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Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised
Posted on Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 | No CommentsTwitter has announced that its systems had been attacked in the past week by a bunch of unidentified ne’er do wells who had potentially gained access to the usernames, email... -
Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates
Posted on Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 | No CommentsTwitter’s new app, Vine, has been designed to let users “create and share beautiful, short looping videos,” and it’s already proved a big online hit. -
Foursquare lets you check in with God in south London
Posted on Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 | No CommentsWhile walking around the mainly abandoned Heygate housing estate in Elephant & Castle, south London, we were surprised to come across a closed shopfront with a sign above declaring it to be the Foursquare... -
Pinterest rolls out Android, iPhone and iPad apps
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 | No CommentsSoaraway social networking website Pinterest continues its quest to become the next big thing with the release of apps for Android-based smartphones and the iPad and iPhone. -
Flipboard releases flipping great Android App
Posted on Friday, Jun 22, 2012 | No CommentsWe’ve been feeling the love for this fabulous social news reader ever since we got our hands on an early beta, and now all Android users can get their hands on... -
See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time
Posted on Monday, Jun 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis is kind of fun. An Argentinean web developer called Dan Zajdband has created a novel way to show where people are Tweeting around the world. -
Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones
Posted on Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 | No CommentsThe microblogging social network Twitter is now handling an astonishing 400 million tweets every day, a huge rise from the 340 million tweets recorded just a month ago. -
Flipboard is coming to Android – sign up for the beta program now
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 | No CommentsIt’s been a monster hit on the iPhone and iPad and now Android owners will soon be able to frolic freely in the open meadows of the social newsreading app Flipboard. -
Twitter hits 10 million active users in the UK, Brits the biggest mobile users
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | No CommentsTwitter has confirmed that there are now 10 million active users tweeting regularly in the United Kingdom – a hefty figure that makes us Brits the fourth largest tweeting nation on... -
Twitter starts sending out weekly digest of tweets. We quickly locate the unsubscribe option
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | No CommentsClearly looking for a new way to annoy users (and perhaps lay the groundwork for new monetisation possibilities), Twitter has started sending out unbidden weekly e-mail digests of the “most relevant” tweets... -
Facebook scoops up Instagram photo sharing network for a cool $1bn
Posted on Monday, Apr 9, 2012 | No CommentsFacebook has cranked open its jumbo-sized wallet and scooped up the Instagram photo sharing network for $1bn (£629m) in cash and stock. -
Say goodbye to Gowalla, as the service sees its final check in
Posted on Sunday, Mar 11, 2012 | No CommentsThree months after being bought up by Facebook, Gowalla has registered its final check in. Launched in 2009, the location-sharing service for mobile devices vied for market space with the likes of... -
Facebook’s first desktop app for Windows released for free download
Posted on Monday, Mar 5, 2012 | No CommentsFacebook has finally released its own dedicated messaging app for Windows, letting you access all the Facebook updates you could possibly want from your desktop.