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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Waracle are proud to announce the launch of the new Million Mums website! Million Mums is an exciting new initiative to bring people together to end the needless deaths of women in childbirth all over the world. This is why they need your help:
- Every minute of every day, somewhere in the world, a woman dies due to pregnancy and birth related complications
- In Africa and Asia, pregnancy and childbirth are the number one causes of death amongst women of childbearing age, killing more than half a million women each year
- These deaths leave approximately...
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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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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 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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Fresh off the Twitter gravy-train today comes news direct from the Chocolate Factory themselves that the latest buzz for band-wagon jumping time wasters is to document the appearance of crop circles in Googles Maps app.
Lets hope that this doesnt encourage a fresh new entourage of art students taking the matter into their own hands by riddling our countryside with swirly illustrations in the vain hope theyll make into Googles next image update....
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This could be described as one giant leap for mankind, as the first tweet of its kind has been beamed from space to 234,240 followers. Thats right; the micro blogging phenomenon that is Twitter has experienced its first taste of interplanetary communication and is probably destined to go down in the history books as the first such act of its kind. Mike Massimino works for NASA and can be followed on Twitter as @Astro_Mike. The tweet in question looked like this: From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of...
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Having read a number of different blogs and opinions on the matter, there seems to be a widely growing consensus within the Social Media industry, that Twitter possesses greater search capabilities than any other search engine. Could this possibly be true? Do my ears and eyes deceive me? Does Twitter in fact represent a viable search based alternative to the Google behemoth? In order to answer these questions, we must define what is meant by greater search capabilities. If we define these capabilities as being faster and more relevant, then potentially the answer is yes, Twitter rules the roost. On...
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