The world according to the Motrin Moms

The so-called "Motrin Moms" a small group of vocal Twitter users protesting against an online ad released for Motrin pain killers has scored a win, with the company forced to withdraw the ad and apologize to the ... continue

Motrin Moms Commercial causes outrage. Thing is: seriously?

There's PR controversy afoot in the blogosphere and Twitter today about a commercial for Motrin, a US brand of Ibuprofen. The commercial is a little tongue in cheek, referring to the practice of wearing children in a ... continue

Australian Prime Minister joins Twitter

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has joined Twitter. The Prime Minister's Twitter account, presumably updated by staff comes as part of the launch of the KevinPM site, a tame take on the Obama campaign's social media outreach during ... continue

Zappos Layoffs Update: 8 Percent of Staff Cut

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has kept his promise and revealed full details about the Zappos layoffs, first noticed on the online retailer's official employee Twitter page Thursday. In a new blog posting, Hsieh confirms he had to let ... continue

Zappos Layoffs Revealed Through Twitter

Online retailer Zappos -- the company hailed for its inventive use of Twitter as part of its business model -- appears to have laid off some employees today. The news, ironically enough, is spreading through Zappos' ... continue

Twitter could soon play nicely with its neighbors

Twitter may implement support for the OpenMicroblogging standard, a function that will allow users on any supported service to subscribe to users on other sites running the standard. Jesse Stay stumbled upon the revelation in the Twitter bug ... continue

Pimping your Twitter feed

Ah Twitter how we love you. We use you to spread the wisdom of the crowd, to share our growing wealth of information and to fill the cyber biways with our mindless meanderings. Twitter has spawned a whole ... continue

Can I shove this fire hose down your throat?

Don't get me wrong - I get what this social media idea is all about. It can be great stuff; much like the hippies painting flowers on their cheeks and putting flowers in gun barrels. The idea ... continue

Vlingo Adds Voice-Power to Facebook and Twitter

Vlingo, the BlackBerry app that lets you control your phone with your voice, is launching a souped-up new version today that adds voice support for Facebook and Twitter. Vlingo's first version -- debuted in June -- let you ... continue

Twitter Charts graphs your tweets

Yahoo Pipes mashup Twitter Charts graphs any users Tweets based on a timeline that includes day of the week and by hour. The service also shows engagement based on tweets to other users. Steve Rubel notes that it's ... continue

Twitter may not have a business plan, but it has Britney Spears

Britney Spears has joined Twitter. The often troubled pop star relaunched her website last week, and now offers links to Britney's official YouTube, MySpace and Facebook accounts, along with her "therealbritney" account on Twitter. According to various reports, the ... continue

Measure Your Twitter Influence and “Social Capital”

Want to see just how influential your Twitter-based thoughts really are? Check out twInfluence, a new tool that uses the Twitter API gauges the reach of your Tweets and the people who read them. The service, boasting ... continue