According to Twitter’s own about page, Twitter has 175 million registered users. But, are those the real numbers? Read more on this over at Business Insider.
According to Twitter’s own about page, Twitter has 175 million registered users. But, are those the real numbers? Read more on this over at Business Insider.
WordPress.org has just released WordPress version 3.0.4, which it is referring to as a critical security update.
The update was created, after XSS vulnerabilities were pointed out by WordPress users.
Yesterday, when Twitter’s Ev Williams, announced he was moving from the role of Twitter CEO to focus on product development, hundreds of almost duplicate posts were written across all the major tech news blogs. They basically all wrote the same post: They listed the announcement, quoted from Williams’ post and that’s pretty-much it! That’s because…
Microsoft on Twitter is an interesting mirror of what I see, when I read about what Microsoft does off Twitter. In my opinion, their use of Twitter is also an example of the confusing mixed priorities and fuzzy focus, which seems to happen when a ‘tech company reaches a certain size. Let me explain. Microsoft…
If you stopped using one of your main social media platforms for a couple of weeks, how many people would notice? Ten, twenty – Maybe a hundred? OK, what if you were Leo Laporte, one of the best known and most respected people in your field with hundreds of thousands of followers and fans?
The answer might surprise you!
Twitter has announced the launch of a feature called embedded Tweets. This gives bloggers the chance to paste a short piece of flat-HTML into a post and BOOM – you have a clickable tweet right there on your site. It’s going to make life a lot easier. So, smart idea, right? Well, maybe not! Google…
If you read this blog, you are obviously interested in technology news. That’s why I would like to share my Tech News Providers Twitter List with you.
Here’s the list…
I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last! This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded.
Here’s Buchheit’s message in full:
Friendfeed seems to be doing little more than gathering dust, following Facebook’s acquisition. Even their most highly followed user, Robert Scoble, has said; “I can’t keep focusing on a site that isn’t getting developed. Sorry. That’s not what I do.”
Is this the end of the line for Friendfeed or a new beginning?
