I saw this coming… Since Skype was taken over by different fishy direct-marketing calls and weird “this is the business for you” chats, having Twitter serve as a platform to sell quasi-spam stuff is common sense. My ass!
Well, no more is it the meeting place for techies and geeks and some of us who are more creative are taking advantage.

To pin you it takes no more than a small option left unchecked in your profile: “Protect my updates” – Only let people whom I accept as friends read my updates. If this is checked, you WILL NOT be on the public timeline.

I’m GirlsGoneWild newest friend on Twitter because seconds after my latest update I was added through the public timeline. It’s a lot harder for any bot or marketer to grab your profile data if you stuff doesn’t get on the Twitter page. So if you want to be safe check that privacy button and don’t let those bots attack. The biggest drawback here is the fact that those not logged in or those who don’t have an account can’t read your updates anymore if they use your direct link. :|

Anyhow, since twitter faces alteration the least we could do is check the little radio button. I kindof like the service!

Follow/add me there @ http://twitter.com/danberte

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