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• ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of

  PaidContent - 2009-11-21

  Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat...

  Tags: ESPN, Twitter Inc., Bill Simmons, Quality, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Online News, TV, Cable & Telecom, Social Media, Companies, Disney, Twitter, Staci D. Kramer

• Twitter and LinkedIn sign deal to sync status updates

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-09

  LinkedIn and Twitter are rolling out an update that lets users post status messages across both social networking platforms. The move follows two recent partnership deals from Twitter, signed with Google and Microsoft’s Bing, and promises to give LinkedIn's business-focused social network a substantial boost in traffic. ...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., LinkedIn, Commentators, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Facebook, Twitter, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Is Email Dead?

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are impacting businesses. She says email is slowly being replaced by social networking applications -- a shift driven by young...

  Tags: Facebook, Social Web, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter

• Peek reveals Twitter-only mobile device

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-02

  Twitter is launching a specially designed, Twitter-only mobile handset in partnership with mobile messaging service Peek. The TwitterPeek device has a small colour screen and runs on a high-speed wireless data network, over which users can send and receive unlimited tweets. TwitterPeek retails at Amazon.com for USD99 with a...

  Tags: Mobile, Twitter Inc., Mobile Device, TwitterPeek Device, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Finance, Twitter, Editorial, Amazon.com Inc.

• Microsoft brings mobile apps to emerging markets

  Strategy Eye - 2009-08-24

  Microsoft is targeting customers in developing countries with a system that lets developers make mobile apps for affordable, low-end handsets. The OneApp service will be a single gateway for users to access simplified versions of popular apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Windows Live Messenger from memory-light 'feature phones'....

  Tags: Developer, Phone, Mobile, Emerging Market, Microsoft Corp., App, OneApp, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Blue Label Telecoms, Andrew McDonald

• The Year Of Tweeting Dangerously

  BNET - 2009-08-14

  It's been a tough few months for Twitter and its users, as the social network service has been downed by several outages in recent weeks, dismissed as irrelevant by David Letterman and been used as the basis for a lawsuit by a landlord. But the biggest danger...

  Tags: Twitter, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Michael Hickins

• Facebook Goes After Twitter With Revamped Search Service

  PaidContent - 2009-08-11

  After nearly two months of testing, Facebook is beginning to roll out a search service that will make the social network a true competitor in the real-time search market. Users who enter a query will now be able to find status updates, photos, links, and videos. Previously, they could...

  Tags: Facebook, Search Technology, Twitter, Results, Search, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Companies, Joseph Tartakoff

• 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Friendster

  BNET - 2009-08-07

  The Twitter outage yesterday would have caused much uproar on the service had anyone been able to complain about it. Those in the media, frequently heavy users themselves (I include myself: @ErikSherman), poured on about the long incident. But I think that this was another in a list of prompts...

  Tags: Friendster Inc., Twitter, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Erik Sherman

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.