Barack Obama’s famous election victory declaration photo attracted 25 million views on Twitter If you were on social media or watched the news during the presidential election last year, it’s likely you saw… Read More
Twitter at 2,000 employees, up 90% from last year Twitter’s IPO filing was made public today and it noted that the company now employs 2,000 worldwide. According to the… Read More
Twitter (TWTR) IPO filing revealed: Company lost $79M in 2012, tops 215M users Twitter’s IPO was just made public and the company is looking to raise $1 billion. Twitter said it now has 215… Read More
Facebook to give TV networks data on social engagement with shows Twitter made some waves last year by announcing that it was partnering with Nielsen to create a special metric that… Read More
Vizify debuts tool to visualize what your life on Twitter looks like Vizify, a Portland-based startup that turns your social media chatter into visualizations, today announced a new feature that lets you see… Read More
Before IPO, Twitter partners with NFL to sell video ad packages Miss that amazing touchdown pass? Want to see how exactly the Seahawks won again? Check your Twitter stream. Before its… Read More
Twitter is now an emergency aid service Twitter launched Twitter Alerts today as a way for public institutions and NGOs to send out emergency alerts via text… Read More
Here’s a way to hide Breaking Bad spoilers from your Twitter timeline Twitter can be great at times, but when you’ve missed an episode of your favorite show, it can be pretty… Read More
The next wave of news: Peer-to-peer livestreaming Twitter enabled any person to reach anyone in the world directly with 140 characters of text. And, of course, you… Read More
Welcome to Twitter: Apple CEO @tim_cook joins Twitterati Following a massive publicity push this week in advance of the launch of iOS 7 and the iPhone 5C and… Read More
Twitter hires longtime Microsoft developer evangelist Jeff Sandquist Twitter is bringing aboard one of the key players from Microsoft’s developer evangelist group, who worked for years to encourage… Read More
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: ‘Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin’ SAN FRANCISCO – According to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, leaders should prize clarity over likability when it comes to guiding… Read More
Twitter goes down for 30 minutes, social media addicts lose composure Twitter’s homepage went down sometime around 2 p.m. PST Wednesday afternoon, but came back online about 30 minutes later. We… Read More
Tech Moves: OpenStreetMap founder leaves Microsoft, Google ad exec joins Twitter, and more –Steve Coast, one of the founders of OpenStreetMap, has left his position on the Bing Mobile team at Microsoft to… Read More
Twitter continues growth, flocks to bigger Seattle offices It’s been a little over a year since Twitter opened up shop in Seattle, and now the social networking giant… Read More
AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard People posting photos, recording videos, making room reservations and reading the news on Sunday afternoon had to take a break… Read More
Instagram, Vine stop working at same time; people use Twitter to freak out New post: AWS server issues take down Instagram, Airbnb, Flipboard Original post: If you want to Instagram another selfie or… Read More
Waiting for Clint Dempsey at #DempseyWatch: The most fun I’ve ever had on Twitter For the past two hours, I’ve been glued to my Twitter feed. It’s not some high-speed car chase; catastrophic natural… Read More
You can soon embed Facebook statuses, photos It’s been easy to embed Tweets for quite some time now, but Facebook did not offer a similar tool for… Read More
Twitter mystery: The strange case of Lockerz and the Ethiopian supermodel Lockerz, the heavily-funded Seattle social commerce startup backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures and others, is going… Read More
It’s now illegal for employers to ask for your social media passwords in Washington If you walk into work tomorrow and the boss demands access to your Facebook account, you can now use the… Read More
Real-time ’emojitracker’ is an entertaining slice of Twitter If you’re interested in a mesmerizing time-waster on this Friday afternoon, check out emojitracker, a website that tracks tweets containing… Read More
Hello, Lumia 1020! Windows Phone gets Hipstamatic Oggl, partial Instagram integration It’s launch day for the Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Phone, the one with the 41-megapixel camera. And coinciding with the… Read More
Microsoft helping Twitter crack down on child pornography with PhotoDNA technology Microsoft helped Facebook fight against child pornography, and now the Redmond software giant is lending a hand to Twitter, too. The… Read More
These five brands are kicking ass with Instagram video It’s been about two weeks since Instagram unveiled its 15-second video feature and the response has been excellent for the Facebook-owned… Read More
Twitter using Bing to translate tweets automatically Microsoft has come up with some pretty cool language translation applications over the past year, and now Twitter is getting in on… Read More
Google calls veiled national security disclosures ‘a step back’ Facebook and Microsoft on Friday evening published new statistics about the data they provide to governmental agencies. The stats included national security… Read More
Vizify teams up with Twitter, lets you create personal movie trailers based on your best tweets While there are Twitter analytics tools out there that can spit out in-depth personal usage stats, the data isn’t always… Read More
Free analytics: Twitter now lets anyone track their tweet performance Twitter today opened the doors to its robust tool that lets anyone from big brands to basement bloggers monitor tweet performance… Read More
You can now use #hashtags on Facebook Hashtags are coming to Facebook, as the social media giant announced today that it has added support for phrases with “#”… Read More
