Feb 8 2009

Most Popular Twitter Clients Revealed

The micro-messaging service Twitter became popular in part due to the thousands of different ways to post and view Tweets…but what are the most popular ways to share your Tweets with the world?

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Jan 30 2009

20 Great Twitter Tools for Firefox

People love Twitter, and they love Firefox, so it only seems natural that there would be quite a few tools to merge these two items.

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Jan 29 2009

Share MP3s as tweets with Songly

Found an MP3 file you want to share on Twitter? Check out Songly, a service that shortens the URL and lets people listen in a tiny Flash player.

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Jan 29 2009

HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt

There have been numerous ‘revolts’ on Digg (social news), hundreds of thousands of users have created numerous groups to stage protests on Facebook (social networking), and hundreds of blog posts have been written about how terrible Twitter’s service and up-time used to be and what a poor job they were doing in communicating their problems ..

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Jan 26 2009

Why Has Knol Survived Google’s Orphan-Project Killing Spree?

We had thought Google was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively.

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Jan 26 2009

Twitter Has Done News. Now It’s Doing Global Charity Events

We’ve already seen that Twitter is turning into a source of breaking news. But it’s also clearly turning into a way of organising social movements extremely quickly. “Tweetup” (as in a meetup facilitated by Twitter) has passed into common parlance amongst regular users but now the concept has spawned a global event for charity.

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Jan 26 2009

Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama) gives ten tips on how to get more followers on Twitter. Bonus Tip: 11. Submit a story about how to get more twitter followers to Digg with your twitter link in the description. =] Follow http://twitter.com/FirstDigg

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Jan 26 2009

Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation

Twitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a 0 million valuation. We ar

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Jan 24 2009

White House Twitter Account Is a Phony

Microblog account name is changed, and bio now indicates that the account is “unaffiliated with the white house.”

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Jan 24 2009

"Lost my virginity to a whopper. Feeling like a slut."

Burger King and Wendy’s are facing a number of rogue users on Twitter, who are registering accounts like WhopperVirgins, theBKlounge and 3conomics, and impersonating popular fast-food ad campaigns. And we get to witness the hilarity.

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