Over the past weekend when I was on Twitter, I noticed that my tweets were the only ones to show up in my Twitter client Twhirl. I didn’t pay any attention until last night. I’m usually being bombarded with the same people tweeting about a bunch of junk. I lost all my followers and all the people I was following. I don’t know if it was a glitch or what was going on. Over in the help forums, there were a lot of other users that were experiencing the same problems.

Don’t get me wrong, Twitter has the potential to drive traffic to a site and a person can make money too. For instance, I sent out a tweet about giving away a Netbook and in about a ten-minute period, I had 200 new visitors to my site. I am sick of seeing the same tweets repeatedly from the same users. One tweet is see how Cathy turned her teeth from yellow to white in 30 days or something along those lines. I see this one from tons of my followers and from whom I am following.

Another is the one from sofa.tv. This one is annoying because there is one person that just uses the sofa.tv tweet and it’s tweeted about every three minutes. I know what you’re thinking, (why doesn’t he just block the tweeter). To be honest, I have not got around to deleting any of the followers.

I think that Twitter might be overrun with spammers trying to make a quick buck or two. I think I am going to create a new account strictly for the blog and delete my old one. This time I will not tolerate users who are spamming and push my tweets out of the way.

Is it time to get a new Twitter account? Should I just wait until my account gets fixed? Or, should Twitter be out of the question? I appreciate everyone’s feedback on this.

When the idea of blogging came to mind, the question that always seemed to popup was how often I should post.  I have been posting once a day and sometimes every other day.  When I first began the blog, I went to Barnes & Noble to see what kind of reading material they had for blogging.  I came across the book Problogger, Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.

I have been reading a little each night and last night I was reading a section about how often bloggers should post (there’s that question again).  Therefore, I have a few questions for everyone.  How often should bloggers post?  How many posts are too much?  If a blogger posts to much or not enough, would you unsubscribe.  I appreciate everyone’s feedback and look forward to reading your answers.

Have you ever tried to send a large file through email?  This is something that is hard to do if the file is bigger than 10MB.  I use Yahoo Mail and they only allowed users to send 10MB files.  This can be a problem for users that need to send large files.  I know a Website that allows large files to be sent over the Internet.  The Website is SendThisFile (STF).  I have used STF numerous times to send large files to family members in another state and to send installers to users that I am helping remove malware.  Here is how it works.

First, register for an account on the Website.  STF has four different plans.  They have a free plan (which I use), starter plan, pro plan, business plan, and an enterprise plan.

• Free Plan

The free plan allows large files to be sent but STF throttles the bandwidth so it takes some time to transfer the file.  I have sent a 50MB file and it took around 20 minutes for the file to be sent.

• Starter Plan

$4.95 per month or $49.95 per year

500 MB/month transfer

Full speed transfers

6-day file access

$ 3.50 ea. additional 500 MB

• Pro Plan

$9.95 per month or $99.95 per year

10 GB/month transfer

Customizable FileBox

8-day file access

$ 2.50 ea. additional 1 GB

• Business Plan

$19.95 per month or $199.95 per year

25 GB/month transfer

Customizable emails

10-day file access

$ 1.25 ea. additional 1 GB

• Enterprise Plan

$69.95 per month or $699.95 per year

90 GB/month transfer

Brandable / Unlimited Users

14+-day file access

$ 1.00 ea. additional 1 GB

This service can be invaluable to users that send numerous large files over the Internet.  Some of the plans seem a little pricey but the starter and pro plan are reasonable.  I use the free service and found that it is quite useful.  If you do not send large files on a consistent basis then the free plan is the way to go.