According to a report by The New York Times it looks like Elon Musk shares an opinion that myself and some others in domaining have held on Twitter handles. The good ones are worth money. Mike first wrote back in 2009 about a TechCrunch story that said, “Twitter handles are quickly becoming as desirable as domains”. A new service just lauched this week called Tweexchange, a … [Read more...]
Twitter to start testing Fleets
Twitter is getting in on the "stories" side of social media, with a new feature called, Fleets. Fleets will not go out to the network, be able to be searched and cannot be embedded. TechCrunch reported: Twitter is one of the last major social platforms to test out a Stories format. First popularized by Snapchat, you can now find a version of Stories across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, … [Read more...]
15 NFL teams have had their Twitter account hacked
Welcome to Super Bowl Week! It looks like 15 NFL teams have had their Twitter accounts hacked. @MySportsUpdate broke the news. Reading the last tweet from @packers it seems to be from Our Mine Hi, we're Back (OuَrMine).We are here to Show people that everything is hackableto improve your accounts securityContact us: contact@ourmine.orgFor security services visit: ourmine. orgFollow @OurM1ne … [Read more...]
Hold up on that whole Twitter deleting inactive accounts
Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. So it turns out that this was really going to be EU centric on the deleting of accounts and now they need to come up with a plan to memorialize accounts before they will even start the process of deleting inactive accounts. … [Read more...]
Scandals, Crypto, Emojis – A look back at 2017
2017 is wrapping up and it was quite the interesting year in domaining. It was a year when many heard of crypto for the first time and then played the part of crypto expert. It was the year of the emoji, one excellent guide written by Michael Cyger and emoji domains were off to the races. Domaining has become to a certain degree a collection of echo chambers. Those seeking confirmation bias … [Read more...]
Social Media companies on notice in Germany as new legislation passes
Back in March we wrote about a proposed German law to fine social media companies that did not remove hate speech. The New York Times reported that the law has passed and things are about to get tricky for social media companies doing business in Germany. There is plenty of speech that is obviously wrong to any reasonable person, but there might be some instances where things are gray. That … [Read more...]
A list of what people spammed Rick Schwartz this week
So the @DomainKing stirred things up this past week asking people to spam him their domains on Twitter. Rick started out with a $5k max and moved onto $25K and then finished up with $100K max. Someone here might see something they like and they can post a comment, I will track down the Twitter account and let them know if there is interest. Here is what was being sent to Rick at various … [Read more...]