I do use Twitter daily, just not the Twitter site. Sometimes, I use desktop-based applications (TweetDeck and Twihrl are both favorites), and I frequently use the Web to manage my Twitter account. There are a growing number of useful applications for Twittering, and all of them do the job better than the standard Twitter interface.
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Use Social Media Effectively
PC World During this recession it's more important than ever to get whatever you can for free. At Fluidesign, the design and branding agency that I run, we have recently started offering a service called Online Reputation Management. Are Twitter, Facebook Health Hazards? CBS News Facebook and MySpace are 'most popular places to find love' Telegraph.co.uk guardian.co.uk – ZDNet – BBC News – Washington Post all 162 news articles |
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Ad strategy at root of Facebook privacy row: Eric Auchard
Reuters By Eric Auchard LONDON (Reuters) – Social networking phenomenon Facebook has beaten out arch-rival and former market leader MySpace by most measures of popularity, except the one that pays the bills. Are Twitter, Facebook Health Hazards? CBS News Facebook and MySpace are 'most popular places to find love' Telegraph.co.uk BBC News – Washington Post – New York Daily News – ZDNet all 149 news articles |
theodp writes “It wasn’t so long ago, but Slate’s Farhad Manjoo notes that The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. No YouTube, Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker, Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Wikipedia. In 1996, Americans with Internet access spent fewer than 30 minutes a month surfing the Web and were paying for the Internet by the hour. Today, Nielsen says we spend about 27 hours a month online (present company excepted, of course!).” I thought in 1996 all we did was idle in IRC channels while we wrote code in other terminals.
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Is Facebook giving us baby brains? British scientist says yes
Chicago Tribune It's an advertisement you might see someday, if testimony given to the British House of Lords this month is to be believed. In remarks that have stirred up a tempest in the British media and on the Internet, Baroness Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist … Are hi-tech gadgets turning our children into cabbages? WalesOnline Why Social Networks Are Good for the Kids Washington Post Stuff.co.nz – guardian.co.uk – TVNZ – New York Times all 122 news articles |
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Why Social Networks Are Good for the Kids
Washington Post The other day I asked somewhat tongue-in-cheek whether Tom Friedman had ever visited Silicon Valley. Today, I?m wondering if Lady Greenfield has ever used a social networking site. Twittering brains withering, expert warns Stuff.co.nz Networking sites reduce brain power TVNZ guardian.co.uk – New York Times – eMarketer – Florida Baptist Witness all 102 news articles |
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Social networking sites 'changing children's brains'
Telegraph.co.uk Social networking websites are changing children's brains because they make young people more self-centred and cut their attention spans, a neuroscientist has warned. Social networking risk: Managing the inevitable ZDNet Asia DU Twitter draws small crowd University of Denver Clarion Online (subscription) guardian.co.uk – The Australian – Search Engine Watch – Ke Alakai all 56 news articles |
Security experts warn of holes in the popular microblogging service.
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Bell scores Twitter texting
Canada.com By Gillian Shaw 02-20-2009 COMMENTS(0) Digital Life Canadian tweeps who were upset when Twitter cut off their SMS service last November can get it back now. Twitter slowly turning back on the SMS spigot VentureBeat Twitter Restores SMS Updates for (Some) Canadian Users Mashable all 3 news articles |
A feature launched last month, called “suggested users,” has given some accounts spikes in the neighborhood of tens of thousands. Some high profile users, who built their grassroots following but were ignored on Twitter’s “suggested” list, are getting left in the dust.
