Tweets Near Me is a location-based Twitter application for Windows Mobile phones that shows real-time postings of tweets in and around your current location. Using the drop-down box at the top of the app’s main window, you can specify the radius for what tweets it should display (e.g., those within 10 miles, 25 miles, etc.). [...]
It annoys me when I write a big post that doesn’t get read. I’m reposting here for those who might find the time. Comments are closed on this post. If you want to respond, please visit ReadWriteWeb for either Part 1 or Part 2. Here’s a little secret about Twitter that you may not know: [...]
Last year, I contributed some predications for RWW’s post about what would happen in 2009. How did I do? Let’s take a look.. 1. Twitter announces they have a plan to make money. They do. Well, they didn’t exactly “announce” they had a money-making plan, but the search deals with Bing and Google that launched [...]
MoTweets is a Twitter client application for Windows Mobile devices which aims to take on the current top applications which include PockeTwit, Tiny Twitter, ceTwit, and Twikini. The app supports multiple Twitter accounts, photo uploads, tiny URLs, GPS-based location posting, and multiple skins in addition to the basic features you would expect in any Twitter [...]
Recently, the Bing Search team announced a new service that’s a mashup of the Bing search engine and Twitter: BingTweets. Through a partnership with Federated Media and Twitter, the site integrates real-time search results from the micro-blogging service with the traditional results from the Bing “decision” engine. When you go to BingTweets, you’ll see two [...]
After last night’s news about Michael Jackson’s passing, everyone is once again praising the speed of the internet, blogs, and Twitter for trumping traditional media in delivering the news. Gossip site TMZ broke the news and it swirled around Twitter for hours before CNN would even confirm the story themselves. But was this another example [...]
Have you heard the news? Celebrities are adopting Twitter right and left these days. And no, I’m not talking about Britney, a Twitter account managed and maintained by a team of experts – I mean real, honest-to-goodness stars maintaining and updating Twitter on their very own. Recently, the internet-savvy Ashton Kutcher introduced wife Demi Moore [...]
I just stumbled upon a new tool that maps out the re-tweets occurring on Twitter. It’s called, simply, the ReTweet Mapper. (Actually, I didn’t Stumble Upon it, I found it on FriendFeed, of course.) The ReTweet Mapper is a tool created by Dan Zarrella, who calls himself a social and viral marketing scientist. He describes [...]
When a friend showed me the Twitter app he was building not too long ago, I was pretty darned excited. I knew for a fact that this app would greatly appeal to Twitter users who would like to keep track of their followers, especially in the wake of the great Twitter follower drop of 2008, [...]
For those of you who haven’t taken the plunge with Ping.fm, I just came across a cool little cross-posting tool for Twitter/Identi.ca users. The app will post Identi.ca updates to your Twitter account automatically after you fill in the necessary information. The first post will only grab your latest Identi.ca update, and then, after that, [...]
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