Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.
Twitter has announced that they’re unleashing their very own ‘Tweet Button’ on the world, which lets you share links directly from a web page you’re perusing.
It’s Friday, so what better time to take time off work and watch a parody movie trailer lampooning Twitter?
Although there’s no shortage of excellent Twitter apps for the Android platform (Twidroid, Seesmic, Touiteur and Tweetcaster being our favourites), iPhone big hitters TweetDeck reckon they’ve some big tricks up their sleeves to make a real splash in the market.
It seems that employees who spend their work time uploading status updates, posting up amusing photos and Tweeting about the minutiae of their boring work days are costing British businesses billions.
Quirky popster Lady Gaga has become the first living music artist to notch up 10 million fans or “Likes” on Facebook, giving her something like 700,000 more fans than the probably-more-useful U.S. President Barack Obama.
Ms Gaga had already made an online splash by becoming the first currently producing music artist to reach one billion YouTube views, although Moonwalkin’ Michael Jackson still whips the Lady’s ass in both departments (the late white gloved one has almost 15 million fans on Facebook).
The endless glory (and inevitable disappointment for England fans) of the World Cup is almost upon us, and Twitter are looking to be in the centre of it all.
The BBC has launched a beta version of its popular iPlayer showing off new features like the ability to share favourite programmes via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
The highly rated Seesmic social networking app has just shimmied into the iPhone’s App Store, with a price that should make your wallet throb with joy – free.
Later today, Twitter will be introducing an official embeddable tweet tool, which will let users directly embed Tweets onto web pages instead of faffing about with cut and paste or screengrabs.
The tool is much like the ‘embed options’ offered by the likes of YouTube, Vimeo and Soundcloud and will let users easily slap up the full content of individual Tweets on to other sites.
Twitter have hooked up with the Android team to create their long-overdue, all-official Twitter for Android app.
It seems to have been in development for an eternity, but RIM have finally released the first pubic beta of their official Twitter app.
Marketing internet bods HubSpot wanted to find out what difference a profile picture made to the popularity of a Twitter account, so set about analysing the figures.
Digging into Twitter Grader data and rummaging through around 9 million Twitter profiles, it was discovered that adding a profile picture makes a huge difference.
The BBC has teamed up with the bods at Facebook, Bebo and Twitter to add social networking options in the next update to their excellent iPlayer, which allows viewers to watch BBC programmes online after they have been broadcast.
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.
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