Christa's dashboard

A comment on the problem "Block Followers?" in Secondbrain:

Thanks for the followup! Looking forward to the new features! – Christa, on July 02, 2008 15:19

Christa reported a problem in Secondbrain on June 30, 2008 17:58:

Block Followers?

Is there anyway to block people from following you? I don't want spammers or creepy people or just people I don't know following me and right now there is no way to stop anyone from following you that I can see.

A comment on the question "How do I add an Atom or RSS feed?" in Secondbrain:

I have a self hosted Wordpress site and a Blogger hosted site with my own domain name. I would like to import from both. – Christa, on June 30, 2008 17:43

Christa replied on June 30, 2008 17:40 to the question "How do I add an Atom or RSS feed?" in Secondbrain:

I have a self hosted Wordpress site and would love to be able to import from there!

Christa started following the question "How do I add an Atom or RSS feed?" in Secondbrain.

Christa replied on June 03, 2008 14:18 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Makes sense, thanks for your response!!

A comment on the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to help! – Christa, on June 03, 2008 14:17

Christa replied on June 02, 2008 02:08 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

By searching I meant using that search function at the top of the screen when logged into twitter that says "name or location" with a search button. Searching for my publicly known identity brings up not only mine but also the fakes and their last statuses. Since I am the only one using my identity and have been building it since the 90s in my industry, it looks ugly for my reputation.
Honestly, I don't know what purpose it serves to save that info after an account is deleted for public viewing. I could understand retaining info on the backend for account retrieval, but not for public searches.

I have my own legal options going with what the 3rd party is up to using my identity, as well as take down notices for copyrighted images. I just hope Twitter can work with me to clear up all the left over garbage for accounts that don't exist anymore & I didn't create and hopefully consider implementing additional security measures for new accounts that would benefit the service and their users.

Christa replied on June 01, 2008 20:30 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

I wish it was that easy. Some were deleted by the original creator before I got to them thereby leaving the tweets forever archived in the search for my name. Regardless, it is ugly and derogatory. What really irritates me is that someone can create these accounts using my name and email and write whatever they want and pretend like it is me doing it.

If nothing else, having no email verification means you can't track or stop spammers or bad people from doing bad things as they don't even need a valid email address, or an email that they have access to. While the extra step doesn't stop everyone, it does stop quite a few. More hoops to jump through would deter abuse and also lighten some load on the system.

If the email verification seems like something that isn't going to be implemented anytime soon (and why not?) then I expect Twitter to respond to the impersonation attempts and remove the invalid accounts from the search results. Even if they don't want to get involved supporting their TOS (number four states "You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users." with impersonating being the issue I am having) then they could at least delete the stuff from showing up in their search results.

If you don't implement security measures then you should enforce policies. It's just frustrating when I can't get help or a response from a company I used to highly recommend and support.

Christa started following the idea "Privacy settings should allow limits on who sees your list of friends" in Brightkite.

Christa started following the idea "Public/Private toggle" in Brightkite.

Christa started following the problem "When I try to share notes I make on Brightkite with Twitter, they don't appear on Twitter. Why?!" in Brightkite.

Christa started following the idea "Checking *out*" in Brightkite.

Christa started following the idea "Check-out Option. Privacy for Home Address" in Brightkite.

Christa replied on June 01, 2008 16:37 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Mine doesn't work either. I signed up for BrightKite after being disgusted with Twitter (as a service and a company) and was going to send my BrightKite updates to Twitter to so my followers would see I moved services and hopefully it would help to convince them to follow me over. However, even after inputting all of my Twitter info into BrightKite, it never sends my updates to Twitter.

C started following the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?" in Twitter.

C started following the problem "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service" in Twitter.

C started following the question "How can I let someone to follow me but not vice versa?" in Twitter.

C started following the problem "at random it unfollows people, won't let me follow them back, won't let me unfollow other people, occasionally puts random people in my stream. other people have reported similar problems. Yeah, I'm lazy so I copied that from jesse, but it doesn't change the fact that I have the same damned problem. Ahhhhhhh!" in Twitter.

C reported a problem in Twitter on June 01, 2008 15:16:

Fake accounts being created with my email addresses

Twitter doesn't require email verification and someone keeps using my emails addresses to signup for fake twitter accounts in my name and post false statements. When I finally find out about them and delete them they stay stuck in search results on the site. I am tired of people using my name and email address to create and post to accounts in using my identity. I have used the forms to contact Twitter but no one ever responds.