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Twitter Fuelband mashup tracks your social fitness

Ben Kersey, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Some people have different ways to measure the success of their Twitter accounts, like retweets or number of followers, but how about boiling down all that activity into one easy to understand number? Stinkdigital had an interesting idea and put it to the test, by taking a Nike Fuelband, modifying it, and taking advantage of the generated Fuelband score to measure Twitter activity. Read The Full Story

Twitter joins “Do Not Track”

Chris Burns, May 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you did not already know it, Twitter has been tracking your every move since the dawn of 140 characters, the FTC announcing just this week that they’re now part of the “Do Not Track” initiative capturing the internet. This Do Not Track project has the Federal Trade Commission pushing for “opt-out” features on all web-based project that would otherwise track user data without question. Twitter is the latest group to join in on the Do Not Track fun with an option to turn off user tracking inside the Firefox web browser first and foremost.

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Twitter fights New York on behalf of Occupy protester

Shane McGlaun, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Last month, I mentioned a judge ruled that an Occupy protester lacked legal standing to challenge a third-party subpoena issued to twitter to obtain the protester's twitter communications. Twitter has taken up the defense of its user and filed a motion in a State Court in New York to kill the subpoena. The twitter user in question is Malcolm Harris. Read The Full Story

Twitter says accounts hackers posted were mostly banned spammers

Shane McGlaun, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week hackers claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous posted details from about 55,000 twitter accounts. The hackers claim to have broken into twitter servers to steal the data. Twitter is now claiming that most of those 55,000 accounts are bogus. In fact, twitter says that most of those accounts that were published were for accounts that are banned for spamming. Read The Full Story

TwitPic for iPhone takes on Instagram

Chris Davies, May 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

TwitPic has launched its first mobile app, TwitPic for iPhone, a free photo and social app that pits the Twitter-sharing site against Instagram. Released today, TwitPic for iPhone takes a photo-centric approach to Twitter, rather than most apps for the short-message service which prioritize text sharing, and bundles various filters and effects for processing shots before publishing them. Read The Full Story

Judge rules Occupy protesters tweets can be used by prosecutors

Shane McGlaun, Apr 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apparently, there are so many cases that have to do with the Occupy movement that New York has its own special court set up just to hear the legal cases. One man named Malcolm Harris was arrested last fall while participating in a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge. Apparently, prosecutors in the case issued a subpoena for Harrison's username and information on tweets for three months against Twitter. Read The Full Story

Twitter adds OS targeting for mobile ads

Shane McGlaun, Apr 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Twitter has been running an advertising platform called Promoted Tweets for a while. This platform allows advertisers to send specific tweets out to users of smartphones, computers, and tablets. The company has announced that those Promoted Tweets are now able to be sent out to Blackberry users. Read The Full Story

Conan O’Brien playing big part in Halo 4 launch

Chris Burns, Apr 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Tomorrow is going to be a blast for gamers who also love gigantic red hair poofs on top of late-night speakers named Conan because Microsoft and 343 Industries have tipped Halo 4 as coming from the mouth of O'Brien himself this week. Two tweets popping up today from industry heroes brought a pre-announcing of the announcement that will come from @TeamCoco and/or the actual Conan tv show tomorrow. These tweets come from Alison Stroll, aka Senior Producer of developer team 343 Industries of Halo fame, and Major Nelson of Microsoft. Read The Full Story

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Hands on with Viddy: Instagram for Videos

Chris Burns, Apr 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

The developers at Viddy Inc have had no qualms about riding the coattails of Instagram as the latter company shot to stardom over the past few weeks – and with an interface nearly identical and videos instead of photos to boot, why shouldn’t they? Made by a completely separate set of developers than the folks who brought you Instagram, this app has been described many times in it short history as “Instagram for Videos.” Imagine our surprise then when we had a peek at it and it actually was!