In an apparent effort to compensate for the competition from Apple’s iPad, Amazon released a software update that allows it e-reader to access Facebook and Twitter. So, if you have a book you’re reading and want to share a passage on Twitter or Facebook, you can now do that. I still want to make sure [...]
The Library of Congress announced that it will be archiving all the tweets placed on the social network site since Twitter’s inception in March of 2006. According to the article by Dan Hope, there are 50 million tweets per day and the total number of tweets in the site’s four year history already numbers in [...]
That’s right. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, arguable the richest man in the galaxy, philanthropist extraordinaire, has joined the ranks of tweeters. So, Bill can let us know what’s going on 145 characters at a time. Can I ask a question: what is the point of personal Twitter accounts? I mean, corporate twitter accounts [...]
With the popularity of Twitter, companies are working hard to keep their deep links below 140 characters to enable ULR sharing. However, this seems to cause a problem because scamming and phishing can be a problem. Also, there are several sites where a URL can be fed into a code maker and it will generate [...]
Apparently people in Japan really have nothing to do. Someone created a DIY project that monitors your heart beats and reports the results to Twitter in the form of small messages. I can see the validity of this if you need to report info to your hear t doctor but for the average person this [...]
I wonder if the those who developed social media outlets like Twitter ever through that their services would be used to let the world know about a revolution. With the out crying of countless people in Iran it’s amazing to see that the Internet outlets are the only viable resources of information seeing that the [...]
Lawsuits over fake tweets have prompted the leadership team was Twitter to roll out new “verified accounts” to ensure that unsuspecting “tweeties” will be getting tweets from the famous people they just can’t live without! This has always been an issue on MySpace and other peer sites but at least Twitter is ddoing something about [...]
