Category: Twitter
Top Twitter Trends For 2010
Earlier this week Google and Yahoo both released their lists of the top searches for 2010. Google even made this great little video. Now Twitter has analyzed the roughly 25 billion tweets sent over the past year to figure out…
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending?
Are Twitter preventing WikiLeaks from trending? That's the rumour doing the rounds on the "internetz" right now, as conspiracy theorists are claiming that Twitter are the latest company to pull support for the whistle blowing webiste. Despite a huge buzz…
TweetJockey: Race Twitter Trends
Today I came across this great little micro site TweetJockey. Created by Jonathan Plackett a creative at London ad agency Albion, the site allows you to race twitter search terms against each other to see which is being talked…
TweetDeck Launches Chrome Browser Based App
Earlier this week Tweetdeck released its first Web client as a Chrome app in the brand new Chrome Webstore. ChromeDeck as it has been dubbed, is the first browser based version of the popular real time streaming app for…
How the Ashes cricket tournament ruined one Twitter user's day
Here's a social media lesson showing why it's very important to pick your online usernames carefully, especially if you're not a fan of cricket and your forname happens to be Ashes. Massachussets-based @theashes chose her Twitter username based on the…
Twitter News service incoming?
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been talking about the possibilities of setting up a Twitter News service. With the micro-blogging platform an increasingly valuable source for journalists, its links to Google, Bing and Yahoo could make a new news stream…
Twitter reveal "Who to Follow" secrets
Ever wondered how Twitter comes up with its "Who to Follow" suggestions? Well it turns out that each user has a unique reputation score. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, Twitter founder Evan Williams revealed that a team of "science…
Stephen Fry offers to pay fine of Twitter airport bomb joker
Stephen Fry has offered to pay the cost of any fines given to Twitter joker Paul Chambers after he was convicted of "menacing" conduct on the micro-blogging service. Chambers had earlier in the year sarcastically threatened to bomb a local…
Student Fees London demonstration – Twitter comics weigh in
While the student fee increases that have inspired today's protests in London are no laughing matter, we cant help but be tickled by the response from the Twitter hardcore . No-one is spared from the acerbic wit of the Twitterati!…
Sh*tMyDadSays Twitter account attacked by hackers
Sh*tMyDadSays one of the world's most popular Twitter accounts, was attacked by hackers yesterday according to online security experts Sophos. The hilarious account, run by 29 year old Justin Halpern, collates the ridiculous and brutal words of wisdom that Justin's…
