Submit a Story!

Vint Cerf's Twitter Account Was A Fake

 
Despite the recent MySpace-hoax suicide tragedy, online impersonation and fictitious identities remain a legally vague area. (link)

Tags:

Related Content
AOL Gets More Social With Renovation of Bebo (But There’s Much More to Come)
kara.allthingsd.com 12/10/2008 — This morning, AOL will launch an updated look for its Bebo social networking property, with a new “social inbox” profile for its users. The inbox, which you can see below in the old and new versions, essentially gives its users a ...
US Social Network Ad Spending Growth Lowered
emarketer.com 12/10/2008 — The medium will still grow, but there are many obstacles to overcome.
Massive Layoffs at Yahoo
search.twitter.com 12/10/2008 — Massive Layoffs at Yahoo
eMarketer Cuts 2009 Social Network Ad Spending Estimates 28%(NWS)
alleyinsider.com 12/10/2008 — Research firm eMarketer now says ad spending on social networks will grow 10.2% to reach $1.3 billion in 2009. In a previous estimate, eMarketer's Excel spreadsheet spit out $1.8 billion. The numbers are largely arbitrary, but they do reflect ...
The Shorty Awards - The best producers of short content on Twitter in 2008
shortyawards.com 12/11/2008 — Shorty Awards Home The best producers of short* content in 2008 *140 characters or less, on Twitter The Shorty Awards honor the world's top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you'd like until midnight December 31st. ...
Should InformationWeek Follow Anyone On Twitter?InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/9/2008
Over on FriendFeed, we're having a discussion of a mystery : Why does the Salon.com Twitter account has fewer than 300 followers? It's a popular Web magazine -- why don't more people follow it on Twitter?
An easy way to port Twitter buddies to FriendFeedCNET News.com 12/9/2008
Want to get a quick list of Twitter buddies on FriendFeed? Check out Twitter-to-FriendFeed sync. A simple Web app that cross references for you.
Fake Vint Cerf tweets link spam on TwitterThe Register 12/10/2008
'I get so much electronic chatter as it is', Cerf tells El Reg A Twitter account in the name of internet luminary Vint Cerf has been suspended after miscreants abused it to send link spam.…
Watching layoffs in real-time, on TwitterCNET News.com 12/10/2008
A sad day for Yahoo and the Web in general is revealed on Twitter.
How Twitter's competitors do what it doesn'tCNET News.com 12/11/2008
Is Twitter the bland and boring micro-blog? Don Reisinger takes a look at alternatives that offer features not found in Twitter.