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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 …
Don't want all your Pownce messages to disappear when they shut down on December 15, 2008? Don't worry! Soup.io is here to save the day.
Twitter is a great service. But their lack of features is mind-boggling. Thank God 3rd parties have stepped in and made Twitter what it is today. If you are tweeting anyway, you might as well get the most out of it. Here are…. 5 Tools to Make Twitter More Productive: Twitter Groups – Got a …
It’s official. Pownce is dead. The micro-blogging service is shutting down in 2 weeks. In case you were unfamiliar with Pownce.com, it was a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose (Digg.com), Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce was centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends. …
If you tried to use Ping.fm today, you might have noticed some... major problems. For the record, Ping.fm isn't shutting down. It's looks like a simple domain registration and hosting company communication issue.
Want to instantly know what #Apple announces later today at their “Notebook Event”? We’ll be posting live via Twitter (twitter.com/methodshop) or you can follow the entire Twitterverse using Twitter’s search tool: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=apple methodshop
Current.com and Twitter are teaming up for a U.S. Presidential Debate mash-up called “Hack The Debate.” Current is streaming Friday night’s debate online and will display Twitter messages (aka “tweets”) over the live broadcast of the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama in real-time. This will allow viewers to comment live on what’s being …
What do you say when someone like your Grandma asks you "What is Twitter"? Here are some tips.
My Facebook page called me fat. Maybe it’s my age, my sex or the fact that it knew I was engaged, but the site decided I was a gal who needed to drop a few pounds. And it wasn’t shy about its tactics. This was not a close friend taking me aside, telling me in …
This past weekend, as Hurricane Gustav was threatening New Orleans, CNN reporter Rick Sanchez was using social media while broadcasting via traditional media.
Rick setup his own Twitter page @ricksanchezcnn (here's a 101 tutorial on Twitter if you are unfamiliar with the service) and was on the air reporting on Gustav and answering "tweets" from viewers in the hurricane zone during the weekend primetime edition of CNN Newsroom.
For the past couple weeks, NBC has been “tweeting” Olympic related messages via Twitter for NBC’s morning news program the Today Show (twitter.com/todayshow). Everyday the Today Show “tweets” about everything from the weather in Beijing, to behind the scenes tidbits and how NBC’s employees are spending their days in China. But this morning we learned …
According to Twitterholic, Barack Obama is now the most followed person on Twitter and has over 58,000 followers. Kevin Rose previously had the top account.
The online retailer is a distant second to Apple, but a deal with MySpace could move Amazon up the charts. It was easy to scoff two years ago when word leaked out that Amazon was launching its own digital music service. The Seattle-based online retailer wasn’t just mulling an iTunes-like download store – it was …
The SyFy Channel is using Twitter to help promote its new TV series called Eureka. One of the show's characters, a smart home called S.A.R.A.H., now has her own Twitter account.
