Twitter Turns On Opt-In GeoLocation Feature

Twitter has just activated its GeoLocation feature which will let you opt-in whether you want your tweets to be tagged  with your current location.  The feature is carried not on your Twitter.com account but on third-party Twitter apps which will use the Geolocation API  released by Twitter.

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November 20, 2009 | 5 Comments | Read Story

Leapfish: Enhanced Social Media and Real-Time Search Experience

We have seen a few social as well as real-time search engines previously, and this whole week is all about a new-comer: Leapfish. In fact , there’s so much buzz around it that I found it necessary to review the tool here and discuss it with our SEJ community. Leapfish is a new social and [...]

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November 18, 2009 | 8 Comments | Read Story

3 Actual Uses of Twitter Lists

Twitter lists have been introduced just a couple of weeks ago and it is still not really clear to many people how the lists can be used. Let’s take a look at just three examples of how the lists can turn useful: 1. Create a Group Tweet Widget Say you are part of some team [...]

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November 10, 2009 | 8 Comments | Read Story

4 Reasons Why Including Social Networking Results is Smart

Just when you think that everything that could be done to ramp up a search engine’s search capabilities has already been done, they come up with another idea.  Let’s face it, in some cases the innovations are dumb and do nothing more for the company than get them another press release and a few hundred [...]

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October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read Story

Twitter Will Soon Be Available in More Languages

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.

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October 9, 2009 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Is Twitter Working a Deal with Google and Microsoft?

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 [...]

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October 8, 2009 | 4 Comments | Read Story

How to Subscribe to Your Twitter Stream with Google Reader

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 [...]

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October 2, 2009 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Twitter to Introduce Lists Feature Soon

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 [...]

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October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment | Read Story

#tweetsforboobs and Pledge $1 for Breast Cancer

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 [...]

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September 28, 2009 | Comments Off | Read Story

Soon Your Twitter Followers Will Know Where You Are

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 [...]

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August 20, 2009 | 7 Comments | Read Story