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Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment As the hype around microblogging builds, should your business join the tweet-fest or keep schtum? Is microblogging the new marketing? However microblogging does not flow so freely - or... [16 Nov 2009]
Tweets to turn up on LinkedIn thanks to status-sharing deal
News Microblogging phenomenon Twitter and business networking site LinkedIn have announced a deal to share status updates. In the coming days, LinkedIn users will be able to have their LinkedIn status updates appear on... [10 Nov 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that started life back in 2006 as a side project for staff at a San Francisco start-up but has since mushroomed into a social networking juggernaut,... [29 Sep 2009]
Twitter secures "significant round" of funding
News It seems Twitter's megacash infusion is real. CEO Evan Williams confirmed on the company blog on Friday that Twitter has raised a new round of investment from Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, and existing investors, Institutional... [28 Sep 2009]
Twitter unveils official retweet API
News The development team at Twitter has released a mockup of its forthcoming "retweet API" - basically, the first formal way that Twitter has baked retweets, the copying and attribution of other Twitter users' posts, into its own product. [21 Sep 2009]
Twitter: 'Your tweets belong to you, not to Twitter'
News Twitter posted changes to its terms of service on Thursday, assuring users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities. The revisions more appropriately reflect the nature of Twitter and convey... [11 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News Twitter integration automates manual processes for monitoring the microblogging site for finding tweets related to customer-service issues, engaging in support conversations using Twitter, and tracking that conversation. [10 Sep 2009]
Twitter to charge businesses to tweet
News He said that yes, it will involve offering paid accounts to businesses that use the microblogging platform for marketing, customer relations and publicity. Twitter has confirmed it will be introducing paid-for business... [25 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News Security on Twitter is front and centre right now, as the microblogging site was completely downed by a distributed denial-of-service attack last week that was targeting a Georgian political blogger. A Twitter account... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter: Four per cent 'news', 40 per cent 'pointless babble'
News Despite some Twitter critics' insistence that the microblogging service is loaded with self-promoters, Pear Analytics only classified 5.85 per cent of tweets as "self promotion". Just over 40 per cent of posts on Twitter... [17 Aug 2009]
Facebook search gets a Twitter-like makeover
News New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting this week. The new interface for search makes it possible to see all public results from Facebook... [12 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News Twitter's servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. This appears to have begun around 18:45 (BST). [12 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News The microblogging site is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service (DoS) attack but has not said anything further. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic... [06 Aug 2009]
Twitter's malware filter has 'disappointing results', say security experts
News Hacking is another challenge the popular microblogging site faces. Twitter's new malware filter is a sign the social media site is stepping up efforts to stem attacks but the measure has its shortcomings, say security... [04 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Twitter is known for its brevity so it was inevitable that Whitehall's guidelines for departmental microblogging would stretch to 20 pages. The guidance note on the government use of Twitter went viral this week after... [31 Jul 2009]
