Tag: Twitter

Manchester Police Use Social Media To Track Down Rioters
While social media, especially Blackberry Messenger, was a communication tool of choice for rioters, the police department in Manchester, England has begun using a broad array of s...
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Warren Buffett Calls For Higher Taxes, Proves Twitter Has a Spelling Problem
Billionaire Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has made a splash on the internet with a piece published yesterday in the New York Times. In the op-ed, entitled "Stop Coddling...
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The Terminator Hunts For Sarah Connor on Twitter
Sometimes, when pop culture history meets Twitter, they fall in love. Since they love each other very much, they decide to show that love by making a novelty account. Some novelt...
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Study Says Social Media Sucks at Driving Traffic
Quite simply, when it comes to driving traffic to your website, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook kind of suck at it, at least according to a study done by a company cal...
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London Riot Victim Gets Social Media Help To Fix Destroyed Barbershop
Social media has been an integral part of the riots in England, both for good and for bad. T...
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Warrant Star Jani Lane’s Death Spurs Twitter Debate
As you might have seen while perusing the internets this afternoon, Former Warrant frtonman Jani Lane was found dead last night in a motel room just outside of L.A. When we first...
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Twitter DID NOT Release An App That Tracks Your “Stalkers”
If you start seeing a message in your Twitter feed claiming that Twitter has released an app that tracks your stalkers, don't believe it. It's nothing more than a phishing scam, al...
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Warrant’s Jani Lane Dead at 47: Musicians, Other Celebs React
It's a sad day for all late 80s-early 90s glam metal enthusiasts as the former lead singer of the band Warrant was found dead last night. Jani Lane was...
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Twitter and Weather Channel Team Up on Local Weather Tweeting
You probably knew that Twitter has been instrumental in shaping the news, but what about the weather? Well, I'm not sure that Twitter's altering the weather itself too much (tho...
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Free Coffee? Try This Social Experiment
Give a penny, take a penny - that's the concept behind Jonathan Stark's new "experiment in social sharing." He has put a picture of his Starbucks card online so that anyone in the...
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Weather Channel Goes Social With Twitter Integration
People have been bitching about the weather since before the age of the internet, but social media has allowed that particular hobby to grow and flourish. The Weather Channel and...
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British Prime Minister Discusses Social Media Censorship
David Cameron's country--well, his boss' country--has been in the grips of some widely-publicized rioting. The story played out over the Internet as the immediacy of modern techno...
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Following The PGA Championship
The final Major of the PGA Tour starts today, and it's an event that's not just for TV anymore. Sure, the bulk of the viewership will be done on Saturday and Sunday, but for those...
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DARPA HTV2 Launch: Follow 13,000 MPH Plane on Twitter
Today, the U.S. Military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will conduct the...
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New Twitter Features Announced
Twitter just announced a couple of new features aimed at helping users "discover more" with the service. The features are a couple of tabs: one with your @username and the other wi...
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