As you will have heard, this week saw a Twitter employee’s Gmail account hacked, leading to the unauthorised publication of a number of “sensitive” Twitter company documents. Thankfully for Twitter, these documents were more embarrassing than damaging – but the fact they were compromised serves as an important lesson for us early adopters!
Twitter has finally started placing paid advertisements on twitter.com. The new, paid ads have been placed in the same place as the previous, non-paid ads (what Twitter call ‘definitions’ – see screenshot in the full post for more!)
The last 12 months has seen amazing growth figures for the world’s hottest social media property. Year on year, Twitter’s growth stands at an amazing 1448%. However, month on month Twitter’s growth has slumped to just 7%! Read on…
bing.com has hit the headlines here in the UK, 2 days before its official launch. It seems that users are able to view pornographic videos, without leaving bing.com. By simply hovering the mouse pointer over the video stills. Read on…
If you are a regular Twitter user, you will already know about the massive screw-up that has happened over the past 24 hours.
Is this yet more proof that Twitter’s team are too focused these days, on hanging out with their new celebrity friends – to engage their users and provide what their users want? Read on….
Remember how Google came form nowhere to pretty-much own online search and Internet advertising? Well, it seems Twitter is planning a similar move; according to comments made this week by Twitter’s own Santosh Jayaram (a Google Search Quality Manager until recently.)
Here’s why this may not be good news for Twitter users…..
Research shows that Twitter’s retention rate (the number of new users, who return after a period of 1 month), is below 40%. This is lower than many expected and means Twitter is losing new users almost twice as fast as either FaceBook or MySpace were, when they were at the same stage in their development. Here’s why this matters….
CNN announced that it has bought the @CNNbrk user name from a Twitter user, for an undisclosed fee. The account, which currently has almost a million followers is the brain child of London based Developer, James Cox.
Yes, Twitter has been hacked again! This time by a spam worm, known as stalkdaily. The ‘stalkdaily’ Twitter worm carried a pretty harmless payload, yet the security black hole it exploited COULD have been used more maliciously! This is yet another security blunder, for the world’s favourite micro-blogging service.
The new beta of FriendFeed was released yesterday and it’s extremely impressive! There are way too many improvements and new additions for me to cover here, so here are a few of my favourites.
What I have found most useful thus far, is the ability to easily track all the conversations I have taken part in, in real time! I leave a comment in a discussion and am then instantly notified, without having to leave the screen. This makes conversations flow with ease and dramatically improves the overall experience. It will also see far more people engaging in conversations. Read on for the full review…..
