My employer (like many others) does not allow access to social networking and personal email sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and now…wait for it…Twitter. Sigh.
Several months ago, the proxy servers had not yet been updated to block Twitter so I was free to access Twitter from the web (twitter.com) or via any of the desktop tools such as TweetDeck or Twhirl.
Eventually the proxy servers started getting wise to Twitter and began blocking access to Twitter. Thus started my cat and mouse game to stay one step ahead of the proxy filters and find a new Twitter application every time the existing application became blocked. Here is my progression of Twitter applications as each one became blocked:
It has been fun discovering which Twitter applications are blocked and which ones are still allowed. I think I am running out of Twitter front-end applications and may soon be forced to use Tweetie on my iPhone.
Of course this exposes the whole silliness of blocking access to Twitter since I can still tweet via my iPhone anytime I want.
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Great post, Michael. What’s next, having to go outside to Tweet from your iPhone and standing with the other pariahs?