A new survey by the Pew Research Center released today tells us a little more about the Twitter demographic, though most of it isn’t all that surprising.
13% of online adults in the U.S. use Twitter, up from 8% in 2010. 25% of African Americans online are on Twitter and 19% of Hispanics online are also users. Though they’re the second …
When we last left the U.K. super-injunction saga, a London court had issued an order asking Twitter to turn over the names of the anonymous users who tweeted about the alleged affair between footballer Ryan Giggs and reality TV star Imogen Thomas. The question on everyone’s mind was: How exactly is the U.K. going to enforce its laws on …
According to multiple sources, Twitter is launching its own photo sharing service, spelling bad news for third party options like Twitpic and Yfrog that currently fill the void. Twitter is expected to make the announcement at the D9 conference this week in California.
With citizen photojournalism staking a place alongside traditional …
Attention, humanity: We seem to be suffering from an acute case of stupidity.
There’s a viral misconception making its way through our Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles and injecting itself into our brains. And it’s leading those infected to believe these social sites are looking out for us.
Yesterday, we wondered if Twitter …
Cynics who claimed online ads would have no staying power might want to bite their tongues. Why? Turns out, online advertising spending just hit a record high in the first quarter with a total of $7.3 billion spent.
The amount represents a 23% increase from $5.9 billion in the first quarter of last year, the Interactive Advertising …
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
Earlier this month Ryan Giggs, a professional soccer player who plays for the U.K.’s Manchester United, obtained a court-ordered injunction to keep secret the details of an extra-marital affair with British television personality Imogen Thomas. The short story is that he didn’t want the U.K. press writing about his …
Twitter has made its acquisition of TweetDeck official, while trying to assure users that their beloved third-party client won’t go away.
TweetDeck is an excellent tool for Twitter power users, showing news feeds, replies and other customizable categories as a series of columns. It can also pull in news feeds and wall posts from …
Twitter has reportedly bought TweetDeck for an estimated $40 million.
London-based TweetDeck has enjoyed huge global success with its Twitter software, first for desktop computers and later for a variety of mobile devices.
TweetDeck appeals to hardcore tweeters who spend lots of their time on the social network. It makes it easy to …
A lot of people love their cars. But would you friend yours?
Most of today’s cars are as much computer-on-wheels as they are transportation. Toyota and Salesforce.com have decided that if cars are going to be smart, they should be smart enough to talk to us.
Wait, though: not like KITT in Knight Rider. Not that sort of …
What do you do when you’re one of the most popular people on Twitter? Launch your own Twitter desktop app, of course. That’s just what Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) has done with his new “A.Plus” application.
Available for both PC and Mac computers, the application is basically a desktop Twitter client running on Adobe’s AIR platform that …
Twitter is coming to London, despite the super-injunction row it got pulled into last week.
The company’s deal-maker Tony Wang has already moved across the Atlantic with his family, and is starting work on building a new London-based team to look after Twitter’s business in the U.K. and Europe.
The injunction row, centered on a …
