With one fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed features to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even more tablet-toting folks.
Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified …
Fluent, a new email client created by three ex-Google employees, makes your inbox look like a mix of Facebook and Twitter.
We get it, going through hundreds of emails is not nearly as exciting as commenting on your friends’ statuses …
Popular Russian search engine Yandex has something Google doesn’t: The approbation of Twitter and access to the entire stream of public tweets.
Yandex has signed an agreement with Twitter to license the full feed of public tweets, otherwise know as …
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Twitter has announced a new partnership with American Express to allow small businesses to advertise on the popular social network. The program is due to launch in late March for American Express cardholders and merchants.
Until now, advertisers have had …
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Would you trust the masses to tell you what stories are important? A new site from Microsoft called msnNOW shows you what topics are trending right this very second so you don’t have sort through hundreds of RSS or Twitter …
The apple of Apple’s eye, Twitter, will soon be the default social graph and social network for all iOS and Mac devices, as Facebook once again gets the shaft.
Apple has integrated Twitter into OS X Mountain Lion, the next-generation …
Facebook will soon begin rolling out verified accounts for high-profile members with large numbers of subscribers, and it will give verified users the option of a pseudonym for their name.
Verified accounts were first introduced on Twitter in 2009 and …
Apple has finally weighed in on the widespread practice of apps uploading all the data from your address book to their servers: Apple doesn’t like it. At least, not without you granting explicit permission to the app first.
Companies such …
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Path got caught red-handed uploading users’ address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice that has become an unspoken industry standard.
Facebook, …
It must be frustrating to be an early Twitter employee. All around Silicon Valley, companies in the social networking space are going public, minting hordes of new millionaires and billionaires. But with little revenue of its own, Twitter is hoping …
Indonesia’s Communications and Information Minister has declared that anyone tweeting illegal content, such as blasphemy, pornography, and threats, could spend up to 12 years in prison.
Indonesia has a strained history with free speech issues and open media, so a …
Many analysts think President Obama won the 2008 election partly due to his campaign’s ability to use social networks and the web to rally and influence voters. And now with the 2012 election season upon us, Obama is showing he …
Cloud computing and desktop virtualization are rapidly growing trends in the tech world, and one company has spent a considerable amount of time developing this technology. Nivio, which started as an idea in 2004, announced today it has received $21 …
The next time a nefarious organization wants to keep people off the Internet, it would do well to engineer its own championship professional football game.
Web traffic dropped significantly during this past Sunday’s Super Bowl football match between the New …
In 2008, the tweets per second record during the Super Bowl was 27. Four years and 12,206 more tweets per second later, the volume of Super Bowl-related Twitter activity is evidence of something more significant than a societal preoccupation with …
A country progressive in its stance on off-the-clock email is pushing for a far more antiquated policy when it comes to information-sharing by way of Twitter.
The Attorney General of Brazil, according to Brazilian publication O Globo (The Globe), has …
Twitter users sent 12,233 tweets per second at the end of last night’s big game.
The Super Bowl halftime show featuring Madonna inspired 10,245 tweets per second.
Just one month ago, the service had 9,420 tweets per second during a …
Super Bowl 46 is history now and here’s a roundup of all of the internet-related reports. Roughly 100 million watch the Super Bowl every year, making it one of the most viewed events in the world.
Twitter reported that there …
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The NFL’s Super Bowl championship football game is routinely one of the most watched televised events of the year with over 100 million viewers. But increasingly, people don’t just want to watch the game, they want to interact with it. …
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While sports fans eagerly await who will win the 2012 Super Bowl and look forward to diving into chips and a Frito Pie or two, marketers are eager to see who the winners (and losers) are on the social media …
