Last week, Exxon had a weird situation on its hands: a fan set up an "official" Twitter profile and tweeted on behalf of the company. Suddenly, there are two mysteries: In $4.00 per gallon gas world, how does Exxon still have fans? And how can we ever be sure a person online is who they say they are?
Get Your “This is My Profile Face” Shirt
We’ve decided to start a new fun thing here at Ignite Social Media. Limited edition social media shirts. We’re geeks. You’re a geek. We’re proud of it (well, most of the time…). Hopefully you are, too. So let’s wear our social media geekiness, not just on our sleeve, but on our whole upper body.
Facebook Opens Sandbox For New Profile Design
After all the hubbub earlier this week, it seemed possible that Facebook would roll out its new profile design in time for the three-day weekend. Instead, the company has taken the half-step of opening a beta sandbox to developers.
Facebook’s New Profile Design
Come on, you know you have those Facebook friends whose profile pages look like their MySpace exploded: their profile takes forever to load, their page is six “page downs” long (well, longer, but you’ve never actually made it to the bottom) and they never met an app they didn’t like. Well, Facebook is trying to do something about that.
Phony Facebook Profile Lands Man In Jail
A Moroccan computer engineer has been sentenced to prison for three years for creating a phony Facebook profile that impersonated a member of the country’s royal family.The sentence was handed down on Friday by a court in Casablanca, which found the 26 year old, Fouad Mourtada guilty of "usurping the identity of of HRH Prince Moulay Rachid." The court also fined Mourtada $1,300.
MySpace Profile Lands School Cop In Hot Water
An on-campus police officer for a Florida middle school is under a criminal investigation because of his MySpace account.
One of the people on his friends list had a link on their profile that led to an Internet porn site. Gulf Middle School resource officer John Nohejl is being investigated by the New Port Richey Police Department and the Florida attorney general’s cyber crimes unit for making the site available to underage children.
Facebook To Create Profile Cleanup Tool
The economy’s plunge, famine, war – they’ve all got to stop. Facebook’s more immediate concern is its ongoing MySpace-ification, though, and so the company plans to introduce a tool that will help users clean up their profiles.
Using “Click Here” for a Natural Link Profile
Sint Smeding IM’d me tonight, pointing me to this post on his blog, which basically is the Dutch version of what
Facebook Public Profile Resources
Yesterday’s news of the day was the buzz surrounding Facebook making profiles public to the major search engines. We did predict this enhancement by Facebook earlier this summer when Rumors of Google purchasing Facebook were flying around. Here’s the official word from Facebook:
Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to
Facebook to Expose Profile Info
Facebook announced that they are going to begin exposing a minimal amount of user profile information to people who are not logged-in to the service, including allowing the info to be crawled and indexed by search engines.