Storify Launches a Slick and Friendly iPad App
Storify is today announcing a brand new app for the iPad, bringing its drag and drop curation of Tweets, videos and other web links to the tablet. The experience looks…
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Google+ Brand Pages Growing 4X Faster than Twitter
Last week, we took a look at a report that showed that the most popular pages on Google+ were becoming more consumer-focused. Now, according to a recent report from Socialbakers,…
Yandex Signs Realtime Search Deal With Twitter
In a deal that surely gives the middle finger to Google, Twitter has signed a deal with Russian search giant Yandex to provide access to its full feed of public…
Report: Twitter To Hit 500 Million Users. We're Skeptical.
According to some reports, Twitter will be breaking through the 500 million user mark next Wednesday. Put on your party hats, drinks all around! Actually, hold your birds. Color us…
Kuwaiti Detained for 21 Days for his Tweets
Facing a prison sentence as a result of statements made on Twitter seems to have become the norm in Kuwait. Kuwaiti Twitter user Mohammad al-Mulaifi could be joining the ranks of…
Japanese Man's Unique Tweet Won 1,000 RTs Challenge
Just the other day an email dropped into my inbox asking me if I wanted to buy 10,000 followers on Twitter. The message, which assured me that the price would…
Twitter Promises Fix for Mobile Image Display Issue
If you’re an every day user of Twitter’s official mobile app you may be noticing some inconsistencies when it comes to displaying photos that your followers post. Basically, every now…
Press Pass is a New Twitter-Powered Directory of Journalists
Press Pass, a ’live directory’ of journalists from major publications, is a brand new Dubai-based site that comes to us courtesy of co-founders David Haddad, a product manager and software engineer, and…
Gnip Becomes First Authorized Reseller of Tweets
It’s well known that Twitter doesn’t provide a robust search product that lets you find tweets older than six or seven days. That could be because the company is focused…
Twitter, Censorship and the Law
“The last 12 months have shown us just how truly transformative the Internet can be: the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, WikiLeaks and the continued aggregation of private data into…
Everyone Has Been Moved Over to the new Twitter Design
The eighth of December in the year of 2011 will forever be remembered as the day that Twitter changed forever. Ok, maybe the redesign it announced last year wasn’t that…
Saudi Journalist Facing Death Sentence Reportedly Repents
In the past week, Hamza Kashgari’s name has come to the forefront of the Twittersphere in a way that he probably never thought imaginable. The Saudi journalist left Saudi Arabia…
Facebook Drives 10-times More Video-Shares Than Twitter
New figures reveal that video-viewing across connected TVs and mobile devices is rising sharply, and could pave the way for online video viewing to hit new heights in 2012. Digital…
Social Media Week: Twitter & Future of Journalism
“Whether it’s the exposing of super injunctions, Middle Eastern revolutions or the Occupy movement, social media is having an ever more significant impact on our society and people’s desire for…
Save the Children is Holding a 12-Hour Twitter Conference
Twitter chats are certainly not a new concept. Everyone from US Vice President Joe Biden to the the UK Metropolitan Police Commissioner have used Twitter as a way of connecting…
