Tag Archives : Online Communities

Twitter 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 the microblogging [...]

Twitter 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 [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife 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 appreciation for the content friends share on Facebook. Facebook has [...]

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 for now.”,he tweeted. This [...]

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 before the launch. Twitter was abuzz [...]

Image by deneyterrio via Flickr Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had earlier this week promised simplifying privacy controls over the building resentment over its privacy policies, true to his words Facebook introduced a new set of privacy controls yesterday in an attempt to quell criticism that it was negligent about protecting users information. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you are planning to stop using Facebook after numerous atrocious security and privacy bloopers one bigger than the other, the recent been the sharing of user data with advertisers, but, have been procrastinating to do it have some help with deciding on the D-Day. A website called Quit Facebook Day has set the last day of May as the day everyone keen to leave the social network [...]

Image via CrunchBase Move over Facebook’s recently launched and fast catching ‘Open Graph’ feature, the  habit-inducing social networking site is reportedly planning a location-based feature that lets users “check-in” at real-world businesses and points of interest. TechCrunch reported about hidden code for the location feature on Facebook’s  mobile website [...]

Oopsy! We’ve seen some bugs in our time, but this one puts the cherry on the cake. A new exploit discovered in Twitter’s system is the ultimate ego sweller. By simply typing “accept [username]” into Twitter’s homepage, you can automatically force people to follow you, without them even knowing it. Try it for yourself, tweet “accept Sporkings” and we’ll [...]

Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely difficult to actually close your account. If you follow the ‘Help’ section of Facebook, you’ll eventually be led to ‘Deactivate’ your account – which basically means your data is still on [...]