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Twitter CEO: We have 100 million active users
Published on 9 Sep, 2011 at 8:34 in Technology | | No Comments
Twitter now has 100 million active users, which is pretty impressive when you realize that it was a little more than half of that just earlier this year.
The growth of the micro-blogging site is nothing short of astonishing. CEO Dick Costolo gave a press conference at the company’s headquarters where he explained how phenomenal the site has become.
He did…
Elizabeth Banks Talks Sex, Comedy & Twitter
Published on 29 Aug, 2011 at 4:49 in Fashion&Celebrity | | No Comments
Elizabeth Banks is one of the most gorgeous and talented women in Hollywood, with the ability to pull off a wide range of genres. It is even more impressive, then, that it has been her participation in some of the raunchiest, funniest movies of the past decade that has made her a true star.
From her first sizable role…
TwitPic founder teases Twitter with new social network launch
Published on 12 Aug, 2011 at 9:45 in Technology | | No Comments
Would you join a new social network, with all the hassle that entails, just to save yourself from having to click a button to refresh your stream of tweets?
Thought not.
But that really seems to be the only difference between Twitter and Heello, the new social media site from Noah Everett, the founder of photo sharing website TwitPic.
Of course, it’s…
Google shuts Realtime Search after Twitter deal expires
Published on 5 Jul, 2011 at 7:44 in Technology | | No Comments
Google Realtime Search, which incorporates results from the Twitter firehose, is down, after the company’s deal with the micro-blogging site expired without being renewed.
Early on Sunday, users started seeing a 404 error message on the site.
On the company’s Realtime Twitter feed, it gives little away. “We’ve temporarily disabled google.com/realtime. We’re exploring how to incorporate Google+ into this functionality, so…
Twitter Reportedly Under Federal Investigation
Published on 1 Jul, 2011 at 4:15 in Technology | | No Comments
The Federal Trade Commission is actively investigating Twitter and the way it deals with the companies building applications and services for its platform, we’ve learned.
In Spring 2010, Twitter started making noises that it planned to provide users “official” versions of services that, until then, had typically been provided by third-parties – ads, photo-sharing, URL shortening and mobile apps.
Over the…
The Pope is now on Twitter
Published on 29 Jun, 2011 at 10:05 in Technology | | No Comments
Pretty much no one has an excuse for not being on Twitter now.
Even the Pope now has his own account on the micro-blogging site, in an event that tied into the launch of the official Vatican iPad app.
Pope Benedict XVI made history this week and will forever be known as the first papal leader to send a…
Twitter launches its own URL shortener
Published on 8 Jun, 2011 at 10:30 in Technology | | No Comments
Twitter has finally solved one of its biggest problems.
The micro-blogging site will now automatically shorten extensively long Web addresses, freeing up room for users who already have to mind the site’s 140-characters-per-post limit.
Until now, users who wanted the extra message space after posting a long URL had to go to an external URL-shortening website, like bit.ly, before posting their…
Twitter cuts a $40 million check to buy TweetDeck
Published on 24 May, 2011 at 9:02 in Technology | | No Comments
Twitter has just inked one of its most expensive deals to take.
The microblogging site has reportedly sealed a deal to purchase TweetDeck, a company that specializes in creating more visually pleasing ways for displaying tweets.
Neither Twitter nor TweetDeck has officially confirmed the sale. An official tweet from Twitter remarked, “For all those who might be curious, we continue to…
“Unfollowed Me” rogue app spreads across Twitter
Published on 21 Apr, 2011 at 9:34 in Technology | | No Comments
Twitter users are increasingly faced with a headache that has long plagued its bigger cousin Facebook – rogue applications.
According to Sophos Security, the Follow Finder332 rogue application (but now more widely known as “Unfollowed Me”) has duped thousands of Twitter users to believe it will reveal the number of people that have unfollowed them.
And who wouldn’t want to know?
The…
How to make Twitter more useful
Published on 21 Apr, 2011 at 6:13 in Technology | | No Comments
Last year, Twitter made it a goal to increase monetization of its social networking site by implementing promoted tweets and running ad campaigns with major brands.
This year, Twitter hopes to make the site more accessible and broaden its appeal to the masses.
To that end, the San Francisco-based company hired Dick Costolo in 2010 hoping he could successfully monetize Twitter.
Co-founder…
Tweetbot for iPhone renews the Twitter for mobile addiction
Published on 15 Apr, 2011 at 12:47 in Technology | | No Comments
Twitter is one of those tools that’s especially cool when used on your mobile phone. The problem? Most Twitter for mobile clients absolutely suck.
It seems like all of them are missing a huge component or are tragically flawed in one way or another. But one promising new Twitter app is Tweetbot, released by Tapbots.
Tweetbot for iPhone is…