Akron men’s hoops team printing Twitter handle @ZipsMBB on back of jerseys Social media is taking over the sports world. Well, not really. But Akron University is certainly doing something I’ve never… Read More
Twitter growth: 1.1 million Inauguration-related Tweets compared to just 82,392 in 2009 President Barack Obama’s second inauguration Monday morning provided us with another way to see Twitter’s surging popularity. There were 1.1… Read More
3 ways digital media is turning us into 2nd graders We are all regressing. And I have proof from an authoritative source: the state of children’s books. The underlying reasons… Read More
Hope, heartbreak, recovery: How our big NFL playoff game played out online Seattle hearts hurt Sunday. It happened around 1 p.m. In about 31 seconds. Maybe you remember. The Seahawks had just… Read More
Seahawks Sunday: Must-follow Twitter accounts for today’s playoff game against Atlanta To get a sense of how much Seahawks fever is going around Seattle, just read this status posted by my… Read More
LinkedIn reaches 200 million user milestone, adding two new users per second Some numbers out of the LinkedIn camp today highlight how successful the social network is doing. The company has reached… Read More
Washington’s Steve Sarkisian is the 5th most popular college football coach on Twitter If the Washington Huskies football team ends up losing Saturday at the Las Vegas Bowl, head coach Steve Sarkisian probably won’t be the… Read More
Twitter reaches 200M monthly active users, up 42 percent in 9 months Some social media companies rise and fall quickly. Twitter, however, doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. The company… Read More
Find your ‘Golden Tweet’ and everything else of significance you Tweeted this year It’s that special time of year when people reflect, looking back on the accomplishments of the past. But in an… Read More
Should sports reporters be permitted to Tweet every play? Here’s what Pac-12 schools have to say about it By now, you may have heard that the University of Washington athletic department reprimanded a reporter for Tweeting too much… Read More
Twitter limit: University of Washington caps live game coverage for media, threatens credential revocation UPDATE, NOV. 13 3:30 P.M.: We followed up on this story and asked several schools up and down the west coast… Read More
President Barack Obama touts victory on Twitter As the host of the PBS News Hour noted tonight, this might be the beginning of a new era in… Read More
Tweet no more: Washington State football bans players from Twitter A message from Mike Leach to his athletes: Stop Tweeting. On Tuesday, the first-year Washington State head football coach banned… Read More
Social commerce platform Chirpify expands to Instagram When it started, the name “Chirpify” suited the Twitter world perfectly. But things are going well for the Portland-based startup,… Read More
NBCNews.com’s Mike Davidson joins Twitter as VP of Design, announcing move in 10,000th Tweet Mike Davidson reserved a very special announcement for his 10,000th Tweet. Today, the co-founder and former CEO of Newsvine announced… Read More
A police scanner for the Twitter generation: Seattle PD introduces ‘Tweets by Beat’ Whenever there’s a disturbance in my Seattle neighborhood, I fire up the online police scanner or visit the hyperlocal news blog… Read More
App of the Week: ‘Slices for Twitter’ dices up your feed Twitter can be overwhelming on its best days, but I’ve become a fan of a new app that can… Read More
Tech Moves: Buster Benson lands at Twitter; Zulily hires a top lawyer; Coinstar changes; etc. Sometimes people announce new jobs with an email, or a LinkedIn update. Seattle entrepreneur Buster Benson, the former Amazon.com developer… Read More
SEOMoz buys Twitter analytics upstart Followerwonk Ever want to know how your Twitter standing stacks up against friends, business rivals or celebrities? That’s the idea behind… Read More
REI, LinkedIn land in top 10 places for work-life balance; Facebook falls off When employers dangle salaries and signing bonuses and Justin Bieber songs in front of prospective employees, they might just want… Read More
Study: 40 percent of top brands active on Instagram Instagram, the image-sharing social network that’s in the process of being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, is getting active… Read More
Guy Adams back on Twitter after Olympic tweet scandal “Matt Lauer would do well to shut up, wouldn’t he?” This is just one of many critical — and hilarious… Read More
Apple and Twitter: How would an alliance alter the tech biz? Well, here’s an interesting one for you to contemplate this weekend. The New York Times is reporting that Apple has… Read More
Down goes Twitter: The pulse of the planet not beating this morning Normally, for these sorts of service outages, the first place we consult is Twitter. After all, the site is the… Read More
Tech Moves: Andy Sack passes torch at Lighter Capital; OUYA’s new hire Andy Sack is stepping aside as CEO of Lighter Capital, the Seattle investment firm that provides revenue-based loans to companies… Read More
Twitter flash mob awkward, nerdy, makes us hate flash mobs all the more Can we officially put out a call to end all flash mobs now? Yesterday, Twitter headquarters hosted that group phenom… Read More
LinkedOut? Twitter ends LinkedIn content sharing It appears that the content-sharing partnership forged by Twitter and LinkedIn in 2009 — like “peanut butter and chocolate,” according… Read More
Gates, Jobs, Google or Dorsey: Which of these comic books about tech CEOs would you want to read? Blue Water Productions is rolling out a new comic book line, featuring the of legends of the tech industry. The… Read More
Twitter outage: Don’t know what you got until it’s gone Twitter appears to be gradually coming back online after an outage this morning that lasted at least a half-hour for… Read More
Get your democracy on: Chirpify launches campaign donations via Twitter Portland-based Chirpify is helping this year’s presidential candidates raise funds by allowing users to donate to either Obama or Romney’s… Read More
