In case of fire, do NOT use Twitter
"Do NOT Twitter" warnings are now being added to fire safety posters.
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"Do NOT Twitter" warnings are now being added to fire safety posters.
Can’t fully express yourself with Twitter‘s 140-character limit? It can be tough. And sometimes plain text just isn’t enough. Luckily services like TwitPic and Ping.fm allow us to embed picture links in our tweets. But what about video? There are actually a few services helping bring video to Twitter and BubbleTweet is one of the …
Purewire was able to pull together data from 7M Twitter user profiles. Here are some of the surprising Twitter stats that they found.
It’s probably only a matter of time until Google integrates Twitter tweets into their search results. But until that day comes, there’s Twootles. Twootles a simple but web service that let’s you search on Google and Twitter at the same time and will displays both results side-by-side. That’s all that Twootles does right now but …
Wow. Who knew NBC Nightly News anchor, Brian Williams, was so hip? On Monday, the American newscaster launched a new web-only video interview series focusing on independent music and musicians called “BriTunes.” The debuted episode of BriTunes is an interview with a band called Deer Tick from Brooklyn, NY. If you aren’t already familiar with …
How long have you been on Twitter? Not exactly sure? Yappler will show you how many days you've been tweeting and your Twitter join date.
What should a major fast food chain, like Domino’s Pizza, do when two employees create a PR nightmare by posting videos of themselves tampering with customer’s food on YouTube? A few years ago, the typical corporate response might have been to pull the videos off the Internets, hide their heads in the sand like an …
“The old guard has passed and the new guard is here. And the new guard likes to ding dong ditch people just for fun.” – Ashton Kutcher in his victory speech after beating CNN to the million follower mark. At 2:13am EDT Friday, Ashton Kutcher took the crown in a much-hyped race against CNN to …
There’s an old media adage that once something hits the cover of Time magazine it’s already peaked. Well Twitter hasn’t made it there yet but it is in a grandparent friendly non-techie article in the New York Times today patiently explaining how it works for the uninitiated. There’s even the requisite Onion –like quotable section: …
Don't have time to Twitter? Do you dread composing lengthy 140 characters tweets? Who doesn't. Move over Twitter, here comes Flutter to the rescue.
Nambu is very popular free Mac Twitter client that handles saved searches, topic threading, filters, and groups. For example, you can split up the people you follow like family, friends, coworkers, even enemies.
by Dan Schawbel Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Looking for a job? Consider creating your own. There are a number of social resources to help you connect with other entrepreneurs and get …
Many companies are beginning to realize how important social media communities can be for their brand. But who would have thought that the Skittles marketing team would have been such trailblazers?
Autofollowing people on Twitter just got a whole lot easier. Last month we wrote a detailed tutorial on methodshop.com that walked you through how to setup up your Twitter account to autofollow anyone who follows you using a service called TweetLater. Part of the process involved making an autoforward rule in Gmail. But after getting …
This incredible handwritten document by Jack Dorsey is the original blueprint for the social networking service Twitter.
After a woman missed her flight, she threw an epic adult temper tantrum in the Hong Kong airport. Someone recorded it and now she's YouTube famous.
Steelers and Cardinals fans weren’t just sitting idle watching the Super Bowl last Sunday on TV. Apparently their thumbs were tweeting up a storm on the micro-blogging service Twitter. The NY Times put together a great interactive map showing the frequency and location of commonly used words in Super Bowl related tweets. If you’re still …