comScore has a new report out that shows Twitter doubling its global audience over the last year but saw a fourfold audience growth in Latin America during that time.
Their study found that Twitter saw an increase of ...
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If you've been on internet forums or any social media outlet, you're probably aware that certain topics are almost always ground zero for a flame war- among them are circumcision, tipping waitstaff and breastfeeding.
A Tulsa coffeeshop owner ...
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I remember when Friendfeed first burst upon the scene and how much I liked it. One of the things that I liked that unlike Twitter it did an automatic page refresh at a certain rate of time, ...
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Like this is any real surprise but Mike Melanson over at ReadWriteWeb brings us the results of a recent survey taken by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism as part of its ...
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Poor Southwest Airlines can't seem to please passengers of any size this year.
First, Kevin Smith started a one-hefty-dude Twitter campaign against the bargain airline after being humiliated and asked to leave the plane in front of all ...
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They say all is fair in love and war but those two things pale in comparison to the the current smartphone battlefield where even the slightest victories can be worth millions.
Of course the uncontested winner at this point is ...
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Automatically updating apps from actual, born people can be a bit irritating- should we start enabling the ability to tweet for twitterers in utero?
When I read about the Kickbee (>gag<) "Tummy Tweeter," I was a combination of ...
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It doesn't matter where you go on the Web because just about every blog out there has a ReTweet button somewhere in a post. Just as with Facebook's Like button the ReTweet buttons are an easy way ...
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It's kind of funny that true to his persona, the Old Spice "on a horse" guy totally did social media for a few days and rocked everyone's socks and now he's peacing out.
It's like a storyline from ...
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We first heard about a new official Twitter account called @earlybird a few weeks ago. The idea is very much like what Dell has been doing on Twitter for sometime - offering special deals on products via ...
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Although the internet will often reject attempts to pander to it, the Old Spice "I'm on a Horse" guy is pretty much loved by everyone.
The commercials starring Isaiah Mustafa have gone wildly viral, and today the brand ...
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When I first saw the headline for this story my first reaction was to check my calendar to see if we had skipped the better part of a year or something. This has to be some form ...
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Talk about hitting the nail right on the head. This was was delivered with a sledgehammer.
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Approximately 8 hours ago LeBron James launched his official Twitter account and he already has over 182,000 followers at the time of this post.
The official account @KingJames quickly gained attention when analysts announced James may reveal which ...
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News that LeBron James has joined Twitter has taken the web by storm. The NBA's most eligible player is expected to soon announce which team he'll play for and many analysts expect he'll use the micro-blogging service ...
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Even though it is a holiday in the US and no news tech to speak of I had wanted to write more today, but for most of the day I have been trying to recover from a ...
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Twitter usage for corporations has become an interesting study in brand interaction, and the microblogging service is currently bouncing around the story of a social media fan who sent a simple tweet:
"AAAHHH Im outta wheat thins... Mi ...
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I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I first read this but it seems that AT&T is going to try the whole social media idea as a way to try and repair their bruised and ...
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27-year-old Lee Kye-Hwa used microblogging service Twitter to post a sad, short message before taking his own life.
The former DJ, who police say was distraught over financial concerns, posted a 140 character suicide note:
"I'm going to commit ...
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I'm not sure what the hell is going on but Twitter seems to have lost its mind. For some reason tweets are getting massively duplicated and they just aren't my own tweets but also others as well.
From ...
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Twitter is celebrating the launch of Twitter Places by presenting all users with the Fail Whale for at least the past hour.
According to the Twitter status blog, this time the outage is due to "scheduled maintenance," and more information ...
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Twitter of late seems to be chanelling its past with repeated bouts serious downtime, including downtime as of 2am PDT Sunday (7pm AEST) as we write this post.
The more frequent downtime of late would seem to coincide ...
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