Tag: Social networking
250,000,000 tweets every day: iOS 5 responsible for Twitter surge
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has revealed that Twitter sign-ups have tripled following the launch of Apple's iOS 5 mobile OS for iPad, iPod and iPhone. iOS 5 features deep integration of the micro-blogging social network, and is being credited for…
New Facebook changes: Ticker update melting brains, angering the net
Facebook! Stop! MY EYES! MY BRAIN! IT HURTS! If you've logged onto Facebook in the last 24 hours, you'll likely know what I'm getting at. A new-look Facebook has just been launched and it's…well…a bit busy. Prior to tonight's…
Facebook hosts 4% of all the photos EVER TAKEN IN THE WORLD
Here's a pretty mad statistic; according to photo sharing site 1000memories.com, Facebook now host 4% of all the photographs ever taken. EVER. That equates to an estimated 140 billion photos of the 3.5 trillion thought to have been taken since…
Facebook and Twitter to team up
Facebook users will soon be able to update their Twitter feeds directly from their Facebook profile pages. The cross-posting feature was revealed in Facebook's September 2011 update of its Subscribe for Public Figures document. Underneath the heading "Can I update…
Flickr used in Metropolitan Police's Operation Withern London riots investigation
The Metropolitan Police are harnessing the power of social media in order to bring rioters from the past few day's escalating violence to justice. As part of Operation Withern, the Met are posting stills from CCTV footage to a…
Official Facebook iPad app unearthed
We've known for some time that an offical Facebook iPad app is in the works, but who'd have guessed that it's been sitting hidden under our very noses in the iPhone app all along?! An update for the iPhone Facebook…
Google+ now has 10 million-plus users
It may still only be a "field trial" according to the search giants that built it, but the Google+ social network has already hit a major landmark by surpassing 10 million users. Google's attempt to battle Twitter and Facebook in…
Google+ spams its own users due to lack of disk space
Managed to bag yourself an early invitation to the new Google+ social network? Then yesterday you may have had to deal with a barrage of spam notification messages suggesting you'd bagged yourself a zillion new friends in a matter of…
Facebook adds in-browser video chat with new Skype partnership
Facebook and Skype have announced a new partnership that will see the pair join forces to bring video chat to the world's largest social network, alongside group chat. Via a downloadable plug-in, users will be able to video call…
Facebook block Chrome Friend Exporter as Google+ social network battle begins
Facebook are upping their defenses in the social networking fight after this week's launch of the Google+ network. Not only does Zuckerberg's gang have "something awesome" to reveal tomorrow, but they're now actively working to hamstring the growth of…
