First, don’t forget to PREDICTIFY how many text-messages my 14yr-old daughter had on her last month’s cell phone bill for your chance to win your choice of $10 gift certificate. Contest is open until this Friday.
Now, onto today’s banality.
I saw this on Twitter just now (don’t know what Twitter is? I’ve written about it a few times)
And then I saw Snackiepoo’s reply:
so I figured… maybe I should check out my “follow cost“.
And? I’m still in the dark as to what this really means. Let me think a little bit. 7. 12. 7 point 8 oh. twelve point six-five. milliscobles. hmmm. *scratches head*
Wait a second. It says “last 100 updates”. Does that mean I’m going to die!??!?! GAH!
OHHH! That “per day” down there probably means something. I think it means “updates per day”. Ok, that helps. WOW I can’t believe I average 12 updates per day for last 100 updates (8 days I guess). That does seem a little annoying. Or it would if it were measuring updates from people OTHER than me.
I’m thinking it would be cool if the Twitter interface (I use twhirl) could tell you this info when you decide to follow.
One thing I DON’T like are those tools that require you to enter in your twitter username and password because to me – they’re just too dangerous. Fortunately this one doesn’t require a username and password to get your info, and even when you select “tweet your follow cost”, it does The Right Thing and brings you to twitter.com’s page with a pre-filled tweet box. Way to go, guys!
I’ve already changed my password a few times after getting lulled into some seemingly “cool” new toy and then realizing “DUH!” They probably are just gathering twitter usernames and passwords, and THEN they can store that password, then monitor your activity, then later on try that password on your blog, your work accounts, your bank accounts, anything and everything since it’s possible you use the same password for something else.
Yeah, I’m a little paranoid. In fact, I wonder if YOU’RE even reading this. You could be a robot for all I know.
