Tag: TWITTERING

Earlier this month, Austin, Texas was the scene of one of the biggest independent music festivals in the world. Called South By Southwest (or SXSW), the festival finds lovers of all things indie flocking to the area for a week of rockin' and rollin' -- to some locals' chagrin. Police, in particular, have their hands full during the festival, so it wasn't really a surprise when a Twitter account ...

Churches often encourage their parishioners to discuss sermons with friends, and to bring guests to take part in the services. It's just that the Ballard neighborhood "campus" of Seattle's Mars Hill Church doesn't make them wait until they get home to spread the word. No stranger to technology (the pastor's sermons are broadcast on video screens), the church allows, and promotes, Twittering ...

Here at Switched, we're big fans of Twitter, the site that lets you tell all your friends instantly what you're up to -- even if it's really not much of anything at all. We've seen it used for marriage proposals, civil disobedience, even the distribution of classic literature. All those initiatives and more have led to one massive result: a billion tweets and counting. Poptacular has a GigaTweet ...