Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

For some reason Twitter has chosen Japan as the country where the team experiments with the latest features of the microblogging tool. The reason is that in Japan Twitter is a joint venture between Twitter itself and Digital Garage - hence the startup can behave differently in the country with experiments that are not seen [...]

Normally I tend not to notice spammers on Twitter. Of course I get some following notifications from accounts obviously belonging to spammers and have self-promotion is the only reason for their Twitter presence but normally it is not difficult to ignore such accounts. But lately I have noticed a trend that is disturbing - the [...]

It is quite obvious that we could not do without a special meme on Twitter for Halloween and it is there, of course - Chris Brogan and Bryan Eisenberg came up with the idea of Trick or Treat Twitter style, properly named Trick or Tweet here.
The idea is to do something good no matter what [...]

To me the most fascinating meme of the past weekend was that about Twitter and how it could potentially be used by terrorists. The meme started on Friday after Wired contributing editor Noah Shachtman published a story on his national security blog Danger Room about a report on the potential dangers of Twitter and various [...]

After all, we can not constantly talk about the economic turmoil, there must be some bright spots in the daily flow of gloomy news - and here we have one with Britney Spear arriving to the social media scene with a blog of her own offering ways to befriend Britney on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and [...]

There’s no doubt that the economic crisis we are now in now will damage some industries and change others. And of course internet will be one of the industries affected. I think it is already obvious that if there is one thing that needs to be changed and will probably change, it is the way [...]

Of course it is quite understandable that everyone has to do some personal staff now and then when in the office - like answer an urgent phone call or have a quick chat on Skype with a friend to decide where to meet in the evening. I believe that it is even worse with IT [...]

I like checking out current Twitter trends from time to time to see what topics get the most attention in the twitterverse. While Google Trends are also interesting and often show some very interesting things about what is popular among internet population on any given day, the most popular topics on Twitter are also interesting [...]

Yesterday we saw the first niche website launched by Twitter - Twitter E08 focused on presidential election campaign in the US. The website works by simply filtering twitter messages (tweets) from all users by certain keywords and aggregate these messages into one page. The site is updated with new topical messages in real time.
In addition [...]