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Twitter just announced that it has set up the ability to block content on a country specific basis (e.g., if Germany demanded some content be taken down, Twitter can now just have that content blocked in Germany).

I know some people saw this and got upset about "censorship!" but looking at the details, it actually looks like Twitter is doing a smart thing here.

On PHPMaster.com today they're posted the second part of their OAuth series showing you how to use the authentication mechanism to connect to Twitter's API.

(Part one is here.

In the Bible it says, "And on the eighth day, God said, 'Let there be Twitter so man can post what he had for lunch.' So God made Twitter and celebrities flocked to the social networking site in a race to gain the most fans." Er, wait a minute...

This is just a short follow up to a recent tweet of mine.

I have seen this repeatedly happen, even to top notch and usually very careful developers (*). I am not sure why this mistake happens so frequently, but quite often you see code that changes the parameter order for custom Exception constructors.

I guess it's mostly because in these cases the developer wants to pass some magic parameters that contain the message (and potentially also the code).

Another scenario is adding a new required parameter. In both cases don't!

When Adorian Deck was home sick from high school, he entertained himself like countless other teenagers have in recent years: He started a Twitter account.

The teaser for this up-and-coming progressive social media game opens with a tantalizing question: “What would happen if what people share on their social networks turns real?” Enter TweetLand: A virtual space where, its founders explain, “the number of games can be as many as the thousands of conversations that appear on the web daily.”

Mistakes. They happen. If they didn't, humanity would be boring. On social media, mistakes happen way too often.

When I was hired at dealnews.com in 1998, my primary focus was to get our message board (Phorum) up to speed.

I had written the first version as a side project for the site. Message boards were a lot simpler back then. Matt's WWWBoard was the gold standard of the time.

And really, the functionality has been only evolutionary since. We added attachments to Phorum in 2003 or something.

That was a major new feature.

The State Department is tightening its embrace of Twitter and other social media as crises grip the Middle East and Haiti, with officials finding new voice, cheek and influence in the era of digital diplomacy.