Here’s a great example of how a seemingly noble social media donation campaign can go awry: Microsoft tweeted two hours ago on the Bing search engine’s Twitter account that it would donate up to $100,000 to help victims of Japan’s …
Who determines the big topics of conversation on social media such as Twitter? It’s isn’t the loudest bloggers with large followings of virtual fans.
Rather, mainstream media tends to play the biggest role in the top “trending” topics on Twitter, …
Software architects like to shorthand the spaghetti of interconnected networks that make up the Internet as “the cloud” — an amorphous entity, somewhere distant, that you don’t need to fuss over.
But events around the world have brought cloud advocates …
Techmeme, the news aggregator that’s usually my first stop on the Web, just announced that it’s adding a new kind of headline to the mix — tweets posted on Twitter.
For Techmeme, the move seems like an obvious extension of …
Twitter, the popular messaging site, may be growing out of its startup phase with a possible headquarters move to Brisbane, California, according to brokerage sources in the San Francisco Business Times.
The company appears to have more than 175 million …
In the footsteps of Google, which posts a yearly zeitgeist of the most searched terms, Facebook and Twitter have decided to unpack some of their trends of the year from tweets and status updates.
To measure trends in Facebook’s status …
A much craved-for feature by mobile users, microblogging platform Twitter has finally taken notice and added push notifications for mentions to your username (dubbed @mentions) in its iPhone and iPad apps, as well as through SMS.
Here’s how it works: …
In a bid to simplify music discovery for Twitter users, Twitter today announced a partnership with Apple’s beleaguered Ping social network.
The union will let Ping users publish their activity to their Twitter streams, and it will also let users …
Tweet-filtering technology startup Datasift is offering a special platform specifically for companies. Rather than filtering tweets for individuals, it combs through topics relevant to a company and displays the information in a single feed. CEO Nick Halstead demoed the service …
Twitter is readying a free real-time analytics dashboard to help users make sense of their tweets, according to the company’s business development executive Ross Hoffman.
Speaking to attendees of the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit yesterday, Hoffman at first said that …
Some Twitter users took advantage of an exploit on Twitter.com that could launch unwanted pop-up windows, and send visitors to third-party websites without their permission, reports the antivirus firm Sophos. The exploit required other users to merely mouse over a …
Twitter has turned on a feature that lets users geotag tweets directly from the web site. So now you don’t have to rely on mobile apps like Tweetie to triangulate where you are. The move should help add location data …
Twitter now lets people see maps of where geotagged tweets were sent from on its web site. (They briefly showed off this feature yesterday. It’s now turned on permanently.)
The story began last year, when the company enthusiastically launched a …
Microblogging network Twitter blew a hole through talk that its growth has come to a halt.
The company said that it’s seeing 50 million tweets a day, up from 35 million last fall. That’s 600 tweets per second, or ‘TPS’ …
