Your taxpayer dollars at work: the US State Department has sent representatives of YouTube, WordPress, Twitter and other tech companies to Iraq to "explore new opportunities to support Iraqi government and non-government stakeholders in Iraq’s emerging new ...
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Twitter gets used for a lot of different things but this one from the marketing department behind the summer movie Terminator Salvation have come up with something new. Using a combination of Twitter and a ...
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It’s one thing to see the mugshots of famous people show up on the web but getting busted for anything in Denton Texas could see you show up on Twitter. To make it clear ...
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With the proliferation of social media services the use if URL shorteners has escalated to a point that you can’t turn around without another one popping up. Everyone and their brother it seems whants ...
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As Twitter continues to boom, Twitter advertising is slowly starting to emerge as a hot button issue, at least when delivered by third parties.
Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWriteWeb on April 10 covered advertising through one of a number ...
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The blogosphere was a-buzzin' all day yesterday about Twitter's mysterious "big news," cryptically mentioned in a tweet by founder Evan Williams. "Tomorrow just became a very big day," Williams wrote. What could it be? What was this ...
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About three hours ago Asthon Kutcher reached 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. He beat @CNNbrk with about 2000 followers. About 30 minutes later the CNN feed reached the mark
Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) confirmed his win with this tweet: "You ...
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All good celebrity news writers follow Britney Spears on Twitter... so I saw a tweet on her account earlier today with a link to a photo on Twitpic. After clicking through, glancing at the Britney Spears ...
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So what’s the big news these days? The recession starting to see an upswing in China? North Korea reactivating its nuclear program? The Obama clan get a new hypo-allergenic puppy? No. ...
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People love to make fun of Twitter and all the minute by minute inanity that gets broadcasted for all the world to hear, or at least the Twittersphere. There have been yucks about plants twittering ...
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Twitter was attacked by at least two worms over the weekend, causing an enormous amount of noise across the tech blogosphere and on Twitter itself (see our coverage of the first worm here.)
The stupid kiddie behind the ...
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Yesterday Twitter was hit by a worm. This is the first serious worm attack on Twitter. At first the reports were very mixed, some said you got infected by visiting StalkDaily, others if you visited a Twitter ...
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Twitter is buzzing right now with news of links to a phishing site called stalkdaily spreading like wildfire as people are inadvertently clicking on the links. Apparently, when you click on one of those links and you're ...
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One of the big terms used in Social Media is that of personal and corporate brands and how important they are. The idea being that as individuals we can create a recognizable brand around ...
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Low-character names may be all snatched up when it comes to domains, but nearly 18,000 three-character names are still unclaimed on Twitter, one monitoring service says.
Domain Pigeon says it's detected 17,855 available three-character names on Twitter as ...
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The self-declared "king of all media" has decided to give social media a whirl. Howard Stern announced the launch of a Twitter profile on his show today. The Howard Stern Twitter account will provide behind-the-scenes details of ...
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On April 6th, Miley Cyrus posted the following tweet from her phone to her Twitter account:
"helplessly and hopelessly wondering around ny trying to find a starbucks."
Then, as a followup to the above, she posted this photo to ...
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The Twitter application market is booming at the moment off the back of Twitter's phenomenal growth this year. Seesmic launched Seesmic Desktop yesterday (the new Twhirl), delivering multi-account access to a multi-column client. TweetDeck is out with ...
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TweetDeck has released v0.25 of its desktop Twitter client today. The update, now available here, incorporates the Facebook functionality introduced in the latest beta edition. The update will also formally introduce the 12seconds integration tested in the ...
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We're hearing a lot about the explosion of Twitter into mainstream culture these days. The site's traffic has grown more than 700 percent worldwide in the past year. Some new data suggests the majority of Twitter's users, ...
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From the guys over at Holy Taco comes an epic tale told 140 characters at a time.
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Have you ever felt like you’ve just gone ten rounds with Muhammad Ali and come out the worse for it? Well that is pretty similar to the last twenty minutes I’ve sat here watching the real-time ...
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