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Tumblr Hires Journalists to Write About Tumblr
Call it a snake eating its own tail or a smart take on objectively monitoring a particularly under-served area of the internet, but social blog service Tumblr raised eyebrows yesterday with the news that it was hiring two writers …
Angry Birds Is Coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day
In a development sure to kill office productivity around the world, Rovio founder Peter Vesterbacka announced that Angry Birds is coming to Facebook on Valentine’s Day.
Vesterbacka told Asian tech blog Penn Olson that Rovio is …
Social Media and Sports: Natural Teammates
Social media and sports are natural teammates. Enthusiastic fans are eager for updates on their favorite teams and the opportunity to rant about what went wrong in the playoffs or why their coach should be fired. On the flip …
Facebook, Twitter Engineers Thwart Google with ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Script
The fallout over Google’s personalized “Search, plus Your World” feature continues as engineers from Facebook, Twitter and Myspace have created a browser add-on that not only negates the effects of Google+-centric search, but …
Ready or Not, Your Facebook Profile Is About to Get the New Timeline Design
And so it begins.
Though Facebook’s new “Timeline” design has been available to those looking to switch their profiles over for a while now, the rest of us who haven’t had the time and/or energy and/or caringness (new word?) …
Tweets-Per-Second Record Reportedly Shattered by Chinese Microblogging Service
If you thought that Twitter’s record of 25,088 tweets per second was impressive, you’ve clearly been spending the New Year with the wrong crowd. This weekend’s Chinese New Year celebrations saw 481,207 messages sent via Sina …
AOL’s Hyperlocal ‘Patch’ Network Triples Traffic in 2011, but What Does That Mean?
AOL’s network of hyperlocal blogs, Patch, may have become more than a little controversial for its use of unpaid writers and rumors it’s lost ridiculous piles of money, but it’s possible that the audience doesn’t care — new …
U.S. State Department to Take Press Briefing Questions via Twitter
Consider it a particularly unexpected collision of democracy and technology in action: Starting this week, the official spokesperson of the U.S. Department of State will answer questions from Twitter users as part of press …
Rupert Murdoch Has Joined Twitter, But His Wife’s Account Isn’t Real
Wendi Deng—easily the most famous pie-defender on Twitter— publicly censored her husband, Rupert Murdoch, for sending out a potentially offensive tweet. That’s what the British media led the world to believe for 24 hours, …
Lady Gaga’s Twitter Account Hacked, 17 Million Followers Offered ‘Free’ iPads
Lady Gaga may love her little monsters, but not enough to give each and every one of the 17 million-plus that follow her on Twitter a free iPad. That’s why, when she appeared to do that very thing yesterday, people were …
Facebook Makes New ‘Timeline’ Design Available to Everyone
Let the chaos begin! Facebook’s new scrapbook-like Timeline design is now available to all users. Some of you will love it! Some of you already love it! Some of you will hate it! Some of you already hate it! These are Facebook …