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Andrew Warner (@AndrewWarner) of Mixergy.com has come up with a unique way to do live interviews on his website using Tweetizen’s embed widget. He did 2 live shows yesterday and they both turned out great. The idea is simple - get a ustream widget on your site to conduct the live shows and have tweetizen embedded below it so your viewers can participate via twitter. You can see it in action HERE.

Since each tweet is tagged with the keyword Andrew chose, all tweets related to the liveshow shows up on his website, bringing in a ton of new viewers and followers. For example, yesterday afternoon, while he was doing his show, I tweeted about it with a link to his site using bit.ly (so I can monitor the hits) and as you can see from this stats report, I just brought him a cool 80 unique visitors he never had before. Now imagine all his 100+ viewers did the same, and they re-tweeted… before you know it, you’re attracting a whole new set of viewers who may have never heard of you before.

What Andrew could do in the future is put a large email signup box to convert these first time viewers to regular readers of his blog. Yesterday’s interview was only the first of the many more that are to come in the following weeks.

If you own a blog, I strongly suggest you give tweetizen’s embed widgets a try and get your readers involved. Make sure they tag their tweets with a URL to your site to spread the word. The possibilities here are endless. The more innovative you are, the more you can really utlize twitter to grow your brand and your readers. Don’t be like CNN and send people to your twitter profile page - do the opposite and get them on your site! Instead of twitter.com/cnn, they should be doing cnn.com/twitter and this page should have all their latest breaking news tweets.

Finally, check out how philly.com took advantage of tweetizen’s widget to stream real-time tweets related to the death of Harry Kalas: FAN REACTION: HARRY KALAS 1936 - 2009

If you have any questions, email me or leave a comment and I’ll help. Read & Discuss

First off, if you’re using Tweetizen to tweet, you’re SAFE. If you’re reading this and your twitter account has been compromised, you can do the following to help protect yourself:

1) Go to your account settings on twitter.
2) Update your Name, your website URL and your 140 character intro and hit ‘Save‘
3) Click the Password tab and change your password. Click ‘Change‘.
4) LOG OUT and do not log back in until twitter addresses the new worm and fixes it. if you’re hardcore like me and want to keep track of every tweet, then log on to Tweetizen and create a group that tracks Mikeyy’s progress (example: http://www.tweetizen.com/trends/Mikeyy)

This seems to be a XSS attack - where if you were logged into your twitter account and visited Mickeyy’s stalkdaily website, you were automatically infected by the worm. And since this worm seems to be self-mutating, it’s spreading to all your followers by sending them unknowingly to stalkdaily via a url shortener link.

If you see tweets saying that the worm has been fixed and it’s safe to login to twitter again, please first check the official Twitter status page for confirmation that Twitter has indeed fixed the holes.

And finally, if you see any of these messages with a URL, do not click on them:

- This is all Twitters fault! Don’t blame Mikeyy!!
- How TO remove new Mikeyy worm! RT!!
- Twitter, freaking fix this already. >:[ - Mikeyy
- ALERT!! 4TH GEN MIKEYY WORM, USE NOSCRIPT:
- This is Bill Gates -Mikeyy
- This is all Twitters fault! Don’t blame Mikeyy!!

Check Tweetizen’s Mikeyy group for all tweets related to this worm: http://www.tweetizen.com/trends/Mikeyy and stay safe.

UPDATE (Apr 17th, 2009) - If you see tweets coming from your account with the following messages, your account has been compromised.

@oprah - sup? welcome to twitter. - mikeyy
@aplusk - hey, homo. - mikeyy
@souljaboytellem - your music sucks dude. - mikeyy
@cnnbrk - he’s back. - mikeyy
Twitter, you should be paying me now. - mikeyy
@TheEllenShow - hey baby, love me long time? - mikeyy

Follow the steps above and clear your browser cache.

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