2010 seems as though it’s to be a year of collaboration and co-operation amongst the big players on the web. After seeing positive deals between Microsoft and Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft and Yahoo and Nectar the first evidence of positive results has arisen from the Twitter/Google deal. (more…)

Google have announced that they are going to use their Gmail service to take on Twitter by adding a ‘status update’ capability to it. Much like the popular social networking site Twitter, Google is attempting to provide the ever increasing users of their e-mailing service with the ability to give up to the minute updates on whatever it is they are doing in their lives at the precise moment. (more…)

In an interview with the BBC, Twitter co-founder, Biz Stone has expanded on his plans to offer Twitter commercial accounts. The commercial accounts will apparently offer an ‘additional layer of access’ which allows you to learn a little more about your Twitter account, as well as some kind of analytics package to help you leverage the social network in the best possible way to maximise the effectiveness of your social networking activities. (more…)

Ever since micro blogging site, Twitter, really took off this year it seems that practically all brands, businesses and celebrities have been trying their best to outdo one another when it comes to finding new ways to exploit the vast numbers the site attracts. However, I don’t think that anyone really expected an age old institution like the Royal opera House to come up with probably the most innovative use of the site yet. (more…)

The debate surrounding the political ramifications of Twitter intensified last week when allegations that Russian hackers had launched a coordinated denial of service attack on Twitter and other social networking sites in order to silence a pro Georgian blogger came to light. (more…)

Evan Williams, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, has pronounced London the Twitter capital of the world in an interview with BBC1’s Newsnight. The Microblogging site has become an international cause célèbre recently, though Williams claims that the site has been particularly popular in the UK with London emerging as the epicentre of this ‘Explosion’ in use of the site. (more…)

Due to her fairly low profile on this side of the Atlantic British people often don’t quite realise the huge impact that talk show host, publisher and entrepreneur, Oprah Winfrey has in the USA. To put it in perspective for Brits, she fronts the highest-rated talk show in American TV history and has done for almost 25 years, she can basically decide the top ten bestsellers list through her show’s literary segment and for a long time, she was the world’s only black billionaire.

She is, to put it mildly, very popular in the US.

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Exciting news guys! Last week we finally launched our company Twitter page. From now on, me and the rest of the TCM blog team will be using the micro blogging site to keep the public updated with our first thoughts on all the breaking stories of the day before we expand on those thoughts in our official blog.

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It won’t come a surprise to anyone to learn that Twitter usage is rising fast, though the sheer rate of the expansion of the site’s membership is still absolutely astounding. The micro blogging site’s membership rose to 9.3 million which represents a 131% rise on February, itself a growth month.
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Of course, the charge against Twitter as a search engine is that it’s mainly short emotional responses to things, though that could also be a strength. If you want to find out hard facts then Google exists though if you want to get a general sense of how something is going down in society then Twitter is a godsend. It would take you hours of reading traditional blogs before you got half the range of opinions you would from five minutes of Twitter searching.
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These days we’re used to Google trying things that don’t quite have an obvious profit model. Stuff like Google Earth, their space exploration competition, the whole non-profit wing, to name but a few. Since rumours that Google were thinking about buying Twitter surfaced the blogs have been awash with comments of the ‘here they go again’ variety, denouncing the move as a vanity purchase, or an impulse buy.
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Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time. TechCrunch has it from two separate sources that they’re describing as ‘close to the negotiations,’ that Google are about to buy micro-blogging site Twitter. According to the normally reliable technology blog, the search engine giant in the latter stages of a deal that would see them take possession of one of the hottest properties on the Internet.
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Even if not quite an overnight sensation, Twitter has certainly skyrocketed in popularity over the last few months. Inevitably, a site with this many new members suddenly signing on is going to attract the attention of people looking to publicise themselves and/or their companies. This is not something that Twitter is discouraging; in fact, they’re even adjusting the site to accommodate this type of user.
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For a group of people who are supposed to be right at the vanguard of modernity, Facebook users aren’t half stuck in their ways. Every time the webmasters change so much as a hair on their beloved Facebook’s head they go into hysterics, suddenly ‘I hate Facebook’ groups are set up left, right and centre, by people apparently unaware of the irony of setting up Facebook groups to denounce Facebook and there’s a bit of a furore for a few weeks or so. Then, they promptly get over it.
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