Suicide prevention for social networks
SOCIAL network sites including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace could be scanned for depressed and “at risk” users under a bold new program to combat youth suicide.
The rise in popularity in social networking could allow authorities to spot users at risk and offer help, researchers believe.
Researches from New Zealand’s Victoria University say they have devised a program that scans posts to identify key words that people aged between 18 and 24 are using.
A high proportion of key words could mean that the blogger is at risk of depression, suicide, self-harm or harming others, the researches believe.
“Our technology picks up words or phrases such as ‘depressed’, or ‘I don’t want to live any more’ or ‘I want to kill somebody’,” Dr Tiong-Thye Goh said.
“We analyse the database of phrases and rank them according to frequency of use – if certain key words are used a lot it is likely that the particular person may be emotionally depressed.”
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Twitter – Now you can buy followers
AS if your Facebook friends list didn’t make you feel lonely enough, now you’re bombarded with Twitter mates who seem to have racked up 10,000 followers before you’ve worked out what a hash tag is for.
There’s no need to panic – there’s nothing wrong with you. Those that matter really do care about your commute.
Just rest easy in the knowledge that all the others are buying their friends.
Yes, just as it was with other social networking sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg, web traffic and promotion company uSocial.net says it has had a “massive response” to offering Twitter users “follower packages” if they are having trouble attaining them on their own.
The packages are aimed at businesses and start with 1000 followers ($US87) and range up to 100,000 ($US3479).
From a business point of view, uSocial.net claims each follower is worth “about 10c” to a business.
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Twitter users warned of new phishing scam
TWITTER has released an official warning about a phishing scam that has duped users into handing over their passwords.
As many as 13,000 users could have been affected.
Twitter staff were helping users reclaim control of their accounts after falling for the scam, a message on the site’s blog said today.
“We are currently pushing a password reset on accounts we believe may have been caught in a phishing scam,” the message read.
“Please exercise your best judgment when thinking about releasing your username and password to third parties.”
The warning didn’t include details of the name or methods of the scam, but an update from PC Tools today said users had been duped by a plot called “Twittercut”.
A PC Tools spokesperson said the site had been flooded by messages promising users a quick boost in followers and directing them to a fraudulent website.
The messages appeared to have started from an account called @twittercut, which has since been disabled.
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Twitter insults exchanged between Kyle Sandilands and Dave Hughes – NEWS.com.au
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Twitter insults exchanged between Kyle Sandilands and Dave Hughes
NEWS.com.au, Australia CONSIDERING the concerns over cyber bullying, loudmouth Kyle Sandilands and comedian Dave Hughes hardly set a good example yesterday by waging a raging Twitter tirade against one other. The pair have battled publicly and privately for two years. … Hughesy and Kyle fight it out on Twitter |
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Web service Twitter proposes TV competition series – The Associated Press
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Web service Twitter proposes TV competition series
The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter, the Web site that asks what everybody's doing, says it wants to be doing a TV series. The social-networking service said Monday it has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an … Twitter reality TV series announced Twitter working on TV series, according to reports Twitter Heads To Hollywood, Plans To Develop TV Show |
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