Not sure when to post up that fascinating update about your new shoes?
Undecided as to what the optimum time might be for your latest update? Or perhaps you just want to feast on some Twitter-related facts – like how many tweets happen every week?
Analytics boffin Vincenzo Cosenza has released the latest of his bi-annual ‘world map of social networks’ graphics, displaying the rise and fall of the big social networks by country.
Twitter has finally dragged its slovenly botty into 2011 and announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened, courtesy of their t.co URL shortener.
With a rather sneaky sleight of hand, Twitpic, the hugely popular photo sharing service used to upload photos to Twitter, has updated its terms of service to let the company flog off your photos to third parties. For lolly.
This has been driving us crazy until – ironically – we searched on Twitter to see if others were suffering the same thing, and found the problem is affecting a lot of users.
Keen to big themselves up and show what a fabulously useful service they provide, Twitter have produced a video showing off famous and not so famous folks positively bursting with love for the social networking service.
Google have announced on their official Google Blog that they’ve already implemented a new speak-to-tweet service to help internet-starved Egyptians get their message out.
We may all be social networked up to the hilt these days, but it wasn’t that long ago that the only way you could get chatting online was through near steam-powered Bulletin Board Systems.
The UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced that it will be investigate the growing practice of celebrities pocketing cash and goods in return for endorsing products on Twitter.
Huzzah! It looks like we’ve got time for one more infographic before the year’s out, and this one comes filled with facts from the sharing widget AddThis, which is installed on more than 7 million domains and claims to reach over a billion users every month.
Fresh up on Twitter’s own blog is their list of the biggest Trends of the year, compiled from the 25 billion Tweets that were sent in 2010.
Describing Twitter Trends as “a window into what the world is talking about,” the company has listed the most popular subjects across eight categories: News Events, People, Movies, Television, Technology, World Cup, Sports and Hashtags
The UK media is famed for screaming, “SNOW CHAOS!” whenever 0.2cm of snow gently dusts the land, but with big snowfalls forecasted for the coming week, a new site has been created to search Twitter for real-time snow reports and display them on a map.
We don’t normally bother posting up about minor updates to mobile apps, but when the app is as good as Tweetdeck, it seemed a good opportunity to give it anther plug.
We’re not sure if we should be serving up a Spock-style raised eyebrow at the timing here, but hot on the heels of a major Facebook Android app upgrade comes an update to the official Twitter for Android client.
This week marks the 10th anniversary of an impressive milestone in space exploration as the International Space Station notches up a decade of continuous human habitation.
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