TagsTagsIn the past week or so I've noticed the rise of a new spammers' tactic on Twitter, and unfortunately they're using LGF to help them do it. Whoever's running this spam campaign is retweeting my posts about LGF articles and Pages, but changing the URLs to point to spam sites or ...
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Bookmarklet, Twitter
I can see from our registered user database that quite a few LGF readers have connected their LGF accounts to their Twitter accounts, allowing them to use our Twitter app "LGF Connect" to retweet links to our articles. (And note: you can give LGF Connect a try even without being a ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
As I was working with the code for our new LGF Connect feature that lets you post to Twitter with Ajax, I realized there was no reason to limit its usage to people with LGF accounts. Instead, I could do the standard Twitter authorization dance (basically the same code you ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API, LGF Connect
Now that we have the infrastructure for the linking of LGF accounts to Twitter accounts, we have another new feature to announce: our retweet buttons (at the top right of each post) now use the LGF Connect app to post your tweet directly on Twitter, using Ajax instead of pop-up ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
We have a brand new feature tonight in LGF Pages, something I mentioned as "coming soon" in the previous Tech Note: auto-posting to Twitter, by linking your LGF account to your Twitter account. Background: one of the groovy things you can do with Twitter is to give third party "apps" access ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
There are some new features in LGF Pages, our simple but powerful blogging system for registered users: 1) Pages now have all the same sharing tools as LGF front page articles; a Facebook Like button, a Google +1 button, a retweet button for Twitter, and a "Share" button that pops up ...
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Fox News is claiming that their @foxnewspolitics Twitter account was hacked last night, when someone posted a series of tweets claiming that the President had been assassinated. Click to enlarge These messages were only deleted within the past hour -- Fox News left them online all night long and most of the ...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has hit on a creative way to use Twitter for political purposes -- by posting fake retweets pretending to be from Democrats, along with a link to a website called "demsplanforamerica.com" that is nothing but a blank page. Get it? The GOP: always finding new ways ...
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republican Party, Twitter, Impersonation, Idiocy
Rep. Anthony Weiner has announced his resignation, so the media feeding frenzy has subsided. But even though Weiner admitted to his "sexting" transgressions, his behavior wasn't the only creepy thing about this scandal; for months, Weiner was stalked online by a group of extreme right wingers who may have created fake ...
Anthony Weiner, Scandal, Resignation, Stalking, Harassment, Twitter
Announcing a new feature for registered users: if you have a Twitter account, you can now save your Twitter username in your LGF Account Settings page (it's near the bottom of the page). Once you enter the Twitter name and save settings, a link will appear in your LGF user profile ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Social Media, LGF Pages
I'd like to draw your attention to our left sidebar, where you'll see two new additions to the list of "drop-down" links: "Tweeted Articles," and "Tweeted Pages." These new drop-down lists show you the most-tweeted (in other words, posted on Twitter) LGF front page articles and user-submitted LGF Pages, in the ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Retweet
On Tuesday I put together a list of the most retweeted LGF Pages in February, so to complete the stats here are last month's top 10 retweeted LGF front page articles, in reverse order: #10 - 88 retweets GOP House: Planned Parenthood Bad, NASCAR Good #9 - 91 retweets Crassest Right Wing Blogger of ...
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It's the Internet equivalent of the vanity license plate, but I couldn't resist. When you use our little blue Twitter buttons to retweet a post from LGF on Twitter, either from a front page article or an LGF Page, the link to the post inside your tweet will now use ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF, Blogosphere, URL Shorteners, Twitter, Technology, Internet
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve integrated Twitter's new official “Tweet Button” into the LGF Blog code to see how it compares to our previous Tweet button/retweet count feature, which calls the API at bit.ly to get the count statistics. But I ran into a problem with the Twitter code: it’s intended ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Statistics, Twitter, Tweet Button, Javascript, jQuery
Twitter recently launched a new Tweet Button feature, and I'm trying it out today at LGF. As you can see, it includes a count of the number of times the link to the article has been posted at Twitter. I'm letting you know this because I need to test what happens ...
Tweet Button, Twitter, Statistics, LGF Blog Engine, Little Green Footballs, Tech Note
I figure it's time for an explanation of all those numbers that are showing up in your LGF Pages, so let's have at it. Here's the title line from a sample page by Killgore Trout, with the relevant areas numbered. 1. At the top right of each Page you'll see the rating ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Social Bookmarking, Twitter, Statistics
In case you haven't noticed yet, LGF Pages underwent an extreme makeover last weekend, ending up with a new, cleaner look and some new features. I've been on a consistency kick, so the design of the main LGF Pages index looks a lot like the other pages at LGF, with matching ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Social Bookmarking, Twitter
So, without telling anybody, Twitter suddenly changed their remote login system to use OAuth instead of Basic Authentication, and my code to do Twitter updates automatically when I post to LGF stopped working. What? They did tell everyone, repeatedly, that they were going to change it? Oh. OK, my bad. Anyway, the ...
LGF Pages has quietly transmogrified into a full-featured blogging tool, with embedded videos and images, text formatting, “shadowbox” image popups, auto-linking, and more! If you have an LGF account, you now have your own blog with its own LGF URL. The address of your LGF Page is: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/pag es/username (Replace “username” with your ...
Little Green Footballs, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages, Blogosphere
The new LGF feature of the day is visible in the right sidebar: “Featured Pages!” These are LGF Pages posted by registered users, selected to appear on the front page by our crack staff. How do you get your page to show up in “Featured Pages?” Well, the best way is ...
Little Green Footballs, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages
Gizmodo has the story behind the strange little episode that took place today on Twitter, in which an incredibly simple trick was discovered that allowed anyone to force anyone else to follow their accounts: The Real Story Behind Twitter’s Ridiculous Follow Bug. It’s pretty surprising (to say the least) for a ...
Did I mention that LGF Pages is turning into a full-featured blogging tool for any registered LGF user? I did? Well, it took another step in the mutational process today, with the addition of a free-form tagging system. “Tags” are words or phrases associated with an LGF Page; there are very few ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages
Yeesh. When you’re moving text around among browsers and Javascript and PHP and MySQL, and when that text is coming from outside sources (copied and pasted from web pages by LGF users), sometimes the character encoding and translation issues can become … intense. Yes, I’m coding away at LGF Linkage ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, Diaries
The latest enhancement to LGF Linkage is a biggie — you can now edit any links you’ve posted, using a super-fast Ajax popup form, and see the changes instantly appear without reloading the whole page. Here’s how this feat of prestidigitation works. When you’re viewing the LGF Linkage pages, any links ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing