servirebbe ricordarlo… 1. Sii umano…. Don’t use programs that auto-follow anyone who follows you on Twitter. It’s a social network, not a robot network. Don’t broadcast messages on Twitter using bots. You’ll just damage your brand, personal or corporate. 2. …Poco è bello se lo sai fare bene… […]. Sending less e-mails is polite 2.0. If you must have the last word, change the subject line to “TTYL, end” so the person knows they don’t need to read your 10th damn “goodbye” e-mail. If you’re a sending a pitch, (business service, PR, report, etc.) don’t address the e-mail “Hey,” “Hey again,” “Yo,” “All,” “Dear [ ],” “Dear Blogger,” or “Dear First_Name.” Don’t say “Dear Mr Ochman.” Say “Dear B.L.” or “Hi B.L.” if you don’t know me, and are too lazy to look at my photo on my blog or website, and are not sure if I’m male or female. I think I speak for most people when I say that I prefer informality to a sex-change operation. Check Snopes.com before you send an e-mail about the inventor of penicillin who gave an apple to someone’s daughter, or whatever that stupid e-mail was about that went around recently. Use “Bcc” — not open lists — for e-mails sent to several people. Do not forward e-mail without deleting the name and e-mail and other extraneous information from the person who sent it first. [pare impossibile, ma c’è chi lo fa ancora!, NdR] Do not send freaking chain letters or anything that says “Forward this to 10 people in the next 10 minutes or your left ear will fall off.” Ever. And don’t send petitions in e-mail — all of the legitimate ones are online. Send a link. [e chi non ne è oggetto quasi quotidianamente?] 3. Apprendi il dono della sintesi Do not send endless messages via Facebook, etc. You’re not that interesting. 4. Sii paziente! Don’t IM unless you have something to say that I might actually want or need to know and that really can’t wait for an e-mail response.
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