If your AT&T phone drops a call or connects to the web more slowly than normal, complaining about it on Twitter might actually help.
AT&T researcher Jia Wang has published a paper (PDF file) outlining how her company scours Twitter for certain “mobile related words such as phone, mobile, 3G, edge, etc.” paired with certain …
For anyone wondering how Twitter is planning to make money, we have our answer: Promoted Tweets. You may have noticed certain Promoted Tweets when using the search box on Twitter’s website, but the company is now rolling out Promoted Tweets directly in user timelines.
Twitter is taking a baby steps approach by partnering with …
If you’re looking for Twitter to provide you with a reason for its continued existence today, you could do worse than the Twitter reenactment of Back To The Future that’s happening at 5pm EST today. Yes, if you’re following all of the characters from the movie on Twitter, then you too can get 140-character updates as if the movie was …
Hold your horses: Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief operating offer, has become Twitter’s CEO.
The new CEO, Costolo, is a former Google executive and Feedburner CEO. He was brought onto the Twitter team by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams himself, who says that he thought Costolo would be a “strong compliment” to himself. “During his year …
On the subject of the Twitter brouhaha from yesterday, apparently the vulnerability in the site’s code that led to all the pop-ups, worms, and general merriment enjoyed by spammers and hackers was discovered by a 17-year-old Australian named Pearce Delphin.
Apparently Delphin simply posted JavaScript code inside a tweet that caused a …
You might want to stay off of Twitter.com for a while until this all gets sorted out, but apparently plenty of people (myself included) are finding that simply hovering the mouse cursor over links on Twitter’s site is causing random spam-like popups, retweets, and other bad stuff to happen.
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An online auction to raise money for the situation in Haiti is combining celebrity Twitter accounts and fundraising. TwitChange is the first ever celebrity Twitter auction. You can bid on your favorite celebrity to follow you, retweet you and/or @ mention you on twitter. They’re claiming it’s like a “modern day autograph.” It actually …
We at Techland understand that change can be a scary thing, and with the news that Twitter has revamped itself, it can be difficult to adapt quickly to the new medium.
Don’t panic: Everything you loved about Twitter is still there. Though everyone might be oohing and ahhing over the updated features, Twitter has retained all the basic …
In response to questions about Google’s rumored Facebook killer, "Google Me," CEO Eric Schmidt summed everything up pretty succinctly.
"Everybody has convinced themselves that there’s some huge project about to get announced next week. And I can assure you that’s not the case," said Schmidt at Google’s Zeitgeist
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Today’s the big day that multiplayer fanatics and fans of the Halo-verse have been waiting for, when they can finally get their hands on the last Halo game produced by Bungie. We at Techland have been covering the game in-depth for months now and are placing the best of our coverage in one handy place for you guys to enjoy:
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For most of its history, Twitter hasn’t exactly had a reputation for rushing headlong into major changes. Actually, the company has been remarkably conservative–for as long as people have been using the service to share photos, videos, maps, and other information, it’s been obvious that would be cool if you could see all that stuff …
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