The twitter bug just refuses to die down. The retweet.com domain which put itself up for sale last month has fetched a massive price of $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The sale was hotly contested with as many as 45 bids being placed for retweet.com and the eventual winner outscoring others by shelling out $48,000 more than …

Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion …

A recent report from ‘All Things Digital’ suggests that Twitter is all set to launch its much awaited advertising model. To start off, the advertisements will mimic tweets in terms of character length and will be limited to 140 characters.
Twitter has not announced a release date or the pricing options for its ad model but it is widely expected that …

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in.
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DST (Digital Sky Technologies), the company owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has outlined its plans for the next 5 years and it’s hardly surprising that the company plans to put in a billion dollars to further tap the potential of social media.

It seems that the folks at Foursquare had enough of ‘Please Rob Me’ – the mock service that was setup to expose the danger of privacy invasion caused by tweeting about Foursquare check-ins. In the latest post on its blog, Foursquare has clarified its stand and with all due respect, shown the middle finger to ‘Please Rob Me’.

Google has formally announced its much awaited entry into the social media fray with the launch of Google Buzz. Though still at an early stage in development, it is touted to take on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.

The verdict is out – google (mind the lower case), my personal choice for company of the decade has been named as ‘Word of the Decade’ by the American Dialect Society.
The lower case implies that the word means an internet search and does not refer to the name of the company. Tweet received the ‘Word of the Year’ award for …

140conf is fast approaching. In less than two weeks time, London’s o2 Indigo will be hosting the biggest Twitter get-together in the UK.
The original scope of #140conf was to explore “the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising and (maybe) Politics.” Over time the scope expanded to look at the effects of twitter on topics ranging from public safety …

If you remember, in the last post we have discussed how Microsoft’s Bing has included Tweets in its search. This was a partnership between Twitter and Microsoft and their teams. And Twitter users got crazy about it. The idea is fantastic and Microsoft had the courage to implement it. However, Microsoft’s main competitor, Google is coming into the scene. And, guess what, Twitter is also the target.