Mar 18 2009

Why Is Facebook Trying To Be Twitter?

Facebook is driving me crazy. Only a few days after I made a post talking about how Facebook differs from Twitter and why I was changing how I use the Facebook service that Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter.

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Mar 18 2009

20+ Extremely Useful Twitter Tools

Twitter is one unique web service which is facilitating different people to connect with each other.This article will focus on explaining the cool tools that litterally & awesomely extend features offered by Twitter.

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Mar 18 2009

6 Unique Twitter Visualizations

Art, imagery, graphs, and maps help place context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and data. TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews, the ultimate collection of 140-character thoughts and data, does not come with image sharing, video embedding, or almost any other visual feature.

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Mar 17 2009

Could you get served via Twitter?

Now that a New Zealand judge has allowed court papers to be served via Facebook, the question on the nation’s lips must be: could you be served via a tweet? NBR put the prospect to Chapman Tripp senior solicitor Justin Graham.

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Mar 16 2009

How to win Twitter followers and influence people

People often ask, “How do I gain more Twitter followers?” Ars offers six Twitter etiquette tips to help you gain those followers without having resorting to dirty tactics or annoying habits.

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Mar 16 2009

Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial

nandemoari writes “Russell Wright and his construction company, Stoam Holdings, recently lost a million dollar lawsuit brought by investors. But lawyers for the firm have complained that juror Johnathan Powell’s Twitter comments broke rules when discussing the civil case with the public. The arguments in this dispute center on two points. Powell insists (and the evidence appears to back him up) that he did not make any pertinent updates until after the verdict was given; if that’s the case, the objection would presumably be thrown out. If Powell did post updates during the trial, the judge must decide whether he was actively discussing the case. Powell says he only posted messages and did not read any replies. Intriguingly, the lawyers for Stoam Holding are not arguing so much that other people directly influenced Powell’s judgment, rather that he might have felt a need to agree to a spectacular verdict to impress the people reading his posts.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Mar 15 2009

WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory

Tweet: @wefollow #yourtag #yourtag #yourtag (replace ‘#yourtag’ w/the tags you’d like to be listed under, example: #blogger – max 3 tags). Hope you enjoy!

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Mar 14 2009

Twitter in 3D

It’s great to see twitter the way it is. Twitter is taking over the world.

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Mar 13 2009

Juror sends ‘Tweets’ During $12.6M Case

A building materials company and its owner have appealed a .6 million verdict against them, alleging that a juror was posting related messages on Twitter.com while hearing the case.

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Mar 13 2009

Adium gets its Twitter on in version 1.4

The next time someone suggests that open source can’t innovate, is not user-friendly, etc., point them to Adium. It’s simply incredible. What Adium isn’t, however, is a good Twitter client. That’s about to change, starting with Adium’s next version (1.4), when sophisticated Twitter functionality will be integrated into Adium.

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