Tweets

Do You Care That President Obama Does Not Tweet?

Ari Herzog | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media


Ari Herzog

The blogosphere is abuzz in the wake of President Barack Obama's statement in Shanghai Sunday night that he doesn't use Twitter, nor has he ever Tweeted. Should it matter?

'Precious' Tweets Translate Into Dollars For Literacy Org

Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact


Lionsgate's new release, "Precious," is a powerful film that centers around the transformative journey of 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones. The ...

TWILF Definition?: Sarah Palin Called TWILF In Current TV Cartoon (VIDEO)

Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy


Former Alaska Governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is associated with the word 'twilf' in a cartoon on Current TV called "The Stupid Vir...

Twitter: People Tweet 27 Million Times A Day, Pingdom Says

techcrunch.com | Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology


Twitter may be having trouble finding new users in the U.S., but its existing users in the U.S. seem to be putting out a majority of the Tweets, which...

Tila Tequila's Alter Ego "Jane" Hijacks Her Twitter Account

Disgrasian | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media


Disgrasian

At what point can we say that Twitter's jumped the shark? When your boss joins? When your mom joins?

The Ugly Underbelly of Facebook and Twitter

Michael D. Brown | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology


Michael D. Brown

Facebook and Twitter were going to offer me a platform from which I could see and read the opinions and activities of people far and near. But now I oftentimes wonder why I stay online.

The Tweet Life: Please Follow Me Now, Or My Twitter Posse Just Might Kick Your Blogger Ass

David Wild | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


David Wild

Here's what I've learned. If you, like me, are a wannabe leader looking for followers, nothing compares to being tweeted by a famous person.

Email's End?

Rob Kall | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media


Rob Kall

Crossposted from OpEdNews.com Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Em...

Twitter: "Video Tweeting" Isn't Coming, Says Twitter Co-Founder (UPDATED)

Posted 10.12.2009 | Technology


A Telegraph story reported a rumor that Twitter users may "soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernize ...

Selected Takes From Twitterers on Obama's Nobel Prize Win

Rob Kall | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media


Rob Kall

Here are 50+ tweets: for it, against it, funny, pathetic, many with links to articles. Click here to see the tweetstream of comments on Obama's Nobe...

Twitter And the Dalai Lama: Can Social Media Help Create a Happier World?

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living


Soren Gordhamer

I hear it quite a bit, including comments here on Huffington Post: "Twitter is useless. It is just people with big egos trying to promote themselves. ...

The Democratization of Passion

Thomas Scriven | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media


Thomas Scriven

Our new application Twalkin allows you to instantly make live, vocal connections with a friend, a group of followers or wide broadcast to whomever wants to listen.

The 5 Keys to Twitter's Success

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media


Soren Gordhamer

Twitter has succeeded in part because it allows people to have their own broadcasting network, a means to share and comment on both what they like and dislike that is occurring the world.

Is it Taking Over? Study: People Tweeting from Cars and Toilets

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Soren Gordhamer

Few us will renounce social networks, but we should follow the Zen lesson relevant for our time: "When driving, just drive; when pooping, just poop; and when tweeting, just tweet."

How We Tweet: In A Car, From A Toilet

mashable.com | Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology


A survey conducted by Crowd Science gives us some insight into the habits of Twitter users, compared to users of other social media sites. While fa...

Our Blog Lives: Boring Microblogs Just Work, Home, Lunch, Sleep

mashable.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology


Are our everyday lives really so mundane? Does it all boil down to working, getting home, satisfying the most basic needs such as eating and sleeping,...

Studies Show Facebook Improves Intelligence, Tweeting Weakens Memory

Telegraph | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology


Playing video war games and solving Sudoku may have the same effect as keeping up to date with Facebook, according to Dr Tracy Alloway. But text me...

#Whereiwas: Twitter Users Share 9/11 Memories

Posted 11.11.2009 | New York


Twitter users are taking to the Internet today to share memories of where they were on September 11th, 2001. Scroll down to see a real-time feed of...

A Tweet of Consciousness

Stephen Balkam | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


Stephen Balkam

Where is Henry James when we need him? Or Carl Jung? Or Teilhard de Chardin? I wonder what all three of them would have made of Twitter. My guess is that James would have approved.

The Twillion Dollar Economy

Tom Hayes | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


Tom Hayes

Rather than attempting to get their arms around the enormity of global economic dislocations, consumers are choosing instead to shrink the world down to a manageable size, to forge small order from the exposed raw nerve endings of a hostile macro-economy.

Pakistan Turns To Twitter To Express Political Views

Global Post | Maria Tirmizi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD -- Soon after the Supreme Court had declared former President Pervez Musharraf's November 2007 emergency rule to be illegal, Pakistani stu...

Mayor Bloomberg's First Tweet On Twitter (PHOTO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York


Mayor Bloomberg is well on his way to joining the Twitterati after tweeting his first 140-character message this morning. Hizzoner wrote: Good morni...

New Anti-Terror Weapons: You, Me, iPhone & Twitter

W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media


W. David Stephenson

Crafting an effective strategy to productively involve the general public in homeland security should center on two technologies: mobile communication devices and Web 2.0 social media.

Keeping Twitter Relevant: The Art of Unfollowing

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living


Soren Gordhamer

I want to know what people are doing and thinking, but I do not want to hear every little thing.

Tweet Stuff

Alexis Maybank | Posted 09.05.2009 | Style


Alexis Maybank

So as a modern executive, would I exist without Twitter? Twitter makes me feel more alive to the possibilities of work and life.