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Jul 10

Top 10 Twitter Apps for Mac

Twitter has grown very fast and become one of the most popular social networks..It has got many apps and many are being released day by day, there are number of twitter apps available for Mac.To help you find best and get most out of them here we have compiled a list of top 10 twitter apps for Mac.

…Twitter has grown very fast and become one of the most popular social networks.It has got many apps and many are being released day by day, there are number of twitter apps available for Mac.Each app has got some decent features.To help you find best and get most out of them here we have compiled a list of top 10 twitter apps for Mac.Here we have not listed any Adobe AIR application most of these are only available for Mac.
1.Adium - It is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X’s Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.2.Canary - Canary is a Twitter client that is beautifully designed, fun to use and has everything you’ll ever need.
Canary’s user interface is slick and straightforward and helps you do what matters most fast and…

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Jun 10

Spending habits of Twitter and Facebook users revealed

The economy of the Internet is one of the most fascinating and a subject of research. The Internet has changed the way the businesses run and the way people spend their money.

…please wait…Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)The economy of the Internet is one of the most fascinating and a subject of research. The Internet has changed the way the businesses run and the way people spend their money. The major part of the Internet is driven by the Online spenders. With the advent of social networking sites, people have started to spent more time on the Internet which certainly means more opportunities for eCommerce.
Its been predicted that by end of 2010, almost 9 out of 10 corporate businesses will engage through social networking portal like Facebook Fan Page and Twitter. As Facebook and Twitter starts to become omnipresent in the Internet, they will certainly become a core of eCommerce.
Recent research from ComScore have revealed the nature of spending on Internet with respect to people’s activity over the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
On Facebook, the visitors who spend the most time on the site also spend the most dollars on online shopping, with an average of $67…

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12
Apr 10

Twitter Building Apps. What it means to App Developers?

Twitter is believed to have 70,000 applications from various parties.

…Mr. Williams said.
What it means to Developers?
Now that Twitter has hinted at building most applications itself, App Developer community is feeling the heat. They are confused about their future, and most are panicked too.
Twitter has already bought Tweetie and made it free. It has launched Twitter client for Blackberry today. This has put companies like Seeismic and Tweetdeck to danger. They might be wiped out completely from the market, analysts say.
Whole of the Twitter Application builders are worried as Twitter might enter other spaces like Analytics, and Account Management services too. This is however not a new trend.
Microsoft build many applications for Windows and bundled it with the OS. This killed many companies, and made others to migrate. Most common examples are Anti-Virus, Disk Management Tools, Registry Cleaners etc.
This is a common way of doing business, and app developers should not feel bad about it.
What are the options with Developers now?
Most big app developers can move to areas…

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Jan 10

Twitter Plans to Stop the 140-Character Censor

Twitter is looking into ways to stop the site coming under the same censorship problems as Google and hopes to make itself completely non-sanitised.

…Twitter is looking into ways to stop the site coming under the same censorship problems as Google and hopes to make itself completely non-sanitised.According to Chief Executive Evan Williams, who was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Twitter will take the stance of not trying to reason with the censor but carry on regardless.”We are partially blocked in China and other places and we were in Iran as well,” Evans said to journalists at the event. “The most productive way to fight that is not by trying to engage China and other governments whose very being is against what we are about.”Technological waysThere was no news on just how Twitter would evade the censors, but as the Iran Elections showed freedom of speech via Twitter was paramount to the way the election was perceived in the western media.Evans did note that there is “technological ways” to blind-side the censors. Maybe he can let Google know just what he means by this.Via V3.co.uk and International Business Times…

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Jan 10

How to install Twitter Plugin for Pidgin in Ubuntu

This post will show you how to Tweeting using Pidgin in Ubuntu.

…Easy AdSense by UnrealThis post will show you how to Tweeting using Pidgin in Ubuntu. To enable this capabilities, you need to install Twitter Plugin for Pidgin in Ubuntu. Pidgin is a popular Instant Messaging for Windows and Linux system. This IM supports many Messaging protocols like Yahoo, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, and IRC.
These steps below will guide you to the installation of Twitter Plugin for Pidgin in Ubuntu. Make sure you already have Pidgin installed on your system. Or you can read my previous post of Installing Pidgin in Ubuntu.
1. Add the repository below, based on your Ubuntu version:
For Ubuntu Hardy Heron
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

For Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

For Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main…

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21
Jan 10

Man Utd red-cards players’ Twitter and Facebook profiles

Manchester United has apparently put its foot-down over its players’ social-networking habits and announced on its official website that no player in the team uses Facebook or Twitter.

…Manchester United has apparently put its foot-down over its players’ social-networking habits and announced on its official website that no player in the team uses Facebook or Twitter.While it was unlikely that any of the team actually maintained their own social-networking page anyway, according to EPL Talk all Twitter and Facebook pages pertaining to the team have now been deleted.This comes after Man Utd’s website issued a warning, explaining: “The club wishes to make it clear that no Manchester United players maintain personal profiles on social networking websites.”Fans encountering any web pages purporting to be written by United players should treat them with extreme scepticism.”Any official news relating to Manchester United or its players will be communicated via ManUtd.com.”Accounts deletedEPL Talk does note, however, that some players did used to have Twitter and Facebook accounts…

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Jan 10

Bill Gates Joins Twitter, May Have Broken it

Bill Gates, the world’s richest man and the co-founder of Microsoft, is finally catching up with the world of social media. He’s opened a Twitter account and set up a Facebook fan page. Earlier today Twitter went down due to being over capacity, provoking media reports that Gates’ joining may have had something to do with it.

…and Ashley Tisdale, the actress from High School Musical. In the first six hours alone he accumulated over 70,000 followers. He can be found @billgates on Twitter, or www.twitter.com/billgates.Currently he has in the region of 170,000 followers but this is going up by the minute.Earlier today Twitter went down due to being over capacity, provoking media reports that Gates’ joining may have had something to do with it.Considering Twitter is being used to keep people up to date with the tragic goings-on in Haiti, however, this may have much more to do with the micro-blogging service being temporarily out of action. Back on Facebook, tooGates is obviously taking a very serious plunge into social media, since he’s also back on Facebook after closing last summer. Back then he claimed then that he felt overwhelmed when more than 10,000 people wanted to friend him on the site.Now he has fan page on Facebook that lists over 55,000 fans and includes photos of his Indian trip, and of his high school, Lakeside School…

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