Posts in 'Internet Life'
Google search engine: is indexing everything, but how accurate? Strange things happening on IconArchive.com
Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
No, really, it’s strange when you see that Google is suggesting you some results that are not relevant at all to your search! I was searching for a ß icon on iconarchive.com with Google’s Custom search engine, but instead of getting relevant results to my query, I got strange results, that only computers understand. It [...]
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Twitter: Downtime has ended but some features don’t work (following/unfollowing/status updates)
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
Twitter is up and running again, but some essential features, such as the following, unfollowing, status updating, sending direct messages, all are still not working. It seems Twitter is facing a very difficult issue, that happened too fast, taking on assault Twitter’s servers. Hopefully tomorrow everything will be fine, or too many users will get [...]
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Web Buzzz: Twitter is becoming slow and inaccessible. Often connection timeouts
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
These days Twitter has become inaccessible for me too many times. I’m wondering if those guys at Twitter are doing something to improve the system, because in my case, I am getting really pissed of those continuous timeouts. If you’re getting this notice “The connection was reset while trying to connect twitter.com” , you’re most [...]
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Web buzzz: How to check if a person you’re following on Twitter, is following you
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
It seems there are no official methods on Twitter to check if a person you’re following is also following you in return. However, here’s what I found on Twitter: In addition to public updates and @replies, you can send followers private tweets, called direct messages, too. If someone is following you, you can send a [...]
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Web Buzzz: Twitter changes appearance!
Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Dragos.
Twitter changes it’s appearance. Only the homepage has been affected. IMHO it looks more professional, but I liked more the old version as it looked more simple, brighter and juicy. But, hope the others like it