Yesterday, a group of technology entrepreneurs from the UK on a skiing vacation in the Swiss Alps (Verbier) lost two of their party around 4 PM CET. Other members of the group put out a request on Twitter in order to learn the numbers of their mobile phones, so they could use the signals to track them down.
Talk of a new name for Microsoft’s Live search engine is gaining fresh momentum, thanks to two messages posted on Twitter and observed by an unofficial Microsoft Live blog. The messages suggest a rebranded Live is already in prebeta testing, and that some form of Live search news will be formally revealed this week.
Every once in a while, you read something on Twitter that’s just pitch-perfect, despite (or maybe because of) the microblogging service’s 140-character limit.
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online, it still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole.Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles, which replaced its entire homepage with its Twitter stream.
Twitter liked the sound of 0 million but balked when Facebook said its stock was worth -9 billion. Twitter’s team knew that Facebook was letting employees sell stock on the secondary market at company -4 billion. “We said it’s not worth it,” the person says. “Don’t treat us like children.”
nandemoari writes “It seems the world’s most popular social networking site was just moments away from acquiring another — and few of us ever knew about it. A Facebook executive has revealed that a planned takeover of Twitter only fell apart because of a disagreement over stock valuations. Despite the rather miserable economy, Facebook is still looking to buy out other firms and says it could make a billion dollars a year from advertising. Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who put up some of the money behind Facebook, discussed the deal in a Business Week interview. Thiel says the two sides agreed a 0 million purchase price and that Twitter would receive the payment in Facebook stock rather than cash — which is a common solution in large takeovers where there simply isn’t the money available for a buyout.”
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Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and keeping in touch with people, but also for marketing, …
Twitter’s web interface is simple and intuitive but lacks a few features that can make it much better. In this article, you’ll read about 10 excellent user interface features that can enhance the Twitter web experience.
A few of them haven’t been updated in months, some are updated several times an hour, but all are essential to anyone who wants to be kept abreast of his or her favorite comedian’s bowel movements
