Jon Morrow, in a rant on social media being abused by Internet marketers: We’re not going to give you another self-righteous argument about how you can’t make money with social media. We’re not going to sermonize about the pitfalls of sleazy marketing. We’re not going to tell you you’re ruining opportunities for all of the [...]
Reuters: LeBron James has made at least one decision, just not the one the basketball world had been waiting for. The most sought after NBA free agent of 2010 has joined the social networking site Twitter under the moniker ‘kingjames’, his publicist Keith Estabrook confirmed with Reuters on Tuesday. More than 84,000 people have signed [...]
If you are’t familiar with @BPGlobalPR on Twitter, you need to be. It was setup as a fake PR account for BP, a company that you may have seen on the news recently: Here are some of my favorite tweets from the account: • OMG This isss ridciulsus. playing a drinking gamee where we drink [...]
From the Iconfactory blog: When Twitter recently announced they were purchasing Atebits’ popular Twitter application, Tweetie, many critics wrote off all 3rd party apps, including Twitterrific. Well, we’re here to say that not only is Twitterrific alive and kicking, but it’s being actively developed with love by the Iconfactory. There are some exciting changes coming [...]
This little bookmark will scan your Facebook account for possible security issues. It’s a neat tool — Facebook should include something like this for all users.
Lindsey Turner: If we keep monkeying with the way we treat content (blurring lines between advertising and news, cutting newshole way down, burying important yet unsexy stories, etc.) because we think the content is responsible for the lack of money made in our industry, we are dooming ourselves. I am not saying that the way [...]
Robert Scoble, on what he wants to see in future editions of Windows: I want everything I touch to be socialized. Why doesn’t Outlook know anything about Facebook? Why don’t my photos automatically get pushed to Flickr? Why don’t I have a news app on my desktop that brings in Tweets from Twitter? Why aren’t [...]
Wired highlights some of the widely-spread, widely-believed, totally untrue statements made on Twitter this year: Bill O’Reilly is gay (Jan.) // Rick Sanchez is high on crack and might not be coming into work today (Jan.) // Britney Spears is dead (March) // Pork gives you swine flu (April) // Google is buying Twitter (April) [...]
It seems that Apple is having employees — retail employees, at least — post some fine print on their Twitter accounts. Here are a few examples I’ve come across over the last few days: The comments and views shared on this or any other site are not shared by Apple or any affiliated parties…They belong [...]
With Twitter’s 140-charcter limit on updates, several URL shortening service cropped up in the last 18 months out of nowhere. A few months ago, Twitter added bit.ly support to its homepage, effectively making it the most popular URL shortener out there. It didn’t help rival tr.im: tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service, [...]
