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Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search

Technology / Internet

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently.


World's first album of Twitter music available now

World's first album of Twitter music available now

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.


Probing Question: What is citizen journalism?

Probing Question: What is citizen journalism?

Technology / Internet

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The last time you watched CNN or read The New York Times online, you might have been surprised to see reporting by ordinary people. From photos uploaded instantly of the earthquake in Indonesia to video of ...


Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter (AP)

Grudgingly, young people finally flock to Twitter

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- They think it's pointless, narcissistic. Some don't even know what it is. Even so, more young adults and teens - normally at the cutting edge of technology - are finally coming around to Twitter, ...


NASA Launches Tweetup for Space Shuttle Atlantis Liftoff in Florida

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, NASA Twitter followers are invited to view a space shuttle launch in person at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is interviewed during the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 2009.

Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.


Twitter tool shows hot tweets when people meet

Twitter tool shows hot tweets when people meet

Technology / Software

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first Twitter tool that ranks the popularity of individual messages plans to make the backchannel conversations at conferences and meetings more interesting.


Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature

Twitter testing tool to organize tweets

Technology / Internet

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories.


Twitter has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money

Twitter opening up to advertising

Technology / Internet

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, has changed its terms to potentially open up the free service to advertisers.


Tweeting, more than just self expression: study

Technology / Internet

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- From CNN to Ashton Kutcher everyone is tweeting. In ads, many companies now display the logo of an animated blue bird holding a sign that says "follow me."


Fox adds on-air tweets to `Fringe' reruns (AP)

Fox adds on-air tweets to 'Fringe' reruns

Technology / Internet

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Summer reruns are ho-hum television, but Fox is trying out a possible solution: Add Twitter.


Twitter opens a door to Iowa operating room (AP)

Twitter opens a door to Iowa operating room

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- From anesthesia to the recovery room, 70-year-old Monna Cleary's children followed her surgery - 140 characters or less at a time.


Witty tweets captured in 'Twitter Wit' book

Witty tweets captured in 'Twitter Wit' book

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A freshly released book "Twitter Wit" is a hit at the hip micro-blogging service, which so loved the compendium of clever tweets that it bought copies for everyone in its San Francisco headquarters.


Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble" according to a new US market research study

40 percent of Twitter messages 'pointless babble': study

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble" along the lines of "I am eating a sandwich now," according to a study conducted by a US market research firm.


Some NFL teams clamp down on tweets (AP)

Some NFL teams clamp down on tweets

Technology / Internet

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The only tweets during the Miami Dolphins scrimmage Saturday will come from the officials' whistles.