Micro blogging service Twitter has announced that it has 100 million active users, half of which log in on a daily basis to follow their interests and use the service. While millions of users actively participate in some of the trending topics, a large percentage don’t contribute to the discussions when they log in. “For many, getting the most out of Twitter...
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According to the data from market research company comScore, social media giants Twitter and Facebook posted record-breaking unique visitor numbers last month. Facebook, co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, had 162 million unique hits in July, up from June’s 160.8 million and 157.2 million in May. This data proves that Facebook is not losing some of its members to other...
Microsoft Corp. has opened a new blog and Twitter account to keep its partners and customers updated with the progress and development of its next-generation operating system, Windows 8. Windows President Steven Sinofsky made the blog’s first post titled “Building Windows 8,” sharing new information about the OS and describing the site’s purpose...
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has formed a new unit to sniff out troublemakers by analyzing entries on social media networks that include Twitter and Facebook. Kevin O’Connor, the newly named assistant commissioner and one of the department’s gang and online gurus, is in charge of the new social media unit, reports the New York Daily News. O’Connor...
On his 60th year of priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI launched the Vatican’s new online news portal with a tweet using an iPad. This is not just any tweet, this is the first tweet ever by the Pope himself. Pope Benedict’s tweet announced the launch of news.va, the online news portal of the Vatican. The tweet came from the Vatican’s @news_va_en account, where...
Twitter was buzzing this morning after a letter from James Bond shockingly told the co-founder of Apple that he was just ‘a computer salesman’, before telling him he was ‘James f!cking Bond’. We are of course talking about the hoax letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs, presented on monogramed paper and dated 1998. This was the first year of the Apple iMac and...
Twitter has once again gone into battle with third party service providers, last week they announced a new photo sharing application which rivals Twitpic and other providers. Today they have launched their own URL shortening service, which unlike other providers is built directly into Twitter. This means users can paste url’s into their Tweets and have them automatically...
Skype users have once again taken to twitter to report Skype has gone down for the second time within a week. The problem isn’t isolated either, users across the globe are reporting problems and when we checked we were also unable to sign in, for reference gadgets and gizmos is based in the UK. Unlike last week, Skype has yet to explain the downtime which has left users...
Rovio has announced a brand new update of the original Angry Birds via Twitter. The update is called ‘Mine and Dine’ and as the name suggests will mean the birds going to war with those pesky pigs underground. As with other themed level packs, Rovio has gone all out with props and costumes for the targets and especially the pigs. Some of the pigs will come equipped...
Twitter has been on a bit of a buying spree of late, last week a deal was finalized between them and Tweetdeck and it’s been well documented that Twitter is discouraging new apps that could compromise their own in-house solutions. This week they are taking a different tact, according to TechCrunch a new native picture sharing service is on the cards. The service...