Though any Twitter user can put a request to get their account verified, Twitter has so-far only verified accounts of celebrities and other well-known users. For instance, this screenshot has a list of all technology related people whose Twitter accounts have been verified.

List of Twitter Verified Accounts

If you like to see a complete list of verified accounts on Twitter, check the friends list of @verified. When they verify a new account, the @verified bot starts following that person (or brand) and thus we know that only 0.002% of Twitters users* enjoy the verified status.

[*] The total number of Twitter users is estimated at 60 million while only 1,224 accounts are verified.

These verified accounts are organized in Twitter lists making it easier for you to follow them all with a click. Surprising, the accounts of both Twitter founders – @ev and @biz – arent verified yet.

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A Complete List of Verified Twitter Accounts originally appeared on Core Digest on January 13, 2010.

WebMynd is an extremely useful Firefox add-on that embed search results from Flickr, Wikipedia, Backtype (for blog comments), Delicious, Digg, Amazon, LinkedIn and a dozen other custom locations into Google search pages.

It like building a personal Google Universal Search page but you have complete control over sources that are displayed in the search results. And since WebMynd would search the other sources after displaying the main Google results, you wont see any real dip in performance or speed.

The results are neatly embedded in the right side of the Google page and you can easily re-order and / or hide any of these services. WebMynd will remember the settings even if you exit the Google search page.

WebMynd also includes a recording feature (disabled by default) that keeps a track of all websites that you may have visited inside Firefox. If you are worried about privacy, keep this feature “OFF” as this data is periodically uploaded to WebMynd servers for history search visual playback.

Best of all, the new release works with Yahoo and Windows Live Search as well.

I think most Google users will love the WebMynd Firefox extension but Google may have issues with it since it pushes the AdSense ads way down the search page that they are almost invisible.

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Enhance Google Search Results with Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, etc. originally appeared on Core Digest on December 10, 2009.

Then the next step was to check Twitter blog, and yes, the preview was live indeed and the latest Twitter mobile website was rolled out just an hour ago when I checked.

The new design is much more appealing, clean and with lots of functions that you always wanted to have in the Twitter mobile like the reply, retweet buttons.

Twitter mobile website works best on Webkit browsers, like the one on Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones. Twitter has also changed the mobile website URL. Previously, it was m.twitter.com, but now it has been changed to mobile.twitter.com

To try out the new design, simply point your mobile browser to the URL given below:

mobile.twitter.com

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New Twitter Mobile Website Launched originally appeared on Core Digest on December 7, 2009.

Most people dont really care when others unfollow them but if you belong to the other category and want to track when users stop following your Twitter updates, here are a few services to help you out:
#1. Follow Monitor

Just follow the @FollowMonitor bot on Twitter and it will send you public replies (not Direct Messages) with a list of users who may have recently unfollowed you on Twitter.

The bot will add the actual Twitter handles of your previous friends in its tweet (see example) so theyll be indirectly notified that you now know that they unfollowed you.

Related: Unfollow Spammers on Twitter
#2. Nutshell Mail

NutshellMail will send you an email digest at custom intervals with a list of Twitter users (and their profile pictures) who have stopped following you since the last update.

With NuthshellMail, you can track new followers and unfollowers across all your Twitter accounts from a central place (your email inbox) and since the service uses OAuth, you dont have to share your Twitter credentials anywhere.

See: Why Twitter Users Need NutShellMail
#3. Goodbye Buddy

Follow @goodbyebuddy on Twitter and this will send you a Direct Message each time someone unfollows you on Twitter. Works like a charm.

* Qwitter is another service that sends you an email as soon as you lose a follower on twitter but I skipped it as I am not too sure if the service works anymore though their website is very much functional.
#4. Twitter Less

Like @followmonitor, @tless* is a Twitter bot that will help you know who dropped you on Twitter. You just have to follow the @tless bot and it will automatically track your Twitter followers.

With TwitterLess, you can also learn how many new Twitter followers you have gained with time and who all have left you since the day you started following @tless. *Update: The bot is not functional anymore

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Know When People Stop Following You on Twitter originally appeared on Core Digest on December 7, 2009.

It your own personal photo album on Facebook but none of these pictures of odd-looking cartoon characters, horoscope charts, photo collages, friend graphs, etc. have been uploaded by you.

What photo tagging applications can do to your Facebook profile

The culprit, as you may have guessed, are these Facebook applications that tag random images with your name and the tagged image therefore shows up in your Facebook profile page without you doing anything.

What the problem?

These “collages” not only make your Facebook profile look very unprofessional but there something else to worry about as well.

Some photo tagging applications on Facebook (as the one below) add links to bad sites in “your” photos and your innocent Facebook friends, who are just randomly browsing your pictures, might fall in the trap.

What can you do?

The simple way is that you remove your name tag from the tagged photo and it will be instantly removed from your Facebook photo album as well.

Next you should find the Facebook application that you friend used to create that photo collage in the first place and block that application forever so that your other friends are unable to use that application to spam your Facebook profile page.

Also make sure that you get notifications each time someone tags you in a photo. You can control this setting from the “Notifications” tab on the Account Settings page.

Photo tagging is the one of the most popular features on Facebook and, probably for this reason, Facebook doesnt offer a simple setting that will prevent other users and applications from tagging you in photographs. You can however hide “photos tagged of you” from the privacy page so that the images dont appear in your public photo albums and are visible only to you.

And as a precautionary measure, visit the authorized apps pages to make sure that you havent authorized any Facebook app to tag images of other people on your behalf. If you find one, just click the cross to remove that Facebook app from your profile permanently.

What can Facebook do?

When you are tagged in a photo by your friends (or a Facebook application), the tag is automatically approved and the picture appears in your profile. All we therefore need is an extra privacy setting that would let us to approve tags before a tagged photo appears on our profile page.

Facebook wont let developers add apps to your profile without permission then why do they allow them to add pictures to your profile without asking.

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The Biggest Nuisance on Facebook Photo Tags originally appeared on Core Digest on December 7, 2009.