Posts tagged twitter
If you use multiple social networks, and are trying to incorporate your Google+ posts automatically to other platforms like Twitter, Facebook or even Myspace, you can do it. Sit back and relax, as you post from Google+ and let it auto-feed to your other networks with this new super easy solution.
After the changes Google made yesterday to Google+, it appears there was one more change that I just noticed. It looks like Google has gone the way of Myspace, Facebook and Twitter and is now allowing users to add a banner image to the top of their profile.
Hey there, I don’t do this often, but I figured once in a blue moon won’t hurt. If you are on Twitter, I am too and thought I would share my Twitter info (@davidshares) so you can follow me and join in on some of the conversations there. Don’t worry, I am not like other unnamed people that won’t follow back. I would like to build out my Twitter network like I have here, with the great people of Tumblr! Now, back to your regularly scheduled blog posts.
San Quentin State Prison may be one of the most infamous prisons. It’s home to some of the most hardened criminals around and is notorious for having a culture of violence. It’s moniker: “The Arena.” With all the infamy that comes out of San Quentin, also comes life experience. A group at San Quentin is working on a new program to connect prisoners to people outside of the prison, to give insight into their life and minds, and are using social media to do so.
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, released its annual report on key digital trends in Latin America. With the report, it shows that the online population of Latin America has gone up 16% from last year, up to 129.3 million visitors online.
Saying the Internet is huge is an understatement. With social media on the rise and sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google Plus steadily fueling online connectivity, daily activities such as sending an email or posting a blog are going through the roof.
After yesterday’s news about Twitter acquiring Posterous, I was curious to know how much Twitter paid for the acquisition. Through the announcement yesterday from Twitter, it was clear that they were buying up the blogging site to secure great talent, but how much were they willing to pay?
What a day. I just found out Yahoo! is suing Facebook, and now I see that Twitter just acquired Posterous. Change is good though, so no complaints here, as change typically drives innovation.
American Express started a neat and new way to save money by using Twitter. If you have an Amex card, you can sync your Twitter account to your Amex account. Then if you tweet a hashtag (ex: #AmexBestBuy) for a special offer from that business, you can get that discount put back onto your Amex account given that you actually go and make that purchase.
Yesterday was not only a big day for the Patriots and the Giants, with the Giants coming out victorious, but was also a big day for Twitter, of course.
Programmer Eric Fischer who likes to map data in interesting ways just finished a new project mapping out tweets from Twitter. Using public tweets from Twitter’s API that were geo-tagged in specific cities like New York for example, he was able to map out ‘point-to-point’ trips which show the most traversed paths taken by those Twitter users.
What the heck is happening to the Internet? It seems lately that it’s going to hell in a hand basket. Sure the Internet has always been a place where volatile things can happen, but it could be avoided on an individual basis. Now it appears the places that we come together as a community to interact and socialize in places that have become sacred is evolving and changing at a rapid pace and is veering out of control.
The FBI is expanding their plans for their social media tracking program. The bureau has published a Request For Information from application developers/companies for information on how the FBI can build a flexible program to map out and analyze social media in real-time. No longer does the FBI want to waste their time doing this by hand, they want to automate it, naturally.
For the past week I have to admit something I have been doing. You see, most of my iPhone time has been spent playing Temple Run. I definitely think I am addicted to it. It’s one of my favorite iPhone apps at the moment. If you haven’t played it before, go download it (it’s free) and give it a try. You will like it, I promise, but be prepared to not be able to put it down after.
Klout, the website that measures online social influence released their Most Influential SOPA Voices on Twitter, for the SOPA strike earlier this week. According to Klout, there were twice as many retweets about #sopa, #pipa, #blackoutsopa, #stopsopa, #blackout, and #factswithoutwikipedia on January 18 than in the past 30 days combined. In total, the amount of SOPA-related retweets alone were 765,924. In total, there were 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets on Twitter.
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