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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 suggest that people follow their accounts
LinkedIn Users Targeted By Spam Attack
The attack on the LinkedIn social network follows attacks on Twitter, Facebook and others
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
Three Tweeters Claim Twitter ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw
Three different Twitter users claim to have first exploited the "onmousover" flaw, which is apparently a month old
Twitter Fixes ‘Onmouseover’ Flaw
Twitter has patched a serious flaw that generated pop-up messages and pushed unwitting users onto porn websites
Twitter Undergoes First Major Overhaul
Twitter is having a major overhaul of its site, bringing multi-media content to its growing user base
Twitter App Comes To The iPad
Twitter has launched its official app for Apple's iPad, featuring a simplified interface
Twitter More Than Doubles User Numbers
New figures from comScore have found strong Twitter growth in Latin America and amongst mobile users
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
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 working time
Americans Increasingly Hooked On Facebook, Twitter
Social networking sites are swallowing an increasing amount of America's online surfing time, new research has revealed
Google Crowned ‘King Of Malware’
Google distributes more malware than any other search engine - more than twice the amount of Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined
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 the web service's downtime
Twitter App For Blackberry Finally Launched
Research In motion (RIM) has launched its official Twitter for BlackBerry application after months in beta
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 Facebook friends
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, says Samuel Greengard
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
Twitter Makes Commercial Move With Analytics Acquisition
Twitter has acquired Smallthought Systems to help the microblog add analytical capabilities for its eventual paid accounts
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
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
Twitter Launches Official iPhone App
Twitter's own mobile app has finally arrived on the iPhone, after previoulsy landing on Blackberry and Android
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
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 how to best use them
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
Twitter Snaps Up SMS Startup Cloudhopper
To add mobile strength, Twitter is buying Cloudhopper which connects its service to mobile carriers
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
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 with voice commands.
Twitter Unveils Promoted Tweets Ad Model
Twitter has introduced Promoted Tweets to help Twitter make regular money from advertising
Twitter Launches Real-time Homepage
Twitter has redesigned its front door to better reflects the stream-like nature of the site