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When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I've realized that there

Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source

It's time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we continued our ongoing analysis of the iPhone 3G and its accompanying App Store, we looked

When we first reported about the new microblogging service Identi.ca  earlier this month, it looked like an interesting experiment. Since then, its community has grown rapidly and today, it implemented

Tapulous, the developers of the highly popular Tap Tap Revenge game for the iPhone and iPod touch, released a native, location aware Twitter client for the iPhone tonight. Twinkle (iTunes

There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new

How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This

Enterprise 2.0 is a rapidly growing trend that takes the concepts and tools of social media (social networking, RSS, wikis, blogs, etc.) and re-purposes them for business use, wrapping them

One week ago yesterday we reported that red hot microblogging service Twitter was rumored to have acquired real time sentiment search engine Summize. This morning the deal was confirmed by