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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Guardian reported, the Press Complaints Commission and the BBC correspondent ‘Nick Higham’ and the Guardian’s head of audio [...]
A week after indexing MySpace user’s update in its search results, Google has now announced that Facebook Fan page updates too will stream in the real-time search results. The announcement that came via Google’s Twitter account said nothing except that the integration had been turned life and the users could now find updates from Facebook [...]
There is no doubt that Twitter has been growing at a very fast rate but has the rate been consistent over the period of time has been a concern raised by many. Twitter saw a huge growth in 2009 but as the growth started tapering down by the end of the year. Even though Twitter [...]
