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Google Realtime Search serves up streaming social networking search results

August 26th, 2010 7:45pm Pete Railton No comments

Google Realtime Search serves up streaming spcial networking updates

Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.

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Twitter throws out a Tweet Button to the web

August 13th, 2010 9:59am mike s No comments

Twitter throws out a Tweet Button to the web

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.

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Twitter movie parody hits YouTube

August 13th, 2010 9:00am Lee J. No comments

It’s Friday, so what better time to take time off work and watch a parody movie trailer lampooning Twitter?

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TweetDeck Twitter app coming to Android – more advanced than iPhone version

August 10th, 2010 10:00am Pete Railton No comments

TweetDeck Twitter app coming to Android - bigger and better than iPhone version

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.

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The Brits: a bunch of work-shirking social networkers, apparently

August 6th, 2010 10:00am mike s 1 comment

The Brits: a bunch of work-shirking social networkers, apparently

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.

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Lady Gaga scoops 10 million Facebook fans

July 4th, 2010 2:20pm mike s No comments

Lady Gaga scoops 10 million Facebook fansQuirky 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).

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Twitter cashes in on Word Cup fever with dedicated homepage

June 11th, 2010 10:48am mike s No comments

Twitter cashes in on Word Cup fever with dedicated homepage

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.

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BBC iPlayer offers Twitter and Facebook integration

May 26th, 2010 3:30pm Pete Railton No comments

BBC iPlayer offers Twitter and Facebook integration

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.

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Seesmic iPhone app slips into the App Store

May 21st, 2010 10:42am Lee J. No comments

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.

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Twitter’s ‘embed tweet’ feature launches today

May 4th, 2010 10:51am Lee J. No comments

Twitter's 'embed tweet' feature launches today

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.

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Official Twitter for Android app released

May 3rd, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

Twitter release Android app

Twitter have hooked up with the Android team to create their long-overdue, all-official Twitter for Android app.

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Blackberry finally gets official Twitter app

April 9th, 2010 12:46pm mike s No comments

Blackberry finally gets official Twitter 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.

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Want more Twitter followers? Add a photo. Quick!

April 6th, 2010 12:05pm Lee J. No comments

Want more Twitter followers? Add a photo. QuickMarketing 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.

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BBC iPlayer 3.0 to include Facebook and Twitter integration

March 19th, 2010 11:06am mike s No comments

BBC iPlayer 3.0 to include Facebook and Twitter integration

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.

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Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

March 5th, 2010 9:15am Pete Railton No comments

Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

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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