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6 things that could ruin Twitter (and 5 that won't)
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Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 3
For the last two weeks I've been considering how to analyze Twitter messages using Excel 2003. Having been thwarted by the deficiencies of Excel and Twitter (turns out that Twitter Search returns malformed HTML and Excel won't tolerate that) I have a new plan: Let's use cURL to retrieve the raw XML returned by Twitter search and then haul that data into Excel for the analysis.

Does Twitter really fit into business and IT?
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Twitter attracting techie labs
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Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?
IT security administrators have had a fairly easy case to make against such social networking sites as Myspace in the past. Myspace in particular tends to be a place for the mostly personal, and some profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and malware pushers. [Read more about the challenges faced by MySpace's CSO in Hemanshu Nigam: Mr. Safety for MySpace.]

How to kill e-mail (before it kills you)
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Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 2
So, last week I set myself a problem: Use Microsoft Excel to capture Twitter messages that mention the word "rovio", pretending that I worked for the company that makes the Rovio Wi-Fi-controlled camera and I wanted to see what people were saying about it.

Workplace surfing hounds have a new hero
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