Women’s World Cup Sets Twitter Record With 7,196 Tweets Per Second

It was a monumental moment in the history of Women's soccer today as the U.S. battled it out with Japan.  In the end, Japan came out on top with the game being decided in a penalty shootout. There was something else happening during the Women's World Cup soccer match today that ended up setting a new ...

And here’s President Barack Obama’s First Tweet…

Earlier this morning I wrote about how President Barack Obama will start personally tweeting from his Twitter profile @BarackObama. Well it didn't take very long for us to see the President's very first tweet, and it didn't have anything to do whatsoever with his Presidential re-election - it was actually to wish all the dads out ...

LeBron James Talks About His Twitter Update To The Cavs

LeBron James decided it was time to talk about his Twitter update that he sent to the Cleveland Cavaliers after getting routed by the Los Angeles Lakers the other night. In case you missed it, LeBron James sent out a Twitter update to the Cleveland Cavaliers the other night after the Cavs got beat the Los ...

Cheng Jianping Sentenced To Hard Labor In China Over Twitter Update (Image)

The image above is of Cheng Jianping, 46, who was sentenced to hard labor in China for a Twitter message (retweet actually) that she posted. Question - how do you know you live in a communist regime? Answer, when you get sentenced to "education through hard labor" for a message you tweet. That's exactly what happened to Cheng ...

Will Twitter Now Be Competing Against Desktop Applications?

It seems logical that once a web company brings on advertisers, they would want to drive as much traffic as possible to their site.  Why should Twitter be any different? For Twitter, one way to bring more traffic directly to their site is to actually draw people away from the multiple Twitter desktop applications.  These ...