When Apple launched Ping uptake was actually pretty swift, one million users signed up in the first 48 hours – not surprising when you consider how many people use iTunes to manage their music. What was surprising and a little confusing was Ping’s standing in the social network pecking order. Was it trying to compete with the likes of Twitter and Facebook? Was Ping to be a stand alone service? Well users finally have an answer as they can now link their Ping to their Twitter account, basically whenever an interaction is made on Ping...
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Social networking sites are great when you want to share something with the world, however they can also cause problems when sharing something you probably have kept secret, why would you do that? Well if you’re drunk probably. Thankfully there is now an precautionary barrier users can install as an add on to internet explorer or Firefox that requires users to take a sobriety test before they can login to sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and even Gmail or a personal blog. Webroot, an online security company has launched...
Twitter has added a reported 30 million users in the last two months taking their overall tally to a whopping 175 million users, if the micro-blogging site continues along the same trend they will have over 200 million global users before the end of 2010. This rapid growth is pretty impressive when you consider the site had just over 58 million users at the end of 2009 and 503,000 users just three years ago. People have really taken to the platform which allows users to post a mini blog post of 140 characters or less to update friends,...
I have spent many an hour trying to explain to my mum what Twitter is – I really need visual aids when talking technology to her. Thankfully there may be a new product that could help. WE ARE WHAT WE DO, the social movement behind the Anya Hindmarch ‘I’m NOT a Plastic Bag’ shopper and Historypin, has come up with the new cult gift for this Christmas, the Tweet Towel. The Tweet Towel collides old fashioned crafts with digital social networking to create a customised tea towel bearing an embroidered, personal tweet of 140 characters...