TweetDeck iPhone App Currently Missing From App Store

TweetDeck, a popular iPhone application is currently missing from the iPhone app store. The popular app, usually featured within the store, has completely disappeared for the time being. TweetDeck 1.1 was...

Facebook is Getting Old, Says Pew Internet

Facebook is getting old! The median age for Facebook users is 33. While so many high school and college students are poking each other, their parents are getting in on the act. That's not as creepy as it sounds....

Amazon Uses Twitter As Sales Referral Machine For Associates

Amazon's partnership with Twitter has expanded to include a feature for Amazon Associates called "Share With Twitter." This new function is part of Amazon's advertizing expansion which will allow Associate...

Twitter Is Now Officially Available En Español

Twitter is now available in Spanish as of today. Twitter co-founder BizStone posted a Twitter blog written entirely en español to mark the occasion. Twitter language settings can now be altered in the option...

Precedence is Set for ARRESTING People Over Twitter Remarks.

 Michael Wallschlaeger and a friend were arrested and charged by the FBI for allegedly directing protests at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in September/09. "The FBI has accused a US citizen of using the Internet to...

TwitterPeek: A Pointless Twitter-Only Handheld

Peek has introduced TwitterPeek, a handheld internet device that only does Twitter. That's right, Twitter and nothing else. No email, no phone, no SMS, no MMS, nothing but Twitter. So what happens if one of the...

Ken Lowery & Mark Hale: @FakeAPStylebook Unmasked!

Those wily folks at Wired have unmasked the twisted minds behind @FakeAPStylebook. Turns out @FakeAPStylebook began life as #FakeAPStylebook, and is the pet project of Ken Lowery (@kenlowery) and Mark...

Twitter Spam: DM Scam Exposes Another Security Flaw

Some of my friends got their accounts compromised, and their Twitter accounts started sending out DM spam. At the moment, there's nothing on the Twitter status page. While it's not a pure phishing scam, there's...

Moonfruit Flight Giveaways On Twitter Using #flymeto & @moontweet

Moonfruit is back with another Twitter giveaway, this time with flight tickets to 14 international destinations in the world. The contest will take place from Monday-Friday of this week through Twitter using...

Twitter - Tar and feathering for the modern age?

It seems that even in the 21st century we still need a vat of boiling tar and a sack of feathers on hand to punish those considered to have violated the rules of their community. In times gone by the hapless transgressor would have been covered in sticky tar and then rolled...

Trick or Tweet on Twitter Changes Your Background

Twitter has a neat little trick (or treat) depending how you look at it, today to celebrate Halloween! It's a bit specific though so listen up... If you tweet #trick or #treat from your Twitter homepage, but just...

Tommy the Twittering Tawny Owl: First Owl on Twitter

Tommy the Tawny Owl is the first owl on Twitter and is alreay gaining celebrity status. Tommy is located in the Rare Breeds Farm in Devon, UK, and this is a place for rare breeds of animals to live together and...

Twitter Phishing Scam: Don't Get Played

There's yet another Twitter phishing scam going around. This time it comes in the form of a direct message askin, "Hi! Is this you on here?" with a shortened url. (I'm attaching an example of the Twitter direct...

Real-Time Search - 5 Reasons Why “We” Will Change the Web

If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that...

Twitterature: Classic Novels in 140 Characters or Less

Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter, to be released in the United Kingdom next month, is a truly post-modern compilation of some of history's greatest literary works. The Penguin published book features some 60, abridged-to-the-max, classics...

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