Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

I am still trying to get out some posts out with my impressions of the startups that we have seen launched early this week at TechCrunch 50 and DEMOfall. I have not attended any of the two events but that gave me certain freedom of tracking what was going on and reading everything other bloggers [...]

The world’s largest particles collider (Large Hadron Collider) has successfully completed its first major test by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva by firing a beam of protons around the 27-kilometer underground tunnel. This experiment is supposed to increase our knowledge of the makeup of the universe. Some skeptics predicted (and still continue [...]

One of the products debuted at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco is Yammer – a product dabbed by Erick Schonfeld “Twitter for companies”. That basically means that it is yet another microblogging product and a niche one at that – targeted at enterprise market specifically. The main idea here is that there is [...]

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful. People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if [...]

Only yesterday we reported on TwittAd – a new marketplace to connect Twitter account owners with potential advertisers to sell some graphic ads right on our Twitter profiles. The discussion on that post and in comments on other blogs was around real potential of such a service to sell any ads and provide any value [...]

I wonder when Twitter will finally notice how many people come up with creative ways to use Twitter for business while Twitter keeps earning nothing at all off those millions of users participating in the micro-blogging community. Right now it looks like Twitter is determined to continue ignoring this same as it has been doing [...]

Last Thursday Twitter officially announced its war on spam on the microblogging service and provided some details on what measures would be implemented. Basically they hired a dedicated person to track accounts engaging in suspicious activities, suspending and reviewing these accounts to either completely remove or restore if the account owner is found to be [...]

I am sure that every Twitter user has already seen this or that example of marketing or promotion on Twitter. We have also seen ideas that popular users can monetize their accounts with huge numbers of followers by using some brand’s logo for their avatars and skinning for their entire pages. Today we finally see [...]

Today Twitter blog discusses the new measures the team is taking to fight spam on Twitter. Many of us have noticed that spam on Twitter is growing into a more and more acute problem. We have also recently seen cases of very malicious ways to use Twitter when you can actually have your PC infected [...]