Tag: twitter
Royal Wedding tops iTunes chart, breaks streaming records
The broadcast of last Friday's Royal Wedding has topped Apple's iTunes chart, beating off competition from the likes of Doctor Who and The Inbetweeners. The free download shows higlights of the wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, and…
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…
All BBC websites out of order last night, but why?
The BBC's online portfolio experienced an unprecedented outage last night, with all of the broadcaster's websites inaccessible from between 11pm and midnight. Twitter was alight with users complaining about the failure, the biggest outage since the BBC.co.uk homepage went down…
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…
AOL-owned Huffington Post gets Twitter power: Biz Stone joins
Following the high-profile $315m takeover by AOL, the popular liberal news site Huffington Post will be joined by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. "Strategic adviser for social impact" is Stone's title at AOL, where he will among other things work…
Twitter follows Facebook in adding 'https' security in battle against hackers
As fraudsters eye up social networks, the industry fights back. From now on, Twitter users will have the option to set the use of "https" as a default option for the micro-blogging site. Https, sitting at the beginning of…
US courts rules that Twitter isn't private … but then why does it feel so personal?
A US judge has ruled that Twitter has to hand over data pertaining to at least three of its users to the authorities, who are looking into their connection with WikiLeaks. The users in question, some of whom aren't…
Ronaldo is sport's most effective social networker, says Facebook exec
Christiano Ronaldo has been crowned the most effective social networker in sport, according to Facebook's Head of International Business Development Christian Hernandez. Speaking at the third annual Global Sports Forum in Barcelona today, Hernandez praised the way the Real Madrid…
