Russia Threatens to Shut Down Facebook, Google and Twitter
– – The Russian government is threatening to block the world’s top social media companies – Facebook, Google and Twitter – if they violate that nation’s strict new Internet regulations. More...
President Obama’s New Twitter Account Breaks Guinness World Record
– – President Barack Obama broke the Guinness world record Monday for the “fastest time to reach 1 million followers on Twitter.” This came after he finally opened an official Twitter More...
80% Of Twitter’s Users Are Mobile
Twitter presented its latest results yesterday, revealing that its active user count had risen 18 percent to 302 million. The company further revealed that 80 percent of users access Twitter via their mobile More...
Meerkat’s CEO Ben Rubin Talks about his Company’s Future
Founder and CEO of new Israeli startup Meerkat Ben Rubin sat down for an interview with Yahoo Tech to discuss his company’s future now that it has been blocked by Twitter. Meerkat, which was developed by More...
Israeli Video Tweeting Startup Blocked by Twitter Just after Taking Off
Israeli startup Meerkat, which offers an app that allows Twitter users to stream video of themselves or their surroundings to their followers, has been blocked by Twitter. Meerkat, which was developed More...
Still Accosted by Politicians, Sydney Leathers Snags another Weiner
The porn star from Indiana who put a sexting nail in the coffin of Anthony Weiner’s political career, which was moribund after a previous illicit sex text scandal, has snagged yet another Democratic More...
Study: How a Wedding Engagement Changes Twitter Feeds
A researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology has used Twitter as a lens to look into the lives of nearly 1, 000 people who used the site to announce their wedding engagement. By comparing tweets before More...