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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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This uncalled-for –IOW abusive– bot traffic burns your resources, and (with a cheap hosting plan) it can hinder your followers to read your awesome article and prevent them from clicking on your carefully selected ads. That’s because on Twitter all URIs are suspected to be shortened ( learn why Twitter makes you eat shit ).

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. It is a place for filmmakers to build an audience, find helpful resources to develop their craft and business, as well as being a production company actively developing its own content and throwing events and workshops throughout Los Angeles. Subscribe to RSS. Idea Mensch. IdeaMensch.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. Most screwed URIs are unique in a way that they still ‘address’ one particular resource on your server.

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