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Twitter API Gets Geotagging; Web Geotagging Coming Soon?

Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 19, 2009 2:52 PM / 0 Comments

Earlier this spring, Twitter announced it would soon be adding location-based information to tweets. Typical of what we like to think of as the company's "mysterious charm," the feature has Continue reading »

Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services

Written by Sarah Perez / November 19, 2009 7:22 AM / 10 Comments

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The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of Continue reading »

Seesmic Goes Native: Launches Windows-Only Twitter Client

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 17, 2009 8:30 AM / 6 Comments

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At Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference, Seesmic's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur just announced that the company will release a native Windows version of its popular Twitter client later today. Continue reading »

Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck a Distant Second

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 16, 2009 11:10 AM / 14 Comments

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Twitter's own homepage is still the most popular tool for users to update their status on Twitter. Around 46% of all updates are made directly on the site. Social media Continue reading »

Twitter Definitely Ditching "Suggested Users List"

Written by Sarah Perez / November 16, 2009 5:56 AM / 11 Comments

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Last month, Twitter CEO and co-founder Evan Williams stated that he "desperately" wanted to retire the company's suggested user list - the list of Twitter accounts shown to new users Continue reading »

Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation

Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 6, 2009 8:49 AM / 4 Comments

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Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Continue reading »

It's About Time: Twitter Aims to Fix Trending Topics

Written by Jolie O'Dell / November 5, 2009 5:19 PM / 6 Comments

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Finally, the powers that be are planning to put a stop to #liesboystell, #goodhead, and... well, all the other asinine, vulgar, and generally pointless trending topics one finds in the Continue reading »

As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to Twitter

Written by Sarah Perez / November 5, 2009 7:18 AM / 19 Comments

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Facebook is getting old. No, people aren't getting tired of it, it's actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook Continue reading »

Can Digg Do Real-Time News?

Written by Dana Oshiro / November 4, 2009 12:26 PM / 4 Comments

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A great community for crowd sourced news and content, Digg is taking a page from the Twitter playbook and testing its mettle in the real-time stream. Similar to Twitter's Trending Continue reading »

Amazon Turns Twitter into a Marketplace - Are You Concerned?

Written by Sarah Perez / November 4, 2009 6:20 AM / 29 Comments

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Last night, Amazon sent out emails to their Amazon Associates members touting the latest addition to the company's affiliate program: a new feature called "Share with Twitter." According to the Continue reading »

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