Category: Twitter
US Secret Service need help spotting sarcasm
The US Secret Service, as a matter of routine, investigate all threats (or perceived threats) against the President – but what to do in an era of social media, where millions of messages are published every minute? In a great…
Twitter experiments with dreaded auto-playing video
Twitter is apparently trying out experiments with video that auto-plays when you scroll to it on a page – similar to what Facebook recently enabled. Sigh. The tests were spotted by Recode, and could conceivably be a part of the…
Are Twitter and Facebook to blame for our surprise at the BBC's coverage of UKIP?
There's a lot of angry people on Twitter this morning. Its the night after the European and local elections and whilst not all of the results are in yet, everyone is furious about UKIP doing so well. The party has…
Hashtag, selfie and tweep added to dictionary
They are words that all of us have been using for some time now, but now they have been officially recognised as a part of the language. CNET reports that hashtag, selfie and tweep are just three of the latest…
Can Twitter help with ecological research?
It turns out Twitter isn't just for tweeting abuse at newspaper columnists after all. Check out this clever use of hashtags that is helping scientists keep check on the environment. Over the weekend it appears that Sergei Krupenin, who works…
Is this guy the world's least dedicated Twitter user?
Whilst Twitter has millions of users worldwide and has made a huge impact on the global cultural zeitgeist… perhaps it isn't for everyone. As a guy called Justin seems destined to prove. New Yorker Justin joined Twitter on February 20th…
Twitter to trial a mute button
Have you ever felt that, rather than block or unfollow someone, you just want to be able to ignore their tweets for a while? If so, you'll be pleased to know that Twitter is now testing a mute function for…
Microsoft to drop Nokia brand name
Microsoft's phones will not be called Microsoft Mobile, but they won't use the Nokia name for long either, according to a report at PC Pro. The report says that former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has revealed that it's not yet…
A short history of #EdBallsDay
The 28th April is an illustrious day in history, for it was on this day in 2011 that Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer made the mistake of tweeting his own name – presumably during a vanity search…
Welcome to the tech industry – where making a $645m loss is a perfectly normal thing to do!
We're waking up this morning to the news that Twitter has reported a $645m loss (£345m) – only three months after floating on the stock market. No biggie, right? What's a few hundred million dollars between friends? (Pic by keiya…
