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Twitter Follower Count Error?
A glitch is causing some Twitterers to have surprising gains of thousands of new followers. Twitter users that have gained hundreds or thousands of new subscribers from the error in the last 24 to 48 hours just started showing up on Twitterholic, a website that ranks Twitterers by followers, friends and updates. Here are a few of the big jumps. The jumps occured over the last day or two. Jelijah: Jumped from 5 followers to 1,803 followers even though he hasn’t updated in a month. Brad: Jumped from 51 followers to 2,988 followers. Bill HR: Jumped from 25 followers to 2,974 followers. David Moldawer: Jumped from 41 followers to 1,764 followers. TechCrunch: Jumped from 1,942 followers 3,358 followers. Brendan Borlase: Jumped from 30 followers to 1,676 followers. Sandino Araico S.: Jumped from 77 followers to 1,429 followers. Ernesto Pena: Jumped from 33 followers to 856 followers. If you go to Twitterholic you can see how these Twitterer’s follower counts jumped from a few followers to thousands of followers overnight. These are just of few of large jumps in follower counts. There are probably many others. This error follows on the recent news about an error that made some people’s private tweets public on Twittervision. The privacy error wasn’t an error on Twitter.com or an error in the Twitter API. It had to do with the way Twittervision was using Twitter’s API. However, this latest problem involving erroneous follower counts is probably a minor bug or glitch that Twitter will need to remedy. Posted in Twitter Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com
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Some Private Tweets Being Displayed in Public
Earler today concerns were raised here and here that the tweets of Twitter users who elected to keep their posts private had been exposed. Biz Stone has posted about the Twitter glitch on the Twitter blog. He says there was no privacy glitch. What happened was the popular Twittervision website was showing protected tweets because David Troy’s Twittervision program was not properly checking Twitter’s API to see if there were any “protected” tweets. So what the heck are they talking about? Some Twitter users willingly provided their usernames and passwords to a mash-up project called Twittervision (a service unaffiliated with Twitter except that it accesses our API). They did this so they could be part of the fun and access more Twittervision features. However, Twittervision was not checking to see if any of these folks had marked their updates as “protected.” Starting today David Troy, the creator of Twittervision, tells us he’ll make sure to check for this. As a reminder, please note that mash-ups and other experimental projects built using the Twitter API are totally awesome and fun but developed by folks outside of Twitter. So, we don’t necessarily test them all out. If privacy is a concern, we remind you to refrain from supplying your Twitter username and password to other people, sites, or services. That explains the privacy problem. It was smart of Biz Stone to quickly blog about what was happening. Unfortunately, for those with private tweets that went out they may have ended up in Google’s cache. Even if you kept your tweets private and you were not using Twittervision but one of your Twitter friends was your private tweets may still have been exposed. The Guardian’s Bobbie Johnson explains in an update to her earlier post. UPDATE: It turns out that basically your information wasn’t private if any one of your friends had given their details to Twittervision; effectively it was able to go and read private data you’d been given access to, and then build separate user pages for those people. Dave Troy responds: “There was no “glitch” in Twitter’s API (outside of the scaling issues we’ve all witnessed) but rather in the cumulative interaction between our system and theirs.” I’ve now changed the headline from “Twitter glitch leaves ‘private’ users exposed to the world’ to the current version. The glitch was apparently first noticed here by a blog called Twitter Facts a couple weeks ago. In that post the error appears on TwitterMaps. It is possible that this same error — not properly checking Twitter’s API for protected tweets — is occuring on other Twitter apps. Posted in Twitter Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com
Lucasfilm to Provide Star Wars Video Clips for Fans
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Lucasfilm is going to put video clips from Star Wars on its website tomorrow that fans will be able to use on social networking websites. Lucasfilm is also going to place — or link to — video mixing software from Eyespot Corp. of San Diego that will allow fans to modify the Star Wars and combine them with other audio and video clips. In essence, Lucasfilm is going to legitimize and streamline a pastime that has become increasingly popular on the Web. A search for “Star Wars” on YouTube, for example, turns up some 98,000 results, many of them videos drawing on original content from the movies. But on third-party video sites, Lucasfilm executives “can’t control it, and they can’t monetize it,” says Jim Kaskade, Eyespot’s chief executive officer. While Lucasfilm could fight what amounts to the theft of its property, it has now decided to take the opposite tack. In doing so, it is tackling an issue that faces all media companies today: how to keep some semblance of control over intellectual property in the digital age. “We see what’s going on at YouTube,” says Jeffrey Ulin, senior director for distribution and business affairs at Lucasfilm, who says the company began to think about allowing mash-ups last summer. “We see what’s going on out there on the Web generally. And we wanted fans to come to Starwars.com as the center of fan activity.” Currently, he estimates, the site attracts about two million unique monthly visitors; he anticipates the new content will boost traffic significantly. The clips, which run up to 60 seconds long, will assemble memorable moments from the movies, grouped under categories like “Leia Confronts Vader” and “The Lost Limbs” — the latter a collection of various characters’ limbs getting the chop. One category devoted to a much-maligned lizard-like character from the three “Star Wars” prequels urges fans: “Don’t be shy. Here’s your chance to edit Jar Jar.” Lucasfilm has been a savvy suporter of online fan videos as you might remember from the Stephen Colbert Jedi Video Editing Challenge. A current Star Wars search on YouTube returns 92,000+ results. The WSJ said Lucasfilm is expecting a traffic boost from posting the video clips and that is very likely as video sharing fans stop by to check out and use the clips. Other posts about the video clips and Eyespot can be found at NewTeeVee, TechFold, Digital Alchemy and Techmeme. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com
Local News Hits YouTube
YouTube’s importance as a news source continues to grow. TVWeek reports that Hearst-Argyle Television has established channel for five of its local television stations. Here are the five stations’ YouTube channels. www.youtube.com/wcvbtv www.youtube.com/wmurtv www.youtube.com/kcratv www.youtube.com/wtaetv www.youtube.com/wbal The embed feature has been left on so bloggers and social network users will be able to embed these videos. TVWeek also notes that videos are hard to find on YouTube but the local stations should be able to get the word out on their websites and people will be able to go over to YouTube and subscribe to the channel. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com
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