By Adriana Lee |
Social media can be a tremendous force for good during an emergency. News agencies and local governments can disseminate urgent alerts in an instant, providing valuable information to a distraught public. Unfortunately, as services like Twitter are user-driven and unfiltered, plenty of errant info can…
By Brandon Russell |
To all you prolific tweeters across the Internet: That witty remark you made about Aunt Kelly will not be sucked into the black abyss of Twitter’s infinite universe. At least that’s what Twitter CEO Dick Costolo promised The New York Times on Tuesday. With over…
By Adriana Lee |
Looks like Twitter and LinkedIn’s relationship is deader than Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ marriage. Seems the popular micro-blogging service has barred the partner from displaying Tweets on its user profiles. It’s kind of sad — the move puts a period on the end of the…
By Adriana Lee |
According to a recent study in the Harvard Business Review, the Twitterverse is full of some big, dull duds. The study had 1,443 users rate 43,738 Tweets. The ones that scored well were funny or exciting to the participants, shared interesting info or asked questions.…
By Adriana Lee |
I love it when people find a new use for old tech. In that vein, here’s a fun item from the My Apple Newton blog. Writer Tony Kan got some Twitter action to happen on the proto-tablet known as the Apple Newton. To Tweet, he…
By Sean P. Aune |
While the idea of Promoted Tweets, special messages on Twitter paid for by companies, hasn’t exactly made people do back flips, how do you think people are going to react to the idea of Promoted Tweeters? Well, it isn’t a done deal yet, but it…
