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…)

Google have announced that they are going to be integrating their social networking service, ‘Buzz’, into the web-based version of their G-mail e-mail client for iPhone and Android smart-phones. (more…)

The massive rise of Facebook has had huge implications for the internet as a whole, many of the biggest companies have made specific changes to their services to either accommodate or compete with the social networking giant, but this meteoric rise of Facebook is inevitably going to cause some casualties. (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 injection of social networking services into their own products seems to be a common theme amongst the internet’s big players. The integration of these kinds of services has become more and more common this year as ‘the big three’ (Yahoo, Microsoft and Google) all look to reach out to the burgeoning social networking community. (more…)

Social networking site, Facebook has begun testing a pared down version of its full website for use in countries with unreliable access to high speed broadband. The service, known as Facebook Lite, is being piloted in India and will allow users access to the core elements of the network like photos, status updates and the wall. The fast loading version of the site is said to have a very ‘clean’ look, somewhat reminiscent of the original Facebook site.

According to a statement from Facebook, ‘We are currently testing Facebook Lite in countries where we are seeing lots of new users for the first time and are looking to start off with a more simple experience.’

However, it has been suggested by some that Facebook Lite is, in part at least, a reaction to the proliferation of Twitter over the last few months. The theory being that a simplified Facebook would occupy practically the same space as the hugely popular social network and, thanks to the brand loyalty that Facebook has built up over the years, might therefore stand a chance of competing.

it is also thought that this new version would appeal to the reasonably large number of Facebook users who dislike the more advanced functionalities like Facebook apps.

That’s right, Apple have become the latest company in a (very) long line to be linked with a move to buy twitter. (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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The government could be about to gain access to your Facebook account, that’s if new plans announced today are approved. The home office is proposing forcing some social networks to hold data on the movements of their members in an effort to disrupt the activities of criminals.
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