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- 12th Aug 2009
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Facebook Goes Lite to Challenge Twitter
It didn’t take long did it? No sooner had Facebook snapped up FriendFeed than they incorporated their live feed style in a ‘Lite’ version.
This stripped down Facebook is only currently available to a selection of Beta testers, of which I am not one, and is offering a service not too dissimilar to Twitter or FriendFeed. The rolling feed of news from contacts isn’t interrupted with irritating applications and endless tabs; just a stripped down communication portal.
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- 12th Aug 2009
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Anglo-American Tensions on Twitter
As a nation we generally tend to go for the glass half empty view; inwardly criticising the country’s infrastructure, governance and weather is one thing, but when the attack is from overseas, we Brits aren’t shy in responding.
Humorists on both side of the pond will no doubt enjoy the increasingly personal (and patently ridiculous) attacks from right-wing supporters in the US on our NHS. Our “Orwellian” system of deciding who gains free medical help is indicative of a socialist society, putting the UK in league with Soviet Russia, apparently.
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- 7th Aug 2009
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Twitter Denial of Service and the Georgia Conspiracy
As reported yesterday – Twitter Has Denial of Service Attack – the micro-blogging site was taken down yesterday along with Facebook and LiveJournal.
The conspiracy theories have started and Mashable have just posed the question about whether this DoS was targeting one man, a blogger in Republic of Georgia with the username Cyxymu.
All very interesting and, of course, we’ll probably never really know the truth of what’s happened here. Twitter, though, have certainly suffered and will no doubt be undertaking a serious review of their security.
Let us know what you think. Was Twitter targeted as part of cyber-terrorism?
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- 31st Jul 2009
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Football Offers up Two More Online Own Goals
The world of football has learnt two important lessons about the Internet in as many days. After yesterday’s announcement that Tranmere Rovers were available to buy on eBay, Tottenham Hotspur striker Darren Bent made the kind of Twitter faux pas that would shame Habitat.
First up Tranmere Rovers though. The small Wirral based club with a big reputation for giant killing may be League 1 also-rans, but they came into focus when their owner reacted furiously to their attempted sale on eBay. At $10m for an opening bid you wouldn’t have thought it would be much of an issue, but Chairman Peter Johnson thinks differently suggesting it’s “not a second hand bike we’re selling.”
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- 30th Jul 2009
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Tweetminster to Expand Services with New Investment
Tweetminster, the definitive home of UK politics on Twitter is set to introduce new and improved functionality following fresh investment. The £100k will be used to develop their Livewire tracker, which traces the latest political trending topics here in the UK with the assistance of The Independent newspaper.
The site itself has come from humble beginnings and looks set to become a major player in the Twitter services sector with their continued development. If you’re looking for UK political news straight from the horse’s mouth Tweetminster has always been the place to go.
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- 29th Jul 2009
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New Twitter Home Page Incorporates Search
The new Twitter home page has been unveiled. Whilst it may not be the most revolutionary design, it does include one key addition, Twitter search.
Now, without even having to sign up with Twitter, you can immediately take advantage of their search facility and see what the world is talking about. With homepage integration, far more people will be able to access Twitter and use it to track down breaking stories and local news in an instant, regardless of whether they are a member or not.
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- 28th Jul 2009
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Whitehall Jumping on the Twitter Bandwagon
Government dossiers are usually of the highest confidentiality and of utmost importance. However, one that has snuck out of Whitehall recently, according to the Daily Mail at least, is quite the opposite. Government ministers have been getting advice on how to use Twitter.
Recognising the ballooning popularity of the social media site, some Internet savvy politicians have already jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. This 20 page guide though is designed to encourage those who haven’t yet taken up the mantle and give them advice on what to write, who to follow and how to interact.
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- 27th Jul 2009
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Twitter Domain Name Battle Heats up with Introduction of Retweet.com
Tweetmeme is one of the many services that has emerged as a direct result of the huge popularity of social networking site Twitter. They are responsible for providing many sites, including our own, with the ability to instantly Tweet a web page or blog post just by clicking on the green ‘Retweet’ button.
However a new site is soon to be launched that will look to challenge their domination in this unique sector. Retweet.com will have one major advantage over its more established rival; it has a brilliant domain name. Just as I discussed in last week’s post entitled ‘what are domain names really worth?’, clearly there is still a lot of value assigned to the name of your domain.
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- 24th Jul 2009
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Twitter Release 101 Guide for Business Users
When you’re new to Twitter, understanding where to start and what you should be doing can be quite confusing. Yes, you only have to get your message across in a paltry 140 characters, but what should that message be? Who are you actually talking to?
Business users face a particularly tough time. When maintaining a personal Twitter account, the only thing that you really need to worry about is not offending too many of your ‘followers’. As a business though, there’s so much more to consider. How should you market yourself? What style of communication is most suitable? Who is going to be allowed to access the company Twitter account? It’s not as straightforward as you may think.
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- 15th Jul 2009
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TechCrunch aren’t usually averse to courting controversy and so it has proved once again. Yesterday a mysterious hacker mailed Michael Arrington’s company offering up some invaluable information on Twitter.
Since then, TechCrunch have clearly been wrestling with the idea of how much information they should release. Arrington goes to great lengths to assure everyone that the mountain of private files and other non-business related details won’t be published, at least not by his company; however he is going to be exposing business related dealings in the coming days.
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- 15th Jul 2009
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Real-time Search Inches Closer with BingTweets
Real-time search has taken a giant leap towards becoming a reality with the advent of BingTweets. Federated Media, the company behind ExecTweets, have teamed up with Microsoft to create a fully integrated search system that utilises both Bing and Twitter.
By searching both instantaneously, you get the very latest real time stories as well as the classic search format offered by Bing. The SERP is made up of four primary components: 1) Twitter trending topics 2) Share this result (creating a bit.ly URL of the page to distribute on Twitter) 3) Tweets of your search phrase, and finally 4) Search Results.
