Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Moved to Twitter and that's it
I’ll auto-suspend this blog after a coule of years and 2000 articles. It’s a total failure right now, with 20-30 readers per day I know I’m out of time because lots of other projects. So if you read this, you can follow my updates on Twitter. Cheers!
Twitter gets 503 HTTP error, adds latest tweets to user profiles
I tried to visit my Twitter accound today and I got an error message “HTTP 503 Error”. It means a server overload or something like that. Also, looking after some people to follow I found out that Twitter started to display latest messages next to the user profile in “Search People” results or Followers list.
Vodafone 360 – New Internet Services for Mobile and PC
Vodafone 360 is a brand new set of internet services for the mobile and PC which gathers all of a customer’s friends, communities, entertainment and personal favourites (like music, games, photos and video) in one place. At its heart Vodafone 360 has the most personal address book available, bringing together all of the contacts from [...]
Digital battlefield
Recent attacks prove that both companies and governments have to work toghther to defend against such online threats. Conventional warfare relies on tanks, troops, artillery, aircraft and a whole gamut of weapons systems. Cyber warfare requires a computer and an internet connection, says BBC. Rather than sending in the marines, the act of typing a command [...]
Twitter gets message: "you're too big"
Mini-blogging mini-social networking site Twitter was jammed today by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack who sent the popular microblogging server down foe many hours. In the same time, Facebook was also targeted, a sign that big sites will be a target for cash from big underground groups. Nasty stuff. This one will impact [...]
The Guardian stats about Twitter
The Guardian has some interesting stats about Twitter, which were disclosed by Evan Weaver, Twitter’s lead engineer in its services division, who gave a talk at QCon 2009. – The average Twitter user has 126 followers – Only 20% of Twitter’s traffic comes through the Twitter Web site; the other 80% comes from third-party programs [...]
Twitter goes beyond Digg, LindekIn, NYT
Traffic analyst comScore has released its worldwide numbers and it estimates Twitter’s global unique visitors in April, 2009 was a whopping 32 million, up from 19 million in March, 2009. To put that in growth into perspective, Twitter has just passed Digg (23 million), LinkedIn (16 million), and the NYTimes.com (17.5 million) in monthly unique [...]
Eric Schmidt: Twitter a Waste of Time
Those who think that the micro-blogging site is nothing to write home about will be glad to know that Google CEO Eric Schmidt feels the same way, says FOXNews. He told the crowd at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco Tuesday that Twitter is a “poor man’s e-mail system.”
Twitter to charge for corporate tweets
Twitter may have figured out a way to make money. Biz Stone, co-founder of the microblogging site, told Marketing magazine that his company is considering charging companies that use the service to market their brands, says CNet. While he declined to discuss how much Twitter would charge, Stone did say that individual users would not [...]
SEO: Twitter spam hurts you
New Automated Twitter spamming software recently hit the market. Since then Mashable has covered the story also. Hopefully the following 3 reasons will nudge those who may be tempted away from the dark side, says Jesse Newhart. 1. You Only Have One Reputation To Screw Up
