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One person’s tweets leads to disastrous results

, Mar 23rd 2013 Discuss [464]

One tweet can lead to a disastrous onslaught of consequences, as Adria Richards has recently found out. While attending the PyCon Technology Conference last week, she overheard two male developers behind her talking about "big dongles" and "forking someone's repo". She was offended by the jokes and she stated, "I was telling myself if they made one more sexual joke, I'd say something." Read The Full Story

Three BBC Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

, Mar 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

BBC had three of its Twitter accounts hacked early this morning by a group that calls itself the Syrian Electronic Army, which accessed its BBC Weather, BBC Arabic, and Radio Ulster accounts to post somewhat strange public proclamations. The tweets have since been deleted, and BBC is back to being in control of its social accounts. Read The Full Story

Twitter celebrates 7th birthday with over 200 million users

, Mar 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter is celebrating its 7th birthday today. After officially launching on March 21, 2006, Twitter has gained over 200 million users and averages around 400 million tweets per day. Since the first-ever tweet was sent out by co-founder Jack Dorsey, the micro-blogging social media platform has come a long way in seven years. Read The Full Story

Twitter receives patent on itself after years of waiting

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

This is a good day for Twitter, which just received a patent on itself from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent describes the Twitter service, covering such things as sent messages that aren't destined to a recipient. The patent request was filed back in 2007, and lists Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey as its inventors. Read The Full Story

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wants to run for NYC mayor

, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [5]

Twitter was launched in 2006 by a group of guys, one of which is Jack Dorsey, who is currently executive chairman of the social network, as well as the CEO of Square, a new mobile payment company that launched in 2010. However, Dorsey's next adventure is to one day become the mayor of New York City, a city with over 9 million residents. Read The Full Story

Twitter launches Windows 8 and RT app, get it now via Windows Store

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Twitter has announced the availability of its app for Windows 8 and Windows RT, which users can get now from the Windows Store. The sleek-looking app borrows its design from other Twitter apps, such as those available for Windows Phone and Android. The differences with the Windows 8 app, however, are in the details. Read The Full Story

Twitter to launch standalone music app

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [1]

Twitter is apparently looking to bring some music into its service. The company is getting ready to use We Are Hunted, a music discovery service it had acquired 6 months ago, to help build itself a standalone music app. The app will give personalized music recommendations to users based on the musical artists the user follows, and the musical artists the user's followers follow. The service, while less personalized, will still be usable for those without a Twitter account. Read The Full Story

FTC: Advertisers can’t post deceptive tweets/mobile ads

, Mar 13th 2013 Discuss [1]

The Federal Trade Commission is setting some new, and much needed, guidelines for advertisers. The FTC has updated its guidelines, which were initially released in the year 2000, to include new ad marketing platforms. The FTC states that no matter what medium is used to see the ads, whether its a TV, radio, newspaper, computer, tablet, or a mobile phone, the ads must include full disclosure on the products being marketed. Read The Full Story

Sharing is caring according to Facebook users

, Mar 10th 2013 Discuss [2]

There's no doubt that Facebook is the most popular social network around, even if teens are losing interest in the service. Facebook has announced that its 1 billion+ users have shared over 400 billion open graph actions back to the social network so far, a number that many Facebook marketers love to see. These figures were announced prior to its event being held at South by Southwest (SXSW). Read The Full Story

Google Glass: the Feminine Fashion Concern

, Mar 8th 2013 Discuss [10]

If you’ve seen the photo shoots that’ve come out thus far for Google’s Project Glass, you know good and well that they’ve taken just as many photos of the device on the heads of women as they have of men. The idea that the device will not be as appealing to the feminine side of the equation here is about more than just the idea that women will or will not want to wear the first wave of Glass as it appears on the market, but according to a couple of sources we’ve had a peek at this week, there does seem to be some concern that only the distinctly male amongst us will want to go “wearable” with Google in 2013.

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Twitter updates mobile app with improved search, video support changes

, Mar 6th 2013 Discuss [3]

Twitter has updated its mobile app for both iOS and Android with a few improvements, as well as some subtractions. The company improved the app's search results, where Twitterers will see more topic and user suggestions for search queries, which are based on what's happening in real time. Twitter also removed support for several video sharing services on the mobile app. Read The Full Story

Twitter stops support for Tweetdeck Mobile and Air apps

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

TweetDeck has just released a statement saying that Twitter will be discontinuing several of its apps. TweetDeck for iOS and TweetDeck for Android will be removed from their respective apps store in May. Along with those apps, TweetDeck AIR will also be removed, and Facebook integration will cease. All of the apps will stop functioning shortly after they're removed from the market. They state that the reasoning is because most of its power users only use its web-based app. Read The Full Story
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