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Analysts Agree That Facebook Should Buy Skype

Facebook would do well to acquire VoIP giant Skype, analysts said, giving the social network's users calling capabilities and helping…

14 years ago

Twitter Seeks Ad Dollars With Promoted Accounts Push

Twitter is chasing advertising revenues after an executive revealed that soon it will allow advertisers to pay for Twitter to…

14 years ago

LinkedIn Users Targeted By Spam Attack

The attack on the LinkedIn social network follows attacks on Twitter, Facebook and others

14 years ago

Twitter Users Infected With New Worm Attack

Twitter users were infected over the weekend with a new worm attack that posted sexual messages on victims' profiles

14 years ago

Three Tweeters Claim Twitter ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw

Three different Twitter users claim to have first exploited the "onmousover" flaw, which is apparently a month old

14 years ago

Twitter Fixes ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw

Twitter has patched a serious flaw that generated pop-up messages and pushed unwitting users onto porn websites

14 years ago

Twitter Undergoes First Major Overhaul

Twitter is having a major overhaul of its site, bringing multi-media content to its growing user base

14 years ago

Twitter App Comes To The iPad

Twitter has launched its official app for Apple's iPad, featuring a simplified interface

14 years ago

Twitter More Than Doubles User Numbers

New figures from comScore have found strong Twitter growth in Latin America and amongst mobile users

14 years ago

Twitter Launches Tweet Button For Websites

The button streamlines the process of retweeting a website link, taking the lead from existing third-party technologies such as TweetMeme

14 years ago

Social Networking Costs UK Economy Billions

Social networking sites such as Facebook are Twitter are costing the British economy billions of pounds a year in lost…

14 years ago

Americans Increasingly Hooked On Facebook, Twitter

Social networking sites are swallowing an increasing amount of America's online surfing time, new research has revealed

14 years ago

Google Crowned ‘King Of Malware’

Google distributes more malware than any other search engine - more than twice the amount of Bing, Twitter and Yahoo!…

14 years ago

Twitter Builds Data Centre To Combat Outages

Twitter claims it is building a data centre in Salt Lake City to load up on servers that will pare…

14 years ago

Twitter App For Blackberry Finally Launched

Research In motion (RIM) has launched its official Twitter for BlackBerry application after months in beta

14 years ago

Twitter Blocks Facebook Friends Link

The two biggest social networks have started a spat over moves to allow Twitter users to find and follow their…

15 years ago

Seven Sins of Social Networking

It may seem tempting to make the entire world your "friend", but social networks have their own rules of etiquette,…

15 years ago

Twitter Warns Of More World Cup Outages

The Twitter outages that have plagued the microblog service for hours at a time could last into July

15 years ago

Twitter Makes Commercial Move With Analytics Acquisition

Twitter has acquired Smallthought Systems to help the microblog add analytical capabilities for its eventual paid accounts

15 years ago

LinkedIn Lets Users Track Connections on Twitter

LinkedIn adds a feature to its Tweets application that lets users track their LinkedIn connections on both LinkedIn and Twitter

15 years ago

Promoted Tweets Protected From Third-party Ads

Revised developer terms of service deny third parties ability to inject paid tweets on any service that uses its API

15 years ago

Twitter Launches Official iPhone App

Twitter's own mobile app has finally arrived on the iPhone, after previoulsy landing on Blackberry and Android

15 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Guilty Of ‘Menacing’ Tweet

A man has been fined £1000 after posting a joke on Twitter about blowing up a snow-bound airport

15 years ago

SMBs Struggle To Understand Social Media

Blogs, Facebook and Twitter are now used by most small to medium businesses in the US, although many remain unsure…

15 years ago

Twitter Adds Embedding Option For Tweets

Twitter is to launch embeddable tweets so that people can easily insert tweets into their blog and news stories

15 years ago

Twitter Snaps Up SMS Startup Cloudhopper

To add mobile strength, Twitter is buying Cloudhopper which connects its service to mobile carriers

15 years ago

Authorisation: Why Social Media Needs OAuth

The cloud needs safe information sharing, not old-fashioned identity management - and that's where the OAuth protocol comes in

15 years ago

Ford Fiesta Gets Smartphone Twitter Voice Control

Automaker Ford reveals that its 2011 Fiesta model will become the first vehicle to enable smartphone users to control Websites…

15 years ago

Twitter Unveils Promoted Tweets Ad Model

Twitter has introduced Promoted Tweets to help Twitter make regular money from advertising

15 years ago

Twitter Launches Real-time Homepage

Twitter has redesigned its front door to better reflects the stream-like nature of the site

15 years ago