Apple Integration of Facebook and Twitter Sharing Could Promote Individualistic Posts
Apple has announced the integration of Facebook and Twitter sharing through Apple notifications, effectively eliminating the previous necessity of users to go to the social networking sites to share their thoughts. This move towards ease and efficiency can also reduce the act of social networking into a stream of individualistic shout outs. Apple continues to [...]
Twitter Inc launched its very first TV ads during a NASCAR broadcast aimed to show off the company’s advertising potential. The ads were broadcast last Sunday on Time Warner Inc’s TNT cable network and produced as part of a partnership between Twitter and Nascar. The move was made as Twitter topped its six years in [...]
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Many people rely on Twitter for instantaneous answers on breaking news even before news outlets have a chance to cover the stories. But now, Twitter is beginning to gain ground as a popular search engine, too, which leads some people to question: should Google be worried? One big difference between the two search options is [...]
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Twitter representatives reaffirm that no user accounts have been hacked, despite claims of hacker group LulzSec Reborn. The hacker group—borne off LulzSec, another hacker group that threatened a handful of large company websites this summer—claimed that they have obtained credentials of 10,000 Twitter accounts after hacking a third-party app. This was LulzSec Reborn’s latest appearance [...]
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Popular singer Lady Gaga set a new record as her Twitter account reached 25 million followers, making her the first person to ever hit that mark. The singer/songwriter and now Twitter icon has been plagued with protests and even had to cancel a leg of her current tour. The news of her 25 million followers [...]
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Twitter Inc. is expected to generate at least $1 billion in advertising sales in 2014, growing about twice as fast as the prediction of analysts. This forecast is made by two people with seeming authority on the matter, but who have asked to remain unidentified as the figures are private. They claim that the large [...]
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The legal battle over who is responsible for protester tweets continues to rage on. On Thursday, electronic privacy advocates weighed in their opinions. The target of the legal battle is Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris. Harris was one of over 700 protestors who staged a protest, and were ultimately arrested, on the Brooklyn Bridge [...]
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Twitter is capitalizing on the immense popularity of music on it’s network by teaming with Pepsi to offer a global partnership. The arrangement will give Twitter users a new and exciting way to discover music. Music is such a huge interest on Twitter that the top five most-followed accounts are those of musicians. The partnership [...]
Continue reading …Cher Apologizes For Lashing Out On Twitter Against Mitt Romney And Conservatives
May 25, 2012 No Comment
Singer and music legend Cher let out some steam on Twitter, posting rants on the popular social networking site against presidential hopefully Mitt Romney and other conservatives. Cher began her rant with a tweet directed at Mitt Romney, saying, “If ROMNEY gets elected I don’t know if I can breathe same air as Him & [...]
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Gene Morphis, the CFO of fashion retailer Francesca’s Holdings Corp, indulged in tweeting and Facebook posts like many others. But the difference is that this comments cost him his job. While social media reaches to the far ends of the earth to keep people informed and connected, the Houston-based company says that they fired Morphis [...]
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