Twitter is without any doubt the current darling of the Internet with number of users sitting at around the 6 million mark and growing. The numbers of course depend on who you listen to ...
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How does a journalist show to the world that they just don’t understand the Internet and Social Media? Well if you are a Times journalist by the name of Rachel Sylvester you would talk about ...
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I usually try and keep a civil tongue in my head even though there are time where the urge to be expressive about something gets the better of me. Well if I decide to do ...
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Mashable has introduced a new "social ad format" that incorporates Twitter updates from sponsors.
According to Mashable founder Pete Cashmore:
Twitter Brand Sponsors is a small step towards our sociable ads goal. Here’s how it works: a limited number ...
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I am a fan of FriendFeed and I hang out on Twitter but I have never been a fan of Facebook. Sure I have an account with the service but I only drop by there once ...
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The new wave of Twitter users got a dose of Twitter past today as the Twitter API failed, blocking access to third party Twitter clients.
As of 4pm PST, there is no official word from Twitter about the ...
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Before I go running screaming into night from this deluge of Twitter posts I thought I would pass this little tidbit on to you all – after all why should I suffer alone. It ...
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I just caught this from Rex Hammock (thanks bud) on FriendFeed and it appears that the Skittles home page has been taken over. Yup Twitter search is beginning its monetization plan – taking over other web ...
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The scramble is on in the blogosphere to try and figure out just how Twitter is going to make money following some recent statements by Todd Dagres, a VC with Sparks Capital which is a recent ...
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While I might think that all this interest in all things Twitter is borderline stupid I have a job to do and that means putting aside my feelings about Twitter and tell you the news. ...
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For those of you with short memories there was a point last year when Twitter had to cut off SMS service to Canada because it was costing them too much money. Granted those with smartphones ...
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As Twitter continues to boom, so to does the market for 3rd party Twitter desktop clients. The once champ of the desktop Twitteriffic was replaced by Twhirl at the top of the popular list last year, but ...
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For the last six months Tweetdeck and 12seconds have been working together supporting each others efforts which enabled Tweetdeck to view 12seconds created video messages directly from Tweetdeck. Luckily enough I was able to ...
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Jason Calacanis' Mahalo has added Twitter support to its question and answer service Mahalo Answers.
The new feature allows anyone to ask a question of the service by sending the question to @answers on Twitter. Submitted questions are ...
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Did they or didn't they? Back in November it was reported that Twitter turned down a $500 million offer from Facebook, but as far as we know the story was never confirmed. Until now.
Michael Brunnbauer (GQ_Germany on ...
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Yet another star appearing on Twitter isn't something we'd usually report on, but this star is both a favorite, and comes with a dose of insanity.
Director David Lynch, the man behind Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks in ...
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With the massive growth in Twitter over the last year, a backlash that wasn't related to the now historical, and perhaps infamous inability to keep the service up was bound to happen.
Andy Pemberton in The Times leads ...
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Note: Three days after the publication of this story, ShareThis informed us that its staff made an error in the data that it shared with us.
While the January 2009 percentages were correct, ShareThis analysts seemingly misplaced ...
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*If you believe everything you read
Using Facebook is going to kill you. Twitter, too. Don't say you haven't been warned.
A study from a British biology journal has seemingly spawned some pretty entertaining headlines, as the folks over ...
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Miley Cyrus doesn't care about her fans? If you were following the teen sensation on Twitter Monday you would have gotten that picture.
“I’m not a fucking role model. I hate little kids, I only do Hannah Montanna ...
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Ashton Kutcher is far from a popular celebrity in the tabloids or the blogosphere. The toy boy of Demi Moore has come in for a lot of criticism, some of it deserved since he hooked up with ...
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Community Manager / Evangelist at Strands Drew Olanoff likes his tats, and he has one of the more impressive geek collections I've ever seen.
But what if you could take Drew's love of tats and raise money for ...
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