Chinese websites that provide Twitter-like services have suddenly reverted to testing mode and access has been spotty amid reports of a clampdown.
Hosting the first Soccer World Cup in the age of Twitter, South Africa has discovered unexpected benefits in its campaign to market the country.
Four years may not seem like a very long time, but in technology terms, they’re equivalent to several lifetimes.
Brands that use microblogging sites like Twitter to provide real-time responses to the public are winning a higher degree of trust from consumers.
The World Cup is here, but how do you join in the fun if you’re stuck behind a desk? We round up the essential list to follow on Tiwtter.
An exasperated tweet by an air traveller grounded in January’s snow cost him £1 000 on Monday when a court failed to see the joke.
Research published on Tuesday estimates that the so-called digital universe grew by 62% last year to 800 000 petabytes.
So it’s finally happened — Twitter has a business model. And as with most of its moves, the result is unexpected, elegant and somewhat inscrutable.
Twitter is all set to unveil its advertisement model on Tuesday, which would allay concerns about its revenue generating potential.
Twitterati out in force as BBC reporter is ejected from ANC youth league meeting and Eugene Terre’Blanche is mourned.
A jailed judge tweets to her followers from prison. The director of an opposition TV station uses Twitter to denounce a conspiracy to oust him.
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/ 15 February 2010
Kevin Smith has unleashed a tirade on Twitter after being told by Southwest Airlines that he was a "safety concern".
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/ 14 February 2010
The search engine’s answer to Facebook and Twitter is breathtakingly intrusive and takes astonishing liberties with your privacy.
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/ 4 February 2010
News that Jürgen Habermas had joined Twitter generated a buzz on the site, the likes of which was not seen since Bill Gates signed up.
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/ 26 January 2010
Chinese state media stepped up their war of words with the United States over internet control on Tuesday, with a newspaper claiming a US conspiracy.
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/ 25 January 2010
China has every right to punish citizens using the internet to challenge Communist Party power and ethnic policies, a senior official said on Monday.
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/ 20 January 2010
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has just joined Twitter with a verified account, having been preceded by numerous fakes.
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/ 16 January 2010
‘I just don’t get it I’m afraid,’ says comedian who quits micro-blogging site after less than a month of tweeting.
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/ 30 December 2009
Far from delivering a "wisdom of crowds", social networking sites have created only a deafening banality.
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/ 28 December 2009
Twitter, fuelled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace.
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/ 6 December 2009
The software-engineering and server-farm infrastructure needed to support 350-million users burns money, and so does the bandwidth they use.
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/ 20 November 2009
The co-founder of Twitter warns Rupert Murdoch that his plans to charge for online content were a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle".
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/ 17 November 2009
Twitter plans to end a service that links prominent message posters with new users, a service that was criticised because of perceived unfairness.
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/ 23 October 2009
Deciphering William Shakespeare plays in school essays apparently was not enough for two university students.
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/ 14 October 2009
Gordon Brown on Wednesday acknowledged an ”unfortunate” legal grey area after Twitter users helped thwart a reporting ”gag” granted to an oil company.
An anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit.
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/ 28 September 2009
German officials were investigating on Monday how accurate results of the country’s election appeared on Twitter before polling stations closed.
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/ 25 September 2009
Dotcom darling Twitter is close to securing a cash injection of $100m, with executives due to complete a surprise funding round.
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/ 20 September 2009
Charlotte Bauer’s best Digital Age experience last week was seeing the Google Maps car — cruising down her street as she came out of her driveway.
The first day back at work was always assumed to be the day we are most miserable, but in fact it is the second happiest day of the week.
Indignant letters can still get results for unhappy airline travellers, but more people are turning to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
An Israeli university student has opened a Twitter site where prayers can be sent for placement in the crevices of Jerusalem’s Western Wall.