When asked about possible future features for Twitter, he reportedly said that one of the things being considered is an extension that lets people know what’s happening in their immediate vicinity. That would basically mean that Twitter could actively ping users about local events that are going on in their neighborhood, in real-time…
It (might have) worked in New Zealand, so Ireland is giving it a go. Starting today, avatars on Facebook and Twitter will go black to oppose “graduated response” rules sought by the major record labels.
Twitter integrated Twitter trends and Twitter search yesterday taking them steps closer to having a profitable business model. Still no advertising, but they are getting everything in place
The Twitter co-founder talks about Obama’s social media savvy, what makes someone popular on Twitter, and how people are like birds.
Not everyone is getting the new feature yet, but the microblogging service has begun to display search and trends in its homepage toolbar.
Forget about rivalries with MySpace and LinkedIn. Facebook’s real competition is coming from upstart microblogging site Twitter By Sarah Lacy Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph …
With the biggest conference presence of the entire SXSW festival, SXSW Interactive is more than just a place where, as ace SXSW Interactive Press and Publicity coordinator Tammy Lynn Gilmore put it, “you get to meet all those people you follow on Twitter.” Unlike music and film, it’s difficult to maintain an “I’m too cool” attitude when you’re surr
In what has to be one of the most amusing (and slightly sinister) uses of Twitter’s API, Box UK has created reboundfinder to search for specific tweets from people who post that they have either dumped their loved ones, or been dumped by them, and then to RT, or retweet, their posts via its feed.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt commenting about Twitter:”Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems.”
The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks Twitter users based on the infectious power of their tweets. This number accounts for number of followers and Tweets overall, so it is a true indicator of infectiousness.
