It seems like things are getting frustratingly mixed-meat flavoured for the beholders of our favourite micro-blogging network. It was only several weeks back that twitter announced they had trimmed their members database of a bucket load of spam accounts causing people to lose followers.
Today, a brief look at some of the top trending topics seems to show things are not a whole load better, take this screen cap for example:
Every single link on this page was to malware or spam. In fact only 2 of the posts where from real users –the post from ‘firtje’ although looking...
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Twitter has decided that now is definitely not a good time to think about the horrific realities of making money. Instead, they have opted for raising another $50m of venture capital, giving it another year or two to contemplate monetisation strategy and how they intend to realise their potential valuation – which incidentally is now up from $250m at last round to $1 billion.
So what are these investors actually investing in? Twitter currently has no obvious business model, no tangible revenue stream and many people are speculating as to the companies’ plans. According to co-founder Biz Stone Twitter currently keeps the...
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The Facebook iPhone development team has recently submitted an exciting software update to Apple for approval on the application store. Although the approval process can be notoriously fickle the application is expected to emerge on the store in the next day or two. There will be many new tantalising features making its way onto the software including the new style news feed, the ability to like stuff and an events manager. However, most exciting of all, is the ability to upload video directly to Facebook from your 3GS iPhone.
Whilst Facebook is massively popular for uploading pictures, it has always lagged...
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Yesterday saw the dawn of a new trend emerging on Twitter: #internetbeatles. The idea of the trend is that people suggest Beatles songs that can be associated with technology and Internet related pun-wizardry.
As a massive fan of the fab four, I thought it only reasonable to contribute to such an important discussion and trending topic. Some of the outstanding puns that emerged included the following:
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Mr Hilton usually makes his crust discussing details of other celebritys lives via his super popular blog. However, on this particular occasion, Perez found himself at the centre of a media fuelled storm, and his platform of choice to document the whole experience was Twitter.
On June 21st, the celebrity gossip machine tweeted the following statement to his army of 1 million plus followers assaulted by Will.I.AM of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guard. Rather than report the incident directly to the police, Perez continued to Tweet about the incident, prompting many of his followers to call the authorities....
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Facebook is gearing up to launch its social networking presence in Swahili according to reports at the BBC yesterday. This gives the social networking titan the opportunity to tap into a new market of 110 million potential speakers of the language.
The launch has been achieved in collaboration with some Swahili University boffins having received permission from Zuckerbergs cohorts. Facebook currently exists in the native tongue of Afrikaans and has spread steadily through east and central Africa, where most of the speakers of the language live. Hausa and Zulu have been touted as potential follow on moves to cater for markets...
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Many social media commentators have discussed the possibility of a perfect fit between Facebook Connect and online games. At yesterdays E3 conference in sunny Los Angeles, Microsoft formally announced that both Facebook Connect and Twitter would be used to interface directly with the Xbox Live service starting in the autumn of 2009.
This would mean that friends and associated networks of gamers would have the option to compete against each other and subsequently publish the results to the respective social network or website. Early screen shots that have been previewed at the E3 conference are said to be more rudimentary. Gizmondo...
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The social media world is buzzing again today with the announcement of Googles latest addition to its family of products, Google Wave. Google Wave is set to be a new real-time communication platform that will be thrust upon us in the latter part of 2009. Lets try and summarise this in a nutshell:
Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It is a Web 2.0 mash-up of instant messaging, E-mail, web chat, wikis, project management and social networking. As such, all of these features have been neatly combined into one delicious melting pot. It stimulates discussion between...
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The New York Times recently reported that Twitter would soon be launching an official TV show. Twitter has today responded to these reports, stating that a Twitter show is firmly in the pipeline. Twitters commander in chief Biz Stone has confirmed that the company has signed a contract with production company Reveille and Brillstein to put the wheels in motion on a TV project. However, Stone was quick to emphasise that this is not an official Twitter TV show. The agreement takes the form of a non-exclusive contract and as such, there are a number of companies working on productions...
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The people at YouTube are today citing some pretty mind boggling video upload metrics. We already understand there has been a 53% increase in online video usage. What is quite striking about these latest statistics is that the collective YouTube community are now uploading an astonishing 20 hours of video every minute of the day. That equates to a dazzling amount of user video upload, almost 4 years of footage every day!
YouTube are also implementing some quirky new features into the site in order to stimulate increased social networking activity between users. As illustrated below, this comes in the...
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