Cheat Your Way to Twitter with SpreadTweet

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For Twitter users in restrictive office environments, SpreadTweet offers a solution by mimicking a Microsoft Excel interface, allowing discreet tweeting while appearing to work. This tool raises ethical concerns, as it enables users to bypass workplace policies. The discussion also touches on the potential for integrating RSS feeds into Excel, highlighting a desire for tools that blend work and social media without detection. The conversation reflects a mix of humor and criticism regarding the lengths individuals might go to maintain their Twitter habits at work.
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If you're a Twitter addict but work in an office that doesn't condone your tweeting habits, you have a few options: You could actually do work; you could make yourself paranoid by looking over your shoulder as you post, or you could download SpreadTweet, an Adobe AIR-based Twitter client that looks exactly like a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet. It'll let you post to Twitter freely, and when the boss walks by behind you, he'll think you're working--as long as he doesn't lean into see which spreadsheet you're working on...
http://www.appscout.com/2009/04/spreadtweet_makes_your_twitter.php

I had to laugh when I saw this, but really it is quite sleezy.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
http://www.appscout.com/2009/04/spreadtweet_makes_your_twitter.php

I had to laugh when I saw this, but really it is quite sleezy.
Please forward to Greg to develop a PF skin.

No, seriously.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Please forward to Greg to develop a PF skin.

No, seriously.

I could have used that at my last job. My boss actually had IT block PF for the whole school just because of me.
 
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