With a community that’s as big as 100 million users, finding someone who shares the same interest is just like looking for a needle in a haystack! That’s just the case with Twitter. Out of 100 million users, there might be a couple thousand users who are worth following, and out of those couple thousand [...]
Google just announced a new feature in the search options which lets users search the twitter timeline for a specific word or phrase. In a few days the new update will be globally available in English language; however, you can try it right now using this link. The search option is better than Twitter search [...]
Twitter just announced that the company has agreed to acquire Tweetie which will be renamed to “Twitter for iPhone”. Tweetie application is currently selling for $2.99 which will be made available for free soon. The blog post by Ev also talks about their mobile strategy and how this acquisition will fuel Twitters growth in that [...]
Everyone who was expecting to hear/see the launch of Twitters revenue model or ad platform was left disappointed. Instead, Ev Williams, announced a new integrated platform which makes Twitter more commonly accessible across the web. Users can now follow/unfollow, tweet, etc.. from sites that use the @anywhere javascript to offer few of the Twitter features on their [...]
Twitter announced a new feature which gives deeper access “Trending:” topics to its users. Users can now select their city and see what’s buzzing around them. This is not any different from Google trends which dwell into what people around you are searching. The only difference is that these are “real-time” and instead of searches [...]
Whenever I see a new gadget I mostly go … “That’s a Good one!” but some gadgets trigger a bitter reaction.. “What were they thinking?” and just for the record I mostly go.. “That’s freaking awesome!” when I see Japanese gadgets. (That was a short tutorial on my reactions for different gadgets.) TwitterPeek is one [...]
Microsoft officially launched a customer service ID on Twitter, @MicrosoftHelps. Initially this ID will only help with and answer questions related to Windows 7, however, the service will later expand to cover other products Microsoft offers. @MicrosoftHelps feed has been quite active and we can already see quite a few tweets in just about 24hrs [...]
Twitter is all about following your favorite people and keeping up with their activities but when I see Twizers (Twitter Users) who have a gazillion followers and follow a gazillion Twiple I cannot help but think that the whole purpose is lost simply because one cannot keep up with so many updates. Then what’s the [...]
Twitter went down for about 2 hours today due to a large scale Denial of Service Attack. The services resumed to normal but the attack does not seem to stop as the Twitter Status blog reports that the service is still defending itself against the attack. US government sites have witnessed a similar attack during [...]
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