Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed – with no one knowing about them through all this time. Facebook reportedly initiated [...]

Over the week I have been given an opportunity to play with a private beta of a new European startup called Shout’Em. The startup is intended for anyone to create and manage a microblogging community like Twitter or Pownce or any other Twitter clone you have already seen. The team calls Shout’Em a “Ning for [...]

Louis Gray has just published a review of yet another Twitter tool named TweetValue intended to assign value to any Twitter account – this time the value expressed in real money. We have already seen applications calculating all types of ranks for us but TweetValue goes one step further and encourages us to know how [...]

Have you ever noticed that Twitter content is generally suitable for all audiences? For some reason everyone tries to stick to language that will not offend anyone and you will rarely see strong language used in tweets in public. And even when strong words are used, twitterers will often choose to mask them somehow not [...]

I may be paranoid or something but I have a feeling that there is something very suspicious going on in the spam empire. You may remember that this week we have discussed news about a hosting company that powered numerous spammers and scammers disconnected from the internet. What’s more, we were told that we should [...]

JigTweets is a new little tool launching today that allows a Twitter user to update his or her Twitter feed with just about anything – be it a picture, a URL, an RSS feed, a location or a YouTube video. To start using the service you will need to go to its website where you [...]

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 [...]