Forever Deleting Tweets: Righting the Ultimate Undo?
Forever Deleting Tweets...
Finally. Twitter has gotten rid of deleted tweets from its search index. Before doing so, tweets you delete from your Twitter profile were still available by accessing this residual index. Interestingly enough, Twitter already has a hard enough time providing search results both...
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Lunch.com Makes Twitter More Digestable
Lunch.com Makes Twitter...
Parsing value from a monolithic data pool such as Twitter’s is an extreme feat, but one that many companies and developers are tackling nonetheless. This week the personalized recommendation service Lunch.com released a new feature that allows you to create a list of the top...
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Twitter Trademarks Tweets and Gets Tough With App Developers
Twitter Trademarks Twee...
Until today many were largely unaware that Twitter had trademarked the term “tweet.” In a TechCrunch article, an email thread between a Twitter API staff member and a developer revealed this small detail, along with Twitter’s feelings on the application’s...
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3 Reasons Trending Topics are Useless, and How Twitter Can Stop Spam
3 Reasons Trending Topi...
This post was written by Matthew Kraft (@MKraft), who spends entirely too much time online. One of these days that will pay off, as will all those years he spent reading obscure literature in grad school. Last week I was researching Swine Flu/H1N1 for a client, using Twitter. The...
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Will the iPhone 3G S Inspire Twitter on the Video Front?
Will the iPhone 3G S In...
With all the Apple announcements this week coming from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, there are bound to be a lot of expectations swirling around the new iPhone 3G S. The most anticipated feature of the new generation of the iPhone is the support of video sending options...
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Twitter Favorites a Delicious Killer?
Twitter Favorites a Del...
How do you use Twitter? It seems to me the majority use it to send snippets of conversation to their followers, mini-updates of what they’re doing, or to share their recent blog posts or links they find interesting. You send @ replies, DMs, and RT’s. You’ve learned...
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When Twitter Gets You Fired
When Twitter Gets You F...
If there are some of you out there that haven’t learned your lesson yet, please take heed. Posting bad things about your employer on the web is not the brightest idea. And after nearly a decade of mainstream social networking taking place online, it’s high time you all...
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Twitter Porn Taking Over?
Twitter Porn Taking Ove...
When marketers found out the power of Twitter, it wasn’t too long before follows became self-serving and direct messages became spammy in nature. But after a rapid rise to the top in the past year or so, seeing marketing [enter industry name here] professionals all over Twitter...
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Surgeons Twitter While Operating. But Why?
Surgeons Twitter While ...
Editor’s Note: The following entry was written by Emile Cambry, Jr. and was originally published on his personal blog, These Two Cents. The biggest surprise of the day comes from a video on CNN.com showcasing a surgeon and his team tweeting (using Twitter) while performing a...
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TweetLater Pro Puts You in the Cockpit. Worth It?
TweetLater Pro Puts You...
What’s a serious Tweeter? I’d say a Twitter user that uses the microblogging service for professional purposes, whether marketing or branding, or popularity. Many of these professional Tweeters have multiple accounts, and the service TweetLater has just announced a premium...
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