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Subscribe button brings Google+ and Twitter model to Facebook
- Facebook has announced a new Subscribe button that will make it easier to keep up with people you’re interested in but might not know personally. The feature is scheduled to roll out over the next few days, according to a…
Libel cases double in the UK, social networking to blame
- Research from a British law firm suggests that libel cases have doubled in the past year and that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are largely to blame. Legal firm Sweet and Maxwell said that 16 libel cases were…
Google+ pulls in 20 million users in three weeks
- The social network scene became even more diversified a couple of weeks ago when Google launched their new Google+ service on an invite-only basis. Just three weeks later, digital marketing monitor comScore Inc. estimates that Google+ had more than 20…
Fox News Twitter account hacked, claims President Obama killed
- The Fox News Politics Twitter account, which FoxNews.com uses to publish its political news on Twitter, was hacked earlier this morning. The hackers, who identified themselves as "The Script Kiddies" and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group…
Twitter passes 200 million tweets per day
- With half of 2011 gone, Twitter has announced a new milestone: its users are now sending over 200 million tweets per day. In other words, 1 billion tweets are sent every Monday through Friday. In January 2009, Twitter users sent…
Weekend tech reading: Facebook, Twitter banned from French media
- "Facebook" and "Twitter" banned from French airwaves The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired for its splendid…
Twitter launches new homepage
- Twitter has pushed out a new design of its homepage. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams tweeted the following celebratory message: "Very happy the team got the new Twitter homepage out the door. Definitely was time for a refresh".
Twitter improves search: three times faster
- Last week, Twitter launched a replacement for its Ruby-on-Rails front-end: a Java server named Blender. Blender has produced a three-fold drop in search latencies. Performance aside, it will also allow Twitter to rapidly iterate on search features in the coming…
Twitter seeing 1 billion tweets weekly, adds permanent HTTPS setting
- Twitter has announced a new security feature: a user setting that lets you always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com. HTTPS is particularly important when using an Internet service over an unsecured Wi-Fi connection.
Cameroon bans Twitter, protests likely to continue
- The government of Cameroon has banned mobile Twitter, according to the twittermobile account: "Twitter SMS on MTN Cameroon has been suspended by the Cameroonian government. Affected users should contact their MTN representative." The goal is to stop opposition protests in…
WP7 roadmap: CDMA support, IE9, SkyDrive, Twitter, multitasking
- The big news last week was that Nokia was switching to Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, however, Microsoft had a lot more to share regarding WP7's future. Here are several new…
Twitter for Android updated with new design, universal search
- Twitter has released a new version of Twitter for Android, bringing t more inline with the company's other official Twitter applications and providing a more consistent experience across platforms and devices. You can download the new version of the app…
Facebook and Google wanted to acquire Twitter, at $10 billion
- Both Facebook and Google wanted to acquire Twitter sometime last year and even held talks with the social network. Naturally, all three companies have declined to comment on this news. While acquisition propositions for early successful companies are perfectly normal…
Sony demands identities from Google, Twitter in PS3 hacking lawsuit
- Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or distributing the jailbreak code for its PlayStation 3 gaming console. Furthermore, the electronics giant is demanding that a federal judge order Google and Twitter to surrender details of those involved, according to…
Apple's Ping offers Twitter integration
- Twitter has announced it will link its service with Apple's Ping. More than 175 million registered Twitter users can now connect their accounts to iTunes. The linking occurs from within Ping: iTunes users today are being greeted with a new…
Facebook is fastest social network; Twitter, MySpace slowest
- On average, response times and availability of five major social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace) has improved this past quarter, according to Web analytics company AlertSite. This is great news given that all of them (save for possibly…
AMD is not for sale, and neither is Twitter
- Two companies from completely different areas of the tech world today squashed rumors that they are for sale. The CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the second largest CPU supplier, and the new CEO of Twitter, a microblogging social network,…
Twitter passes MySpace in traffic, adds 12TB of data per day
- Twitter recently passed MySpace in unique visitors to become the number three social networking service in the world, according to last month's data from comScore (via Digits). Twitter had nearly 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76 percent from…
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