I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
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The tech news blog has just upgraded it’s hosting, due to issues with our previous hosting provider.
This investment, plus a number of essential upgrades and changes will help us to get the blog to you faster and more reliably than ever before.
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Remember how Google came form nowhere to pretty-much own online search and Internet advertising? Well, it seems Twitter is planning a similar move; according to comments made this week by Twitter’s own Santosh Jayaram (a Google Search Quality Manager until recently.)
Here’s why this may not be good news for Twitter users…..
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Today, the 4 founders of the Pirate Bay torrent search site were given jail sentences and massive multi-million dollar fines. Are Google next? No – And here’s why…
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For the 2nd time in just 24 hours, Twitter has been hit with a spam worm! This time, it’s not the stalkdaily worm but a new worm called mickeyy. Read on…
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Yes, Twitter has been hacked again! This time by a spam worm, known as stalkdaily. The ’stalkdaily’ Twitter worm carried a pretty harmless payload, yet the security black hole it exploited COULD have been used more maliciously! This is yet another security blunder, for the world’s favourite micro-blogging service.
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As a relatively new tech news blog, it was great to see both Leo Laporte’s twit.tv and the guys over at ReadWriteWeb referencing us as the news source for the recent ‘Twitter accounts hacked’ story…
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Twitter’s user numbers might be growing super-fast, but so is its reputation for hack attacks! The latest Twitter account hack, (which is about an hour old as I write this), is sending the following message; “hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me….
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I recently posted an article about Jason Calacanis and Loic Le Meur unfollowing the people who were following them on Twitter. One of the most common comments on that post was a variation of; “no one can really say for certain what’s the right or wrong way to follow people on Twitter.”
Well, at least we all know now what Twitter fonder Biz Stone thinks, about auto-following; “following should be done by a person….”
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Much like an older brother beating up their younger brother, Google has just given a PageRank penalty to Google Japan!
This bizarre state of affairs came about after it was revealed that Google Japan was paying bloggers via CyberBuzz, to write about a new feature on the Google Japan website. This was in [...]
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Our third ever ‘Highly Recommended’ award goes to Pete Cashmore’s excellent mashable.com.
Why mashable?
Firstly, mashable has some VERY good writers. My personal faves include; Jennifer Van Grove, Adam Ostrow, Stan Schroeder and Pete Cashmore of course. These guys know how to make tech news interesting, without being sensationalist. The quality of the writing is excellent and [...]
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According to a post on seekingalpha.com Apple are going to release three new iPhone models this year! The rumour seems to be gathering pace and has also been carried on The Register.
The rumour / prediction comes from Peter Misek, an analyst with Canaccord Adams; following recent checks he made with carrier partners. According to [...]
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I was on Twitter yesterday when Cali Lewis; star of Geekbrief.tv, decided to send a message to her 19,000 Twitter followers. Cali’s message was simply:
“Is this the new MacBook Pro?” – (with a link to a dodgy looking image)
This is how the ‘VIRAL PR’ Apple are so famous for always begins!
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I just saw the super-talented Molly Wood on Twitter and couldn’t help noticing how fantastic she is looking these days! To see what I mean, just take a look at the picture on the left and then compare it to Molly’s new Twitter picture on the bottom right. Molly – you look great!
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