If you’re President of the United States, you’ve probably got bigger fish to fry than worrying about writing 140-character updates online.
Obama, though, will finally start regularly tweeting from his Twitter account. If you thought the man himself had been doing the work himself this whole time, don’t be surprised: His staff …
It’s the kind of news you can use next time concerned parents bring up the idea that the internet is making people more withdrawn and closed off from the rest of humanity: A new study from the Pew Research Center has found that online social networks actually seem to make people more social.
Pew polled 2,255 Americans during October …
Start spreading the news: New Yorkers love to tweet – but maybe not as much as they would like to think.
Dropped in the middle of a New York Times piece about Anthony Weiner was this line:
“Residents of the state of New York use Twitter some thirty percent more than the national average, and New York City, for per capita use, is
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You know those “Promoted” items that appear in the list of trending topics on your Twitter home page? Ever wondered how much it might cost to buy one?
Turns out the going rate is a cool $120,000 per day.
And if you’re smart, you’ll buy one sooner rather than later, because that price is five times higher than it was just a year …
Undoubtedly, re-penning the law of the land is a fairly considerable task. But keep in mind that it’s no longer the age of quills and parchment paper. So what’s a country to do in these high-tech times?
Simple: Follow Iceland’s lead.
The European island country is, like any good non-dictatorship, turning to its people for some …
Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by condensing links down to more manageable Twitter lengths of roughly 20 characters long.
Financers were impressed. In October of last …
Nothing is sacrosanct. We all go through the same motions in life, right? So what’s wrong with tweeting while you’re in child labor? Or sending pictures of some distinctly manly parts? At what point do I stop telling the world what I just ate for lunch?
Most recently, New York Representative Anthony Weiner tweeted a rather …
Pick your sides. The lines have been drawn.
During Monday’s World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced a complete integration with Twitter for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. (See here for more from the WWDC announcement.)
Users will be able to use a single login for Twitter that will work across Camera, Photo and other …
Two unexpected words have joined the list of those you can’t say on television and radio news in France: “Facebook” and “Twitter.”
The French TV regulatory agency, Conseil Superieur de l’Audiovisuel, has banned mentions of either company on the air unless it relates to a specific story about said companies, for fear of unfair …
The success of a TV show is no longer dependent on its official viewer ratings – Twitter and Facebook are increasingly telling producers and advertisers everything they need to know.
I’ve noticed it in my Twitter stream, you must have seen it in yours: Every evening, the big TV show of the night gets a slew of mentions by those …
Clap if you like, or just shrug if you don’t care: Twitter’s finally going to let you upload and share photos directly, through its website. The takeaway: No more Yfrog or TwitPic or Twitgoo for you.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told users Wednesday at the D9 conference (wherein a bunch of celebrity tech folk chat with media bigwigs) that …
I guess you could call this the 2011 equivalent of writing standards.
Back in January, Fahmi Fadzil – a social activist and “performer & writer,” according to his Twitter account – tweeted that his pregnant friend was treated unkindly by her then-employer, Female Magazine. Mr. Fadzil realized his error, and issued an apology a …
