A couple of spam text messages hit my iPhone recently. So, I tweeted a question to AT&T Wireless's Customer Care Twitter account to learn what advice they might offer. You can see the response in the screenshot above. AT&T's advice to use the word STOP to block messages is, it turns out, specifically to deal with messages from Short Code numbers. However, AT&T provides ways to deal with other kind of text message spam on this web support page.


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Don't take offense. Don't feel slighted. Ping me with an @reply and I'll add you back. There was a problem. It's a problem that I've dealt with for 3 years now, and I simply couldn't do it any longer. I unfollowed a ton of people and will unfollow even more in the next week. It [...]

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Team REACH: Steven Plous, Brendan Dimitri, Corey Heinz, & Peter WoodsREACH v4, from Direct Message Lab, allows brands to manage multiple channels – social network pages and profiles, as well as social, mobile and desktop applications. The platform integrates marketing tools, including social loyalty programs, social sweepstakes and e-mail sharing.REACH also delivers user and content metrics and builds user profiles synchronized across all channels to give brands a view of users, content and [...]

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Once all-powerful social networking service MySpace is having a tough time of late; its users are leaving the website in droves, heading to Faceboook and Google's new social networking service Google+, and the company is cutting jobs as it tries to save costs.Early Friday morning the website went down, displaying the following error message:

We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back …now.* Have your pet spayed or neutered.
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One of the biggest irratants in life to me (what a friend of mine would term a "first-world problem": Things that bother you assuming the basics in life are already met) is text message spam (SMS spam). Tatango's SMS Marketing Blog has a fascinating infographic summarizing the demographics of the problem.


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