Over the weekend, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an interview with the British business daily that back in 2008, Facebook made an offer to buy Twitter for $500 million in Facebook stock. Twitter respectfully decline this offer because, according to Stone, they wanted to become not just a popular site but a viable business, […]
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Twitter has been authorized for use inside the bail hearing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The very first tweet from the courtroom came from a reporter who tweeted: “judge just gave me explicit permission to tweet proceedings ‘if it’s quiet and doesn’t disturb anything’”. You can follow the Wikileaks tweets with the hashtag #wikileaks. This is […]
If you’re like me, you love Twitter but hate the noise. What’s the noise in Twitter? Well, for every 3 – 5 tweets that are genuinely from someone that loves using Twitter, there are 1 – 2 tweets that are just plain garbage. Whether the “garbage” is someone trying to sell you something or if […]
Depending on who you ask, Twitter is either a complete waste of time or a lifeline that has saved the day on more than one occasion. I for one have found Twitter to be extremely helpful on many occasions for answering tough questions, or providing insightful feedback to ideas. Twitter is also a great resource […]
It used to be that on Twitter, you could dramatically increase your followers by simply following a bunch a people. Twitter’s magic would unfold as you followed people and your follower number would continually increase, so long as you continued to build the number of people you follow. Well, for those of you lately that […]
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 […]
We all love it when someone famous finally joins Twitter. Well Tiger Woods is no exception to this rule. Yesterday, Tiger Woods finally came alive on his Twitter profile @TigerWood with the following update: Although a lot of people are saying that “Tiger Woods has finally come to Twitter”, this is not 100% correct. Tiger […]