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Sep 10

Why Twimbow just became my favorite Twitter client on the web.

Why Twimbow just became my favorite Twitter client on the web.

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18
Aug 10

The do’s and don’ts of asking someone out online

Don’t e-mail a romantic interest unless he gave you his address directly. Facebook has been blamed for fueling jealousy and even divorces. Twitter is a limited tool: You have only 140 characters to show your, well, character.

…inches high), we do tout around the modern equivalent: a slew of digital identities that potential suitors must circumvent to get to the actual you. While we admit that fixing the above issue wholesale would require a total brain-scrub of the world’s populace, we are prepared to offer a few date-making tips for all you hopeless (emphasis on the hopeless) romantics. Facebook Although the social-networking site has gained quite the bad rep in the romantic realm, being blamed for fueling jealousy and even divorces, it’s still a pretty good venue by which to hook up. (Yeah, it would be better for all of humanity if we refrained from Facebook-stalking those we’re into — but that cause is about as lost as our generation’s innocence). So here are the ground rules. It’s totally OK to ask a person out via Facebook if you don’t have his/her number: e.g., you met a girl at a party, have a few mutual friends, but lost her in the crowd after that dude jumped in the rooftop kiddie pool naked and shook himself about,…

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13
Aug 10

Twitter Launches New "You Both Follow" Feature, More

Twitter just rolled out a number of new features on Twitter.com. Many users have noticed the changes which seem to have hit within the last few minutes.

…As per comments, we’ve taken down a couple of the features as new, but I know at least on my account that they just showed up today, so perhaps Twitter has rolled them out to everyone now. We’d ask Twitter for comment, but they don’t provide user data . Thanks for the help everyone, hopefully Twitter will put out a blog post and spell out all of the exact features that they released or spread to all user today….

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Jul 10

Twitter User Sends World’s 20 Billionth Tweet

Twitter, the social networking site which allows users to say something in up to 140 characters, sees its 20 billionth message sent.

…Go was inundated with congratulatory messages from around the world for hitting the milestone with a tweet which appeared to have been part of a longer conversation with another user.
He later posted another message, saying: “Looks like I posted the 20 billionth tweet. I’m getting replies from people all over the world. It’s scary. What are the chances? Maybe I’m going to die.
“Is it more amazing than winning the lottery? I thought it was a joke.”
The self-declared fan of Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team also warned any would-be followers that he tweets a lot about the sport.
The Japanese send nearly 8m tweets a day, about…

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29
Jul 10

Want to see twitter in real time? Watch this video.

Want to see twitter in real time? Watch this video.- Cannot even find the retweet to give credit, moved to fast down the TweetDeck Column…

…Although this has been possible for ages using the Twitter Streaming API the User Stream makes things even easier for developers.
As the comments above have highlighted the user experience isn’t really being considered. The real-time experience is being used as a gimmick and clearly TweetDeck and Echofon will get some traction with this.
We’ve been pushing real-time Twitter updates through our Kwwika service for around 5 months now and have built a few applications with exactly the same user experience (or lack of one) just for show and it does have the wow factor.
I’m guessing Twitter are only opening up the user stream to certain companies but if anybody wants this functionality in their website or application now then why not get in touch with us. That said, keep the user experience in mind….

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8
Jul 10

CNN Sacks Mid-East Editor Over Tweet

CNN has sacked a veteran Middle East editor after she wrote on Twitter that she “respected” a late senior Lebanese cleric said to have inspired Hezbollah.

…CNN has sacked a veteran Middle East editor after she wrote on Twitter that she “respected” a late senior Lebanese cleric said to have inspired Hezbollah.
A CNN official said Octavia Nasr was leaving the US TV news network because her credibility had been “compromised”.
Nasr has described her 140-character remarks about Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, as an “error of judgement”.
She said she had been referring to his “pioneering” views on women’s rights.
‘Immediate, overwhelming reaction’ Ayatollah Fadlallah, Lebanon’s top Shia Muslim cleric, died at the age of 74. He was customarily described as the spiritual leader of the militant movement Hezbollah when it was formed in 1982 - a claim both he and the group denied.
Ms Nasr was CNN’s senior editor of Middle East affairs and had been with the network for two decades, largely in an off-camera role.
After hearing of Ayatollah Fadlallah’s death, she wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter: “Sad to hear of the passing of…

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Jul 10

Japan, Champion At World Cup Tweeting

Japan’s two new favorite passions – Twitter and supporting the national soccer team – converged with a bang at the World Cup. A very big bang, according to the micro-blogging service: a global record for the most-ever tweets per second.

…says Akky Akimoto, author of the website Asiajin, a blog that tracks Japanese Internet industry news. There are currently 20 million registered Mixi users, but Mr. Akimoto says that for some the inability for users visiting other profiles to erase the digital footprint they leave behind can grow cumbersome after an initial honeymoon period. He said this is because the everyday Japanese mentality, with a compulsion to feel obligated to acknowledge every communication, carries over into the online universe, inciting a never-ending round of virtual thank yous and bows….

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Jun 10

Twitter aims to track user trends with purchase of analytics

Twitter may be thinking big with its purchase of Smallthought Systems, a company that tracks user trends for websites. The announcement made on the San Francisco Internet company blog explained that the ability to analyze millions of messages that flow through Twitter each day has become an increasingly crucial part of improvement of service.

…s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, recently estimated that the company processes more than 65 million updates from its 190 million users each day. Smallthought is just one in a growing number of acquisitions that Twitter has made to add features to…’,…

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Jun 10

Confessions Of An Internet Hitman

The Internet isn’t really a democracy at all.

…. They are the trusted social-media chieftains of Facebook, Twitter, Digg and lesser social media tribes, whose word and links are law to their millions of followers. They are the select few who dictate what goes viral and what falls flat. They vote early and often, pushing their stories to the top.
In the age of incredibly shrinking media, Internet traffic is as good as gold. So rather than fight these social media warriors, companies quietly hire them. Firms lavish these mercenaries with cushy…

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Jun 10

Videotext, Twitter’s Grandaddy Turns 30!

…Unless you live in certain regions of Europe, you’re probably not familiar with the magic of Videotext, a television-based datastream derived from a technology developed by the BBC in the early 1970’s. The service along with its English and Swedish cousins, Teletext and TextTV was a non-interactive bulletin board that utilized an unused part of the television’s PAL signal to display news and messages. Similar in appearance to the early diskmags of the demoscene era, Videotext was navigated by entering numbers on your TV remote, sifting through digital pages of up-to-the-minute information accompanied by pixelated ASCII-style graphics.
Teletext technology was intended as a low-cost method of distributing time-sensitive information, but it can also be programmed to make graphics and animation, as seen in the video above. The service is mostly extinct now and was virtually non-existent in North America, but even after 30 years, you can still find it today on TVs throughout Europe, typically in hotel rooms.
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