Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 21-08-2009
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Twitter Inc., the social-networking service that delivers 140-character messages, plans to start letting users share their locations when they post Tweets. The feature, which relies on the Global Positioning System, will require users’ permission before it shows locations, Biz Stone, co-founder of San Francisco-based Twitter, said Thursday.
via theolympian.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 20-08-2009
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Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company’s platform stability.
These developers, who have invested effort and money in building revenue-generating Twitter applications, are hoping Twitter figures out a way to increase the application platform’s uptime.
“I am pretty disenchanted with Twitter at the moment,” said Paul Kinlan, creator of Twollo.com, an application that automatically adds contacts to Twitter users’ “following” list whenever other users post messages containing certain keywords.
via pcworld.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 20-08-2009
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Skyblox, an Atlanta company that provides WiFi coverage to restaurants and retail stores, says it accepted funding money over Twitter using a service called Twipay, thus becoming the first company to raise a round of funding using micro-blogging.
via venturebeat.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 19-08-2009
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The full top 20 is available here [warning: some of the pictures are NC-17 in nature], and you can click on any of the user’s profile names to see how it was determined that they were a spammer. Tell-tale signs according to TwitBlock include a disproportionate follow-back percentage, sharing an avatar with lots of other users, and a high quantity of new follows every day.
via twitblock.org
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 18-08-2009
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Some teams ban any Twitter activity by their players during the day, but the New York Jets encourage their players to communicate with fans.
Naturally, this leads to fans acting like, well, fans.
One told kicker Jay Feely, “I hope you get cancer.”
And you thought Philadelphia was tough?
via philly.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 18-08-2009
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A tiny robot made of cardboard and $100 of electronics can monitor your Twitter feed and help spread good karma.
Developer Ken Lim’s Guardian Robot is gloriously low-tech, with only two servos and a basic control board. Its body was fashioned out of an old Wii Sports Resort box.
But it saves on Twitter reading time.
Profiled on a blog sponsored by the Guardian newspaper, the little guy watches Twitter feeds for keywords indicating happy or sad posts. It reacts to happy tweets by raising its arm in triumph, and to sad ones by lowering its head despondently like Marvin the Paranoid Android.
via cnet
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 18-08-2009
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Have you ever sat in a bar or a coffee shop, just watching what people do, examining the expressions on their faces, or just desperately trying to overhear the endearing nonsense that emerges from their mouths?
That’s how I think of Twitter.
Except there is one small difference with this peculiar little microblogging site: you can control who is in the bar or the coffee shop.
via cnet.com
Social networks are groups of interconnected individuals, organizations and businesses on the Internet.
Popular social networking Web sites include MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Also, blogs (like online diaries) and blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger and Twitter allow sharing of ideas and activities.
via kansascity.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 17-08-2009
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A report from Pear Research finds 40 percent of tweets on the popular social networking site Twitter fall into the category of “Pointless Babble.”
In a report certain to shock few, media analytics firm Pear Research took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the United States) over a two-week period, capturing tweets in half-hour increments, and categorized them into six buckets. Not surprisingly, “Pointless Babble” won, with 40.55 percent of the total tweets captured.
Placing a close second at 37.55 percent was “Conversational.” “Pass-Along Value” was third (albeit distant) at 8.7 percent of the tweets captured.
via eweek.com
Posted by admin | Posted in twitter | Posted on 17-08-2009
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Brand power takes on a whole new meaning on Twitter, where more than a million people follow Sockington, a tweeting feline who muses about litter boxes and salmon.
Companies would like to emulate that kind of success without drawing catcalls.
So far, however, the majority are still on the sidelines, and even most of those that have jumped in are social media newcomers, stepping up their presence in recent months as it became evident Twitter wasn’t a quickly fading fad. Facebook, another social site, has let companies create their own pages only for the past two years.
chicagotribune.com