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Twitter Advertising Service Details Emerge
3rd March 2010
Rumours about Twitter’s monetisation efforts and a potential ad platform have been around for a very long time. A few details about how their ad platform are now being uncovered. More »
Twitter To Release Usernames
26th January 2010
Twitter plans to release usernames from inactive accounts on their site. Interested users will then be able to register for these usernames once they’ve been released. More »
Twitter Might Mimic Facebook Connect
21st January 2010
Following reports that the growth of Twitter has tapered off considerably and the fact that they are no longer considered a significant threat to Facebook, new rumours have surfaced indicating that Twitter might be all set to launch a service that could challenge Facebook’s popularity outside its own domain. More »
Twitter Building Team To Turn Profit
12th January 2010
Twitter has slowly but surely been turning their focus towards creating revenue from the site. According to a report from Reuters, Twitter has now started building a team that would help them to make money from the free service they are providing to their customers. More »
Twitter Profitable In 2009
22nd December 2009
Over the last year or so, everybody has been wondering about how Twitter manages to survive without monetising the site. More »
Twitter Rolls Out Contributors For Businesses
16th December 2009
For a while now, Twitter has been planning to monetise their site and has been working towards that goal. More »
Google Friend Connect Integrates With Twitter
7th December 2009
Google has recently announced that they are integrating their service Friend Connect with Twitter. More »
Gangs Of New York On Twitter
30th November 2009
Technology is being used in the most unexpected of ways, by the most unexpected people. Street gangs in New York are making use of Twitter to communicate with each other and to plan up-coming fights. More »
Paid Twitter Accounts To Debut This Year
25th November 2009
For a while now, there has been talk about Twitter starting commercial accounts. That piece of news has now been confirmed by none other than Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone. More »
Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates
23rd November 2009
Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. More »
MMS Updates On Twitter Via Orange
19th November 2009
U.K. mobile operator Orange has announced a partnership with Twitter to introduce MMS support on Twitter. More »
Is Mobile Marketing Heading For Trouble?
18th November 2009
Even though the number of mobile Web users has been increasing steadily over the years and marketers have pitched every year as “the year of the mobile”, mobile marketing now seems to be facing some serious hurdles. More »
Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile
16th November 2009
With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »
Is Twitter Already On Its Way Down?
3rd November 2009
A recent report released by analytics firm Hitwise, does not provide good news for Twitter. According to the report, the growth curve of Twitter has taken a fairly steep turn for the worst between July and October 2009. More »
The Productivity Costs Of Social Networks
30th October 2009
Over the years there have been several articles based on surveys conducted that have suggested that employees spend a lot of their working hours on personal or non-productive work. Some consider Twitter to be such a non-productive pursuit. More »
Bing First To Search Live Twitter Streams
22nd October 2009
At the recently held Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Qi Lu, the President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, spoke to Tim Reilly of TechCrunch, about the new facilities soon to be launched on their new search engine Bing. More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
Social Web Dominated By Women
7th October 2009
Women, today, seem to be taking the lead over men in a lot of technical. Only recently it was found that working moms are the real power users of mobile phones.
The latest statistics, collected by Brian Solis of Google Ad Planner, and published on Information is Beautiful, show that women also dominate the social web. More »
Google Trends In Google Search
1st October 2009
With millions of users all over the world using Google search everyday, certain topics are bound to be very popular or ‘Hot’ among searchers at any given point of time. Google will now inform users about the popularity of such topics when a user searches for them. More »
Mixx + Twitter = TweetMixx + Self-spam?
15th September 2009
With Twitter growing larger by leaps and bounds everyday, it is getting increasingly difficult for users to decide whom to follow and which tweets they would find interesting and relevant. To help users, Mixx has now stepped in to simplify matters. More »
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