We can’t believe it took this long, but Twitter finally launched their official app for the iPad.
Fully utilizing the touch interface, you’ll be able to touch tweet your thoughts. Oh, and it’s free!
- Panes open to the right of each tweet that expand the video, photo or text links that the user shared.
- You can …
“We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so…very…pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.” – Mal from Firefly
On nerd news tonight:
Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber to Sue Bluewater Comics (Bleeding Cool)
Single Serving …
In the future, we will invariably die two deaths: The first will be physical (Hospitals, loved ones, tombstones). The second, and potentially more noticeable death will be digital (Facebook memorializing, stagnant Twitter accounts, lost passwords). Just recently, Twitter established a policy to handle accounts after the death of a user. …
The team at Microsoft who’s in charge of mice, keyboards and other peripherals has turned to Twitter to tease out an upcoming product.
We caught a glimpse of said new product on July 27 with a spliced image revealing the corner of a matte black finish peripheral. Yesterday they offered the following hint: “Don’t be so …
Friday, July 30, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
I Tweet, Therefore I Am [NYT]
Our Worst Nightmare Realized: Subway Stations To Have Cell Service, Wi-Fi [NY Mag]
Steve Jobs’ Secret Porn Experience [Gawker]
Could The EU’s Digital Agenda Force Apple To Put Flash On The iPhone? [The …
Last week Twitter announced @earlybird, a promo stream for the company’s advertising partners. The account will dole out exclusive deals to its followers, as given by said ad partners and deal sites Groupon and Gilt. The first deal was announced this morning and after all the talk, frankly, it was a bit of a let down. The offer, good at …
I imagine the meeting for @earlybird at Twitter went a little something like this:
Twitter 1: “We need to start making money, guys.”
Twitter 2: “Affiliate sales!”
Twitter 1: “Genius.”
Or something more asinine than that. Anyway, if you choose to follow @earlybird you’ll get twitters about special time-sensitive …
Twitter is an unusual tool. We’re able to read and reply to our friends’ quips in real time. It’s a news hub, a land of hilarious viral videos, social activism and Roger Ebert.
So, imagine if you will, the stark contrast that hit me when a friend retweeted Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, moments after he’d given word to have …
Today, we hung on Steve Jobs’ every word until we got confirmation of what we were suspecting: iPhone 4!
(More on Techland: Apple’s New iPhone 4: The Specs Sheet)
Not only is it smaller, features multitasking and a front-facing camera, but just like the iPad, it’s got Netflix streaming capability. Pretty cool? Roger Ebert says …
Twitter led SNL producers to cast Betty White as host. Now the viral campaign is afoot to cast Donald Glover as the first black Spider-Man.
And what’s most surprising about the latter campaign is the speed with which this Glover mania has taken flight. In less than a week, the concept has gone from a fringe comment posted in …
Sorry, but the Megan 3.0 job has been filled.
Heidi Montag, star of MTV “reality show” The Hills, posted this 30-second clip to what she thought was Transformers director Michael Bay’s Twitter page. Filmed at American Defense Enterprises, she yells “This is for you, Michael Bay!” just before a little target practice.
(More on …
If and when you see sponsored tweets show up in your Twitter stream, they’ll be coming from Twitter itself. CEO Dick Costolo today announced that Twitter “will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API.”
The post, titled “The Twitter Platform,” could have just
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