Love it or hate it – Twitter is here to stay. It’s managed to become invaluable for a number of reasons and if you haven’t already jumped on board, well, you’re actually missing out. The speed with which news can be delivered and shared via the social networking site is astounding. Businesses like Dell and Zappos have been …
My Touch: The Skinny On Ford’s Big, Fat Driving Distraction
Ford unveiled its brand new plan to go-go-gadget your car, complete with a voice-activated dashboard, USB ports, an 8-in. touchscreen and thumb-wheel controls. (Basically, it’s a giant iPhone with wheels.)
The My Ford Touch system will replace the traditional car dashboard with two 4.2-in. color LCD screens that flank …
Iranian Cyber Army Takes Down Twitter, Sort Of
Late last night Twitter was apparently hacked by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army. It turns out that it was merely a DNS exploit that redirected Twitter.com visitors to a page with the following message:
Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think
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Twitter App Showdown: Echofon Pro vs Tweetie 2
Twitter is a necessary evil. And so is the iPhone. (But that has nothing to do with this review at all.)
It’s an unholy amalgamation. But so much information is readily available on Twitter that it’s become an undeniable necessity amongst Internet junkies. Like everything else in Apple’s App Store there’s an absurd amount of …
Tweetie 2.1 Update Is Here, Now Supports Lists
Just a quick heads up that atebits’ Tweetie 2 for the iPhone is being upgraded to 2.1 and will be available in the App Store in a matter of hours now. The free update for current Tweetie 2 owners will add features such as native retweeting, lists and geotagging. Lists, people! It’s quite possibly the best Twitter app available for …
Q&A with Xbox LIVE’s Marc Whitten
Microsoft will be pushing out the second half of the Xbox LIVE update that was previewed at E3 some time tonight. With it comes all manner of social networking applications, like Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. Another component of the update includes instant on 1080p videos with full 5.1 surround sound via the Zune Marketplace. Most of …
Twitter to Axe Suggested User List
I’ve never been one to take Twitter’s suggestions as to who to follow. I follow who I want, when I want. It appears as though their much-vaunted “suggested users” list is going the way of the dodo, says the AP out of Malaysia. Speaking at a conference in Putrajaya, Biz stone announced that the list would be “going away” and …
The Future of Twitter Revealed to Be What You Already Thought It Was Going to Be
Well, now there’s apparently reasonably pure water ice fricking everywhere. I’m not even surprised anymore. Maybe they ought to just start listing the planets that don’t have ice on them.
The 500 Most Frequently Used Words on Twitter
With their frequencies, as compiled by the lexicographers of Oxford University Press, based on a sampling of 1.5 million tweets.
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and=190859
is=186112
in=170708
it=169459
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