Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Research In Motion: Twitter And LinkedIn Apps for BlackBerry Coming Soon
Research In Motion has released the March 2010 issue of the BlackBerry Connection – Business Edition newsletter. In it, the company informs that two “popular business app are almost here.” Of course, RIM is talking about the highly awaited Twitter for BlackBerry and the LinkedIn for BlackBerry applications. RIM promises both apps will arrive in the BlackBerry App World soon. We could probably expect both applications to be released next week, and perhaps even by the end of this month. Although we all know Research In Motion quite well. Therefore we can safely say that their definition of ’soon’ might not be the same as ours.
Just last month, RIM launched an invitation-only beta of Twitter for BlackBerry. Most of the early reviewers were not completely satisfied with the application. We’ll see how the final release measures up to end-users once it is released “soon.”
To be notified when Twitter for BlackBerry becomes available, sign-up at www.blackberry.com/twitter. We’ll update as soon as we learn more.
Twitter Rolls Out New Service to Combat Phishing
Twitter announced on the official Twitter Blog yesterday the release of a new behind-the-scenes service that aims to “detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter.” In other words, the new feature is expected to combat phishing attacks, something that Twitter has seen a lot of in the past few weeks. The new anti-phishing service will allow the Twitter Trust and Safety team to scan all links submitted to Twitter, even those sent out in email messages. The team will look for and get rid of potentially dangerous malware.
At this point is not very clear how the service really works. However, the Twitter Trust and Safety team says that users might notice links in Direct Messages and email notifications shortened to twt.tl, Twitter’s very own URL shortener. Anyway, the new anti-phishing feature couldn’t have come at a better time, give that Twitter has seen an increasing number of phishing and malicious attacks lately. More »
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Because It’s Friday: Suze Orman Denies Mark Zuckerberg
I’ll be truly honest — I love Suze Orman. There’s something about this woman that makes me tune in whenever I get the opportunity (which honestly, isn’t frequently). Perhaps it’s her crazy antics, or maybe her knowledge? Maybe it’s just her ever-so-famous “Can I afford it?” segment, in which people with debt call in looking to see if they can get themselves into more debt (it’s the American dream).
The video after the break features a pretty well-known entity in the tech world — Mark Zuckerberg — founder and CEO of Facebook. See, he’s looking to purchase micro-blogging service Twitter for a cool $1.5 billion. With $300 million in liquid assets, $4 billion in Facebook stock, $2,500 is monthly expenses, and no debt — will Suze Orman approve or deny Zuckerberg? Well, if you read the title, you’d know she denies him. Just watch the video after the break, OK? More »
Twitter Gets Its 10 Billionth Tweet
Yesterday, we reported that Twitter was fast approaching the10 billion tweet mark. The counter on GigaTweet predicted that the milestone would be reached sometime today. Well, it’s our pleasure to inform you all that the 10 billionth tweet has been sent out. Unfortunately, not many of us will be able to see what it says, give that the user who sent it has his stream protected. Bummer.
What we do know thanks to Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is that the Twitter team was “Watching the big board roll over to 10B tweets.”
There you have it folks, 10 billion tweets and counting. Now, let’s move on.
[ via TechCrunch ]
Let’s Count Tweets: We’re Almost At 10 Billion
If you use Twitter, you’re contributing to the next major milestone on our collective home, the interwebz. Roughly one year ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter reached what you could call its first major milestone — one billion tweets. In mid-October of 2009, we reported that Twitter’s “tweet count” was fast approaching five billion. Impressive, eh?
In approximately one day, Twitter’s expected to fly past the ten billion tweet marker, signaling to the world the website is still very much in the minds of internet users, and not loosing some of its “oomph” as many would claim (we’re Switzerland in this case — not taking sides). More »
Facebook App for Zune HD Starts Rolling Out
The Zune team announced on Twitter that the promised native Facebook application for the Zune HD is finally rolling out to users. While the application appears to be pretty decent as far as functionality goes, many of the initial users report experiencing issues when installing it or accessing data afterward. The problems have already been acknowledged by the Zune team, who promises to “provide an update as soon as possible.”
If you remember well, the Twitter application for Zune HD also experienced a few problems when it was first released last year in December, something that Microsoft fixed within hours with a small update. To learn more about the Facebook App for Zune HD, visit the Zune website.
Check out one more screenshot of the application after the break. More »
Twitter Grants Startups Full Access to Data Feed of All Public Tweets
Twitter announced today on its official blog that it is granting a handful of new search startups partners full access to all its data feed of public tweets — something they call “the firehose.” Up until now, only big renowned search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo have been able to take advantage to the fullest of Twitter’s Firehose of data. The other 50,000 application already utilizing Twitter’s Streaming API have been set different limits as to how much they can take.
Now, smaller search startups including Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search, which is yet to launch, have all gained full access to Twitter’s Firehose. It’s not really clear though, if these startups will have to pay like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to make use of said data. More »
FriendFeed is Down – Does Anyone Care? [Updated]
FriendFeed has gone down completely. It has been down for quite while now. The saddest part is that not many people actually care that the service is down. When the outage was first reported, there were only about 50 tweets regarding the outage – many of which were from the same Twitter users — reports TechCrunch’s MG Siegler. This is because ever since Facebook acquired FriendFeed back in August 2009, not many people really visit the site anymore. More »
Status Updates From Facebook Pages Are Now Part of Google’s Real-Time Search
Just eight days ago, we reported that Google had finally integrated MySpace updates from public pages into its real-time search feature, which was launched back in December at the Google Search Event in Mountain View, California. Google had originally announced that public updates from both MySpace and Facebook would be integrated into the service. Though up until now, Facebook was nowhere to be seen.
With that said, Google announced a few moments ago in a tweet [pictured above] that status updates from public Facebook Pages are now part of real-time search results. Alas, there’s a catch. Most Facebook Pages are for celebrities, events, brands, politicians, etc. and there are only about 3 million of them. That means that Google will not be utilizing public updates from the more than 400 million Facebook users. Why, you ask? Turns out that Facebook is granting that privilege almost exclusively to Bing, though the feature is not yet live on Microsoft’s search engine. More »