Twitter through history: July 4th, 1776

From the site Historical Tweets, a glimpse at history as seen through the eyes of Twitter. Another funny one: continue

Fire at authorize.net grinds e-commerce to a halt

Score one for bricks and mortar shopping. Seattle based authorize.net was offline for hours this morning following a fire at a data center at Seattle's Fisher's Plaza. Reportedly many companies were affected, but authorize.net is the only one ... continue

Not enough Twitter followers? Pay uSocial to find more

Want to be on Twitter but don’t have the time or social media skills to find followers on your own? If that is the case then a new service from Australian social media marketing ... continue

Adam Savage mobilizes Twitter against AT&T

AT&T has been trending heavily on Twitter of late, and not because of its friendship with the iPhone. Adam Savage has invoked the wrath of 50,000 Twitter followers in the general direction of telecommunications giant AT&T due to ... continue

Michael Jackson Death News Causes Widespread Internet Chaos

As news broke of Michael Jackson's heart attack and subsequent death yesterday, thousands of sites buckled under the load of millions of people coming online to search for the latest news. The world's number one search engine, Google.com, ... continue

Way to go Guy Kawasaki, thanks for the malware tweet

Wow, makes me almost glad that I don’t follow Mr. Kawasaki on Twitter, unlike Guy’s other 139,000 followers who were left open to a possible malware threat from one of his automated tweets. According to the report ... continue

Habitat UK’s Twitter fail

UK home furnishings retailer Habitat is profusely apologizing after a pretty big fail on the social media front. Habitat's twitter page, @HabitatUK, got caught out spamming trending topics to get attention on the popular microblogging service. Okay, bad. ... continue

Turning Twitter into a psychological Match.com

A week or so ago I wrote about a new service built on top of Twitter called TweetPsych, which aimed to provide you with some psychological markers based on your Twitter account. It did ... continue

Who Else Wants a House that Tweets?

A computer engineer from the U.K. has wired up his family home with sensors that send messages to Twitter, which he then receives alerts for on his cellphone. Yes, the house tweets. Andy Stanford-Clark, 43, has a historic ... continue

Iran and Social Media – watershed moments in history

For anyone following any of the reports coming our of Iran it isn’t very difficult to see that to potential for change is sitting on the cusp. It’s been bloody, it’s been violent and ... continue

The BEST Twitter-Iran cartoon yet

As Twitter gets proclaimed as the CNN of social media news reporting there are some things right now that old media does very well and one of those things is the political/social commentary cartoons. ... continue

Arnold Schwarzenegger tweets about plane emergency

A plane carrying California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced to make an emergency landing Friday afternoon, and the first news came from the Governor himself who shared the story on Twitter. The plane carrying Schwarzenegger was on route ... continue