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Twitter temporarily disables “Who to Follow”

Twitter temporarily disables “Who to Follow”

Twitter is temporarily disabling the new “Who to Follow” feature. Twitter launched  “Who to Follow” few weeks ago as a way to give Twitter users suggestions for other users to follow. Among other factors suggestions are based on things like, the people you follow, the people they follow and other factors.
“We’ve temporarily turned off the “Who To …

Twitter launches Site Streams Beta

Twitter launches Site Streams Beta

Twitter has announced a new beta service called Site Streams a new feature on the Streaming API. The new functionality allows mobile push services  to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in without having to deal with Twitter’s REST API rate limits.
“The initial version delivers events created by, or directed to, …

Now sync your Facebook Updates to MySpace

Now sync your Facebook Updates to MySpace

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MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook.
Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application …

Twitter launching Tweet button to share webpages

Twitter launching Tweet button to share webpages

Technology and Web 2.0 Blog Mashable has reported that microbloging gaint Twitter is releasing a Tweet Button for sharing websites with your followers and tracking how many times a webpage has been retweeted / shared on Twitter.
Twitter has launched new functionalities in the recent month and this feature was bound to appear sooner than later. Facebook had debuted this …

Twitter to help on discovering who to follow

Twitter to help on discovering who to follow

Twitter seems to be very keen in adding new features and functionality to enhance user experience, few weeks back Twitter had added a new feature called “You both follow’, which lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. Twitter has now introduced a new feature, “Suggestions for You,” that offers users …

Twitter crosses 20 Billion Tweets

Twitter crosses 20 Billion Tweets

Twitter has reached a phenomenal landmark. There have now been more than 20 billion tweets  according to report from  tracking service GigaTweet. The 20 billionth tweet was posted by a user named GGGGGGo_Lets_Go. The milestone comes just two months after the service hit 15 billion tweets and about five months since it reached 10 billion, indicating that activity levels on …

Twitter’s @earlybird offering limited-time deals

Twitter’s @earlybird offering limited-time deals

Twitter  continued its push to turn its popularity into a profitability by launching @earlybird, which is twitter’s version of limited-time-only online deals craze. its first @earlybird deal is a limited two-for-one ticket deal for the new Disney live-action flick “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” .  It’s Twitter’s second ad partnership with Disney, after a “promoted trend” in sync …

Facebook adds “I Like Your Comment”

Facebook adds “I Like Your Comment”

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One of the liked and used feature of Facebook is the ‘like’ button , since its launch the feature became central to the way people communicate on Facebook.  it is one of the most heavily used features on the site and have proven to be a simple way to discuss posts and show …

Twitter adding new ‘Users You Both Follow’ Feature

Twitter adding new  ‘Users You Both Follow’ Feature

Twitter has added a new feature called  “You both follow’, this feature lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. This was revealed in a  Tweet posted by Twitter engineer Nick Kallen. “We’re testing the “You both follow” feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it …

iPad deliveries start a day before the launch

iPad deliveries start a day before the launch

Apple iPad’s expected shortage and delay in UK  has been widely reported and discussed in webosphere, this news has expectedly  dampened the spirit of  iPad fans waiting to get their hand on the revolutionary Tablet device but fortunately this does not seem to apply to the early birdies who pre-ordered their iPad, few have started getting their iPads a day …


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