Maybe I am too narrow minded, but why would you make your Twitter account private? One of the first things I fount out about Twitter is that it’s a micro-blogging platform. So it’s your micro-site, right?

Let’s take the sentence above to a macro level. Your site is a blog, right? Would you make it private? Would you let only the people you want, read what you write?

Unlike Facebook, the Twitter profile doesn’t tell the whole world when you were born, where you live, which schools you have attended, who your pets are, what’s your political view, etc. Then why make it private?

The ingredients are:

1. one logo taken from Ubuntu
2. one design taken from Twitter
3. a lot of nerve

Preparation mode:

You take the logo from Ubuntu, wash it with clear water and you put it in the oven at medium temperature. Leave it there until it changes colour and basic characteristics. Be careful not to burn it! Best served with a bit of salt and butter. It should look like this:

The second part of the recipe is a bit trickier. You have to make it look exactly like Twitter. The best practice here is to copy large parts of CSS code directly from the Twitter homepage. This way you will avoid a lot of trouble and bug tracking. Five minutes in the microwave oven should be enough. Try using a bit of cinnamon. Serve it cold.

The final ingredient is the most important. If you lack nerve, this recipe will fail .

You can view a photo of this delicious dish, or you can taste it live!

… but we don’t want to!

Why do something original when you can make the romanian versions of twitter, delicious, digg, and so on? Because it’s cool!

The best seems cirip.ro because it actually lets you login with your Twitter account.

When I am saying OpenID, this can be OpenID, twitter, facebook, etc. The main idea and purpose is to have to remember fewer logins, which can be good or bad.

Good

As I already said, fewer logins to remember. This means fewer chances to lose an account, forgetting the password. A thumbs-up can also be not having to make an account for every small action you want to take. You just use your twitter or facebook page to log in, vote (or whatever you have to do) and you’re good to go.

Bad

If you use your birthday, middle name, phone number, qwerty, 123456, etc. as your password, then you will lose ALL your accounts. But if you use any of those as your password, you deserve it .

So, I am kinda ok with this idea, because I know how to chose a good password. What do you think? Good or bad?

Today I received the firs chain-mail on Facebook. What I got:

Okay, let’s get some things straight. Facebook is Facebook, so has good servers (datacenters) which can support millions and millions of people being logged in at the same time, updating their statuses every second. Even Twitter (~600 tweets per second) and deviantART do it (lots of images uploaded every second).

Proving you are active is easier and less annoying than sending a stupid message. As long as your cookies are in their place (you are logged in) you are considered alive. They can verify who was logged in when.

TheTweetTank is one of those click-to-mass-follow people on twitter, so that, hopefully, 1% of them follow you back and will actually care about what you have to offer. But with graphics like:

… I am sure you can trust them. Bad graphics and all-caps text is a great way to annoy people . This is what will happen with your Twitter account: