Beijing: China has removed 2.10 lakh online posts and shut down 42 websites as part of a massive crackdown on the country's 300 million-strong microbloggers following coup rumours as a major political scandal rocked the nation. An announcement to this effect in state-run media on Thursday comes close on the heels of the nation's biggest political crisis after a top leader was sacked from the Communist Party and his wife...
06:39 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Exactly six years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. "just setting up my twttr," read the tweet from @jack. At only 24 characters, the first tweet was way within Twitter's 140 character limit. The reason Jack Dorsey mentions Twitter as twttr is because that was the original code name for the project. The public launch of what was to...
02:06 PM, Mar 21, 2012
London: Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of realtime information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all public tweets, the two companies said on Tuesday, in an agreement similar to the one the social short-messaging site has with Microsoft's search engine,...
05:40 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Now that everyone on Twitter has been moved to the new version of the Twitter interface, you can accelerate your tweeting experience using keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts may feel a bit difficult to remember, but you will start using them on reflex once you get a little hang of it. Here's a list of the keyboard shortcuts that can make tweeting faster and more fun: Actions F FavouriteR...
12:27 PM, Feb 17, 2012
San Francisco: Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses as the online messaging service adds a key piece to its moneymaking model. Twitter is unveiling a long-awaited automated system that will enable advertisers to manage their marketing campaigns and budgets without having to deal with sales representatives. Before Twitter opens the system to all comers later this year, the self-service approach announced Thursday will only...
10:21 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Lanet Umoja: When the chief in a western Kenyan village received an urgent call that thugs were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled. The tweet from Chief Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village life by using the micro-blogging site Twitter. Kariuki regularly sends out...
07:33 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Washington: It isn't often you see the words "love", "romance", and "Federal Reserve" in the same sentence. But on Friday, the US central bank and many economists who spend countless hours monitoring its decisions began their Valentine's Day flirtations a bit early. It started with Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, who tweeted this morning: "You're my long-run target; my nominal anchor" - with the attached hashtag,...
10:10 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Dana Point: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand that has made Twitter popular. Speaking at the All Things D conference on Monday, Costolo repeated the company's justification for the policy change it announced last week: By taking down tweets only in the country where...
02:29 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Johannesburg: Young people tweeting from BlackBerrys and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday. Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster published findings indicating Twitter in Africa is widely used for social conversation and is fast becoming an important source of information. More than 80 per cent of those polled said they mainly used it for...
01:05 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Stockholm: Do you think Sweden is all about blondes, meatballs and snow? Think again. Since December, the Nordic country has been promoting itself on Twitter by handing over the official @Sweden account to an average citizen every week. Among those who have hosted the account are a Christian minister, an organic sheep farmer and a blogger from an immigrant neighbourhood - each painting their own, different image of Swedish society....
02:46 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Shanghai: Use of microblogging in China quadrupled in 2011 compared with the previous year, with nearly half of all Chinese Internet users now taking to the near-instant service to gather news and spread views, a government Internet think tank said Monday. Microblogging, or "Weibo" as it is known in China, allows users to send short messages of 140 characters or less to their followers. Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform...
10:31 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Havana: State media on Wednesday accused the social networking site Twitter of helping spread a rumour that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had died, and criticised anti-Castro expatriates it dubbed "necrophiliac counterrevolutionaries" for jumping on the story. An article on the state-run Cubadebate website accused Twitter of allowing an account holder with the sign-on "Naroh" to start the rumour on Monday from an Italian server, possibly after it was taken...
09:25 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Beijing: The Beijing city government said on Friday it would tighten control over popular microblogs that have vexed authorities with their rapid dissemination of news, giving users three months to register with their real names or face legal consequences. China has repeatedly criticized microblogs for irresponsibly spreading what it calls unfounded rumours and vulgarity and has issued a series of warnings in recent months that online content must be acceptable...
01:00 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Beijing: With the popular microblogging posing a major challenge to the tightly-controlled Chinese media, the country's internet watchdog has asked authorities to take "more forceful and effective measures" to manage over 200 million-strong microbloggers. The government should "strengthen the construction and management of online culture" and work to foster a "healthy and positive" online environment, Wang Chen, head of China's State Internet Information Office, told a two-day national meeting at...
09:32 AM, Dec 12, 2011
San Francisco: Twitter revamped its website to make the microblogging service easier to use and to help companies better showcase their brands. The new version of Twitter, which the company is gradually making available starting on Thursday, will feature a new look and feel and faster performance, the company said. The redesigned website comes as Twitter is taking steps to introduce more advertising on the site and as Twitter faces...
08:56 AM, Dec 09, 2011
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