Credits
From The Blog...
Is Twitter Dying?This morning, John Reese deleted his Twitter account and sent an email saying he thinks Twitter is on its way out. Even, though, my follower count has risen, the response to my tweets has been on a...
Phishing Attack on Twitter
CNN has a story today about recent phishing attacks aimed at Twitter. One former Fauxlowers member whose Twitter account appears to have been compromised (Twitter shut her down temporarily) tweeted...
Blowback from Fauxlowers Hits Fauxlowers.com
I discovered this morning that Twitter had suspended the Fauxlowers app, making it impossible to join, log into, or otherwise use your account. The most likely cause: complaints about welcome DMs f...
Twitter Access Code
Fauxlowers accesses the Twitter API using Twitter-async,
which was written by Jaisen Mathai, Eric Martin and somebody who goes by "arikfr".
Logo
The Fauxlowers logo parodies the Twitter "Fail Whale", designed by Yiying Lu.
Pithy Quote
Our tagline is based on the Benjamin Disraeli quote, "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
We'd like to thank Twitter for providing Twitter.
Webserver Software
Fauxlowers.com runs on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and who knows how many other free programs.
Thanks, awesome programmers!
Other Stuff
Content from the blog is displayed using CaRP Evolution
(written by yours truly).
