All the stories tagged with twitter
Final moments tweeted could help solve mystery of Baltimore coal train derailment
08/22/2012, The final words of any person tend to bear the highest importance, especially when that particular person is aware of his or her impending passing. The thing is, death is no respecter of age, religion, creed or preparedness – it [...]
Twitter has new restrictions to stifle independently developed Twitter apps
08/16/2012, Twitter has come up with a bunch of new restrictions which independent developers might not be too comfortable with – basically, the micro blogging company has announced their latest list of restrictions which will definitely offer a stern discouragement against [...]
L.A. restaurant offers discount for customers to put cell phones away
08/16/2012, Dinner experiences have changed since the introduction of the smartphone. Now when you look around a restaurant you can see multiple people using their smartphone for texting, tweeting,taking photos of their food, or posting a Yelp review on the restaurant. [...]
Nokia to Samsung: Take note, next-gen Lumia coming soon
08/16/2012, Nokia’s executive vice-president of sales and marketing sent a tweet addressed to Samsung, which says “Samsung, take note, next generation Lumia coming soon #nokia”. This is quite a bold message to send over, given that Samsung is experiencing a meteoric [...]
Branch and Medium launched by Twitter founders
08/15/2012, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, founders of Twitter who are most probably more famous amongst the tech community as @ev and @biz, have recently introduced Branch and Medium, two new websites which intend to complement the Twitter ecosystem. Williams and [...]
App.net achieves $500,000 target plays role of Twitter rival
08/13/2012, For the many of you who have used Twitter, what would you say to a rival service that requires you to pay for it? I suppose it will take a paradigm shift to be able to adapt to such a [...]
iCloud account of Mat Honan hacked
08/06/2012, Ex-Gizmodo staff Mat Honan was not on the receiving end of any good news, especially after he found out that his iCloud account was hacked through the use of social engineering, where this particular “hacker” never had to rely on [...]
Underwater camera that can tweet photos of swimmers used in London Olympics
08/03/2012, It seems that sports fans and journalists aren’t the only ones utilizing social media in the Olympics. The L2012 Pool Camera is an underwater camera that is based at the bottom of the pool, and yes it uses Twitter to [...]
Reporter recovers stolen iPhone by taking advantage of technology
08/03/2012, We’ve seen, heard and read interesting stories of how someone lost their iPhone and managed to recover it thanks to the Find My iPhone feature, or simply because the thief was stupid enough to take photos with their location in [...]
Twitter restores Guy Adams’ account
07/31/2012, Remember how Guy Adams’ Twitter account was suspended after his rant over the delayed live telecast of the Olympics’ opening ceremony on TV? Well, it seems that Twitter has restored Adams’ account, so hopefully all of it will be bridge [...]
No tweets in London Olympics if you want to watch TV
07/30/2012, Once every four years, nations of the world converge on a single city to celebrate humanity’s sporting extravaganza – the Olympics, and you can be sure that the sea of humanity there will be busy trying to cover anything and [...]
Twitter flu gets tracked, predicts you falling sick in advance
07/30/2012, If you were to call your boss and let him know that you are not going to clock in to the office in a week’s time because of the flu, chances are he will do a double take on the [...]
Apple reportedly planning to invest hundreds of millions on Twitter
07/30/2012, Cupertino-based technology giant Apple has reportedly met and talked with executives at Twitter about a possible investment in the popular social networking platform. According to a report from the New York Times, Apple is said to be planning on investing [...]
