The 5 cheesiest tech slogans?
At a keynote address on Monday, Twitter CEO Evan Williams said the aim of his company is this: "Be a force for good." TechCrunch writer Michael Arrington, who reported this quote from the South By...
View ArticleMan suspected of cracking Twitter accounts: 'I'm a nice hacker'
The man accused of cracking a Twitter database and peeking at the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and Britney Spears said this week that he didn't mean harm, according to a French TV station. He...
View ArticleA new look at spam, by the numbers
Some news from Twitter this week could leave you with the impression that spam is becoming a dinosaur of the Web. As of February, slightly less than 1 percent of posts on the micro-blogging site were...
View ArticleTwitter rolls out official BlackBerry app
Twitter rolled out its official app for the BlackBerry on Friday, adding a specialized version of the micro-blogging site to the most popular smartphone platform. According to Twitter's official blog...
View ArticleTwitter claims 105 million registered users
Twitter has more than 105 million registered users, co-founder Biz Stone said Wednesday. The announcement, at the micro-blogging site's Chirp conference for developers, marked the first time Twitter...
View ArticleGoogle unveils 'replay' search feature
It's already easy to find relevant Twitter updates in Google real-time search results. Now, thanks to a new Google feature, you can see what people were tweeting about a topic last week or last month....
View ArticleResearcher analyzes dreams through Twitter
A researcher in the UK is trying to analyze the world's dreams through Twitter. Starting today, Twitter users can send synopses of their dreams (in 140 characters or less, of course) to the Twitter...
View ArticleReport: Hugo Chavez is joining Twitter
Of course celebrities like singer Britney Spears are on Twitter. And it even seems expected at this point that Barack Obama, arguably the techiest president in U.S. history, would have a presence on...
View ArticlePolitician tries to out anonymous Twitter critics
Pennsylvania's attorney general recently subpoenaed Twitter for the real names of two anonymous bloggers who have been criticizing him. Twitter generally doesn't give out user identities, according to...
View ArticleFake BP Twitter feed mocks company over oil spill
Wow ... did a BP representative really say that? Well, no. But a satirical Twitter feed, which at first glance looks like an official BP account, is serving up a scathing daily parody of the company's...
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