The Twitter Blog has announced that pretty soon, the 140-character limits of Tweets will now be available in French, Italian, German, and Spanish. This is in addition to the current language supported by Twitter – English and Japanese. Tweet Buffer
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Is Twitter Working a Deal with Google and Microsoft? With 54 million users to boot and a steady stream of real-time and content-sharing information generated through billions of tweets. It is no wonder that Twitter has been eyed by both Google and Microsoft. For its part, Twitter has been pretty elusive and up until now …
Since joining Twitter I’ve been looking for ways to effectively follow my friends there and last week I found something hilarious which I must share with our SEJ readers. ReadTwit is a cool online tool that exports your Twitter stream into Google reader into a very neat way: it filters your twitter feed to links …
If Twitter finalizes a new feature that is being tested right now, we might soon have a better way of organizing information that are generated by the Twitter tweets. Twitter’s List feature will allow Twitter users to create useful lists of Twitter accounts in various categories such as a list for funniest Twitter accounts of …
TweetsforBoobs.org is helping raise awareness and donations for breast cancer during October, which is breast cancer awareness month. The site tracks mentions of the hashtag #tweetsforboobs and records a pledge of $1 to the Susan G. Komen foundation. At the end of the month, the total pledge amount for each Twitter account will be available …
GeoLocation is one of the hottest stuff right now. If you’re an iPhone user, there are tons of apps that always ask your permission to turn on location features after you’ve installed them. Google has several service that are location-aware enabled. Now, Twitter wants to have this feature as well. In fact it may be …
Lisa Barone wrote a post this week lambasting companies that are too timid to get involved in social media, and rightfully so. The reality is that the conversation is going to happen with or without your engagement, and getting involved only allows you to address issues when they arise. ESPN this week banned sports reporters …
Twitter bites the dust again, along with FaceBook, LiveJournal and even YouTube… Yesterday, August 6, 2009, will be talked about on the web for a long time. Twitter succumbed to a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) and was down for several hours. Here’s what Twitter had to say about the day’s events. The …
Tweetmeme is one of the most popular and smartest Twiiter-based services. It’s well-known “Retweet it” buttons are used throughout the Internet. So today we are featuring the interview with TweetMeme’s Community Manager, Sarah Blow. How could I introduce you personally? What’s your role in the company? I’m Sarah Blow, the Community Manager here at TweetMeme. …
As much as I love Twitter search, I find it funny that there’s not really an overwhelming number of FireFox addons to tweak it. Apart from the official search plugin (found at the bottom of the page), there are just a few more addons to check out. This post lists three new, quite unique (still …
