I hope Twitter stays independent, it’s better that way. Will you still use Twitter if there are ads? I guess you won’t see any if you are using a client or app. Or would you prefer premium accounts?

Personally, I don’t mind 1 or 2 small link ads on the sidebar. It really depends on how they implement it.

A large number of Twitter profiles were infected with a worm from StalkDaily, a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that will make you auto-tweet recommendations to the site. You can get infected by visiting StalkDaily.com (don’t do it!), as well as by opening the user profiles of other infected accounts within Twitter.

But if you are infected, you can follow the steps below from Twittercism to remove it.

1. In your browser, clear your cache and empty all of your cookies. (This can be found in your settings.)
2. Log out of TweetDeck or any external applications you are using.
3. Check the URL and location areas of your profile (in Settings/Account on Twitter.com) for evidence of any malicious scripts. It’ll be obvious – something you haven’t added to these areas yourself. If you find anything, remove it. (Note: there was nothing in my profile, but I was still hit. Taking the rest of these steps still fixed the issue.)
4. On Twitter.com, change your password.
5. Log back in. It should be okay. If so, log back into TweetDeck et al.
6. Go back and delete any tweets sent by you recommending StalkDaily. This is important.
7. Report @stalkdaily in a tweet to Twitter’s @spam account as follows: @spam @stalkdaily

Twittercism also has a great post about how to protect yourself from future Twitter hacks/worms.

I think most of us know about Twitter’s famous ‘Fail Whale‘ yea? Here’s something different.

via thenextweb.com

Twitter updates (tweets) are used to communicate. Let’s say everything from telling your friends what you are doing to political opinions. Mashable has complied a list of 10 extraordinary tweets, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more.

1. Marriage Proposal

2. Tweeting from the womb

5. The Egyptian arrest case

For the full list (10), please read Mashable’s article.

Firstly, I apologize and is ashamed that the 1st post on Nifty Little Web is about Twitter. And this is probably something that most of you have already seen.

But anyway, “Twitter in Plain English” is a short video that explains what Twitter is and how it works. The video is made by Common Craft. You can follow them on Twitter @commoncraft.

Oh and you can follow me on Twitter @88michael. #shamelessselfpromotion