Articles about Twitter – Page 17 of 21

The revelations will be tweeted: tracking WWDC’s twitter activity

When Apple’s executive team took the stage in San Francisco yesterday, Twitter responded to the announcements with nearly 300 thousand… Read More

Amazon launches third-party login system, challenging Facebook, Google and Twitter for authentication

Amazon.com customers will be able to use their Amazon login credentials to sign in to third-party websites, apps and games… Read More

Study: Gain more Twitter followers by being confident with predictions, not accurate

Here’s a way to get more Twitter followers: Exude confidence. That’s the finding from a study done by a pair of doctoral… Read More

Report: Teens leave Facebook for Twitter, because they want less drama

Facebook is still the social media king, but teens are using Twitter and Instagram at an increasing rate recently because,… Read More

Study: The biggest social collaboration tool inside big companies is … Facebook?

Salesforce.com, Microsoft, IBM and many smaller companies are competing aggressively in the market for enterprise social collaboration, offering advanced tools… Read More

Portland data visualization startup Lucky Sort gobbled up by Twitter, will shut down

Portland startup Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter and will be shutting down its service in the coming months… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon vet joins Relaborate; MG Siegler leaves CrunchFund; Jawfish; and more

Last week, we noted how difficult it is for startup companies to compete against Amazon.com and other tech giants in… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: The latest in digital security, and protecting yourself online

This was the tweet from the Associated Press on April 23: “Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is… Read More

Bill Clinton (officially) joins Twitter, gets shout out from Bill Gates and Colbert

Former president Bill Clinton has joined Twitter — and this time the ex-commander-in-chief is doing so without the help of… Read More

Twitter unveils sleek new #music discovery app for web, iOS

There’s a new way to find the tunes and tracks everyone is talking about. Twitter today debuted a new music… Read More

Twitter gears up to grow, courting data infrastructure engineers for new Seattle office

More than 10 months after opening a temporary engineering office in Seattle, Twitter is still looking for a permanent outpost… Read More

Microsoft preps two-factor account login: Twitter next?

Microsoft is getting ready to launch two-factor authentication for its Microsoft accounts, according to a report by Microsoft news site… Read More

Social Media Madness: Which NCAA school is most-effectively using Twitter?

There are lots of different spins people put on the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament — a.k.a. March Madness —… Read More

Time’s top Twitter feeds: Bill Gates, @SeattleMamaDoc and journalist Glenn Fleishman

Philanthropist Bill Gates (@BillGates), technology journalist Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) and pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson (@SeattleMamaDoc) are among those chosen for… Read More

Chirpify for Facebook: The first way to make purchases from your news feed

Chirpify already lets you make purchases via your Twitter and Instagram feeds. It was only natural for them to expand to… Read More

Tweet of the Week: Seattle PD meets Emerald City Comicon

Police personnel aren’t typically known for displaying their sense of humor publicly, let alone their geeky side, so it was… Read More

Seattle Sounders FC preps for season opener with fan-submitted hashtags on buildings

The Seattle Sounders football soccer club gets the 2013 season started this Saturday with a home match against Montreal and as… Read More

Study shows how to get more followers on Twitter

Here’s how to get more followers on Twitter: Be positive, be clear and share quality stuff. That’s according to a… Read More

Instagram hits 100M user mark 28 months after launch

Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch,… Read More

Twitter updates Windows Phone app for consistency, Live Tile integration

It might seem like a minor thing, but one of the complications for people who switch to Windows Phone is… Read More

Does this Tweet-based map of Seattle accurately describe your neighborhood?

This is pretty cool. Microsoft researcher Andrés Monroy-Hernández, an expert in social media analysis, has come up with an interesting way… Read More

Youngsters think Microsoft is getting cooler as it ages

Looks like those hip new Microsoft commercials are paying off. A Reuters poll found that just under 50 percent of… Read More

MTV and BET’s fake Twitter hack PR stunt wasn’t funny and raises serious questions

MTV and BET just fooled us all, and I’m not sure if it was funny, stupid or scary. Yesterday, Burger… Read More

What in the world do you ‘Vine’? Back to basics with a creative new platform

By now you’ve all heard of Vine, the drop-dead simple video app Twitter launched a few weeks ago. It lets… Read More

American Express links with Twitter: Will security risks sink this buy-by-Tweet experiment?

Social commerce is about ease. And what’s easier than using a hashtag to make a purchase? Today American Express, in… Read More

POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for… Read More

Why this year’s #SuperBowl belonged to Twitter

Hashtags were almost as prevalent as potato chips during the Super Bowl yesterday. Twitter ruled the roost of social networks… Read More

On a roll: Keith Richards using Chirpify to sell t-shirts

Portland-based Chirpify is on a roll, quite literally. The payments-through-Twitter platform already had the likes of Green Day, Wale and… Read More

Facebook debuts universal gift card you can send to anyone

Giving gifts on Facebook has always been a virtual tool, but now the social media giant is unveiling physical, reusable Facebook… Read More

The 10 social media tools that every startup must have

Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information… Read More