Storify is today announcing a brand new app for the iPad, bringing its drag and drop curation of Tweets, videos and other web links to the tablet. The experience looks...
Last week, we took a look at a report that showed that the most popular pages on Google+ were becoming more consumer-focused. Now, according to a recent report from Socialbakers,...
In a deal that surely gives the middle finger to Google, Twitter has signed a deal with Russian search giant Yandex to provide access to its full feed of public...
According to some reports, Twitter will be breaking through the 500 million user mark next Wednesday. Put on your party hats, drinks all around! Actually, hold your birds. Color us...
Facing a prison sentence as a result of statements made on Twitter seems to have become the norm in Kuwait. Kuwaiti Twitter user Mohammad al-Mulaifi could be joining the ranks of...
Just the other day an email dropped into my inbox asking me if I wanted to buy 10,000 followers on Twitter. The message, which assured me that the price would...
If you’re an every day user of Twitter’s official mobile app you may be noticing some inconsistencies when it comes to displaying photos that your followers post. Basically, every now...
Press Pass, a ’live directory’ of journalists from major publications, is a brand new Dubai-based site that comes to us courtesy of co-founders David Haddad, a product manager and softwar
It’s well known that Twitter doesn’t provide a robust search product that lets you find tweets older than six or seven days. That could be because the company is focused...
“The last 12 months have shown us just how truly transformative the Internet can be: the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, WikiLeaks and the continued aggregation of private data into...
The eighth of December in the year of 2011 will forever be remembered as the day that Twitter changed forever. Ok, maybe the redesign it announced last year wasn’t that...
In the past week, Hamza Kashgari’s name has come to the forefront of the Twittersphere in a way that he probably never thought imaginable. The Saudi journalist left Saudi Arabia...
New figures reveal that video-viewing across connected TVs and mobile devices is rising sharply, and could pave the way for online video viewing to hit new heights in 2012. Digital...
“Whether it’s the exposing of super injunctions, Middle Eastern revolutions or the Occupy movement, social media is having an ever more significant impact on our society and people’s desire f
Twitter chats are certainly not a new concept. Everyone from US Vice President Joe Biden to the the UK Metropolitan Police Commissioner have used Twitter as a way of connecting...
A stock restriction enforced by social giant Twitter, which stops employees from selling more than 20% of their stock, reportedly became the catalyst for some of its more high-profile resignations,...
After being deported from Malaysia back to Saudi Arabia for a series of poetic tweets, 23-year-old Hamza Kashgari has been detained in Saudi Arabia. And according to the Arabic daily,...
Being arrested for a tweet or a Facebook post in the Middle East is certainly nothing new. We’ve seen activists and journalists questioned, sentenced and imprisoned based on statements made...
Since Twitter launched in 2006, there have been tons of unique uses of the platform, including fundraising, live tweeting the State of the Union, and now thanks to Penguin, a...
There are countless ways by which we can tweet today, thanks to all manner of desktop, Web-based, mobile and third party apps that make it easy to stay in touch...
Twitter announced today that it has partnered with two satellite providers to provide its SMS service to an even larger global audience. This is a pretty big deal when you...
Twitter loves open source. In fact, its engineers are known to be heavy consumers and producers of open source technology, and the team has already managed to release a lot of its...
While I believe that everyone should drink responsibly, sometimes you need to kick back and throw down a few beers after a long day. Some of us like to use...
Paul Chambers appeared in court today to appeal against his conviction for sending a joke tweet threatening to blow England’s Robin Hood Airport “Sky High”, if the airport remained cl
As the social media space in Western markets edges closer to the point of saturation, the Internet’s top firms are tightening their focus on emerging markets where they can continue...
We recently highlighted research from eMarketer that suggested that Twitter’s revenue from advertising could pass half a billion dollars by 2014. That would see it triple the $139.5 million that.
According to a report by The Guardian, Sky News has instituted new rules for its reporters when it comes to Tweeting news from their personal accounts. The report references an...
Yesterday’s announcement that the UK Supreme Court was launching a Twitter account to broadcast news on its latest judgements was met with generally positive reactions. However, it transpires tha
Twitterdraw isn’t for everyone, but if it is for you, you’ll probably find yourself saying “A-ha! At last!” If you look after a business account on Twitter, there may be...
Indonesia’s government has put its sights on Twitter after claiming that it is “studying” the microblogging site with a view to cracking down on users that it claims are behaving...
Not only was Sunday’s Super Bowl the most viewed sporting event ever on television, it was the most viewed television program ever with a whopping 111.3M viewers. That’s pretty impressive..
The Brazilian Federal Attorney’s Office has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc., as the press agency O Globo reports. Filed with a motion for preliminary injunction, the lawsuit asks the...
Have you ever thought of using social networks to change the world? That’s what the newly launched platform 8causes wants to help you with. The website, whose name can also...
The highest court in the UK has launched a Twitter account and will begin tweeting news about its latest judgements imminently. The @UKSupremeCourt account has yet to tweet, but the...
Super Bowl XLVI just became America’s most tweeted sporting event after the game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants hit a record average of 10,000 tweets per second (TPS), a
Twitter is a great platform to get people stoked about anything, if done right. You can promote potato chips like @popchips does, and it could turn into a huge following...
Twitter has signalled its intention to grow its business and revenues in Asia after appointing the executive who headed up Google’s display advertising in the region as vice president of...
One of the companies paying close attention to the Facebook IPO is San Francisco based Twitter. Having launched in 2006, the company is starting to mature itself in the same...
Live events are always a hit on Twitter, with people tweeting throughout Presidential speeches or during a television show. One vertical has done extremely well when it comes to Twitter,...
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recently said that 2012 would be the “Twitter election” and he might not be far off. The micro-messaging service has become a source for news among...