All the stories tagged with: twitter
Death By A Thousand Tweets
02/10/2012, The next time you complain that your working hours are just way too long, and pulling 18 hour shifts at the office is going to be the death of you, perhaps you will be able to sympathize with resident writer [...]
Sky News clamps down on Twitter use
02/08/2012, Sky News has informed journalists on their payroll to refrain from reposting information from any Twitter users who are not under the payroll of the broadcaster, as revealed by an email to staff yesterday as new social media guidelines for [...]
Brazilian Federal Attorney’s Office sues Twitter
02/07/2012, Despite Twitter’s recent move to censor tweets by region, it looks like it isn’t enough to keep the Brazilian Federal Attorney Office happy. It recently received a lawsuit from the Brazilian Federal Attorney Office, requesting that it suspends and block [...]
Twitter more addictive than smoking and alcohol?
02/07/2012, What is your favorite vice? Drinking? Taking a long drag from your favorite cigarette? How about being more ‘hip’ – by being addicted to Twitter? Researchers who made an attempt at measuring just how folks resist their desires claim that [...]
Super Bowl XLVI is America’s most tweeted sporting event to date
02/05/2012, So the Giants are celebrating right now with their Championship rings, and for those who have not yet gotten enough about the Super Bowl, here is a little bit of trivia that you can memorize to impress your grandkids when [...]
Tworse Key lets you tweet in Morse code
02/02/2012, If tweeting from your phone or computer using a keyboard or voice is getting too boring for you, you might want to check out an alternative way of inputting your thoughts i.e. via Morse code. Some folks have hacked together [...]
Facebook and Twitter to end up as BBM apps in next update?
01/31/2012, When the BlackBerry was first released all those years ago, it opened up a whole new window of mobile communication, and with the arrival of BlackBerry Messenger 6 at the end of July 2011, we saw other apps being integrated [...]
Tweets prevent two British tourists from entering the US
01/30/2012, While it’s common knowledge to be careful about what you say in public, it looks like that practice will have to apply to tweets as well. It has been reported that two British tourists were recently barred from entering the [...]
Thailand embraces Twitter’s censorship move
01/29/2012, The kingdom of Thailand is the first country in the world that has agreed to Twitter’s recent controversial move that allows certain countries to censor tweets, and the Thai authorities have also done their bit to endorse this new policy [...]
Twitter filters content by geographical boundaries
01/27/2012, Twitter has hopped aboard the censorship bandwagon, announcing (or rather, tweeting would have been more appropriate, although it would be pretty hard to squeeze in everything that they want to say of such magnitude in 140 characters or less) that [...]
Tweeting Sensor “talks” to Twitter
01/20/2012, UC Technology has unveiled what they call a Tweeting Sensor, where it is a device that will post temperature and humidity data to Twitter at regular intervals, allowing you to check on it remotely on Twitter through various means including [...]
Laser gun aims to turn Twitter posts into art
12/29/2011, In an effort to combine social media with art, Matt Richardson has built a laser gun that shoots out tweets, which we guess based on the photo above could be interpreted as art (it is subjective after all). The “laser [...]
Boston theaters to offer “Tweet seats”
12/28/2011, While it is usually frowned upon to use your cellphone when you’re in a place like a theater or cinema, it looks like it won’t be a problem if you’re going to be in Boston. According to reports online, a [...]
