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« Previous EntriesHow Twitter Helps in a Disaster – MIT Technology Review
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010The evidence continues to pile up that Twitter is a news service , not a social network. Of course, Twitter only works as a news service because its news is routed according to social connections–and that’s the secret …
Twitter Adds Location to Messages – CIO
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010IDG News Service — Twitter has announced the addition of Places on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com, letting users tag their messages with their location, the company said in a blog post on Monday. Over the next week …
The Day When Twitter Lost its Tweets – Mashable.com
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Twitter is currently in a weird limbo. After having issues with missing tweets and incorrect tweet counts yesterday, and being down for the better part of the night, it is now up, but it has a different problem: all its tweets are gone. All the Twitter accounts we’ve checked , even Twitter’s …
MTV Is Looking for Its First Twitter Jockey – Gawker
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010When people complain about technology ruining our culture (TV making us illiterate, the internet shortening attention spans) their fears are generally misplaced. Until now. MTV is hunting for its new version of the VJ, the TJ or Twitter Jockey . In theory, it makes sense: Just as the veejay …
Twitter down AGAIN: Users’ anger as blogging site crashes for hours – Daily Mail
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Millions of bloggers were left unable to use Twitter after the site crashed for three hours this morning. Users of the micro-blogging site were confronted with the infamous ‘Fail Whale’ when they tried to log on. The …
Social networking popular among boomers – Calgary Herald
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Social networking isn’t only for the under 40s. More than 25 percent of Americans 50 years and older stay connected using sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, according to new research. And nearly half of older …
Social networking popular among boomers – Calgary Herald
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Social networking isn’t only for the under 40s. More than 25 percent of Americans 50 years and older stay connected using sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, according to new research. And nearly half of older …
MTV Seeks Twitter Talent – TheWrap
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Knowing how to use Twitter can earn you $100,000 or more at MTV. MTV and American Express’ new “charge card for young adults,” ZYNC, partnered to launch a search for the network’s first TJ, or “Twitter Jockey.” MTV’s …
Wife of former prime minister to open memoir – Cape Times
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010The wife of former British prime minister Gordon Brown is writing a behind-the-scenes memoir about life in 10 Downing Street. Sarah Brown said on social networking site Twitter that she had agreed to write the book for …
Twitter’s service disruptions and outages persist – San Francisco Gate
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010(06-14) 17:09 PDT — Twitter ’s persistent and disruptive service outages entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels. After multiple incidents brought Twitter …
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