Every day, hundreds of thousands of people sign up for Twitter to get closer to the things they care about — friends, businesses, celebrities, news and information from all over. If you’ve used Twitter for awhile, you know it can take some effort to find and follow the accounts that really reflect your interests. If you’re signing up for Twitter for the first time, we want that process to be easy and fast.   Currently, when new users come to Twitter, Twitter will show them all almost Continue Reading

    The first ever photo sharing site for Twitter comes to the iPhone! Twitpic is the easiest and best way to share your photos and videos with your Twitter followers.   ★ Quickly and seamlessly share your photos and videos with all of your Twitter followers ★ Edit your photos with beautiful filters and easy to use enhancement tools ★ Browse your Twitter photo timeline with photos from people you follow in a beautiful interface ★ Browse photos from the most popular Continue Reading

It used to be that if you wanted to get data on a certain industry, keyword, hashtag or Twitter user you had to wait for a geeky, social media scientist type to write the scripts and run the reports for you. With my new tool TweetCharts.com that’s no longer the case.     Enter any word, phrase, hashtag, URL or username and TweetCharts will return a comprehensive report, including data on reply, retweet, and link percentages as well as the most common words, most mentioned users, Continue Reading

  The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to stop Facebook, Twitter and social media use by drivers. According to Bloomberg Businessweek the US government will be pushing automakers had to make social networking more accessible while the user doesn’t loose focus on driving.   In a set of non-binding, or voluntary, rules issued today, the agency is also calling for disabling devices that enable manual texting, Internet browsing, 10-digit phone dialing and the ability to enter Continue Reading

You’ve probably heard or even learnt that it’s not very effective to hard sell on Twitter. Constantly pitching your own products and services will get you nowhere. So the only thing hard selling will get you is unfollowed, blocked or labelled a spammer. Ouch! That’s all true – but we’re not using Twitter just for fun! We’re there to promote our business too. So, how are we supposed to convert followers into buyers if selling doesn’t cut it? Other people seem to do ok – what’s Continue Reading

    Ah, the 90’s. The age of the 8 Bit PC and a life full of fun and natural interaction. Twitter is the hottest buzz on the social media market allowing 140 characters to make a thing viral, newsworthy and famous. But what if the tool existed in the early 90’s? How would it have been? and what would have been its use? This brilliant video posted by Squirrel Monkey shows how the popular social network site would have looked like in the 80s and 90s.     Could you imagine Continue Reading

    If you thought Twitter and Facebook were the only companies trying to focus on social media, then you are wrong. Skype, now part of Microsoft, is trying to become a more socially aggregated company via its dirty ad campaign it just started against the later companies. The general idea of the "It's Time for Skype" campaign, which launched in the U.S. and U.K. Tuesday, is that Twitter and Facebook text-based communications turns people into isolated social media zombies, Continue Reading

  Being on top of social media is the dire need of every organization. There are millions of tools out there which provide complete social management optimization and solutions but many even fail to do what they state. Viralheat delivers social media management, monitoring,engagement, analytics, and deep insights to meet the needs of any business.     Features:       Manage Multiple Social Networks   Simplify social Continue Reading

    Twitter has updated TweetDeck and released a much powerful version of the famous Twitter client after it purchased it last last year. This update introduces some great new features as well as a host of smaller improvements and bug fixes.     List Management You can now create, edit and delete lists directly in the app. There is even a dedicated Lists button on the toolbar, so you can quickly and easily dive in to manage your lists. Additionally, all user profiles Continue Reading

  Six years may not be very long in human terms, but it’s been quite an enormous span for the thing we know and love as Twitter. When @jack first sketched out his notion in March 2006, no one could have predicted the trajectory of this new communication tool.   Now it seems that there are as many ways to express yourself in 140 characters as there are people doing it. And at last check, there are more than 140 million active users (there’s that number again) — and today we see Continue Reading

  When the internet was first built most of the mainstream media thought it would be a fad let alone something that would encompass the entire world and pretty much control just about everything we do on a day to day basis.   And I’m pretty sure no one ever gave thought that we’d one day be staring at our computer and mobile device screens updating status updates and checking out the latest tweets 24/7, almost as addictively as some of the world’s greatest killers: alcohol and Continue Reading

Today Twitter launched its service for expanding into more local territories with local languages support for four new languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. These four languages were added to the Twitter Translation Center on January 25. Thirteen thousand volunteers around the globe immediately got to work, translating and localizing Twitter.com into these languages in record time. Thanks to their contributions, Twitter is now available in right-to-left languages. These 13,000 volunteers Continue Reading

        Did you know that everything you post on your social networking existence can be tracked and recovered whenever it is needed? Did you think that whatever you post on your online social networking profiles are just a bunch of harmless ranting and mutterings and they disappear into the electronic air as the time passes?   If you are of the same thought, then I might want to step in and remind you that you are wrong! News has come in, which might surprise you Continue Reading

  Twitter has launched its latest version for iPhone and Twitter for Android, which are available today. Both apps bring back high-demand features, including the swipe shortcut, and they also introduce new design and functionality improvements. Here’s a rundown.   Both apps Swipe shortcut: Swipe a Tweet in your home timeline to reply to, retweet, favorite or share it, or view the Twitter user’s profile, without leaving your timeline. “Find friends”: Twitter Continue Reading

    Twitter is one of the most frequently used and visited social media around the web. It has brought revolutions around the globe such as in Egypt and Cyprus, and most of all is loved by people due top its un-complexity, simple purpose and use. And you might have seen the bird on Twitters logo several times, yeah the same blue tweety bird and today the company reveals its name.   Wait for its… Larry The Bird .@stop going over Design @ Twitter. The evolution of the Larry Continue Reading