SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news. As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt...
BERKELEY -- When Egyptian police scooped up University of California, Berkeley, graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter. Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the...
BERKELEY -- When Egyptian police scooped up University of California, Berkeley, graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter. Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the...
BERKELEY _ When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter. Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging...
Weekend Snippets: WebTrends, Twitter UK, and 12secondsSniping Weekend Snippets...Identify people and round them up? Cute as the humor is here, it's still scary to contemplate.What I'd like to see is all US politicians voluntarily restrict their campaigns to the 12seconds model. "Fellow citizens, I..."“Sorry, times up”
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Techno-superstars that brought the world Facebook, Digg, Twitter and other hot websites are among the Internet celebrities honored by big-time bloggers with first-ever "Crunchies" awards. Nearly a thousand devotees of online firms and trends changing cultures around the world gathered in Herbst Theater in San...
Twitter is Something Else You Should Know AboutYou finally drank the Kool-AidSo it's safe to assume that Twitter paid you to do this post. Twitter is an interesting concept but unless you want text messages telling you that so-and-so just ate oatmeal for breakfast, it's a juvenile waste of time...
What do Dell, Panasonic, Hormel, H&R Block and Zappos.com have in common? They are all actively monitoring what's being said about them on Twitter, the micro-blogging site where people post very short bursts of opinion, information and other marginalia. If these companies have figured out Twitter, it's...
FuelFrog is a nifty little app that allows you to keep track of your driving, your fuel economy, and your gas expenses. It's no more than a tricked-out excel page, really, except for one killer feature: it's integrated with Twitter. That means that whenever you hit the gas station, you...
Just What the Heck is Twitter, Anyway?Best Twitter Real World UsesSo far I've found two good real world uses for Twitter:--a local pizza place that makes only one kind of pizza per day announces the toppings via Twitter and I get it as an SMS message. Sounds fairly trivial,...
Steve Gillmor recently blogged about Twitter as earthshaker, calling it a communications platform that will blow right past everything except platforms that allow it to dominate. I wish he would've limited his post to 140 words (we won't force a blogger to use only 140 characters). ...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Internet and mobile phone message boards are atwitter with Twitter, the raging online trend to share one's every move with friends Haiku-style every moment of the day. Twitter users get a maximum of 140 characters a shot to answer the question "What are you doing?...
PLANO, Texas -- Mobile social networking leader Twitter has chosen Ericsson's (NASDAQ:ERIC) Internet Payment eXchange IPX solution to extend its mobile service globally.
Twitter.com, the site that lets users answer the question "What are you up to?," recently announced that it had received an undisclosed amount of investment from Union Square Ventures. The site has also received funding from other investors such as Marc Andreesen. A internet start-up attracting investors...
Blogging is dead. Long live Twitter, says Paul Boutin in a Wired essay. Apparently, "micro-blogging" sites such as Twitter and Facebook make blogging "so 2004". Brevity is now the watchword -- 140 characters is the limit of a Twitter text a tweet. Blogging is cumbersome by comparison....
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