New research undertaken into the uptake of social media within the financial sector suggests that banks are slipping behind the times with their communications. (more…)

There is no doubt that social media is a powerful vehicle for airing people’s feelings and swaying opinion. Since the launch of the site, it has been used in a number of controversial ways, including to announce an execution in the US, and to virally spread news, promotions and other information. (more…)

Concerns over a lack of privacy are rising as more and more people post up candid updates to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The media of online networking causes people to lose their inhibitions and post up candid status updates and messages which they may not be prepared to offer up on a different platform. (more…)

A study undertaken by researchers at both Harvard and Northwestern University in the States have been studying Twitter updates, in order to discern the overall happiness levels of American citizens. (more…)

Last April, Twitter launched its first ad campaign facility, in the guise of Promoted Tweets. Tweeters are now accustomed to this facility, which provides advertising revenue in a different way to standard web advertising packages. Rather than flooding their platform with adverts, Twitter instead uses a more subtle method of generating revenue through promotional tweeting. (more…)

Twitter has just announced that they have developed an evolved version of their Tweeting service, which enables Twitter users to update their location automatically when they post a tweet to the site. (more…)

Twitter announced this week that they have acquired a group known as Smallthought Systems, a start up company that are responsible for Trendly, an application that allows web sites to find out more about the usage and traffic data that is collected by Google Analytics. (more…)

Social networking site Twitter has announced this week that it will no longer be allowing third parties to spam the Twitter stream with annoying messages that advertise their products or services. (more…)

Google have announced a brand new feature that will allow users of social networking site Twitter to search a public archive of Tweets efficiently, the service will be named Google Replay. (more…)

Twitter have confirmed that they will finally be releasing the first official Twitter application for a mobile operating system, the beneficiary of this will be Google’s Android. (more…)

Twitter has announced that it will allow advertising on the site for the very first time in the coming weeks. The social networking site had previously not had any form of advertising on the site, but they appear to have developed a way to ‘Twitterfy’ the use of adverts on the site. (more…)

In July 2009 Twitter unveiled a major update to its homepage, this revamp ensured that a lot of information was shown on the homepage, much more than had been visible in earlier versions. This was quite a big change, a major overhaul of what Twitter users had come to expect from the homepage, 9 months down the line and Twitter are at it again as they have this week announced another major rework of their homepage. (more…)

The unstoppable rise of social networking shows no signs of slowing down as yet another major corporation has seen the benefit of incorporating the ever-growing medium of communication into its service. (more…)

As if it wasn’t enough to know exactly what people are doing at any point during the day, Twitter is now going to ensure that we know exactly where they are doing it as well, but I have absolutely no idea why. The Twitter as we know it simply asks you the question “what are you doing?” to which you type your answer, It will now also ask the question “where are you doing it?” but here’s the thing, you do not even have to type the answer as Twitter will already know. (more…)