Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

October 4th, 2011

Predicting Success With Social Media

Social media is being used to track and predict the success of movies before they open at the box office. Using commentary on Twitter, Facebook and blogs, it’s possible to ...

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August 9th, 2011

Help or hinder – social media in the face of the London riots

#riotcleanup

Frankly horrifying scenes have played out in London (and now across the country) over the past few nights, with rioters and looters creating havoc that would seem more at home ...

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July 21st, 2011

Twitter to Change the World

Well, arguably in many ways it has already, but now social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook are being recruited to tackle anti-social behaviour. Housing associations are using society’s newfound ...

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May 26th, 2011

Tweetdeck Acquired by Twitter

Tweetdeck has officially been purchased by Twitter – enabling the micro-blogging company to offer its own account management platform to users, something up to now that has only been offered ...

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March 15th, 2011

Twitter plans to police third-party applications

twitter policing 3rd party apps

Twitter claims to be ‘rethinking’ the way users access its social network by suggesting software developers stop making unofficial clients like Hootsuite and Tweetdeck. The service’s recent growth (going from 48 ...

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