Category: Twitter
Microsoft launch new-look MSN
The redesign will feature Twitter and Facebook integration.
Tweet on the go with the TwitterPeek
Costing $99 plus a $7.95 monthly fee, it's still a bit expensive for what is essentially a one-trick pony.
Twitter burns £1.38 billion hole in pocket of British economy
The survey questioned 1,460 office workers regarding their use of social networking sites in the workplace, and revealed that more than half of that number admitted to spending up to 40 minutes a week checking such websites.
Twitter cuts deals with Microsoft and Google to enable real time micro blogging searches
But will the search engines be able to ensure results are relevant, with so many thousands of messages being published every minute?
Film studios ban stars from Twitter
Hollywood studios are banning A-listers from leaking information via Twitter over fears the film industry is being damaged.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a recent contract issued by Disney has banned confidentiality breaches via ‘interactive media such as Facebook, Twitter or any other interactive social networking site, blog or other internet-type site.’
Apparently, rival studio DreamWorks has issued similar guidelines, meaning Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, who are due to make a Shrek film next year, could be two of the stars affected.
An entertainment lawyer told the Hollywood Reporter: ‘Hollywood has a long history of controlling what talent says in the media. This is just a new area of media that hasn’t been controlled yet.’
Last month American Idol judge Paula Abdul dramatically announced that she had quit her role on Twitter. Fox News later issued an official reaction but the news had already spread worldwide.
First UK Twitter awards announced
The Golden Twits award show will throw the media spotlight onto the phenomenally popular micro-blogging format once again.
Four reasons why Tweetie 2 is the best Twitter iPhone app
There are lots of very cool features just below the surface. So for example if you want to see someone's profile you just touch the tweet. If you move your finger slightly to the right it brings up a host of other options such as retweet, favourite etc.
Are RSS, Posterous/Tumblr and constant linking killing Twitter?
For me the joy of Twitter is that it is one huge personalised RSS feed. You take all the people in the world that you find cool and interesting and then you get to see what they are reading. Everyone has a point of view and a right to share their content. That's what makes it fascinating.
Twitter fun – My Tweet 16 – or how Twitter was nearly called Twttr
From this we can denote that Twitter was nearly called Twttr (eek) and also that Ev set himself a low standard for his feed from day one. Then again if you are first on Twitter I guess you don't have many followers to entertain…
Can Twitter help you lose weight? Tweet What You Eat hopes so
You use it to tweet about all you eat and then use its calorie counter database to see how much you have consumed. The idea being that you think twice before you head for the biscuit tin as you know you'll have to share it with your Twitterverse.
