Tag: MICROBLOGGING

Those French journalists who locked themselves in a farmhouse, with only Facebook and Twitter as links to the outside world, have emerged from their self-imposed exile. What did they learn from their social networking experiment? Janic Tremblay, a reporter with Radio Canada, talked with NPR about the experience. "You are - if I may say - who you follow," Tremblay told NPR. In other words, ...

What's the quickest way to get a city government official to take action? A phone call? Or maybe a visit to city hall? If you live in Newark, New Jersey, it might be more effective to just send a tweet to Mayor Cory Booker. According to Mashable, Ravie Rave, a Newark radio DJ, sent a tweet on New Year's Eve asking the mayor to dispatch somebody to help shovel snow from her father's driveway. ...

With Twitter's booming popularity, some trends are bound to develop. No, we're not talking about the daily deluge of spam on the micro-blogging site, either. We're referring to the ways people use the service, all of which have been stereotyped and compiled by blogger and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki. The brilliant result is a list of six Twitter types. As funny as Kawasaki's observations are, ...

With the level of anonymity it offers, it's no surprise that Twitter is ripe with fake accounts. The site has done its part to stop scammers from impersonating people, but the problem still remains. Unfortunately, the latest hoax to hit the microblogging site took a sad, eerie, and dark turn. According to Valleywag, a person posing as Dallas Morning News columnist Gerry Fraley reported the ...

With short-form publishing becoming more popular each day, people are frequently using URL-shortening services to make their posts full of content instead of cluttered with characters. When a new trend like this emerges, everybody wants a piece of the pie. That's why both Google and Facebook have recently introduced URL-shortening services. The Official Google Blog gives a rundown of the new ...

Babies -- think of them as the last frontier in the Twitterverse. After all, we've already got a tweeting beer tap and houseplants even have a voice on Twitter. So it's only natural that babies would be next in line to speak their minds 140 characters at a time, right? According to Mashable, a team of Belgian researchers have integrated Twitter into a plastic Fisher Price-like toy, which ...

After he heard the latest news about one of his players and Twitter, we're sure that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, from his towering New York office building, gave out a great barbaric yawp: "I told you so!" According to Mashable, New York Jets wide receiver David Clowney has had his Twitter account hacked within the past 24 hours. Unlike when hackers took over a number of high-profile ...

It seems like every day that a new phishing scam hits Twitter, and Wednesday was no different. According to CNET News, Twitter warned its users to be on the lookout for a phishing scam that attacks via direct messages. "[If] you've received a strange (direct message), and it takes you to a Twitter log-in page, don't do it!," Twitter warned in a post. Of course, this isn't the first scam that ...

Although the Berlin Wall came tumbling down nearly 20 years ago, the memories are still as real as the concrete that formed the dividing line between East and West Germany. To honor the memories of the wall's fall, and to offer hope for a future without walls, a new Web site, which launched Tuesday, allows people to tweet messages onto a virtual version of the Berlin Wall. According to MSNBC, ...

A number of Twitter users woke up this morning to discover a new feature on the micro-blogging site. Although we don't have access to the function here at Switched HQ, DownloadSquad reports that a beta version of Twitter Lists is now available to select users. We told you earlier this month about this tool and how it helps users to organize and navigate Twitter accounts. Similar grouping tools ...

Thanks to a new tool, organizing and navigating the Twitter accounts that you follow is about to get a lot easier. According to a blog post from Twitter, a limited number of users in the coming days will be able to sort their friends into lists (much like Facebook's 'Lists' feature). Until now, users seeking more control over their followers had to use cumbersome solutions from third-party apps ...

Another day, another Twitter worm. The latest worm (or Tworm, if you please) to hit the micro-blogging site is even sneakier and more dangerous than others we've warned you about. That's because it's being spread via direct messages (DM) from users you know, not random spam accounts. Let's keep it simple. If you receive a DM with the link pictured above, don't click on it. Delete the message ...

Do you feel like your tweets are falling on deaf ears? Well, you won't anymore, thanks to a Jew-centric (and hypothetical) alternative. 'Twitteleh' (video after the break) caters to "the one person who actually wants to hear about your day" -- your Jewish mother. It's much easier to use than Twitter, too. Just answer three questions: Where are you? What have you eaten? Are you wearing a sweater? ...

Skip the lines, the hassle, the irritated guest list protectors, the paparazzi, the underfed and the overdressed. Fashion Week in New York is a rollicking good time, as long as you aren't actually there. Thanks to Twitter, though, blooming fashionistas don't actually have to show up. Media outlets ranging from Racked.com to the New York Times have finally started to use the micro-blogging site ...

September in New York. The leaves begin to turn, shorts are traded for pants, and the entire city stops for one week -- Fashion Week, that is. The yearly chic charade keeps bloggers in business, but it's not only writers who take to the Net. Models -- usually only known for their vapidness and abilities to sit, lounge, walk and look pretty -- are just as avid tweeters and updaters as are ...