The Twitter Blacklist

The Twitter Blacklist identifies all the idiots who Twitter spam and follow thousands of people in order to draw attention to themselves. I think it’s a really cool idea… I especially remember when I first joined Twitter and got all excited when so many people started following me, only to later realise what a bunch of self-obsessed, ego-driven idiots they are.

How do you know a person is a Twitter Spammer? The site gives a good ratio of identifying them by looking at how many people follow them vs. how many people they follow.

1:5 = twittercaster, 1:2 = notable, 1:1 socially healthy, 2:1 newbie or social climber, 5:1 twitter spammer. — evan

For those using Firefox, install Greasemonkey and then add in the Twitter Blacklist script.
There’s even an API for programmers so they can query if a certain user is on the blacklist.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Blacklist, Twitter

South Africa’s First Web 2.0 Radio DJ

Well, I think I made some new ground in terms of pushing South African Radio to new limits, even if it was only with the last hours of the KZN Muslim Community Radio Station, Radio Al-Ansaar. I host a show called “WIRED”, every Saturday during the Radio Station’s tenure which lasts about a month at a time (they’re still trying for a full license to operate all year long).

Anyway, the last few hours I was talking about occurred on Friday night , approaching the midnight hour and although I had enough material to keep the show going I though I should spruce it up by getting input from anybody on-line via Twitter and Facebook. Since the radio station also has audio streaming, this made it a bit easier to get a worldwide audience involved.

So I did get a lot of requests and dedications via Twitter and Facebook from places like Doha and London, this was exclusive of the SMS’s and telephone calls we were receiving throughout the show. So there you have it… South Africa’s first live Talk show with requests put in via Twitter and Facebook. I think other Radio station like East Coast Radio and 5fm should start doing the same. It’s easier, faster and you can definitely get a world-wide base of radio listeners inputting into your radio show LIVE.

I’m just assuming I’m the first one to do this, since I haven’t heard any other Radio DJ’s take requests via any Web 2.0 applications… but if I’m not the first, please let me know!

Let’s hope this is just taste of things to come for South African Radio. We can revolutionise the way we communicate on a mass scale! This can even be rolled out to TV shows.

Technorati Tags: Radio, Al-Ansaar, Alansaar, Twitter, Facebook, Talk Show, First, South African, Muhammad Karim, Wired

Twitter, Banned in Dubai?

Just got his bit of news from Techtree.

The message reads: “We apologise the site you are trying to visit
has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the
religious, cultural, political, and moral values of the United Arab
Emirates.”

Apparently Dubai has blocked the Twitter site, but there’s no indication as to why. There is speculation over governments seeing Twitter as a threat to their sovereignty, but come on. Firstly, this is Dubai, one of the most liberal places in the UAE, also, which self-respecting internet user won’t figure out all the anonymous browsing websites there are out there to get hold of twitter anyway?

This story is seriously dodgy.

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