Category: Twitter
Twitter to be integrated into iOS 5?
Apple's next piece of mobile softwrae, iOS 5, may make it easier than ever for people to share images via the micro-blogging network Twitter. Rumours are flying around the web today that Twitter integration will be a key part of…
Barack Obama employs Twitter CEO as advisor
The UK government may be floundering as how best to approach the micro-blogging craze Twitter after its recent controversial involvement in a series of high-profile super-injunctions, but US President Barack Obama is approaching the service in a far more pragmatic…
Superinjunctions: Why Twitter needs to stand strong against internet censorship
Oh how embarrassing to be a certain footballer right now. He's been busted, the game's over, and we're all just waiting for him to lower his head and do the apology dance. But lo and behold, this isn't at…
Twitter gets 14% UK traffic boost in wake of super-injunction whistleblowers
Twitter has seen a steep jump in usage, following the media coverage it recieved after one Twitterer used the micro-blogging platfrom to expose celebrities who had took out super-injunctions against the press. According to web-traffic analysts Experian Hitwise, Twitter saw…
Could super-injunction laws take down Twitter?
A whistleblower on Twitter over the weekend has put the worth of super-injunctions into question, after the micro-blogging platform was used to expose celebrities who had apparently put gagging orders on stories relating to their private lives. The account, which…
First ever Mount Everest tweet made on a Samsung Galaxy S II
Samsung are really pushing the extreme elements of their latest handset, the Samsung Galaxy S II, to its limits. First they're sending Tech Digest's very own Gerald hurtling around a rollercoaster for a super speedy unboxing video, and now…
Twitter buy TweetDeck
Popular third-party Twitter client TweetDeck has been bought up by Twitter themselves for a reported sum of between $50 million and $40 million. Billed as a defensive move by some analysts, both cash and stock have exchanged hands between the…
INTERVIEW: Kaspersky Lab's Costin Raiu on Android security, Twitter and cyber wars
Cybercrime is no longer exclusive to PCs and Macs, with hacks, spam, malware and trojans hitting smartphones, tablets and cloud storage services too. No-one knows this better than Costin Raiu of the security specialists at Kaspersky Lab. As the…
Twitter predicts winning stocks, study shows
Create a buzz and stocks rise – literally. Investors following tweets about the stock market would have seen an average return rate of 15%, a study from the Technical University of Munich suggested. Researcher Timm Sprenger said there was…
Five years of microblogging evolution: Happy birthday Twitter
Love it or hate it – Twitter is five today. The chatter is rising steadily, with 200 million users now sending out 140 million daily tweets. More will come as Twitter's growth rate is soaring; 460,000 new accounts were…
