Although access to the popular micro-blogging site still remains blocked in China, the Chinese people may soon find themselves able to use the site. Twitter’s co-founder, Jack Dorsey, said on Monday night that the Twitter team is working hard to allow Chinese users access the site in their own language.
Responding to a panel which included [...]
Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a new platform @Anywhere at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. The new service will allow the users to integrate the Twitter experience on their websites boosting further Twitter’s reach across the web.
The feature is more or less similar to the Facebook connect that will enable the users to [...]
Security company Barracuda Labs has recently figured out the reason behind the surge of attacks on the social media and micro blogging site Twitter in 2009. The main reason is believed to be the joining of some major A-list celebrities in Twitter at around the same time.
According to the report, as many as 48 of [...]
Some people, many among my colleagues have a misconception related to interdependency of tweeting and social networking. How social is a Netizen if he just owns a Twitter account and rarely tweets? There have been many speculations related to Twitter, Some call it as a Super Glue that will Gel up the Internet of Things. [...]
Microsoft is lying low in Social Media space. Google owns Youtube and Orkut, and it has recently launched Buzz. Yahoo accepted the failure in running the social network, and choose to follow a different path by partnering with Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo has focussed fully on content generation and is using the social networks partnership [...]
The commentary on social media during the Academy Awards broadcast was often more entertaining than the show itself. Here are 10 of the funniest Oscar tweets. Think of them as notes from the peanut gallery.
-”Shhhh. I’m live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair.” – Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson), actor.
-”Charlize Theron would like to thank R. [...]
Hundreds of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites.
This is another phishing attack in Twitter in last 15 days. Last time “this you??” and “sex related” direct message hacked thousands of Twitter [...]
You might have heard that Yahoo! announced plans in December to integrate Facebook Connect across a variety of our popular sites and services. Yahoo on Thursday started a slow roll-out of its integration with Facebook Connect by allowing users to import e-mail addresses from the social networking site.
According to the release in their blog Yahoo stated [...]
We all know how valuable the Twitter streams have been for the real time search and discovery and that has been well judged by even the giant technology firms like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! currently feeding from its stream of tweets. But Twitter has furthered its move to advance the real time interaction by opening [...]
Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked after a viral phishing attack which sends out messages saying “this you??” or “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” and other sex-related “direct” messages. As you know latest Twitter Phishing Hack hits BBC, Guardian and Cabinet Minister. Its a issue of [...]
