Over the last couple of days I’ve gotten a few direct message from people and businesses that just didn’t look right, with links attached. I obviously didn’t click on them for this reason however since then I notice a few more so let it might be help to make a posting on the matter.
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Despite perception to the contary Twitter is growing. New stats released show 50 million tweets a day from users.
New stats released yesterday by Twitter revealed that users now send out more than 50 million tweets per day. That means every second, 600 tweets fly through Twitter’s network. If you’ve ever followed a trending topic ex. [...]

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Yesterday there was a big shower of snow but yeah no big deal right! Wrong, we had gridlock all over Dublin; it took over 5 hours for large numbers of people to get home. Dublin Bus cancelled services, their website went down, so where do we get our real time info when something like this [...]

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Over the last 10 years the way we travel has been revolutionised by the web. Many of us waved goodbye to high-street travel agents, newspaper classifieds and hours spent staring at endless Teletext pages, and logged on to new hi-tech services.
As the web began taking hold of the public’s imagination, the burst of sites and [...]

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This holiday season is the first chance for most retailers to test the selling power of Facebook and Twitter, and one early survey shows the strategy is working.
A survey conducted Dec. 4 to 7 showed 28 percent of shoppers who have already started buying gifts were influenced by social media, according to a report issued [...]

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