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 …
Twitter Launches @earlybird For Special Deals
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 …
Poll: Were Utah Attorney General’s Live-Tweets Of An Execution TMI?
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 …
Poll: Will You Watch A Movie On Your iPhone?
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 …
Wait A Sec: Did Twitter Just Cast Donald Glover as the New Spider-Man?
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 …
Watch Heidi Montag’s Transformers 3 Audition Tape
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 …
Twitter to Block Third Party Sponsored Tweets
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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Poll: Should Twitter Surrender The Names Of Its Users To Police?
The Pennsylvania attorney general Tom Corbett has subpoenaed Twitter for the identity of two of its users who tweeted critical stuff about him. So far, Twitter’s reps say they will protect the personal information of its users. Do you think Twitter should give the information up or tell Corbett where he can stick his subpoena in 140 …
Poll: Does Twitter’s New App Really Matter?
Today, Twitter announced that it’s (finally) rolling out an iPhone app, after a few years of using third-party apps like Tweetie or Twitterific. Will you make the switch or can the other guys do it just as well?
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Twitter Tattoo Means Twitter Will Be Around Forever
This probably isn’t the first Twitter tattoo (henceforth known as a twattoo) and it probably won’t be the last, but it’s the latest. An enterprising young lady has decided to work at building her personal brand by getting a tattoo that says “follow me” in Twitter’s font next to Twitter’s bird logo along her left arm. Her …
Tweetie 2 Is Now Twitter For iPhone, Out Now
It’s now official, folks. Tweetie 2 has morphed into Twitter for iPhone and it’s free. I’ve been a Tweetie 2 user for some time so the change isn’t very drastic and I don’t see too many changes to begin with aside from Search. It’s a significant change, but I never really used it all that often on T2. Nevertheless it’s out …
Kindle Update Coming In May, Social Networking In Tow
Sound the alarm. Raise the roof. Do a jig. And have a seat for some exciting Kindle news.
Sometime towards the latter half of May, Kindle owners will receive a notification to update software to v2.5. A handful of folks around the Web were quick to jump on the social networking integration, which is nice and all but the other …