Category: Twitter
Twitter Labs on its way
According to Twitter's user experience and front end engineering lead Britt Selvitelle it will be a little like Google Labs but rather than Twitter developers showcase their innovations it will be open to developers from anywhere.
People get bored with Twitter quicker than they do with Facebook, says research
Apparently over 40% of respondents who said they had tried Twitter only used it once or twice before getting bored. That's four times the number of people who give up on Facebook. It does suggest that these are people who have heard of Twitter, felt like they needed to give it a go, but have no real idea how to use it.
Brizzly review – it is like the Twitter home page on steroids
Even cooler IMO is the way Brizzly embeds content, so for example if someone has the URL of a YouTube video in their tweet the video pops up in the Brizzly stream.
Survey says Twitter users would click on ads – if they were there…
The report suggests that Twitter users are twice as likely to review or rate products, visit online visit company profiles and click on advertisements or sponsors than Facebook or MySpace users are.
Move over Stephen Fry and Wossy. Britain has a new top tweeter
To his credit Bacon was one of the first BBC radio presenters to realise that Tweeting was fantastic way of interacting with an audience. So he will often use his feed to ask his listeners questions, plug the guests on the show and encourage fellow tweeters to express their opinions.
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Seesmic adds more Facebook features to its Twitter app
The latest Facebook revamp – version 0.6 – is great news for people who control Facebook fan pages, What the app enables you to do is manage activity on Facebook's fan pages as well as personal profiles, so you can update them at the same time as you update your Twitter accounts.
Pure adds Twitter and Facebook to DAB radio on the Sensia
It not only includes a 5.7inch 640×480 screen but also offers access to a growing set of custom apps. Among those lined up already are Facebook, Twitter and weather and news channels.
Facebook introduces Twitter style @ reply facility in status updates
What is smart though is that when you put in an @ symbol in your Facebook status update a drop-down menu will appear that allows you to choose from your list of friends and other connections, including groups, events, applications and Pages.
Twitter's new rival Woofer might be a joke, but it may have a use or two
Just maybe the Woofer crew are on to something here. Maybe there is space for a Twitter type site where people add slightly longer posts. How about come classic bits of comedy? Some cool song lyrics? Anyone got any other cool ideas.
