Twitter co-founders partner with new startup, Branch
The Obvious Corporation, headed up by former Twitter execs, gets going on its second project–a Web site geared toward “a smart new brand of high quality public discourse.
Lady Gaga hits 20 million Twitter followers
The singer tops the microblogging site’s most popular list ahead of fellow pop stars Justin Bieber (18 million), Katy Perry (15.7 million) and Shakira (14.5 million).
Twitter launches Hebrew Menu
Just 6 weeks after Twitter came out with a new version for “right-to-left languages,” the micro-blogging site has now added language support for Hebrew, as well as for Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. Twitter currently has around 500 million users, and […]
Missouri lawmakers’ Facebook accounts being hacked
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that since the legislative session began Jan. 5, three Republican state representatives, one Democratic lawmaker and one Republican staffer have reported their Facebook accounts being hacked. No one is exactly sure why, but officials point […]
Jack Wilshere to escape FA punishment for Twitter ran
Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere is expected to escape being punished by the Football Association after the midfielder vented his anger at referee Phil Dowd on Twitter following his side’s 4-4 draw with Newcastle. Arsenal were 4-0 up at half-time but after […]
Google Me – Google’s coming social network?
Social Media or Social Networks are becoming popular among wide community of users and it can be seen that Google is going to have “Google Me” names social network which clearly shows that how much big search companies are interested […]
Twitter is the world’s fastest growing search engine
Twitter now supports 800 million search queries per day, according to Biz Stone, the site’s co-founder, making it the fastest growing search engine, outpacing Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing combined.