Category: Twitter

  • RIP Michael Jackson, you thrilled us

    I was up late in my office last night when the first comments on Twitter about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson started appearing. It wasn’t long before those tweets became a torrent as more and more people heard the…

  • An anti-Outlook groundswell that’s hard to ignore

    It’s a hot topic, it involves a product many people hate, and it’s from a company that many love to hate. It’s about Outlook, the ubiquitous Windows application from Microsoft for email, contacts, calendar, etc, a new version of which…

  • Milestones in Iran

    While the mainstream media is proving its worth (and its mettle) in its reporting of fast-moving events in Iran, that parallel universe known as social media is a channel for huge volumes of comment and opinion, the type that is…

  • Twitter apps: Mobile and sync are the keys

    The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours. Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on…

  • Keeping Twitter up for Iran

    In the wake of developments in what’s happening in Iran following elections there last week – continuing violent street protests and the Iranian government muzzling the foreign media – this announcement by Twitter yesterday about its delaying a critical maintenance…