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Google Puts Renewed Focus on Real-Time Search with New Social Search Test

Oct 19, 2010 No Comments by Frederic

Somehow I completely missed the fact that those new blue “shared by” links on Google News results that appeared on my main search results pages a few days were new. Given the pace of the search giant’s development cycle, I have to admit that I’m sometimes actually rather confused about what’s new and what’s been around for a while on Google.

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Twitter Launches Official Twitter Share Bookmarklet

Aug 20, 2010 No Comments by Frederic

There are already numerous Twitter bookmarklets and browser extensions on the market that make it easy for Internet users to share any site with their Twitter friends. Today, Twitter itself is joining the fray with its own, official Twitter Tweet Button.

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Embedding an Official Tweet Button (just for the sake of it)

Aug 10, 2010 No Comments by Frederic

Tweet Looks like Twitter is launching its own Tweet buttons later this week. While you can already embed the code (see below), not everybody can actually use the button to retweet the post yet. Just for the sake if it, I have embedded the code (courtesy of Mashable) here. I’m guessing we will see a [...]

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15 Million Downloads Later: TweetDeck Turns 2

Jul 12, 2010 No Comments

TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client, just celebrated its 2nd birthday. According to the company’s founder Iain Dodsworth, the TweetDeck desktop client has been downloaded 15 million times and the iPhone app has been downloaded 2.5 million times. Overall, TweetDeck now sends out 4 million tweets, Facebook status updates and Buzz messages every day. That, of [...]

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A Twitter Map of the United States

Feb 02, 2010 2 Comments

Via HubSpot:

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Another Twitter Outage?

Aug 11, 2009 3 Comments

Looks like Twitter is down again. I guess those DDOS attacks never went away. Are the Russians behind this one as well? Posted via email from Newsgrange

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We Don't Need Authority on Twitter

Dec 27, 2008 11 Comments

Twitter Authority

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Twitter Ain’t Worth Anything Right Now

Jul 01, 2008 18 Comments

Silicon Alley Insider argued that Twitter might be worth over a billion dollars in a year. Sure – and I might be worth over a billion dollars by the end of this year as well… Let’s face it – Twitter hasn’t worked at all lately. Every time you want to log in, it kicks you [...]

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Plurk is joining the API game – with some help from their friends

Jun 10, 2008 No Comments

The Inquisitr reports tonight that Twitter challenger Plurk is going to release an API tomorrow: A Plurk API will allow third party application development, a key step in taking Plurk to a broader audience. It will also mean the development of apps that display Plurk Twitter style (or even Plurk Mobile style), giving Plurk a [...]

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Twitter lost a database?

Jun 05, 2008 No Comments

Anybody got a database for Twitter – looks like they misplaced one of theirs? We just lost a database about 5 minutes ago and this has severely impacted the site. We’re working on recovering from this now. As of right now, you can see user pages, but you can’t log into Twitter. We know Twitter’s [...]

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