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Twitter made good on its promise of opening up its ad platform to small businesses, via a self-serve program. Now, the first stage of that program is live as businesses, with American Express cards, can now sign up and start promoting their tweets and their accounts.
Only a few businesses will be part of the program... |
27 March 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Twitter may not be the greatest source for predicting box-office revenue, at least not on a reliable basis. Research done by several people from Princeton University showed that there is no tight correlation between Twitter sentiment and box-office revenue.
There was also no link between Oscar winners and how Twitte... |
26 March 2012
05:31 GMT |
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As expected, Twitter has updated TweetDeck to add some of the recent features introduced with the "new new Twitter." The new TweetDeck also comes with a couple of features that have been missing for a while now. One thing that's been a long time coming is List Management. While lists have been a fixture of Twit... |
22 March 2012
14:55 GMT |
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The news that Jenna-Louise Coleman is about to become part of BBC’s "Doctor Who" series became a popular topic on social media sites. Cybercriminals took advantage of the trending topic and started flooding Twitter with malicious posts.
Sophos experts determined that users who clicked on the links from the sha... |
22 March 2012
05:54 GMT |
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The Ubuntu User Survey 2012 announced by Canonical in the beginning of March has ended, and a part of the results has been published. Before delving into the result, there are some simple facts that users need to know. The survey was conducted in three languages, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and was adve... |
22 March 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Twitter has started rolling out mobile ads more widely, like it promised it would. The company has already been testing the feature for the past few weeks but it only showed promoted tweets in the timeline for users already following the brands being advertised.Now, it's expanding that test to users that share t... |
20 March 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Tibet and its freedom are a highly popular topic these days on social media networks and apparently someone is trying to sabotage these conversations on Twitter by using bots that post meaningless tweets to disturb those interested in the subject. We’ve seen a similar situation some time ago when anti-Kremlin ... |
20 March 2012
05:05 GMT |
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A new flavor of the TweetDeck application for Android-based devices might become available for download in the near future, the latest reports on the matter suggest.
In fact, Twitter themselves note on their website that they are looking for people to help them build “the next generation of TweetDeck's A... |
19 March 2012
18:41 GMT |
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To celebrate her son's 25th birthday, Kris Jenner came up with what can only be described as a very original idea: she posted a photo of herself pregnant with him, on her official blog, wearing next to nothing, showing off her protruding tummy.
The Jenner-Kardashian clan took Las Vegas by storm over the weeken... |
19 March 2012
08:15 GMT |
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We have come across a large number of shady Twitter profiles which advertise free Disney tickets. These scams are not new, but in the past days they have reemerged to trick users into visiting survey scam sites.
Here are a few posts part of the scam:
Why Disney appeals to all kind of people? Get the ticket here and... |
16 March 2012
06:08 GMT |
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Chris Brown's girlfriend, model Karrueche Tran, is getting death threats from Rihanna fans. Since things seem on the verge of getting completely out of control, she's started to travel accompanied by bodyguards at all times.
TMZ reports that Karrueche won't even leave the house these days without Chr... |
15 March 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Apple on Twitter now includes an app’s full description complete with screenshots whenever the company feels the urge to promote a noteworthy title. It’s the case with several new apps recently published or updated in the App Store, including Fuzel, Zuma's Revenge! HD, and Symbolic Calculator, which... |
14 March 2012
11:11 GMT |
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Tweetbot, arguably the best Twitter client out there, has been promoted to version 2.1 to support the new iPad’s Retina display and to add a cool feature called “streaming” which updates your Twitter feed in a much more natural way.
Developed by the people at Tapbots, Tweetbot 2.1 now has Retina gr... |
14 March 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Twitter and Posterous have announced that the latter is being acquired by the former. Posterous is a blogging platform catering to more advanced users who want ease of access, especially on the go. It recently pivoted to become a group discussion platform.
The company boasted about 15 million unique monthly users o... |
13 March 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Another celebrity has joined the ranks of those who have fallen victim to hackers. This time it's the famous singer and songwriter Kesha, her Twitter account being taken over by an individual who wanted to have some fun.
Well, as in most cases when celebrities are involved, it’s not really hacking, becaus... |
13 March 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Nobody puts Kim Kardashian in the corner, not even Jon Hamm, arguably one of the hottest and talented actors of the day. The reality star has taken to her Twitter to respond to Jon's comments about she and former BFF Paris Hilton are nothing but glamorized “idiots.”Hamm made the comments in a recent ... |
13 March 2012
02:45 GMT |
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There’s a cool feature in OS X Mountain Lion called Share Sheets. It’s almost unnoticeable, but it’s going to make a world of difference for the people who keep close contact with their friends and family. When OS X Mountain Lion ships this summer, it’s going to make it easier than ever to sh... |
10 March 2012
12:34 GMT |
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SPDY, the alternative to HTTP proposed by Google is slowly gaining strength. Granted, it's got a long way to go, but Twitter has started adopting it and using it by default, with browsers that support it.SPDY, as the name implies, was devised to speed up internet connections. Google is working on several fronts ... |
10 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Pinterest is quite the rising star. The site began being noticed only in the past couple of months, by which time it was already huge, even though it was just six months old. To give you an idea of just how huge Pinterest is, it's now a bigger source of traffic than Twitter, for publishers. According to stats r... |
9 March 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Facebook is continuing to expand its core product and more into Twitter's territory. Spurred by Google+ or not, it seems that Facebook is beginning to realize the power of asynchronous relationships. It is now introducing Interest Lists, which are very much like Twitter lists.
Interest Lists enable users to su... |
9 March 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Twitter is not the only one boasting about translations, Google+ is boosting its internationalization efforts as well. In fact, it's doing even better than Twitter, Google's social network has been translated into 60 languages at this point, 32 more than Twitter.
"We already supported 44 languages, but now... |
7 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Twitter is slowly but surely becoming a true Tower of Babel, it is now available in several more languages opening up the service to even more people around the world. Twitter already "speaks" plenty of languages, 24 to be exact, but it is now debuting translated versions of the site in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu... |
7 March 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Unsurprisingly perhaps, given their sizes, but Twitter is expected to see much bigger growth than Facebook in the coming years in the US. The growth rate for both sites is going down, but Twitter will still manage to see a healthy growth in new users, while Facebook increasingly slows down.Facebook has over 850 milli... |
6 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Lady Gaga has a talent at breaking social media records. She has one of the most popular Facebook pages, for an artist. She's been trailblazing on Twitter. She even set up a Google+ page that got quite popular quite fast.Her latest feat in the field is becoming the first person to break through the 20 million fo... |
5 March 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Twitter's client for Android devices has just received a major update that brings several improvements and bug fixes. The most important seems to be the new swipe shortcut gesture that allows users choose more options for individual tweets.Aside from that, Twitter for Android 3.1.1 features improved scrolling an... |
3 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Angry Birds has been officially dethroned by Imangi’s immensely popular iPhone game, Temple Run, which now boasts 22,457,584 active players registered with Game Center.Update: It appears that we had some bad intel. Keith Shepherd of Imangi Studios has contacted us to say: "We definitely haven't passed Angr... |
1 March 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Twitter is moving forward, albeit very slowly, with its advertising strategy. Very recently, it announced that it will be gradually opening up the ad platform to everyone, on a self-serve basis. Now, it's announcing that ads will start showing up in the official mobile apps as well, like they do on the web and m... |
29 February 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Angelina Jolie made quite a splash at the Oscars 2012, by showing up in a black velvet Armani gown with a slit that went up to her thigh – and making sure everybody saw her leg. However, she also caused some commotion with viewers at home for how skinny she appeared. That Jolie is thinner than she was when she ... |
28 February 2012
01:30 GMT |
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Developers of Choqok, a micro-blogging client for the KDE SC environment, have put out a survey in order to improve the next release of their client. In order to further advance Choqok, developer need to know some details about the users of the well known micro-blogging client.Instead of using data mined without your... |
27 February 2012
10:12 GMT |
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On the desktop, Opera is a perennial underdog, it's well respected by those in the know, but not very popular with regular users. But on feature phones, it's a phenomenon, pretty much owning the market. And, with everyone and their dog gushing over smartphones, most of the people on this planet can't ... |
27 February 2012
09:03 GMT |
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There's a great love story between Twitter and TV as any big TV event showcases. Last night's Academy Awards were no different, though it seems that there was less interest in the Oscars than there was in the Grammys for example, or the Super Bowl.
The event didn't break any tweets per second records... |
27 February 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Internet users who may be concerned for Twitter’s Health may be given a medicine that they certainly don’t want. A spam campaign that comes with the “TwitterHealth alert” subject is designed to lead recipients to a rogue pharmacy that commercializes shady products.
The message, provided by MX... |
24 February 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is making applications for the BlackBerry smartphones more social than they already are.
The latest releases of Facebook and Twitter mobile clients for the BlackBerry platform, both available at the moment in a beta state, prove it.
Available for download today via ... |
23 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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This is what happens when there is no clear hierarchy in a group. After some Anonymous hackers revealed their plans to take down the 13 DNS root servers of the Internet on March 31, official channels began denying these claims. Since any hacker can call himself Anonymous these days, situations in which not all the h... |
22 February 2012
08:15 GMT |
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Following widespread panic that several iOS applications sucked up peoples’ address books and uploaded them to the cloud, Twitter has issued an update to their iPhone application to include a prompt that asks the express consent of the user to accessing their address book to find friends.
Twitter 4.1 delivers ... |
22 February 2012
04:59 GMT |
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Yandex, the Russian search engine that dominates the market in its country, has now added a social layer. It debuted an improved people search with data from a number of popular social networks and blogging sites. The company boasts that profiles from site such as VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal and Odnoklassniki, s... |
21 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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The feud lives on, and neither Miranda Lambert nor Chris Brown is ready to let this go. After she bashed him in one of her more recent concerts, Chris is responding on Twitter, proving he's not ready to go down without a fight.
It all started, as we also informed you at the time, shortly after Chris' two p... |
20 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Next week, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will start to push the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system flavor to its users, and some more info on what the new OS version includes has just emerged. In addition to a series of improvements across the platform, Playbook 2.0 will also arrive on devices with... |
18 February 2012
11:01 GMT |
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The official Twitter profile of American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and actress, Teyana Taylor, was taken over by a hacker who tweeted “mean and hurtful things” and leaking private pictures of the celebrity.
Voice of Grey Hat can’t confirm if the R rated pictures that allegedly feature Tayl... |
18 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Twitter is finally getting serious about its ad business. It's been working towards this for a few years now, but it is now almost ready to open up its ad space to everyone via a self-serve model. This should give smaller companies, two small to warrant the attention of Twitter sales rep, the chance to advertise... |
17 February 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Ever since she started dating her backup dancer, Jennifer Lopez has never really tried to hide the romance from the press but, then again, she didn't boast about it everywhere either. On Twitter on Valentine's Day, she did exactly that.
Word has it that Lopez started seeing Casper Smart back when they wer... |
17 February 2012
05:10 GMT |
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There's been a lot of talk lately about iPhone apps uploading phone contacts, sometimes without the user knowing and most of the time without their explicit consent. It started out with Path, which bore the brunt of the criticism, after which companies big and small started admitting that they've been doing... |
16 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Twitter is known for its long roll-outs, but it seems that it's bent setting some new records. The new new Twitter, which it unveiled last year, has only now been rolled out to everyone, several months later.
While some people have had the redesigned Twitter since December, others only received it these last fe... |
16 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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If you're among those people who think Chris Brown did not deserve to be up on the stage at the Grammys 2012, let alone perform twice during the course of the same evening and get a standing ovation for it, he has a message for you.
Hate all you want but, at the end of the day, he is the one looking at a Grammy... |
15 February 2012
07:36 GMT |
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Twitter has made a small but important change, the site now uses HTTPS by default for everyone. This means that connections to the site are directed via the secured HTTPS protocol rather than the typical HTTP.
All the data, written tweets, your subscriptions and so on, is sent encrypted making it close to impossible... |
14 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Ever since she started OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, the Queen of Media has been fending off rumors that she was in the ratings limbo and that she might never get back up in the saddle again. Her most recent tweet isn't helping either. On Sunday night, as a new episode of her show aired at the same time as t... |
14 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Three years after beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna to a pulp, Chris Brown made what can only be described as a glorious comeback into the spotlight at Sunday's Grammy Awards 2012. Reactions to his performances are disturbing and very sad.As we also informed you yesterday, Chris Brown performed twice during th... |
14 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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A short while ago, Demi Lovato dyed her hair red and then showed off her new 'do on Twitter. Feeling the need for a change again, the former Disney star is now a blonde.
Since she's made a habit of letting her fans know of all these changes first, she showed off the first picture of her new 'do on th... |
13 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Owners of devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system can now enjoy a new Twitter client on their handsets, in the form of Carbon.
Coming from dot1ne, the new application will bring twitter on your home screen, providing you with fast access to timeline, messages, mentions and the like.
D... |
13 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Twitter started out as an SMS service, few people remember that or even knew about it, back when it was called twttr. Apart from adding a couple of vowels, Twitter added quite a lot of features to the site and, importantly, the platform.
However, it continued to support SMS access for areas with no internet connecti... |
10 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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