Next time your friend whispers some scurrilous rumor in your ear, then leans back and swears “It must be true! I saw the tweet!” be forewarned: tweets ain’t always what they seem.
Not with a website like TweetForger lurking on the internet.
TweetForger, you see, lets anyone create a realistic-looking tweet supposedly written by
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Twitter may claim 175 million registered users, but anyone who’s looked at their “@” messages knows at least some of those users are really spambots quoting lines from Star Wars or Raiders of The Lost Ark the second you mention George Lucas. So how many people are really on Twitter?
The people at BusinessInsider wondered the same …
The people have spoken, prompting Twitter to remove the QuickBar from its official iPhone app.
Added in early March, the QuickBar showed a single random trending topic–sometimes sponsored, sometimes organic–that stuck to the top of the Tweet stream. In response to user backlash, Twitter released an update that made the QuickBar …
You founded a leading Internet domain registrar, you ran some racy Super Bowl spots, and on vacation in Zimbabwe, you shoot bull elephants. Why? Because they cause crop damage, and you wanted to take out the “problem” animals.
That’s what GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons had to say after animal-rights group PETA (People for the Ethical …
Perhaps responding to online whisperings that he’d gone oddly silent recently, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams wrote a blog post last night, declaring his creation’s future was “bigger and better.”
Comparing the growth of Twitter with his previous successful project, Blogger, Williams said:
“The reason I left Blogger/Google when I
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If you have a Twitter account, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart.
That’s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter’s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with.
Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter …
The cloud? Good. No girlfriend? Bad. A cloud-based girlfriend? Better than no girlfriend, apparently.
The idea behind Cloud Girlfriend is simple: You pay a yet-to-be-determined price to have your ideal (yet not for real) girlfriend leave you loving messages on your Facebook Wall for all to see.
It’s an easy four-step process, says …
A Yahoo Research study found that only 20,000 people are pretty much responsible for half of all tweets on Twitter. How many of those people actually make up Twitter’s user base? Less than one percent.
Over a billion tweets pass through Twitter each week, but the study only analyzed a select sample of 260 million tweets. Half of …
After a year of promises, media events, and touring demos, the no-glasses 3D eagle has landed. The Nintendo 3DS finally debuted in the U.S. yesterday to tales of long lines, brisk sales, and roaring launch parties.
Nintendo passed around oldie blue and red cellophane 3D glasses at an official midnight launch event in Manhattan outside …
Who’s the best person to follow on Twitter? Besides Ashton Kutcher, that is? TIME has pulled together the top 140 best Twitter feeds, so be sure to take a look and vote on who you think should be included in the ultimate Twitter showdown.
There are suggestions ranging from, of course, celebrities and comedians to technology and …
Yes, what you are looking at is an anthropomorphic toy that reads your Twitter updates aloud for you. And yes, you want one.
Its name is Twimal, and once jacked into your computer he or she will chirp out your latest tweets and replies, the always-important tweets from users you deem worthy, and even items from selected user lists. …
Twitter’s Biz Stone says that one day, the company might have to deal with China regarding its policy on censorship. That doesn’t mean the company is ready to take action just yet, though.
Along with LinkedIn, Facebook and other web services, Twitter is just one of many websites blocked to the Chinese populace through what’s …
