Although we’re sure an awful lot of these were of the inane “I’m going to the shops for some fags” variety, there’s no denying that Twitter’s total of over 10 billion tweets is one hell of an impressive figure.
With numerous examples of loose-lipped Twitterers blabbing themselves into tricky situations, social media site NewCommBizz has compiled a handy list of Twitter Ye Nots.
Security bods Sophos are warning that what’s been called the ‘LOL’ phishing attack is continuing to fester on the web, and not just by direct message.
A new website called PleaseRobMe.com has been created to warn users about the potential perils of using services like Foursquare, Twitter and GoogleBuzz, which let users share their location online and ‘check in’ to places.
By aggregating all those publicly announced check-ins, the site serves up a handy list of people who have left their home and checked in elsewhere, ramming home the point that such information may prove invaluable to burglars.
It’s all well and good telling the world you’re about to pop down the road to get some fags or that your toilet cistern isn’t working, but when it comes to knocking out interesting Tweets, Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi has got it nailed.
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Twitter’s trending topics are now being served up in local flavours, so users can quickly view the hot topics going down in their ‘hood.
Twitter has long offered a facility to view global trends, but the new feature will let curtain-twitching types see what’s happening at a local level.
Clearly inspired by growing traffic to location based, social networking services like Foursquare and Gowalla, Yelp have bolted on new ‘check-in’ features to the latest version of its iPhone app.
As well as the check-in feature, user profiles can be checked out, and they’ve updated their augmented reality ‘Monocle’ viewer which now lets you see friends’ virtual check-ins onscreen.
Comedian and writer Ricky Gervais has flounced off Twitter, declaring the site “pointless” and claiming that it was “undignified” for adults to be using the service.
Gervais had been on the microblogging site for less than a month (his first tweet was on 14th Dec), and quickly amassed 13,000 followers, keen to follow his every utterance.
The popular TweetDeck free app for Apple iPhone and iPod touch users has been updated to v1.3, and introduces support for Twitter Lists and geo-tagging.
Tweetdeck lets users create groups, search Twitter, manage multiple accounts, and post tweets or share photos, videos, links and more via a customisable interface, which automatically syncs with its desktop counterpart.
Although to many people, the whitterings of a Twitterer matter not one jot, the microblogging site has certainly evolved into an influential means of expression.
INQ Mobile have come up with what they’re calling the “influence rating” of Twitter users, conjured up by measuring the number of times they’ve banged out messages, how good they were at re-tweeting other people’s messages, and the number of times their posts were subsequently re-tweeted by other people.
Abdur, the fella who is the ‘chief scientist’ at Twitter’s research HQ, has posted up Twitter’s Top Trending Technology Topics (try saying that after a few brandies), and it makes for an interesting read.
Aimed at hardcore users, the ludicrously named HootSuite for the iPhone offers a ton of power features for folks who simply can’t stop a-Twittering.
Unlike other iPhone Twitter apps (and Lordy, there’s no shortage of them), HootSuite for iPhone lets you view statistics and schedule your tweets in advance.
Google has announced a new search service that serves up a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web, incorporating near-instant updates from web pages and social networking partners.
When searching on Google, you’ll soon be able to see live updates from popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and MySpace, as well as freshly published headlines from news sites and blog posts.
An excitable bloke can be seen raving about the Seesmic Twitter mobile client which has just been released for the Android and BlackBerry platforms.
The interface seems straightforward enough, with four buttons giving access to Twitter timelines, replies, direct messages or profile views.
Clicking on a tweet lets you to reply, DM reply or retweet, and there’s the option to add location information when you post up your latest 140 character missive, along with a photo or video, if you so desire.
If you like to have all your Facebook and Twitter activity streams all shuffled together in one nice easy-to-use package, then say hello to Brizzly, a new ’social media reader’ vying for your attention.
The program lets you view Twitter photos and videos in-line, it expands bit.ly links so you can see what you’re clicking on and it also supports Twitter lists and photo uploading.
You can also ‘like’ and comment on friend’s posts in Facebook with more functionality promised soon.
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