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Watch out! Don’t get banned.

Today when I reading blog post on Chris Garrett’s blog, noticed that he blog about one of the twitterer that he is following was banned by Twitter! I am not sure whether you heard about this incident happen around your friend?

There are several reason from support there about why this happen:

1. You’ve followed a large number of people in a short amount of time
2. Only a small number of followers compared to number of people you’re following
3. The updates consist mainly of links and not personal updates
4. Large number of users blocking the profile and writing in with spam complaints

After read through the reason, I random browse through the twitter profile at people that I am following. I found that almost 50% of the people is doing what I’ve mentioned above!

Are you Spamming twitter?

We can understand that this definitely happen to those new twitterer like me. After I registered my twitter account, I start following those techie guys to know what they are doing all the time. As a new user, I don’t expect many followers, and for sure the difference between my “followers” (9 person) and “following“(38 person) is quite huge. Sometime, we want to announce our new blog post to our followers by using links rather than personal updates. The only reason why I still alive in twitter is because I never get blame or complaint from my twitter neighbor.

Don’t Spam your Twitter!

After read the possible reason to get banned from Twitter, I’ve decided to disfollow those inactive twitter members at AhTim twitter’s friends page. I expect active twitterer to post at least 1 message in a week including their personal updates. Hance, now I am following 6 people with 9 followers.

Hopefully you too review your twitter profile and don’t get banned from Twitter after you’ve put a lot of effort in!

[Source: Chris Garrett]

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What’s New?

Refer to my previous guest post at LiewCF blog about Mozilla Prism, Mozilla developer is developing the new engine for it’s Mozilla Firefox 3. But never thought that Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 has been release so early before my vacation to Shanghai! But bear in mind that this is a developer preview release and it is being made available for testing purposes only.

New Mozilla Firefox 3 features

According to the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 release notes, it was rebuild based on Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform which has been under development for the past 27 months!

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues.

Further more, it is ready for more security, easier to use, more personal, improved platform for developer, and improved performance in this version.

So, without waiting until I come back from vacation, I’ve download Firefox 3 Beta1 immediately and evaluate it.

My two cents

I am so impressed by the latest feature as below: (more…)

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Our vacation to Shanghai !

My wife and I are going to start our vacation to Shanghai few hours later. This is the first time for us to travel overseas together since get married. We are so exciting and look forward for the happy moments in Shanghai

We will depart on this afternoon to KLIA and come back home on 2 December 2007 night. So I might not be able to update my blog until come back home. So what happen to my blog post? I had prepared some post to publish during this period, and hopefully you continue to visit and support AhTim.com

I hope I can snap more beautiful photos with my Olympus mju410 (all weather proof camera) and share with you all. So please bless me a wonderful vacation and come back in safe. I just did a weather forecast search, and you know the lowest temperature is 7′ celcius! Cold~~

Shanghai city, I am coming…..

PS: You can spy me at AhTim twitter page if my hotlink line can send twitter text from Shanghai.

My Shanghai vacation schedule plan: (more…)

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What is Flock ?

Flock is more than a normal web browser, so called a social web browser that based on the open source project Mozilla with web 2.0 interface

Why it can be called as a social browser? Because of its integrated with many social networking and social media services such as flickr, twitter, del.icio.us, etc. Flock changing the purpose of a browser from a non-integrated window into the web and bringing your favorite social applications one step closer.

Why must use Flock ?

I would say Flock 1.0 is a very useful web browser for bloggers or advance Internet users. You could control most of the internet services that you need at a glance. For example, you can reach friends across multiple networks at Twitter or share photo at Flickr without come out from your Flock browser. Futher more, you could access to your feeds and blog editor within the browser itself. Cool isn’t it?

One of the feature that impressed me very much was the Me.dium extension. (more…)

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