Submitted by Scbalazs :
Twitter largely reminds me of when people started to register their own names for domains, turning the Internet into a giant customized license plate. It's somewhere between self-expression and mental onanism.I use it to track several news sites but following other "people" often makes me feel weird. Most of the content see (Read More)
Submitted by Ophelia :
Twitter takes out the spammers, and twitter people go nuts over loss of "followers". It's only a number to some, but to others its speaks volumes about their standing. (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
On his Blogger.com profile page, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams describes himself as "a farm boy from Nebraska, who's been very lucky in business and life". That luck seemed to be running out in recent months, when Twitter - the microblogging and messaging service created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Williams himself - s (Read More)
Submitted by Nikki Pilkington :
Facebook dominates UK social networking with 45.29% of the market, almost double the share of second-placed Bebo and three times more than MySpace, as micro blogging site Twitter shows major growth.According to the latest figure from Hitwise this is an 188% increase compared with a year ago for Facebook.Bebo.com is ranked s (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
Congrats to Twitter for having a brand spanking new app to add to its brood. This latest Twitter creation is called TwitterBash and like its fellow Twitter brethren, it aims to make Twitter as good as it can be. How exactly? TwitterBash takes the Digg phenomena and makes it its own. The concept is simple. People are more ap (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
You can do a lot in a 140-character Twitter entry, writes John Dickerson at Nieman Reports. And no, the online squib will not spell the end of long form reporting. Dickerson's right that Twitter affords weary political correspondents like himself the ability to share fun anecdotes from the field that would otherwise get cut (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
They're like the Merry Pranksters, without the merriment or the pranks. A group of four college Republicans have set off across the country in a rented Ford Explorer to remind America that not all young people are Barack Obama supporters, and that it's still possible to drive 2,500 miles without once crossing a Democratic d (Read More)
louisgray.com :
Guest post by Mark Dykeman of Broadcasting Brain (FriendFeed/Twitter)Let’s take a moment to pause from our normal pontifications about A-Lists, aggregators, egoism, elitism, monetization, commercialization, capitalization, and such and talk about something bigger. This is something that would ultimately benefit the overall (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva :
Twitter apps are cropping up everywhere and they seem to cater to your every Twitter related need, even if you weren’t even aware of it. Twiffid, a newcomer to the bunch based out of the Netherlands, detects your Twitter friends’ feeds which they have listed in their profiles. These feeds are then delivered to you in a Twit (Read More)
Valleywag :
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Boing Boing comments moderator who posted Boing Boing's formal response to last month's Violet Blue "unpublishing" flamefest, is a smart lady who, judging from her own comments, doesn't afraid of anything. She invented the practice of removing the vowels from blog comments she deems out of line, t (Read More)
Submitted by Lucilla Feliciano :
Has anyone been using this? I did a search on myself(how vain) and I came across this page with my quotes from twitter. It also had a stream of my conversations with other people. (Read More)
Mashable! :
Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.STARTUP DETAILS:Company Name: Locify20-word Description: Location-enabled mobile browsin (Read More)