My interview on Fox TV News about how I used social media during the tsunami in Japan.

There’s a new sleazy techniques that spammers are using to get an account with lot of Twitter followers, and got 20,000 a day using the “Charlie Sheen” effect. The trick? Create a charliesheen account, but replace the lowercase “L” with and uppercase “I”.

LinkedIn just added a feature that allows you to “hide” status updates from people who post every time they add a new condiment to their sandwich.

Yesterday, Twitter helped to save a 1 year old girl who was kidnapped and in serious danger. Here’s the best Twitter story ever, in its short version.

Yesterday, Twitter may have helped to solve an Amber Alert, and saved a 1 year old girl who was kidnapped and in serious danger. Here’s the best Twitter story ever.

Bit.ly results are actually public, and I’ll show you how to see how many clicks your competition is getting. I’ll also explain why you may not want them seeing your clicks.

LinkedIn and Twitter added a feature that allows you to cross-post, but it just embeds functionality that other software already had. Here are some limitations of LinkedIn status updates, and some features they should implement.

Summary in under 140 characters:
If you go to someone’s Twitter page, you can now mark them as a spammer (under block xxxxxxxxxx)

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This is a departure from my normal LinkedIn tips, as I will begin to discuss wider topics in social media. However, this is just a rant – it’s my personal letter to Twitter to tell them how to speed up their site and stop giving us the Fail Whale.