Publishing something on Twitter is not the same as relinquishing ownership, the US District Court has ruled to the relief of millions of Twitter users worldwide. District Court Judge William Pauley has disallowed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that photographer Daniel Morel has brought against Agence France-Presse for using his work …
Twitter Moves To Eradicate All Non-Twitter Twitter Sites
2011 might be the year when Twitter stops being nice and starts being real… Or real litigious, at least. Following September’s request from the company that social community “Twitter Moms” change their name so as to avoid any trademark infringement, Ad Age checked in to find out whether this was the start of a new pro-active regime, …
The Internet Is The Enemy Of Journalism, Claims Internet CEO
The internet is killing journalism – but tablet culture may save it. Or, at least, that’s the view of Mike McCue, chief executive of Flipboard (Apple’s App of The Year) and new board member for Twitter, who told the LA Times that he thinks that the reading experience of the internet is detrimental to… well, reading:
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Could Twitter Games Replicate Farmville-Sized Success?
Fledgling social gaming company play140 wants to make your microblogging habit into addictive game play.
No doubt attempting to recreate the success of social gaming giant Zynga, the creator of online juggernaut Farmville, play140 is trying to jumpstart gaming a la tweets. And the company will make its attempt with very little …
Geek Squad Reenacting “Home Alone” On Twitter
It’s one of the quintessential Christmas movies – although most of us often forget about it on our annual lists. Home Alone captivated a generation of young children who often dreamed about having the run of their houses, minus the burglars of course. Since you can’t pop in the tape at work to watch the movie again and relive some good …
The Tweets Of 2010: Brought To You By Corporate Sponsorship
Can we consider our conversations sponsored? It’s easy to argue that hot topics have always been spurred in one way or another by advertisers who attempt to bend public groupthink to their advantage, but in the past it’s been done by way of billboards, print advertisements or commercials. Now, a nice slice of our online banter has …
Acai Berry Twitter Spam Hijacks Thousands Of Feeds
In a morning swimming in cyber attacks, Twitter is now fending off one of its own. A new acai berry Twitter scheme has compromised thousands of accounts, spamming followers with dangerous links.
Mashable reported that the spam was spreading at a pace of 10,000 tweets per minute early this morning, with tweets linking to an …
Study Shows Only 8 Percent of People Online Use Twitter
Strangely enough, although it seems that everyone and their mother has a Twitter account, a recent study by PEW Internet and Life Project discovered that only eight percent of people online admitted having a Twitter account, with two percent saying they use it every day. Twenty-four percent of people surveyed did say they used some sort …
Twitter On Possible #WikiLeaks Block: It Isn’t What You Think
Twitter has responded to accusations of the possible censoring of WikiLeaks hashtags that have hit the blogs this week.
(More on Techland: Who Are The WikiLeaks Hackivists?)
In the wake of big web blocks from Amazon and Paypal, Twitter says it won’t block WikiLeaks-related conversations from trending. In a blog post, Twitter …
God of War’s Kratos in PS3 Version of Upcoming “Mortal Kombat”
The angry Spartan hero of the Playstation’s action series will be facing off against the ninjas and mystical warriors in next year’s Mortal Kombat reboot. According to the latest issue of Official Playstation Magazine, Kratos will be exclusively playable in the Playstation 3 version of Mortal Kombat. David Jaffe–creator of the God of …
Hackers Target MasterCard for Blocking WikiLeaks Payments
A group of hackers simply going by the name “Anonymous” is targeting companies that have blocked whistleblowing site WikiLeaks from using their services.
The latest target is MasterCard, whose site mastercard.com has currently been knocked offline thanks to a series of DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks against it. On a very …
Tumblr Still Down, Bloggers Flock To Twitter
Tumblr has been out of commission since the site crashed on Sunday, and unable to blog about it, users of the social media site have been Tweeting their displeasure.
Since the Tumblr tech department also can’t blog their progress on fixing the problem, the website has turned to Twitter to update the depressed writers who haven’t been …